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1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “philip eubanks”
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  • The Troubled Rhetoric and Communication of Climate Change

    The argumentative situation

    de Philip Eubanks ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
    Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, climate change remains one of the most controversial issues of our time. Focusing on the rhetoric that surrounds the issue of climate change, this groundbreaking book analyses why the debate continues to rage and examines how we should argue when winning the argument really matters.Going beyond routine condemnations of the wildest statements made by ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Metaphor and Writing

    Figurative Thought in the Discourse of Written Communication

    de Philip Eubanks ...
    This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors and metonymies for writing are part of a figurative rhetoric of writing - a pattern of discourse and thought ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • After Babel

    Aspects of Language and Translation

    de George Steiner ...
    "A brilliant work . . . A dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itself" from the world-renowned scholar and author of The Poetry of Thought ( Kirkus Reviews).In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Red Hot Lies

    How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed

    de Christopher C. Horner ...
    Liars--Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits--as well as your tax dollars and your liberties--with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Emotive Language in Argumentation

    de Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno ...
    This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating the relationship between emotions, persuasion and meaning, and focusing on the implicit dimension of the use of a word and its dialectical effects. It offers a method for evaluating the persuasive and manipulative uses of emotive language in ordinary ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • What We Leave Behind

    de Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay ...
    What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life—human and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Shadows on the Gulf

    A Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland

    de Rowan Jacobsen ...
    In the spring of 2010, we watched oil gushing unstoppably into thewaters of the Gulf of Mexico. But as bad as the spill was, it isonly the latest chapter in a century-long story of destruction.Atthe height of BP's dispersant madness, the amount sprayed each daymerely equaled the amount of dispersant that washes down the Mississippifrom the Heartland's dishwashers and washing machines. Coastal ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • What Is Meaning?

    de Scott Soames ...
    Series series Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy
    The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Americans at Risk

    Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do

    de Irwin Redlener ...
    This important book by one of our leading experts on disaster preparedness offers a compelling narrative about our nation’s inability to properly plan for large-scale disasters and proposes changes that can still be made to assure the safety of its citizens.Five years after 9/11 and one year after Hurricane Katrina, it is painfully clear that the government’s emergency response capacity is plagued ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Primitivist Theory of Truth

    de Jamin Asay ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
    Jamin Asay's book offers a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question 'What is truth?', with a comprehensive articulation and defence of primitivism, the view that truth is a fundamental and indefinable concept. Often associated with Frege and the early Russell and Moore, primitivism has been largely absent from the larger conversation surrounding the nature of truth. Asay defends ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning

    Towards a Social Conception of Mind

    de Meredith Williams ...
    Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. This book addresses both Wittgenstein's later works as well as contemporary issues in philosophy of mind. It provides fresh insight into the later Wittgenstein and raises ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Politics of Precaution

    Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States

    de David Vogel ...
    The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD