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  • Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism

    Volume 5

    Edited by Thomas W. Benson ...
    Series series Landmark Essays Series
    This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in social and intellectual history, landmark signifies some act or event that marks a significant achievement or turning point in the progress or decline of human effort. In the history of an academic discipline, the historically established senses of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Posters for Peace

    Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action

    By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon—exploited the situation to cultivate anger against ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary

    Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, Moore has established a unique voice of radical nostalgia for progressivism, and in doing so has become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Resentment

    A Genealogy

    by Jeremy Engels ...
    In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that has come to dominate American political discourse on television, on the radio, and at the podium. A ... Read more

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  • An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

    Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

    by Ali Almossawi ...
    Series series Bad Arguments
    “This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company’s ‘organizational intelligence.’. . . It’s more than just a must-read, it’s a ‘have-to-read-or-you’re-fired’ book.”—Geoffrey James, INC.comFrom the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here’s the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!Have you read (or ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • No Way But This

    in search of Paul Robeson

    by Jeff Sparrow ...
    Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences with ‘Ol’ Man River’ and Othello, as his passion for social justice led him from Jazz Age Harlem to the mining towns of Wales, from the ... Read more

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  • Joy

    JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girlwho becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process,recovers her childhood magic and finds her place in the world.Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in thisintense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise.In this world of ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • My TWP Plays

    A Collection from a Unique Canadian Theatre

    by Jack Winter ...
    My TWP Plays presents five important plays written by Jack Winter while he was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions, one of the first great troupes of the experimental and alternative theatre movement. The carnivalesque style of the selected works in this anthology reflects the turbulence, contradictions, and subversion of the social revolution during which they were written and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How to Resist

    Turn Protest to Power

    'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe they've been on a march, posted their opinions on social media, or shouted angrily at something they've ... Read more

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  • Laurent Cantet

    Series series French Film Directors Series
    Laurent Cantet is of one France’s leading contemporary directors. In a series of important films, including Human Resources, Time Out, Heading South, The Class and Foxfire, he takes stock of the modern world from the workplace, through the schoolroom and the oppressive small town to the world of international sex tourism. His films drive the hidden forces that weigh on individuals and groups into ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese

    Edited by Mark T. Conard ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese is one of the most significant American filmmakers in the history of cinema. Although best known for his movies about gangsters and violence, such as Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and Taxi Driver, Scorsese has addressed a much wider range of themes and topics in the four decades of his career. In The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, an impressive ... Read more

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  • Quentin Tarantino

    Interviews, Revised and Updated

    Edited by Gerald Peary ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota, where the tradition is common. Coyote coursing, hunting with ... Read more

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