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Perspective Rendering for the Theatre
$32.00William H. Pinnell first issues an “invitation to investigate the magic of perspective and explore its wondrous surround,” then escorts the beginning as well as the advanced student through the…
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Perspectives on Literacy
$35.00The 28 essays reprinted here are arranged in four sections that offer theoretical, historical, educational, and community perspectives on the whole topic of literacy. In addition to their substantial introduction,…
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Plato, Derrida, and Writing
$38.00Achieving the remarkable feat of linking composition theory, deconstruction, and classical rhetoric, this book has been admirably summarized by the theorist G. Douglas Atkins, who writes: “This lively and engaging,…
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Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction
$39.00With the assistance of poststructuralist theories by Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan, The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction evaluates the contemporary role of the doppelgänger. The doppelgänger…
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Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto
$35.00The income of blacks in most northern industrial states today is lower relative to the income of whites than in 1949.Fusfeld and Bates examine the forces that have led to…
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Portrayals of Revolution
$35.00How did the French try to understand their revolution? How have writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portrayed so unprecedented an upheaval? Dr. Parker examines contemporary representations of the Revolution—political…
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Post-Process Theory
$33.00Breaking with the still-dominant process tradition in composition studies, post-process theory—or at least the different incarnations of post-process theory discussed by the contributors represented in this collection of original essays—endorses…
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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…