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This spirited account of an academic consultant's journey through banks, ghost towns, cemeteries, schools and political campaigns explores the tenuous relationships between cultural narratives and organizational change.

In this interdisciplinary study, Flynn defines feminist traditions broadly, situating her discussions within the contexts of literary studies, rhetoric and composition while simultaneously exploring the troubled relationship between these fields.

Traces Jack Kerouac's search for spiritual salvation, arguing that the goal in his fiction was enlightenment. The author stresses that Kerouac saw the daily pursuit of life as holy.

This work attempts to place the most current, cutting-edge theories and pedagogies in rhetoric and composition in their intellectual and historical contexts, while at the same time offering a practical theory and pedagogy of public writing for use both inside and outside of the classroom.

John Dewey's classical pragmatism, this text asserts, can be used to provide a self-development based justification of liberal democracy that shows the current debate between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism to be based largely on a set of pseudoproblems.

Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, this book explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such appealing storylines. It posits that such appeal is rooted in the genre's play on the emotions of the viewer.

A collection of 19 temperance tales. Carol Mattingly's introduction provides a context for these stories, locating the pieces within the temperance movement as well as within larger issues in women's studies. The authors include Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others.

Provides a definitive account of the pokeweed, four-o'clock, carpetweed, cactus, purslane, goosefoot, pigweed, and pink families in Illinois. This is the fifteenth volume of the Illustrated Flora of Illinois series. Each of the 141 plants is beautifully illustrated by Paul W. Nelson.

An ethnographic study of the teaching of writing. It reveals the social significance of first-person writing and the limitations of a popular taxonomy of composition studies. It criticizes how social constructionists have created an ""Other"" in composition studies and named it ""expressivist"".

This study points out the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between language and knowledge making. The authors also stress the need for a change in the roles of teachers and students in today's classroom. Their goal is mutuality, a sharing of authority.

This volume takes the reader behind the scenes of film's golden age to reveal the tensions and power plays involved in studio film-making and struggles with stars, studios, and, many times, film censors, as well as the intricacies of early production, direction, and distribution methods.

In considering the films of Peter Weir, this text looks to the filmmaker's Australian heritage. The author also looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, to examine why many of Weir's films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity.

Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, this work explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the 20th century.

An introduction to finance from an aviation viewpoint. Following a discussion of financial management and accounting procedures, Robert W. Kaps turns to financial management and sources of financial information. He covers types of business organizations, ethics, debt markets, and more.

A study of emancipatory composition. The author argues that composition would do well to articulate it in theory and in practice, as it is rooted in the theological and political language of the American experience and subverts this language to emancipate the oppressed and, hence, the oppressors.

This work examines the intersection between, and proposes pedagogical uses of, psychoanalytic technique for writing instruction. It demonstrates how a psychoanalytic approach offers insights into the nature of writing process, the sources of writing problems and the dynamics of writing instruction

The author reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies. Halasek explores the implications of Bakhtin's work and provides a model of scholarship balanced between practice and theory.

A collection of essays investigating Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring. The contributors explore the book's effectiveness in conveying its disturbing message and the rhetorical strategies that helped to create its wide influence.

This text was written following a trial concerning Shaken Baby Syndrome at which the author was a juror. It tells the story of 19-month-old Christopher Attig (1992-1994), reconstructing his final days and the aftermath of his murder.

This volume seeks to establish a framework for the unification of theory and practice in technical communication research.

The story of the 31st Regiment Illinois Volunteers is told in this book by veterans who recount their experiences. It follows the regiment from the Civil war battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta through the March to the Sea and into North Carolina.

The author of this study asserts that, to understand the history of ""English"", one must understand how literary studies, composition-rhetoric studies and influential textbooks interrelate. Stressing this interrelationship, Winterowd presents a history of university English since the Enlightenment.

Makes available for the first time since their original publication some eighty years ago a collection of fifteen of Sinclair Lewis's early business stories. Among Lewis's funniest satires, these stories introduce the characters, themes, and techniques that would evolve into Babbitt. Each selection reflects the commercial culture of Lewis's day.

Compiled from stories in the city's daily newspapers, this text gives an account of the great cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, which happened in 1896. Within twenty minutes, the cyclone had killed 137 people in St. Louis, and another 118 across the river in East St. Louis.

In 1772/73, Immanuel Kant began lectures on anthropology, which he continued until 1776. His lecture notes and papers were first published in 1798. This present edition of the ""Anthropology"" is a translation of the text found in volume seven of the ""Kants gesammelte Schriften"".

This illustrated guide to rendering accurately a scenic stage setting provides step-by-step instruction from the first line drawn to shading and presentation. The author deals with drafting tools, drawing the perspective grid and the basics of measuring on the perspective grid.

In this personal and perceptive book, Edward Dmytryk sharply chronicles the history of a particularly turbulent era in American political life while examining his own life before and after the events universally called the witch hunts.

In 1875 Robert Todd Lincoln caused his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln, to be committed to an insane asylum. Based on newly discovered manuscript materials, this book seeks to explain how and why.