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  • After Plato

    Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

    Edited by John Duffy, Lois Agnew ...
    After Plato redefines the relationships of rhetoric for scholars, teachers, and students of rhetoric and writing in the twenty-first century. Featuring essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field, the book explores the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies—including feminist, postmodern, transnational, non-Western, and virtue ethics—and examines ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Demosthenes' "On the Crown"

    Rhetorical Perspectives

    by Lois Peters Agnew, David Mirhady, Richard A Katula, Jeffrey Walker, Richard Leo Enos ...
    Series series Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address
    Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes’ lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it as the greatest speech ever written. In addition to a clear and accessible translation, *Demosthenes’** ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Fitter, Happier

    The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric

    by Lois Peters Agnew ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A critical investigation into how eugenic logics quietly animated twentieth‑century cancer rhetoric, reshaping cultural narratives of health, risk, and human worth.Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhetoric, American ideals, and eugenic influences in the twentieth century. This ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Landmark Essays on Aristotelian Rhetoric

    Volume 14

    Edited by Richard Leo Enos, Lois Peters Agnew ...
    Series series Landmark Essays Series
    There is little doubt that Aristotle's Rhetoric has made a major impact on rhetoric and composition studies. This impact has not only been chronicled throughout the history of rhetoric, but has more recently been contested as contemporary rhetoricians reexamine Aristotelian rhetoric and its potential for facilitating contemporary oral and written expression. This volume contains the full text of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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    Edited by Erik Malewski ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    What comes after the reconceptualization of curriculum studies? What is the contribution of the next wave of curriculum scholars? Comprehensive and on the cutting edge, this Handbook speaks to these questions and extends the conversation on present and future directions in curriculum studies through the work of twenty-four newer scholars who explore, each in their own unique ways, the present ... Read more

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  • When the State Meets the Street

    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Read more

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  • Intercultural Communication

    A Discourse Approach

    by Ron Scollon, Suzanne Wong Scollon, Rodney H. Jones ...
    Series series Language in Society
    This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource.Features new original ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Robert D. Metcalf, Mark B. Tanzer ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    This volume presents Heidegger's 1924 Marburg lectures which lay the intellectual groundwork for his magnum opus, Being and Time.Here are the seeds of the ideas that would become Heidegger's unique and highly influential phenomenology. Heidegger interprets Aristotle's Rhetoric and looks closely at the Greek notion of pathos. These lectures offer special insight into the development of his concepts ... Read more

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  • International Education in Global Times

    Engaging the Pedagogic

    by Paul Tarc ...
    Series Book 10 - Global Studies in Education
    This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons – the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience. These complex processes, hinged on past ... Read more

    $50.19 CAD

  • No Contest

    The Case Against Competition

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition.Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back from doing our best. Kohn draws on research across evolutionary biology and anthropology to demonstrate that human survival has always relied on mutual aid rather than perpetual struggle.American classrooms and workplaces ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Metaphysics

    From Parmenides to Levinas

    by Jean Grondin ...
    Translated by Lukas Soderstrom ...
    Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine. He follows the theological turn in the metaphysical thought of Avicenna, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus, and he revisits Descartes and the ... Read more

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