Rhetoric

There was a time when good writing would be defined simply by adverting to a few literary classics. That kind of strategy is less helpful these days, when so many different styles and voices clamor for attention. What Is Good Writing? sets the terms for...

Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato's Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532611377Author Stanley E PorterFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556714412Author Richard C BlightFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic PublicationsPublisher Summer Institute of...

Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781457684326Author Beth HewettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498045148Author Richard WhatelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 472g

In this book, Amos Kiewe explores the story of the 1824 Presidential election, when the House of Representatives elected the president after no candidate won outright the majority of the Electoral College. Though most in the nation assumed that Andrew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258330Author Molly Margaret KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254653Author Dana L. CloudFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind but Now I See is a collection focusing on the Charleston shootings written by leading scholars in the field who consider the rhetoric surrounding the shootings. This book offers an...

Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition: A Reintroduction of The Black Messiah considers how Albert Cleage Jr., in his groundbreaking book of sermons, The Black Messiah (1969), reconfigures the rules of the game as it relates to...

In this updated and significantly expanded edition of his The Rhetoric of Racism, Mark Lawrence McPhail responds to subsequent critiques and advances in scholarship. Like the earlier text, Revisited looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism-how, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447240Author Les BelikianFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725286320Author Rodney Wallace KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319244996Author Elizabeth LoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan LearningDimensions(mm) 231mm * 185mm * 22mm

Presidential Power, Rhetoric, and the Terror Wars: The Sovereign Presidency argues that the War on Terror provided an opportunity to fundamentally change the presidency. Alexander Hiland analyzes the documents used to exercise presidential powers,...

Carl Sagan's Cosmos inspires audiences to look at the universe with new eyes and to appreciate humanity's importance in it. Sagan's deft use of rhetorical strategy creates an experience that pushes beyond the limits of a mere "educational" program to...

Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that reveal new dimensions of human motivation. And yet, despite its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641730907Author Keith HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Smyth & Helwys Publishing, IncorporatedPublisher Smyth & Helwys Publishing,...

Rhetoric and Governance under Trump: Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump's deeply illiberal rhetoric, cruel policies, corruption, disruptive foreign policy, and disdain for the rule of law...

The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America: Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams argues that authoritarian strains of U.S. governance violate the idea of ethos in its ancient, collectivist sense. Christopher Carter posits that this corrupts the...

This book considers the rhetorical strategies used by celebrities and their surrogates and attorneys when faced with claims of sexual misconduct. During the past five years, a series of public figures has claimed that their celebrity persona is distinct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643173160Author Hui WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 1025gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 31mm

In Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America: The Pulpit at the Turn of the Millennium, ten scholars analyze notable sermons from the fifty-year span between 1965 and 2015, during which the Protestant sermon has undergone significant change in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725286313Author Rodney Wallace KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697664Author T Michael W HalcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618950116Author AristotleFormat PaperbackImprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604444650Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g

The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America's national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of...

This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and...

Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors...

Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967149Author Jim RidolfoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915250431Author Kaiman LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Environmental Design & Research Center (Edrc)Publisher Environmental Design &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419699153Author Bahadur TejaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 603g

A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking study of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new ways of seeing rhetoric and its relationship with democratic deliberation, Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud explore and display alloiosis as a trope of difference,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416601715Author Vicki UrquhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint ASCDPublisher ASCDWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169986718Author Izora ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

Throughout history, determined individuals have appropriated and reconstructed rhetorical and religious resources to create effective arguments. In the process, they have remade both themselves and their communities. This edited volume offers notable...