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  • Rhetorical Democracy

    How Communication Shapes Political Culture

    by Robert Danisch ...
    Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy rooted in the American pragmatist tradition. Robert Danisch analyzes the characteristics of communication systems and communication practices that inhibit or enhance democratic life. In doing so, this book provides a detailed explanation of the ways in ... Read more

    Was $89.99 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Radically Civil

    Saving Democracy One Conversation at a Time

    by Robert Danisch, William Keith ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    If you feel like the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, you’re not alone. If you often feel there’s nothing you can do about it, you’re also not alone. Along with this increasing anger, fear, and frustration, much confusion still prevails on the appropriate communication practices for responding to difficult situations and improving our lives. Communication experts Robert Danisch and William ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond Civility

    The Competing Obligations of Citizenship

    by William Keith, Robert Danisch ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, should a democracy do?This book makes a case for understanding ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication

    Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric

    Edited by Robert Danisch ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays engages with the current resurgence of interest in the relationship between American pragmatism and communication studies. The topics engaged in this collection of essays is necessarily diverse, with some of the figures discussed within often viewed as “minor” or ancillary to the main tradition of pragmatism. However, each essay attempts to show the value of reading these ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Building a Social Democracy

    The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism

    by Robert Danisch ...
    Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices are the rightful ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Philosophic Values and World Citizenship

    Locke to Obama and Beyond

    by Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Leonard Harris, Christopher J. Collins, Mac Mullan, Rose Cherubin, Robert Danisch, Chielozona Eze, Arnold L. Farr, A. Todd Franklin, Erin Kealey, Alain Locke, Greg Moses, Grant Silva, David Weinfeld ...
    In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke-the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa-is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world. The contributors to this collection compare and ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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    A Practical Response To The Moral Crisis In Schools

    by Robert J. Starratt ...
    The author argues for much greater attention to ethical education and responds to sceptics who say that it can't be done in the face of a pluralistic secular society badly fragmented over values. Seeking always for themes and issues that unite rather than divide, the author provides a conceptual foundation for ethical education broad enough for building consensus among teachers and parents, yet ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

    by BarCharts Publishing, Inc. ...
    The essentials of the systematic and scientific study of human social behavior, groups and society. Extremely easy to access, study by, and reference for students in college courses or students of the world around them. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Excellent Sheep

    The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People).As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • When the State Meets the Street

    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Teaching Critical Thinking

    Practical Wisdom

    by bell hooks ...
    In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the ... Read more

    Was $49.99 USD Now $42.99 USD