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The Starlight Night: The Sky in the Writings of Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Hopkins

The Starlight Night: The Sky in the Writings of Shakespeare,...

Author: David H. Levy
ISBN: 9783319371016
Format: Paperback
$310.47

Although the sky enters into much of literature through the ages, British authors offer an especially fertile connection...  Read More >>

The Oldest Story In the World

The Oldest Story In the World

Author: Phil Cousineau
ISBN: 9780962654893
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The Oldest Story in the World is a brooding, daring, idiosyncratic exploration of the secret strength of storytelling,...  Read More >>

Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom

Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics,...

Author: Stanley Fish
ISBN: 9780062226655
Format: Hardback
$34.99

“Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments...  Read More >>

Optimal Control of a Double Integrator: A Primer on Maximum Principle

Optimal Control of a Double Integrator: A Primer on...

Author: Arturo Locatelli
ISBN: 9783319421254
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book provides an introductory yet rigorous treatment of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle and its application...  Read More >>

Performativität in Sprache und Recht

Performativität in Sprache und Recht

Author: Lars Bülow ,  Jochen Bung
ISBN: 9783110462647
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This compendium offers access to readers interested in the humanities and in social, cultural, and legal studies...  Read More >>

Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)

Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)...

Author: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
ISBN: 9781138200340
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its ‘object’ by separating ‘relevant’...  Read More >>

Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific.

Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific....

Author: Niko Besnier
ISBN: 9781138993938
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia....  Read More >>

Essays in Modern Stylistics

Essays in Modern Stylistics

Author: Donald Freeman
ISBN: 9781138685659
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Essays in Modern Stylistics, first published in 1981, is a collection of essays in the application of modern linguistic...  Read More >>

Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes

Conceding Composition: A Crooked History of Composition's...

Author: Ryan Skinnell
ISBN: 9781607325048
Format: Paperback
$73.79

"""A wide-ranging historical examination of composition's evolving institutional value in American higher education...  Read More >>

Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past

Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ...

Author: Thomas R. Dunn
ISBN: 9781611176704
Format: Hardback
$139.89

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Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen: Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung

Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen: Eine korpuslinguistische...

Author: Eckhard Meineke ,  Eckhard Meineke
ISBN: 9783631676615
Format: Hardback
$264.31

Der Autor untersucht die Semantik der Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen aufgrund des Korpus der »Mittelhochdeutschen...  Read More >>

Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama

Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry,...

Author: David L. Hoover ,  Jonathan Culpeper
ISBN: 9781138210547
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The book presents a varied picture of the possibilities of digital literary studies in the areas of style, diction,...  Read More >>

A World in Words: The World-Building of Writing an Academic Essay

A World in Words: The World-Building of Writing an Academic...

Author: M Kent Travis
ISBN: 9781535421768
Format: Paperback
$36.96

I can't write! I'll never be able to do this! I just don't know how to do an essay! I'm hopeless. Ever made...  Read More >>

Discourse and Creativity

Discourse and Creativity

Author: Rodney Jones (City University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138146006
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis

Requests in American and British English: A contrastive...

Author: Ilka Flöck (University of Oldenburg)
ISBN: 9789027256706
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions.  Read More >>

Word Meaning

Word Meaning

Author: Richard Hudson
ISBN: 9781138145887
Format: Hardback
$231.00

An ideal introduction to the techniques of lexical semantic analysis, based on problem-solving approach to language....  Read More >>

The Elements of Style

The Elements of Style

Author: William Strunk, Jr.
ISBN: 9781537201412
Format: Paperback
$18.48

Reprint of the edition published in 1918.  Read More >>

Mass Media and You: A Critical Thinker's Survival Guide

Mass Media and You: A Critical Thinker's Survival Guide...

Author: Mark Walters
ISBN: 9781524906924
Format: Paperback
$109.00

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Handbuch Gesprachsrhetorik

Handbuch Gesprachsrhetorik

Author: Ernest W B Hess-Luttich
ISBN: 9783110333589
Format: Hardback
$1106.16

This work covers the full breadth of research on the rhetorical processes of social action for the purpose of communication....  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Humor: A Bedford Spotlight Reader

The Rhetoric of Humor: A Bedford Spotlight Reader

Author: Kirk Boyle
ISBN: 9781319020132
Format: Paperback
$102.93

Develop your own questions and opinions as you navigate through integral questions (and a variety of answers) related...  Read More >>

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