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While much has been written on illicit drug use, policy, and drugs' relationship to crime, this study examines the drug war as most Americans have experienced it--through mass-mediated rhetoric: presidential drug war declarations, news stories and hype, public service announcements, and the like.

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The success of Vietnam's August Revolution of 1945 can be attributed in part to Ho Chi Minh's reconstitutive rhetoric, a form of rhetorical discourse that gave the Vietnamese people a new sense of identification.

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Hyper-secure school buildings, surveillance cameras, and lockdown drills are taking a toll on students in American high schools, and they dont guarantee safety. This book discusses how weve ended up where we are and suggests that rhetoric and empathy can be employed in ways that render schools safer than technological security measures do.

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The Rhetorical Function of Humor in the Public Sphere advances an understanding about how humor functions persuasively in the public sphere as a means to ignite deliberative democracy, a tradition that dates back to Socrates and continues with Stephen Colbert.

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The Rhetorical Function of Humor in the Public Sphere advances an understanding about how humor functions persuasively in the public sphere as a means to ignite deliberative democracy, a tradition that dates back to Socrates and continues with Stephen Colbert.

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This book provides close-textual analysis of traditional and mediated, popular memorials that tackle some of the most significant sources of pain in United States. In doing so, Tiara K. Good argues that pain is highly rhetorical and functions to form collectives and instigate change.

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Children can listen to, act out, and recite favorite nursery rhymes while learning about rhyming words, building sight vocabulary, and practicing phonics skills. Integrate Readers Theatre into your lessons with skill building handouts, plays, and scripts.

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Few deny that the work of economists has often embodied or stimulated significant contributions to political thought. Smith, Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman are good examples. However, the work of the great classical economist David Ricardo is not usually placed in such company. Despite Ricardo's affiliations with philosophical radicals like Bentham an

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An exploration of the dish around the world, from the culinary variances of this inherently local dish from cultures across Brazil to West Africa, to a broader account of the universal significance and symbolism of Rice and Beans as a cultural cornerstone amidst forces of globalization and nation-building.

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An exploration of the dish around the world, from the culinary variances of this inherently local dish from cultures across Brazil to West Africa, to a broader account of the universal significance and symbolism of Rice and Beans as a cultural cornerstone amidst forces of globalization and nation-building.

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Are we what we eat What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others And why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others This title examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other people.

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This work provides a thorough overview and analysis of the increasing gap between the Americans at the top and bottom of the economic scale.

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Like the products of the 'sea-change' described in Ariel's song in "The Tempest", modernist writing is 'rich and strange'. This book argues to the contrary maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism.

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This timely compilation of papers was originally presented at the 1987 Hofstra University Conference on the Nixon Presidency. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator records the interactions of scholars, journalists, and Nixon administration officials as they search for a better understanding of the Nixon phenomenon.

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Although much has been written about Richard Nixon the man and the politician, comparatively little attention has been paid to Nixon the public speaker.

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A biography of a long-standing Liberal MP. As well as the revival of the Liberal Party and the formation of the Liberal Democrats, it examines his experiences as a Conscientious Objector in the Second World War; his work in the Methodist Church; his role in the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe and in the Lib-Lab Pact. -- .

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Ranging primarily from the late 18th century to the present, this volume tells the history of rifled weapons and ammunition for military use. Author David Westwood has handled every weapon he describes, from muskets to breechloaders, from repeaters and bolt- action rifles to semiautomatics and self-loaders.

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Crisis events hold the seeds of great wisdom. This is the story of two congressmen; an Independent and a Republican, who wait out an Insurrection in the bowels of the Capitol and find a way forward for the country. This work of historical fiction is a quest for wisdom from chaos.

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This book examines the early years of the Claims Conference, the organization which lobbies for and distributes reparations to Holocaust survivors, and its role as a nongovernmental actor promoting reparative justice in global politics.

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This volume offers a comparative survey of Far Right parties across Europe, examining in particular their changing political rhetoric. The contributors look at the development of two distinct forms of party development and discourse: The Haiderization and The Berlusconization model.

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Five philosophical essays debate the difference between infanticide and abortion, the mother's right to choose abortion, and the existence of the fetus as a person. Bibliogs.