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Prairie Albion
$23.00Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as…
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Prairie Avenue Cookbook
$38.50This enchanting cookbook by Carol Callahan allows us to reverse time and transcend space in order to enter a period and place in American history when confidence abounded and all…
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Primate Politics
$45.00The first book to focus on the political behavior of primates also undertakes to compare human social behavior with that of nonhuman primates.The editors contribute probing introductory essays to each…
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Prison Etiquette
$19.95Of the fifty thousand Americans who declared themselves conscientious objectors during World War II, nearly six thousand went to prison, many serving multiyear sentences in federal lockups. Some conscientious objectors,…
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Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences
$34.00Susan Peck MacDonald here tackles important and often controversial contemporary questions regarding the rhetoric of inquiry, the social construction of knowledge, and the professionalization of the academy. MacDonald argues that…
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Ragged Dicks
$35.00Portraits of self-made men are rife in Western culture, as James V. Catano observes. Positive and negative, admittedly fictional and ostensibly factual, these portraits endure because the general rhetorical practice…
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Readings from Classical Rhetoric
$39.00Here, 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…
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Real Emotional Logic
$42.00Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, Steven N. Lipkin explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such…
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Reality Fictions
$35.00Providing in-depth accounts and close critical examinations of nine of Wiseman’s films—Titicut Follies, High School, Basic Training, Essene, Juvenile Court, Primate, Welfare, Canal Zone, and The Store—thissecond edition features a…
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Red Clay Suite
$18.95In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier…
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Regendering Delivery
$35.00Lindal Buchanan thoroughly analyzes how antebellum women infiltrated the male-dominated realm of public speaking by adapting elocutionary instruction to subversive ends, developing distinctive delivery styles, and reconciling conflicting public and…
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Reminiscences of a Soldier’s Wife
$21.95“To tell my own story is to tell that of my famous husband, General John A. Logan,” explains Mary S. Logan in the preface to her autobiography.Married to John A….
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