-
ART050060, BB, Hardcover, Harper, HarperCollins, LAN000000, LAN005000
Oxymoronica
ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true….
-
BC, LAN000000, LAN015000, LAN020000, Paperback, Southern Illinois University Press
Readings from Classical Rhetoric
Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome.This unique anthology of primary texts in…
-
BC, LAN000000, LAN005000, Paperback, Southern Illinois University Press
Self-Development and College Writing
Nick Tingle investigates the psychoanalytic dimensions of composition instruction in Self-Development and College Writing to boldly illustrate that mastering academic prose requires students to develop psychologically as well as cognitively….
-
BC, Bison Books, Bison Original, LAN000000, LAN027000, Paperback - Trade
So You Want to Write About American Indians?
So You Want to Write about American Indians? is the first of its kind—an indispensable guide for anyone interested in writing and publishing a novel, memoir, collection of short stories,…
-
BC, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins, LAN000000, LAN009000, SOC008000, Trade PB
Spanglish
With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one…
-
BB, Cloth Over Boards, LAN000000, LAN009000, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press
The Miami-Illinois Language
The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region…
-
BC, FOR000000, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins, LAN000000, LAN009000, Trade PB
The Power of Babel
There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix…
-
BC, LAN000000, Paperback, PER004030, PER010030, Southern Illinois University Press
The Road Story and the Rebel
In The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television, Beat studies scholar Katie Mills examines how road stories, which have offered declarations of independence to generations…
-
BC, Cengage Learning, EDU018000, LAN000000, LAN005000
The Sundance Writer
Praised for its practical strategies, real-world emphasis and focus on critical thinking, this successful 4-in-1– handbook, reader, rhetoric, and research guide– text incorporates electronic writing and visual rhetoric. …
-
BB, LAN000000, Palgrave Macmillan, SOC026000
Uncertainty and Communication
It is twenty-five years since Jürgen Habermas published his Theory of Communicative Action. Colin B. Grant shares the same commitment to a philosophical theory of communication but issues a range…