This best-selling brief introduction to public speaking offers practical coverage of every topic typically covered in a full-sized text, from invention, research and organization, practice and delivery, to the different speech types.
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.
... Kentucky Christian University; Jeremy Estrella, Portland Community College; Karen Foss, University of New Mexico; Annemarie Fleishman, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Amy Fountain, Mississippi State University; Rebecca Franko, ...
From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in America The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in ...
Improving on this tradition, the fifth edition does even more to address these challenges with stronger coverage of overcoming speech anxiety, organizing and outlining, and more.
The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language.
Using both historical and contemporary examples, Essential Guide to Rhetoric helps you build a strong foundation in understanding the key components of rhetoric.
"'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, ..
Your listeners will give more attention to what Dr. Carl J. George, chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin and author of Knowing Your Child, has to say about teenage suicide than they will to what Carl ...
The notion of microfoundations has received growing interest in neo-institutional theory along with an increasing interest in microfoundational research in disciplines such as strategic management and organizational economics.