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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bryan j mccann”
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  • The Bundy Archive

    Genealogies of White Masculinity

    by Bryan J. McCann ...
    Series series Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
    Since his first arrest in 1975, Ted Bundy has been the most ubiquitous serial killer in US popular culture. He is the subject of seven feature films and miniseries, several televised documentaries and podcasts, numerous true crime books, and myriad other texts trading in the saga of a man who kidnapped, raped, and murdered at least thirty white women and girls in the Pacific Northwest, Utah, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mark of Criminality

    Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era

    by Bryan J. McCann ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hopIn The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

    by Linda Trichter Metcalf Ph.D. ...
    Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as never before. She and a colleague, Tobin Simon, introduced this original method into their classrooms. They ... Read more

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  • Informal Logical Fallacies

    A Brief Guide

    by Jacob E. Van Vleet ...
    Critical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us -- whether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought.Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Persuasion

    Win People Over with Effective Communications Skills

    by Steve Booth-Butterfield Ed.D. ...
    Get your way . . . the smart way.Persuasion is the art of changing the way people think, feel, and act through the use of language. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Persuasion provides strategies for the readers to master the art of persuasion in a positive manner.By using time-honored tools of communication, body language, and psychology, readers can use persuasion to do good things like convince ... Read more

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  • Ambient Rhetoric

    The Attunements of Rhetorical Being

    by Thomas Rickert ...
    Series Book 163 - Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied to the autonomy of human will and cognition as the sole determinants in the discursive act.Rickert ... Read more

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  • Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

    by Nathaniel Tkacz ...
    Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness—of decision-making, data, and organizational structure—is seen as the cure for many problems in politics and business.But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? With Wikipedia and the ... Read more

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  • Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age

    by Marouf Hasian ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing. The swiftness with which drones were created and put into service has outstripped the development of an associated framework for discussing them, with the result that basic conversations about these lethal weapons have been stymied for a lack of a shared ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Rhetoric and Power

    The Drama of Classical Greece

    by Nathan Crick ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An insightful approach to classical Greek texts and practices as the wellspring for understanding rhetoric's relationship to authorityIn Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the ... Read more

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  • Listening to the Logos

    Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece

    by Christopher Lyle Johnstone ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to AristotleIn Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings—from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises ... Read more

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  • Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic

    by Anne W. Gulick ...
    The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African and Caribbean critical engagements with First World law. This transatlantic archive attests to the ... Read more

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    Nonverbal Thinkers

    by Michael S Monje ...
    Michael's first collection of poetry brings together pieces that were originally published as if they were separate poems, revealing for the first time the exact order of reading and narrative structure of the larger work she has been working on. If you have seen her work in The Spoon Knife Anthology, Barking Sycamores, on the Shaping Clay blog, or live in person, then this collection will bring ... Read more

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