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  • The Public Work of Rhetoric

    Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement

    Edited by John M. Ackerman, David J. Coogan ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    Compelling case studies and criticism of rhetorical practices aimed at social changeThe Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and social change, which is necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy. In this provocative call to action, editors John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan, along with seventeen other ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Field Rhetoric

    Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion

    by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Gerard A. Hauser, John M. Ackerman, Heather Brook Adams, Ralph Cintron, Rick Cruse, Lauren Cutlip, Jane Disney, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Danielle Endres, Emma Fox, Jeffrey T. Grabill, Carl G. Herndl, Aaron Hess, Sarah Beth Hopton, Kendall Leon, Laura Lindenfeld, Erin Daina McClellan, Bridie McGreavy, Michael K. Middleton, Chris Petersen, Stacey Pigg, Elena Yu Polush, Samantha Senda-Cook, Mack Shelley ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, and fieldworkA variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical communication, and critical and participatory action research, among others—have increasingly called for ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

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  • The Age of Responsibility

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    Yascha Mounk shows why a focus on personal responsibility is wrong and counterproductive: it distracts us from the larger economic forces determining aggregate outcomes, ignores what we owe fellow citizens regardless of their choices, and blinds us to key values such as the desire to live in a society of equals. In this book he proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Introduction to Sociological Theory

    Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century

    by Michele Dillon ...
    The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Democratic Reason

    Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many

    by Hélène Landemore ...
    Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add up to a strong case for democracy. She shows that the processes and procedures of democratic decision ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Understanding Inequality

    The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...
    As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Professing Feminism

    Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

    by Daphne Patai, Noretta Koertge ...
    Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's movement.' But Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge charge that the attempt to make Women's Studies serve a political agenda has led to deeply problematic results: dubious scholarship, pedagogical practices that resemble indoctrination more than education, and the alienation of countless potential supporters. In this new and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Legal Anthropology

    An Introduction

    by James M. Donovan ...
    Legal Anthropology: An Introduction offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, James M. Donovan outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of each stage and contribution. Legal Anthropology suggests that future progress can be ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • What Is Curriculum Theory?

    by William F. Pinar ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.Not only the implementation of objectives to be assessed by standardized tests, curriculum is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Why Worry About Future Generations?

    by Samuel Scheffler ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Law in Everyday Life

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    "Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." --Choice"The subject of law in everyday life is timely in theory and in practice. The essays collected here are stimulating for the very different ... Read more

    $28.79 USD