Rhetoric category: 666 books
by Cornelius Tacitus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and...
by Jane Garmey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Show me a person without any prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener.--Allen Lacy. Idiosyncratic, determined, and occasionally obsessed, gardeners have a lot to say about their outdoor passion. THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN...
by Geoffrey Nunberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
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...
The Elements of Expression
Putting Thoughts into Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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...
Remembrances and Celebrations
A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This rich anthology of memorial tributes serves as 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,...
The Size of Thoughts
Essays and Other Lumber
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
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...
Figures of Speech
60 Ways To Turn A Phrase
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
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
When They Go Low, We Go High
Speeches That Shape the World and Why We Need Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
When First Lady Michelle Obama approached the podium at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, nobody could have predicted that her rousing and emotional “When they go low, we go high? speech would go on to become the motto for the political left and an anthem for opponents of oppression worldwide....
Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights...
by Anthony Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book offers an examination of the signature weapon of Barack Obama’s presidency: his speeches. It provides an in-depth, analytical look at the words of Barack Obama through the social and cultural contexts that made the content of his speeches timeless. The book draws on the oral tradition...
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how...
We Shall Fight on the Beaches
The Speeches That Inspired History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Prefaced by brief historical and biographical introductions, the examples in this book show how words can be used to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse even the most seemingly hard-bitten of listeners. From rallying cries such as Garibaldi's 'To arms, then, all of you!' and Chou En-lai's...
Word Hero
A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines that Get Laughs, Go Viral, and Live Forever
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Yes, it’s true: you can learn how to be a verbal wizard!
Ever hear someone utter an unforgettable phrase and feel yourself reacting with with…well, awe? Ever read a great quote and think I could never come up with anything that clever?
Daunting as it may seem, there’s nothing mystical...
Professional Writing in Context
Lessons From Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume explores adult work-world writing issues from the perspectives of five seasoned professionals who have logged hundreds of hours working with adults on complicated written communication problems. It examines the gap between school-world instructional practices and real-world problems and...