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Rhetoric in Human Rights Advocacy

A Study of Exemplars

By: Richard K. Ghere

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Rhetoric in Human Rights Advocacy

A Study of Exemplars

By: Richard K. Ghere

This book examines the rhetoric of various “exemplars” who advocate for causes and actions pertaining to human rights in particular contexts. Although some of these exemplars champion human rights, others are human rights antagonists. Simply put, the argument here is that concern for how particular individuals advocate for human rights causes—as well as how antagonists obstruct such initiatives—adds significant value to understanding the successes and failures of human rights efforts in particular cultural and national contexts. On one hand, we can grasp how specific international organizations and actors function to develop norms (for example, the rights of the child) and how rights are subsequently articulated in universal declarations and formal codes. But on the other, it becomes apparent that the actualmeaning of those rights mutate when “accepted” within particular cultures. A complementary facet of this argument relates to the centrality of rhetoric in observing how rights advocates function in practice; specifically, rhetoric focuses upon the art of argumentation and the various strategies and techniques enlisted therein. In that much of the “reality” surrounding human rights (from the standpoints of advocates and antagonists alike) is fundamentally interpretive, rhetorical (or argumentative) skill is of vital importance for advocates as competent pragma-dialecticians in presenting the case that a rights ideal can enhance life in a culture predisposed to reject that ideal. This book includes case studies focusing on the rhetoric of the following individuals or groups as either human rights advocates or antagonists: Mary B. Anderson, Rwandan “hate radio” broadcasters, politicians and military officials connected with the Kent State University and Tiananmen Square student protest tragedies, Iqbal Masih, Pussy Riot, Lyndon Johnson, Julian Assange, Geert Wilders, Daniel Barenboim, Joe Arpaio, and Lucius Banda.

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Lexington Books

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0739193945

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9780739193945

Media and Development

By: Richard Vokes

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Media and Development

By: Richard Vokes

At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of ‘media revolutions’ throughout the developing world – beginning with the advent of cheap transistor radio sets in the late-1960s, followed by the rapid expansion of satellite television networks in the 1990s, and the more recent explosion of mobile telephony, social media and the internet – a majority of people living in the Global South now have access to a wide variety of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), and live in media saturated environments. Yet how can radio, television and mobile phones be most effectively harnessed towards the goals of purposive economic, social, and political change? Should they be seen as primarily a provider of channels through which ‘useful information’ can be delivered to target populations – in the hope that such information will alter those populations’ existing behaviours? Or should they be seen as a tool for facilitating ‘two-way communication’ between development providers and their recipients (i.e. as technologies for improving ‘participatory development’)? Or should new media environments be approached simply as sites in which people living in the developing world can define ‘development’ on their own terms? This timely and original book – which is based on a critical reading of the relevant literatures, and on the author’s own extensive primary research – introduces readers to all of these questions, and helps them to reach their own informed positions on each. It also examines the history of, and current debates regarding, media representations of development. Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – it will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and development; international development professionals, and; simply to anyone with an interest in how media does, can, or should, change the world.

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Routledge

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1317754697

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Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage

Theatricals in a Quiet Life

By: Richard Foulkes

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Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage

Theatricals in a Quiet Life

By: Richard Foulkes

Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the dramatisation of Alice, influential contributions to the debate on child actors, and the friendship of leading players, especially Ellen Terry. As well as being a key to his complex and enigmatic personality, Carroll's interest in the theatre provides a vivid account of a remarkable era on the stage that encompassed Charles Kean's Shakespeare revivals, the comic genius of Frederick Robson, the heyday of pantomime, Gilbert and Sullivan, opera bouffe, the Terry sisters, Henry Irving, and favourite playwrights Tom Taylor, H. A. Jones, and J. M. Barrie. With attention to the complex motives that compelled Carroll to attend stage performances, Foulkes examines the incomparable record of over forty years as a playgoer that Carroll left for posterity.

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Routledge

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1351922335

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Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty

By: Richard John White

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Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty

By: Richard John White

From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the question of personal "sovereignty" and how through his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must therefore come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningful direction for the future. Profoundly relevant to our era, Nietzsche's philosophy addresses a version of individuality that allows us to move beyond the self-dispossession of mass society and the alternative of selfish individualism--to fully understand how one becomes what one is. A volume in the International Nietzsche Studies series, edited by Richard Schacht

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University of Illinois Press

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0252066030

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9780252066030

Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Perils of a Puppet in the United States

By: Richard Wunderlich,Thomas J. Morrissey

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Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Perils of a Puppet in the United States

By: Richard Wunderlich,Thomas J. Morrissey

In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change from the pre World War One era to the present. The authors argue that most Americans know a trivialized, diluted version of the tale, one such source is Disney's perennial classic. The authors also discover that when adults are introduced to the 'real' story, they often deem it as unsuitable for children. Placing the puppet in a variety of contexts, the authors chart the progression of this childhood tale that has frequently undergone dramatic revisions to suit America's idea of children's literature.

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Routledge

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1135023182

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9781135023188

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus

By: Paul Dini,Kurt Busiek,Jo Duffy,Richard Howell,Fred Hembeck,Frank Strom,Buzz Lovko

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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus

By: Paul Dini,Kurt Busiek,Jo Duffy,Richard Howell,Fred Hembeck,Frank Strom,Buzz Lovko

The Elvira Mistress of the Dark Classic Years Omnibus is the first volume reprinting the highly sought-after tales originally published by Claypool Comics. With this deluxe volume, fans can turn back the clock to 1993. Bill Clinton was president, Jurassic Park ruled the box office, and just like today, Elvira was her legendary horror host self. In these beloved adventures Elvira must contend with teen werewolves, killer clowns, aliens, a high school reunion, pro wrestling, and more! Plus, special Halloween, Christmas, and Easter stories. The book covers 26 issues, rounding out to a massive 600-page tome and Dynamite is sneaking in extra bonuses amounting to .666 of an issue. That's right gals and ghouls, 26.666 comics in one massive book! Spooky! A bountiful bevy of talented creators contributed to these adventures. Known for his love of the macabre and the flirty, Paul Dini of Batman fame lent his hand. While this first volume also compiles all of the plentiful pages written by Kurt Busiek (Avengers, Astro City). Claypool head honcho Richard Howell (Vision & the Scarlet Witch) and Frank Strom also contributed writing. While on the art side, Tom Simonton is beloved by Elvira fans for his early contributions to the series, as well as John Heebink. X-Men fans will thrill to the lines of Dave Cockrum on stories, and Dynamite's Vampirella fans will love to see Louis LaChance. Other stars inside include Dan Spiegle, Fred Hembeck, and Neil Vokes. Collecting ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1993) #1-27.

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Dynamite Entertainment

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152412091X

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9781524120917

Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England

By: Richard Mallette

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Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England

By: Richard Mallette

Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships among literature, religion, and politics in Renaissance England. Richard Mallette demonstrates how one of the great masterpieces of English literature, Edmund Spenser?s The Faerie Queene, reproduces, criticizes, parodies, and transforms the discourses of England during that remarkable political and literary era. ø According to Mallette, The Faerie Queene not only represents Reformation values but also challenges, questions, and frequently undermines Protestant assumptions. Building upon recent scholarship, particularly new historicism, Protestant poetics, feminism, and gender theory, this ambitious study traces The Faerie Queene?s linkage of religion to political and social realms. Mallette?s study expands traditional theological conceptions of Renaissance England, showing how the poem incorporates and transmutes religious discourses and thereby tests, appraises, and questions their avowals and assurances. The book?s focus on religious discourses leads Mallette to examine how such matters as marriage, gender, the body, revenge, sexuality, and foreign policy were represented?in both traditional and subversive ways?in Spenser?s influential masterpiece. ø A bold and finely argued contribution to our understanding of Spenser, Reformation thought, and Renaissance literature and society, Mallette?s study will add to the ongoing reassessment of England during this important period.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803231954

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9780803231955

Pain

A Psychophysiological Analysis

By: Richard A. Sternbach

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Pain

A Psychophysiological Analysis

By: Richard A. Sternbach

Pain: A Psychophysiological Analysis focuses on the processes, mechanisms, and approaches in studying pain. The book first offers information on the problems of experimental pain and neurological activity. Topics include anxiety as an experimental variable, implications for experimental pain, pain stimuli, receptors, and fibers, dorsal roots and spinal cord, and sensory nerves. The text also ponders on physiological responses and overt pain behavior. Discussions focus on perceptual, cognitive, personality, family, and ethnic factors, aggression, adaptation and rebound, stress, and pain-specific responses. The publication takes a look at affective descriptions and insensitivity to pain. Concerns include interpersonal aspects of pain, subjective responses to pain, psychodynamics of pain responses, personality development without pain, and possible neural defects. Phantom pain and hypnotic and placebo effects are also elaborated. The manuscript is a vital source of data for psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, and physiologists.

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Academic Press

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1483277291

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Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-45

The Long Hard Slog

By: Richard Doherty

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Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-45

The Long Hard Slog

By: Richard Doherty

Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armour. It also compares the qualities of the commanders of Eighth Army in Italy: Montgomery; Leese and, finally, McCreery. The book uses official records at various levels, personal accounts - some never before published - and published material to present a picture of an army that, although defined as British, was one of the war's most cosmopolitan formations. Its soldiers came from the UK, Canada, India, Ireland, Nepal, New Zealand, Poland and South Africa as well as from Palestine - the Jewish Brigade - and from Italy itself.

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Pen and Sword

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1473813875

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9781473813878

Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing

By: Richard Dellamora

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Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing

By: Richard Dellamora

The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was forbidden for sale or import into England. Its author, Radclyffe Hall, was already well-known as a writer and West End celebrity, but the fame and notoriety of that one book has all but eclipsed a literary output of some half-dozen other novels and several volumes of poetry. In Radclyffe Hall: A Life in the Writing Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Hall's published and unpublished works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture. Along the way, Dellamora revises many of the truisms about Hall that had their origins in the memoirs of her long-term partner, Una Troubridge, and that have found an afterlife in the writings of Hall's biographers. In detailing Hall's explorations of the self, Dellamora is the first seriously to consider their contexts in Freudian psychoanalysis as understood in England in the 1920s. As important, he uncovers Hall's involvement with other modes of speculative psychology, including Spiritualism, Theosophy, and an eclectic brand of Christian and Buddhist mysticism. Dellamora's Hall is a woman of complex accommodations, able to reconcile her marriage to Troubridge with her passionate affairs with other women, and her experimental approach to gender and sexuality with her conservative politics and Catholicism. She is, above all, a thinker continually inventive about the connections between selfhood and desire, a figure who has much to contribute to our own efforts to understand transgendered and transsexual existence today.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204654

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9780812204650

Science Byways. A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Life in Other Worlds, Comets and the Sun, the North Pole, Rain, Danger from Lightning, Growth and Decay of Mind, the Brain and Mental Feats

By: Richard Anthony Proctor

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Science Byways. A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Life in Other Worlds, Comets and the Sun, the North Pole, Rain, Danger from Lightning, Growth and Decay of Mind, the Brain and Mental Feats

By: Richard Anthony Proctor

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385385288

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The School of Hawthorne

By: Richard H. Brodhead

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The School of Hawthorne

By: Richard H. Brodhead

In this intelligent and sensitive study, Brodhead uses Nathaniel Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. The author shows how writers as varied as Melville, Howells, James, and Faulkner have learned from Hawthorne's model while all the while changing the terms in which he has been read.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195060709

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9780195060706

The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

By: Richard Thomas

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The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

By: Richard Thomas

This fully revised second edition describes the best-known sites for all of Australia's endemic birds, plus regular migrants such as seabirds and shorebirds. Covers all states and territories, plus all Australia's island and external territories.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643097856

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9780643097858

J2EE Web Services

By: Richard Monson-Haefel

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J2EE Web Services

By: Richard Monson-Haefel

Annotation & bull; & bull;Covers J2EE, XML, XSD and JAXP (the Java XML API) Web Services, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, Web Services Security and Interoperability & bull;Brings Java developers up to speed on developing Web Services applications using J2EE technologies and APIs & bull;Written by Richard Monson-Heafel & ndash; author with loyal following! & bull;This is the first book in a series of a books by Richard Monson-Heafel.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0321146182

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The Best of "The Public Square".

Book two

By: Richard John Neuhaus

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The Best of "The Public Square".

Book two

By: Richard John Neuhaus

Since its inception in 1990, the journal First Things has concluded each issue with Richard John Neuhaus's "The Public Square." His column has attracted the attention of America's most influential journalists, opinion-makers, and intellectuals. All who read it appreciate its serious discussions of religious and social topics, its lively prose, and its occasional dash of wicked humor. This volume presents a sampling of the best of "The Public Square." Culled from columns written from 1996 to 2000, these thirty-two insightful pieces range from reflections on theology, philosophy, and politics to education, bioethics, law, and family life. Each one demonstrates Neuhaus's authorial flair and keen intellect. As Neuhaus argues, "public life is mainly about culture, and at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion." Few thinkers today can illumine this relationship as directly as Neuhaus.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802849954

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

A World Without World War I

By: Richard Ned Lebow

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

A World Without World War I

By: Richard Ned Lebow

Examining the chain of events that led to the Great War and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it, an acclaimed political psychologist creates plausible worlds, some better, some worse, that might have developed.

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Macmillan

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1137278536

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Rhetoric in Human Rights Advocacy

Rhetoric in Human Rights Advocacy

Media and Development

Media and Development

Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage

Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage

Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty

Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty

Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark: The Classic Years Omnibus

Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England

Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England

Pain

Pain

Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-45

Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-45

Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall

Science Byways. A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Life in Other Worlds, Comets and the Sun, the North Pole, Rain, Danger from Lightning, Growth and Decay of Mind, the Brain and Mental Feats

Science Byways. A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Life in Other Worlds, Comets and the Sun, the North Pole, Rain, Danger from Lightning, Growth and Decay of Mind, the Brain and Mental Feats

The School of Hawthorne

The School of Hawthorne

The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

J2EE Web Services

J2EE Web Services

The Best of "The Public Square".

The Best of "The Public Square".

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

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