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Hermogenes' On Types of Style by Cecil W. Wooten 9780807866450
RRP: £39.95£36.55Cecil 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... -
The Evolution of Mathematics: A Rhetorical Approach by G. Mitchell Reyes 9780271094021
RRP: £29.95£26.91There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical discourse-whether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition technologies, or racial biases in algorithmic automation. This... -
The Hamburg Dramaturgy by G.E. Lessing: A New and Complete Annotated English Translation Wendy Arons 9781032094458
RRP: £42.99£37.59While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate... -
A First Writing Book by Jenny Ackland 9780198380535
£4.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198380535Author Jenny AcklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 117g -
The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging by Wayne C. Booth
RRP: £27.00£26.47Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time. Culled chiefly from great... -
The Oxford Book of Exile by John Simpson 9780192142214
RRP: £86.00£74.78From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book... -
Let's Agree to Disagree: Critical Thinking and Civil Discourse in Contentious Times by Nolan Higdon
RRP: £35.99£31.69In an age defined by divisive discourse and disinformation, democracy hangs in the balance. Let's Agree to Disagree seeks to reverse these trends by fostering constructive dialogue through critical thinking and critical media literacy. This... -
Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition by Alexis E. Ramsey
RRP: £44.95£36.83This book offers pragmatic advice for archival researchers. Archival research of any magnitude can be daunting. With this in mind, Alexis E. Ramsey, Wendy Sharer, Barbara L'Eplattenier, and Lisa Mastrangelo have developed an indispensable volume for the... -
The Art of Writing English Literature Essays, for GCSE by Neil Bowen 9780993077838
RRP: £10.50£8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077838Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noel Thomas
RRP: £35.00£27.74Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have... -
Some of my best friends are white by Ndumiso Ngcobo 9781920137182 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.95£2.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Booksellers' Choice Award 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781920137182Author Ndumiso NgcoboFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Two DogsPublisher Burnet... -
Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students by Gordon Harvey 9781624665547
RRP: £12.99£11.06The challenges of integrating and citing sources in academic work have expanded in scope and complexity in the digital age, but the basic principles and guidelines for doing so responsibly remain the same. The third edition of Writing with Sources is... -
The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft by Kim Stafford 9780820324968
£23.37The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestoes, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls... -
A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment by Erec Smith 9781498590402
RRP: £85.00£74.91This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars and a "primacy of identity" that values lived experience over critical... -
Postcolonial Cinema Studies by Sandra Ponzanesi
RRP: £36.99£33.84This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic... -
Nelson Thornes Framework English Skills in Non-Fiction 3 Geoff Reilly 9780748769520
RRP: £21.99£13.14Covering all the Framework objectives using a clearly structured and rigorous approach, Nelson Thornes Framework English offers an attractive and dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English, Years 7-9, laying particular... -
The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage by Brian L. Ott
RRP: £21.99£19.34The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. Trump's manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is... -
Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation by Debra Hawhee
RRP: £26.00£24.85We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising:... -
Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas by Mark D. Jordan 9780823273799
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how... -
The Rhetoric of RHETORIC: The Quest for Effective Communication Wayne C. Booth 9781405112376
RRP: £26.95£23.43In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the... -
Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research: Second Edition by Robert J. Levine 9780300042887
£39.89The use of human subjects in medical and scientific research has given rise to troubling ethical questions. How should human subjects be selected for experiments? What should they be told about the research in which they are involved? How can their... -
Jebb's Isocrates, Newly Edited by Isocrates 9780989783651
£15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989783651Author IsocratesFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Sophron EditorPublisher Sophron EditorWeight(grams) 140g -
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Second Edition: A Reader John Louis Lucaites 9781462526581
£68.60An indispensable text--now revised and expanded for the digital age--this volume showcases some of the most important work by contemporary rhetorical theorists. The introduction and section openers frame major problems and questions facing the field... -
Unlimited Desires: An International Anthology of Bisexual Erotica by Kevin Lano 9780953881604
RRP: £8.50£7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953881604Author Kevin LanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint BiPressPublisher BiPressWeight(grams) 231g -
Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability by Jay Timothy Dolmage 9780814254677
£31.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254677Author Jay Timothy DolmageFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric by Jacqueline Rhodes 9780367701512
RRP: £44.99£39.68The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.The handbook features... -
Nelson Thornes Framework English Skills in Fiction 3 by Geoff Reilly
£22.55Covering all the Framework objectives using a clearly structured and rigorous approach, "Nelson Thornes Framework English" offers an attractive and dynamic route through the demands of the Framework for Teaching English, Years 7-9, laying particular... -
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel 9780300271072
RRP: £14.99£12.09Hailed by the New York Times as a book that "examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence" "An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. . . . Sharp and taut. . . . A lesson... -
Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics by Emmon Bach 9780887067723
RRP: £24.78£24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887067723Author Emmon BachFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Stylistics Of Poetry: A Practical Approach by Dr D Gnanasekaran 9781642494754
RRP: £10.99£9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642494754Author Dr D GnanasekaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)... -
Esperanto: Language, Literature, and Community by Pierre Janton 9780791412541
RRP: £24.78£24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791412541Author Pierre JantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers Ruth Ayres 9781625310903
RRP: £24.99£21.81In her moving and personal book Enticing Hard-to-Reach Writers, Ruth Ayres weaves together her experience as a mother, teacher, and writer. She explores the power of stories to heal children from troubled backgrounds and offers up strategies for helping... -
Building Arguments by Drew E. Hinderer 9781597520768
RRP: £26.00£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597520768Author Drew E. HindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Dissemination by Jacques Derrida 9780826476968
£26.88The notorious French philosopher, literary critic and film star(!) First translated in 1983, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays provide... -
Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought by Eric MacPhail 9780271092348
RRP: £20.95£19.00This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious... -
The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis Stephen Brown 9781138097827
RRP: £32.99£29.16Situating 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... -
Writing Better: Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties by Steven Graham 9781557667045
RRP: £32.95£29.51This book describes and explains a wide variety of techniques for helping students become better writers. The recommended writing strategies are good for all students, but are particularly helpful for children with learning disabilities and other... -
The Discourse of Propaganda: Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror by John Oddo
RRP: £33.95£30.74In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded... -
Semiotics and Interpretation by Robert Scholes 9780300030938
£14.88"The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection... -
Contemporary Stylistics by Marina Lambrou 9781441183842
£43.02Written by internationally renowned researchers in stylistics, this volume of twenty chapters aims to provide a snapshot of current research and innovations in the field of stylistics. "Contemporary Stylistics" presents a comprehensive survey of the...