Rhetoric
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The World’s Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThis outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to moder… [more below]
- Author: Copeland, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0486409031
- Language: English
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Metaphors Be with You: An A to Z Dictionary of History’s Greatest Metaphorical Quotations
$17.99 Add to cartRespected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history’s greatest metaphorica
- Author: Grothe, Mardy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0062445340
- Language: English
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Phaedrus: Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theatre
$14.95 Add to cartWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a pr
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485320
- Language: English
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The New Oxford Guide to Writing
$24.99 Add to cartMany books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, how to conjure up an idea from scratch. Many, once you have an idea, show you how to express it clearly and elegantly. And many handbooks o… [more below]
- Author: Kane, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0195090594
- Language: English
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The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
$16.00 Add to cartWritten in the third century, this is one of the earliest Chinese works about the use of language, preceded only by the Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) of Confucius. Written by Lu Chi, a soldier-poet, the W
- Author: Lu Chi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571314121
- Language: English
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Writing Without Teachers
$19.98 Add to cartIn Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. His approach is especially helpful to people who get… [more below]
- Author: Elbow, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 1998
- ISBN10: 0195120167
- Language: English
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Simple & Direct
$15.99 Add to cartA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revisi
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 60937238
- Language: English
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Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear
$30.00 Add to cartThe nation’s premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country In Words That Work, Luntz offers a b… [more below]
- Author: Luntz, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1401302599
- Language: English
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India in Mind
$19.00 Add to cartEver since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued by India in all its beguiling complexity. This superb anthology gives us some of the best fiction, no… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0375727450
- Language: English
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Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump
$28.00 Read moreJENNIFER MERCIECA is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Founding Fictions and coeditor of The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establi
- Author: Mercieca, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1623499062
- Language: English
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Speechwriting in Theory and Practice
$37.99 Add to cartThis book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with ca… [more below]
- Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
- Author: Kjeldsen, Jens E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 3030036847
- Language: English
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Sin Boldly!: Dr. Dave’s Guide to Writing the College Paper
$14.99 Add to cartCheeky, original, and decidedly practical, this guide to effective writing is perfect for anyone who wants to hone their communication skills — college-bound or in the working world.
Jammed with sa- Author: Williams, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0465091598
- Language: English
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Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog
$15.95 Add to cartWe live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The “news” has degenera
- Author: Jensen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0872865738
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
$18.00 Add to cartMadness, sexuality, power, knowledge–are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 1982
- ISBN10: 0394711068
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
$17.00 Add to cart[Ahmad’s] “introduction is fiery and charismatic… This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth.” –Parul Sehgal, The New York T… [more below]
- Author: Ahmad, Dohra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133381
- Language: English
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Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #Metoo Era
$22.95 Read moreQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer peop… [more below]
- Series: Q+ Public
- Author: Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1978825404
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid
$16.95 Add to cartPublic discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”–be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi find… [more below]
- Series: Bad Arguments
- Author: Almossawi, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1615198407
- Language: English
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Beautiful Words: A Celebration for Word Lovers
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the beauty and intrigue of the English language through this collection of the most fascinating words in the dictionary.
Close your eyes for a moment and think of the word “solitude”. What do y
- Author: Cider Mill Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1951511549
- Language: English
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The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
$9.99 Add to cartA Concise Course in the Art of Writing
Whether you’re composing a letter, writing a school thesis, or starting a novel, this resource offers expert advice on how to think more creatively, how to conj- Series: Essential Resource Library
- Author: Kane, Thomas S.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0425176401
- Language: English
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Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto
$23.95 Add to cartThough it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Writ… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231317
- Language: English
