"This is not a comfortable read. It is, instead, a necessary one." — The Daily NewsIn the nation of Akania, silence isn't just golden, it's survival. But as a brutal dictatorship tightens its grip and corruption bleeds the country dry, the quiet is finally starting to shatter. Three youths, bound by a shared fate, launch a high-stakes digital revolution to expose the regime's lies. Their weapon is the truth, but the cost of wielding it is tallied in bombed newsrooms, vanis...

From the little old lady with a sledgehammer and a dead mouse to the brutal murder of a well known crackhead, Edward Black tells the stories of calls he has answered, cases he has investigated, and adventurous lovers that he has encountered during his 20-plus years as a cop in the small town of Kaufman, Texas. Black tells his stories as if he is speaking to you while you and him sit around reminiscing. Some of his stories are sad, some are hilarious, but all of them reveal what it is reall...

A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical historyKathleen J. Turner’s 1998 multicontributor volume Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases quickly became a foundational text in the field, and the studies in the book have served as an important roadmap for scholars undertaking such scholarship. In the decades since its publication, developments in rhetorical-historical research, engaged scholarship, and academ...

This is a book about personal peace. Stonethrower is divided into two main sections. The first section is called THE PROBLEM. This part of the book focuses on the concept of fear and defenses and the way they operate (especially unconsciously) in our day-to-day lives. The second part of the book, entitles THE SOLUTION, deals with some ideas about change and how to change your mind in a deep and lasting way. Some might call this healing or forgiveness; others might just call it a relief. Wh...

Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection. Both sides of the debate are carefully analyzed, as the contributors examine how stakeholders persuade or fail to persuade audiences about the ethics of animal rights or the valu...

Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. An Archive of Hope is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a substantial collection of his speeches, columns, editorials, political campaign materials, open letters, and press releases, culled from public archives, newspapers, and personal collect...

The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the media bluster to reassess the mascot controversy. Their multi-dimensional study delves into the textual, visual, and ritualistic and performative aspects of sports mascots. Their original research...

This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues—predominantly purpose—exists primarily as scattered journal articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. ...

Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government and of American Indian communities. Such interactions—though certainly not equal—illustrated the hybrid nature of Native–US rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Both governmental, colonizing dis...

Jason Edward Black examines the ways the US government’s rhetoric and American Indian responses contributed to the policies of Native–US relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras. Black shows how these discourses together constructed the perception of the US government and of American Indian communities. Such interactions—though certainly not equal—illustrated the hybrid nature of Native–US rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Both governmental, colonizing dis...

I had my whole life planned out... until I met a hockey player obsessed with breaking all of my rules.My five simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. Now that I'm so close to landing my dream internship, nothing is going to make me break them. Not even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch.Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all.Rule Number Five

As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and forced assimilation, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical exigencies in US public culture. Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities, including essays on the politics of public memory, culture and identity controversies, stereotypes and caricatures, mascotting, cinematic representations, and resistance movements ...