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Learn and perfect the skills needed to conduct satisfying reference interviews in the modern technological environment with this easy-to-use guide.

In today's technology-driven world, reference librarians must serve users who come into the building as well as remote users who ask via various digital means.

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Focusing on U.S. academic libraries, Rewiring the Academic Library begins by providing a concise history of the traditional role and function of academic libraries from their earliest times up to the dawn of Digital Age and the spread of digital technology into all aspects of academic research and scholarly communication.

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Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face practices--the understanding that every human face offers a distinct cultural grammar for acting, speaking, and feeling.

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Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face practices--the understanding that every human face offers a distinct cultural grammar for acting, speaking, and feeling.

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Based on educational research, this book will help school librarians create an environment that supports resilience in their school library media center.

Resilience is the capacity of children to grow up successful, content, and competent even though they are faced with adversities like poverty, violence, illness, or neglect.

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How can public libraries successfully meet the needs of their patrons and their communities, and build support for their endeavors With examples and statistics from more than 200 libraries of all sizes, the book gathers decades of pertinent research and a wealth of creative ideas and winning tactics for public libraries.

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Analyses the function of utopias and utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces, to develop utopias as methodology.

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The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton explores how the musical confronts conventional conceptions of American history, racial equity, and political power. Scholars of theatre studies, media studies, and communication studies will find this book particularly useful.

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This comprehensive presentation of the Request for Proposal (RFP) process shows librarians how to successfully prepare RFPs when determining which vendors to use for purchasing library materials.

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This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how Americas civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.

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This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how Americas civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.

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This book analyzes how women converse about breast cancer on the Internet. The author provides a discussion of the complex structures of online communities, particularly those focused on medical diagnoses.

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This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholars consider twelve contemporary controversies with attention to arguments, evidence, and strategy.

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This book analyzes the thiry-six political party conventions since 1948 as rhetorical entities with goals often epideictic, constitutive, and even deliberative. Crucial in meeting (and sometimes not) these goals are speeches, demonstrations, and off-camera discussions at each convention.

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Rachel Sussman Kaplan investigates the rhetorical forces that are driving the opioid crisis in America.

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This book explores the rhetorical strategies employed by women involved in aviation between 1911 and 1970. It begins with Harriet Quimby, who began writing aviation-themed articles for Frank Leslie's Weekly in 1911, and ends with Jerrie Cobb, who lobbied to include women in the space program.

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The Rhetorical Invention of Man examines how the category Man has dominated Western thinking since the sixteenth century. This category, a historical anomaly according to Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, has produced distortions in our ability to understand reality that do great harm to our health, morals, and environment.

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This study analyzes the rhetorical uses of the authorizing figure during the Cuban revolution. Rice discusses how the authorizing figure defines and unifies the emerging revolutionary movement and legitimizes the revolutionary vision over time.

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Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy. Examining the brand in history, the growth of national and global brands, the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising, this work analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.

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Brands and logos are all around us - from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy. Examining the brand in history, the growth of national and global brands, the changing approaches of the branding industry and the exploration of new spaces for advertising, this work analyses exactly how brands develop and operate in contemporary society.

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A simple keyword search in Library Literature and Information Index, a primary electronic index of library and information science research literature, retrieves over 6,500 items related to the Internet.

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This book uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including autoethnography, interpersonal communication, and large-scale societal conflicts, to explore how humans both observe and confront our differences with one another and with the world around us.

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This volume examining key factors related to successful reference service practices provides librarians with an important and significantly different perspective on the reference process.