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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sharon crowley”
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  • Rhetorics of Whiteness

    Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education

    by Annette Powell, Gregory Jay, Christine Farris, Anita M. DeRouen, M. Shane Grant, Catherine Jean Prendergast, Tim Engles, Sarah E. Austin, Jennifer Beech, Jennifer Seibel Trainor, Amy Goodburn, Lee Bebout, Cedric Burrows, Casie Moreland, Keith Miller, Hui Wu, Leda Cooks, Meagan Rodgers, Alice McIntyre, Victor Villanueva, Sharon Crowley, Ersula Ore, Ronald Kuykendall, Kristi McDuffie ...
    Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a demographic category and recount instances of racialized violence as well as an increased sensitivity to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Toward a Civil Discourse

    Rhetoric and Fundamentalism

    by Sharon Crowley ...
    Series Book 163 - Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses—liberalism and Christian fundamentalism, each of which paints a very different picture of America and its citizens' responsibilities toward their country-there is little common ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Disabled Upon Arrival

    Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

    by Jay Timothy Dolmage ...
    In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise forms the crux of Jay Timothy Dolmage’s new book Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • 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

    $5.99 USD

  • The Negro Problem

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    * Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of ContentsThe Negro ProblemHere are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Elements of Great Public Speaking

    How to Be Calm, Confident, and Compelling

    by J. Lyman Macinnis ...
    **“A practical guide to thumb through before every speech, whether it’s your first or 500th.”—USA Today“A must-read guide to delivering a memorable speech and leaving the audience wanting more.”—Hon. Frank McKenna, former Canadian ambassador to the United States**Great speakers aren't just born; they prepare and they practice. The Elements of Great Public Speaking takes the fear out of taking the ... 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

    $6.99 USD

  • Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

    by Daniel Hunter ...
    Expanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change. Learn about your role in movement-building and how to pick and build campaigns that contribute towards a bigger mass movement against the largest penal system in the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Writing for the Web

    Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites

    by J.D. Applen ...
    Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics of web site design and technology. Presenting information in digestible parts, this text enables ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Commander of the Exodus

    by Yoram Kaniuk ...
    Translated by Seymour Simckes ...
    "The first biography of Yossi Harel . . . offers valuable insights into the Jewish struggle to create a homeland." — BooklistHailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Why Your Presentation Sucks - How to Lose the Stage Fright & Win

    Presentation Skills, Public Speaking & Storytelling Technique

    by Collin C. Young ...
    Series series Presentation Skills, Public Speaking & Storytelling Technique
    Secrets, Tips and Confidence Techniques: Deliver Powerful Presentations in a Few Simple Steps~Based on Academic Research~Develop powerful presentation techniques for any kind of public presentation: Many of us neglect the importance of storytelling in presentations. The book will introduce you to the most effective strategies and tips that can turn anyone into a persuasive and entertaining public ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African American Women's Rhetoric

    The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor

    by Deborah F. Atwater ...
    Series series Race, Rites, and Rhetoric: Colors, Cultures, and Communication
    African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering a variety of specific women and their rhetoric within the context of a historical period, the book ... Read more

    $46.99 USD