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  • American Political Discourse on China

    de Michelle Murray Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Despite the U.S. and China’s shared economic and political interests, distrust between the nations persists. How does the United States rhetorically navigate its relationship with China in the midst of continued distrust? This bookpursues this question by rhetorically analyzingU.S. news and political discourse concerning the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 2010 U.S. midterm elections, the 2012 U.S ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • What to Talk About

    On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss

    de Christopher Colin, Robert Baedeker ...
    Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years—and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday cake in the shower.But no more. With What to Talk About you'll learn to speak—fluently, ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • The Elements of Expression

    Putting Thoughts into Words

    de Arthur Plotnik ...
    More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like the murky, generic language dominating today's talk, airwaves, and posts. It tugs at our every ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Write a Love Letter

    Putting What's in Your Heart on Paper

    de Barrie Dolnick, Donald Baack ...
    No one can resist a love letterLove letters are largely a lost and forgotten art. Not long ago suitors used the written word to work magic, and people were swept off their feet by a sweet, sincere note. How to Write a Love Letter teaches us, once again, how to reinvent this most meaningful of arts.In today's rushed, individualistic society, love letters are more potent than ever before. They ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Remembrances and Celebrations

    A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Years of Talking Dangerously

    de Geoffrey Nunberg ...
    "There has never been," Nunberg writes, "an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world . . . Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them." These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls. With illuminating intelligence and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Wordcraft

    The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business

    de Alex Frankel ...
    "Five little words: BlackBerry, Accenture, Viagra, Cayenne, e-business. Two of the words are appropriated (BlackBerry and Cayenne); two are completely made up (Viagra and Accenture); and one (e-business) is a composite word made of a word and a letter that already exist. . . .These five words are the characters in this book."Words shape and move the modern marketplace; they are at once ubiquitous ... Leer más

    Antes $5.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • Figures of Speech

    60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

    de Arthur Quinn ...
    Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plastic ... Leer más

    Antes $60.99 USD Ahora $53.99 USD

  • The Elements of Great Public Speaking

    How to Be Calm, Confident, and Compelling

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $7.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • The Size of Thoughts

    Essays and Other Lumber

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Hiphop Literacies

    de Elaine Richardson ...
    Series series Literacies
    Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture.Richardson examines African ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Appeals to Interest

    Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency

    de Dean Mathiowetz ...
    It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these “interests” that these voters are supposed to have been voting against? It reveals a lot about the role of ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD