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Attacks a problem central to the philosophy of mind and, by implication, to the theory of being: Are there potentialities, capabilities, which dispose the mind to think in one way rather than another?

Traces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts. This book asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process.

By the end of the Civil War, Champ Ferguson had become a notorious criminal whose likeness covered the front pages of newspapers across the country. His crime? Using the war as an excuse to steal, plunder, and murder Union civilians and soldiers. This book examines his life.

General Benjamin H Grierson is widely known as the brilliant cavalryman whose actions in the Civil War's Mississippi Valley campaign facilitated Ulysses S Grant's capture of Vicksburg. This book paints a picture of Grierson's prewar and Civil War career, touching on his antislavery views, Republican Party principles, and military strategy.

Explores the critical practice of intercultural inquiry and rhetorical problem-solving that encourages urban writers and college mentors alike to take literate action. This book articulates a theory of local publics and explores the transformative potential of alternative discourses and counter-public performances.

Identifies and explains various aspects of the work of Cornel West - a scholar of religion, philosophy, and African American studies - as they relate to composition studies, focusing especially on three rhetorical strategies that West suggests we use in our questioning lives as scholars, teachers, students, and citizens.

Examines the success of the Humana Festival of New American Plays festival and theater's Pulitzer Prize-winning productions that have reflected new-play trends in regional theaters and on Broadway. This title details how Actors Theatre of Louisville was established and why the Humana Festival became successful in a short time.

Provides a transcription of the annual three-course sequence on ethics that John Dewey gave at the University of Chicago. This book argues that these lectures offer the systematic, overall introduction to Dewey's approach to moral philosophy and are the only account showing the unity of his views in nearly various phases of ethical inquiry.

Details the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. This title argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. It draws on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches.

Provides an account of the National Afro-American Council, the first nationwide US civil rights organization, which existed from 1898 to 1908. This volume chronicles the Council's achievements and its annual meetings and provides portraits of its leaders.

Examines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, this work presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric's role in such films as ""The Fifth Element"", ""The Last Temptation of Christ"", and ""A Time to Kill"".

Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its aftermath. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way.

Covers aquatic and standing water plants for the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kentucky, from spearmint to wintergreen, from aster to waterwort. This volume identifies, describes, and organizes species in three groups, including truly aquatic plants; emergents; and wetland plants.

In the final weeks of the 1880 campaign, Ulysses S Grant left Galena and headed east to stump for the Republican ticket. At rallies in New England, upstate New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City, sometimes several times a day, the reticent Grant warmed to his role.

By late 1878, after a year and a half abroad, Ulysses S Grant had visited every country in Europe, and he was homesick. He decided to return through Asia. After ""a delightful run"" to Dublin and northern Ireland, he left Paris with his wife Julia, son Frederick, and a few friends in January, 1879.

A collection which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn.

Takes readers to a place of discovery, exploring issues of borders, familial and love relationships, and other aspects of being human.

Examines a dynamic approach to teaching composition that reimagines not only the physical space in which writing and learning occurs but also the place occupied by composition in the power structure of universities and colleges. This work provides an alternative approach to traditional basic writing courses.

Recounts World War II veteran Gene Abney's illustrious aviation career, documenting a span in our own nation's history from the vantage of the skies. This work introduces readers to hangar flying - exciting end-of-day flight tales told in the hangar - with sixty stories provided by military and civilian airmen from across the country.

Tracing elements of racial consciousness in the works of Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and others, David G. Holmes urges a revisiting of narratives from the 1870s through the 1920 to stengthen and advance notions about racialized writing and to shape contemporary composition pedagogies.

Patricia Roberts-Miller argues that much current discourse about argument pedagogy is hampered by fundamental unspoken disagreements over what democratic public discourse should look like. The text's pivotal question asks: in what kind of public discourse do we want our students to engage?

A practical guide to scene painting for students and novices, as well as a reference for intermediate scene painters. It provides instructions in how to paint a variety of basic and advanced effects commonly needed for the theater. It clarifies the origins of painting techniques. It also includes additional painting projects and their variations.