Rhetoric

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486409030Author Copeland CopelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding storiesAristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of...

With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, "A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms" provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms - mostly Greek and Latin - that students of Western literature and rhetoric are...

Write Here is designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice. It is adaptable; because it covers the basics of reading, writing, and the...

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric...

'This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better' - Seth Godin, author of This Is MarketingWhy Are We Yelling? is Buster Benson's essential guide to having more honest and...

A central work in the history of rhetoric.Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books,...

On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Writing) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780978984861Author Tara L MasihFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal...

In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres--literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction--discover imagery and inspiration in...

Communicative Praxisand the Space of Subjectivity spans the fields of philosophy andcommunication, illustrating how the amalgam of discourse and action, andlanguage and social practices, is constitutive of the way that we define ourselvesand makes sense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544527123Author Travis M CorcoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970081Author Neil Douglas-KlotzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was...

The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad...

For courses in English and Writing. Emphasizes the importance of style in writing for a global audience Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace asserts that style is a matter of making informed choices in the service of one's readers. While writers know...

This fun-but-practical guide will help you supercharge your speech to get what you want out of every conversation.An eye-opening guide on how we talk and write to one another, Word Wise explores 400+ of the most common cases of word trash (filler words,...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and,...

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Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with humanity and with the world at...

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James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the...

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The statesman at the height of his powers.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,...

The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic. Such arts have become increasingly prestigious in our...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of...

Two sophists on the history of sophistry.Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who...

A Rhetoric of Ruins contributes to an interdisciplinary conversation about the role of wrecked and abandoned places in modern life. Topics in this book stretch from retro- and post-human futures to a Jeremiadic analysis of the role of ruins in American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468310948Author John YorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very...

In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30 handwritten notes included in this book span...

The ascending statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius...

During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an aggressive foreign power but rather a set of...

"Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory" - New York Times Book Review A lively and accessible guide to understanding...

Love is widely celebrated in Indian poetry, whether mystic love for the divine or the passionate and affectionate feelings between lovers, husbands, wives, parents and children, family and friends. Although the literary forms and language may not be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612931104Author William Strunk, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Cecil Wooten has produced the first translation into any modern langauage of a key treatise of the ancient world. He provides a faithful English translation of Hermogenes' analysis based on a reliable Greek text established by Rabe at the beginning of...

'This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better' - Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing'All you need is Buster Benson. His methods are instantly actionable, [and] his writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715615249Author A. E. HillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...