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Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of CommunicationCommunication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both...
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Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative CraftMore than 250,000 copies sold A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades...
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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign LanguageForbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign...
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Student's Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth EditionStudents of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper--and for decades Kate L. Turabian's Student's Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago has reconceived and renewed this...
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The Oxford Guide for Writing Tutors: Practice and ResearchDistinctive Features * Includes scholarship authored by undergraduate tutor-researchers* Provides extensive references to and bibliographic citations of the scholarship of the field* Offers references to research that supports and challenges disciplinary common knowledge* Contains assignments designed to support discussion, writing, and inquiryAuthor: Lauren Fitzgerald,...
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Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds DemocracyIn Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological...
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Grammar of Words 3e Otl PGeert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a third edition. The book covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of words. It is the only introductory text to explore the role of morphology in...
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The Oxford Guide to EtymologyThis practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways in which words change...
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New Oxford Spelling DictionaryThe New Oxford Spelling Dictionary is the authoritative reference for spelling and word division. Prepared in consultation with professional editors and proofreaders and endorsed by the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, it is the essential guide for a those who work with the written...
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Food: A Reader for WritersRead. Write. Oxford. From the hearty dishes of the American South to hotly debated GMOs, Food: A Reader for Writers serves up articles from a wide range of cultures, economic strata, and moments in time. It covers food's relationship to such topics as memory...
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Fixing ReferenceImogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist alternatives, and attempts to combine the most...
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Translation--Theory and Practice: A Historical ReaderTranslation: Theory and Practice: A Historical Reader responds to the need for a collection of primary texts on translation, in the English tradition, from the earliest times to the present day. Based on an exhaustive survey of the wealth of available materials, the Reader...
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The Oxford Dictionary of English EtymologyThis comprehensive dictionary by one of our century's greatest language scholars provides a clear and brief account of the origins, history, and sense-development of more than 38,000 words.Author: C. T. OnionsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 12/31/1966Pages: 1042Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.65lbsSize: 9.62h x 6.52w x...
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Music in the Early Twentieth Century: The Oxford History of Western MusicThe universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of...
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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human KnowledgeIt is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages,...
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Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International RelationsIn this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization of crime control is...
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On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic DiscourseThis new edition of George A. Kennedy's highly acclaimed translation and commentary offers the most faithful English version ever published of On Rhetoric. Based on careful study of the Greek text and informed by the best modern scholarship, the second edition has been fully...
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Autopsy of a Suicidal MindAutopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts to analyze the suicidal materials, including...
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Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?Since September 11, 2001, many people in the United States have been more inclined to use the language of good and evil, and to be more comfortable with the idea that certain moral standards are objective (true independently of what anyone happens to think...
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Ethics and Excellence: Cooperation and Integrity in BusinessThe Greek philosopher Aristotle, writing over two thousand years before Wall Street, called people who engaged in activities which did not contribute to society "parasites." In his latest work, renowned scholar Robert C. Solomon asserts that though capitalism may require capital, it does not...
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