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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor barbara biesecker”
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  • Framing Public Memory

    by Stephen Howard Browne, Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips, Bradford Vivian, Amos Kiewe, Barry Schwartz, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Edward S. Casey, Charles E. Scott, Rosa A. Eberly, Professor Barbara Biesecker, Professor Barbie Zelizer ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Addressing Postmodernity

    Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change

    by Professor Barbara Biesecker ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social changeIn Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols. In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    The Gentle Art of Persuasion

    by George J. Thompson, PhD ...
    Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven strategies that allow you to successfully communicate your point of view and take the upper hand ... Read more

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  • The Rhetoric of Fiction

    by Wayne C. Booth ...
    The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the ... Read more

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  • Words - I Know What I Want To Say - I Just Don't Know How To Say It

    How To Write Essays, Reports, Blogs, Presentations, Books, Proposals, Memos, And Other Nonfiction

    by Mark Hanen ...
    Words skillfully guides you, step by step, through your entire writing project. Written in a conversational style, Words explains how to shape, focus, organize, and polish your nonfiction writing. It coaches you through the process of discovering what you want to say, how you want to say it, and how you convey your ideas with precision, clarity, and confidence. Words is for born writers, aspiring ... Read more

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  • Remembrances and Celebrations

    A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs

    by Jill Werman Harris ...
    A rich anthology of memorial tributes that offers a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss.The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales, as well as ordinary folk from the seventeenth century to the present are mourned and celebrated in the ... Read more

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  • One in a Thousand

    The Life and Death of Captain Eddie McKay, Royal Flying Corps

    by Graham Broad ...
    This short microhistory details the life and death of Eddie McKay, a varsity athlete at Western University, who flew with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. Graham Broad switches creatively from telling McKay's fascinating story to teaching valuable lessons on how to do history: why the past matters, why historians take different approaches, how to pose historical questions, how to ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion

    Theoretical Foundations for Document Design

    by Kim Sydow Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehension and usability. Theories of cohesion from linguistics and of comprehension in psychology are likely sources of such general principles. Unfortunately, linguistic approaches to discourse unity have focused exclusively on semantic elements such as ... Read more

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  • "Gorgias" and "Phaedrus"

    Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics

    by Plato ...
    Translated by James H. Nichols ...
    Series series Agora Editions
    With 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 precise yet unusually readable translations of two great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice: To the extent that suffering an ... Read more

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  • The Size of Thoughts

    Essays and Other Lumber

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The Size of Thoughts, a collection of essays that have appeared in the New Yorker and other publications, includes one never-before-published piece on the world of electronics. The essays celebrate the joy--and exquisite details--of everything from library card catalogs and reading aloud to the significance of wine stains on a tablecloth.Baker turns any subject, from feeding a child to phone sex, ... Read more

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  • In Transit at Dubai International

    by Prashant Bhatt ...
    If you want to see the working world on the move, one of the places where you get this feeling is the Dubai international airport. Here one finds persons of different cultures, races, backgrounds on the move. One thing that binds the millions who transit this airport is that they are all workers.These true-life narratives give a window into the world of immigrants working in the Arab world. They ... Read more

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  • Joe Gould's Teeth

    by Jill Lepore ...
    From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E ... Read more

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