Public speaking textbook grounded in traditional rhetorical theory with historical and contemporary examples

Core text for public speaking or rhetoric courses

Distinguished from other public speaking texts by its grounding in traditional rhetoric and its focus on speaking as an engaged citizen on matters of public concern, compared with texts more focused on business communication

Online resources include instructor's manual with discussion and test questions, web links, and sample materials

Smartphones, social media and AI are here to stay. Leading expert Professor Kaitlyn Regehr, The Digital Nutritionist, gives us the tools to consume them safely, keeping the advantages and joy of the digital world, but teaching us how to and spot risks and dangers and step away when we're over-reliant. She believes that our constant, unconscious scrolling is as dangerous as smoking and here she offers a clear process for embedding ?digital nutrition' - healthy interaction with our phones and d...

This is the essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive reasoning skills in order to improve children's safety.

This little book of charming date ideas gives you new ways to light a spark in your love life. Filled with inspiration and romance, it is a gorgeous gift for that special someone to show them how much you care. As well as dreamy date ideas, these pages are packed with thoughtful quotes about love to sweep your partner off their feet.

The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written in the 1930s for the middle classes - one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains delightfully arcane and timelessly true advice: Don’t think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.

Operation Pedro Pan opened the door to the United States for more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied Cuban children. How did this come to be called Operation Pedro Pan? It was important from the very beginning that we in Miami avoided anything that could jeopardize the exodus, or the people in Cuba who worked to make it possible. We were never under the illusion that the Cuban government was unaware of what we were doing, nor that any publicity could easily have been used as propaganda to p...

Het Israël-Palestinaconflict door de ogen van jongeren

Sinds de grootschalige en extreem gewelddadige aanval van Hamas op 7 oktober 2023 in Israël, waarbij veel jongeren slachtoffer waren, heerst er oorlog in de Gazastrook. Het vormt het startpunt van Zionisten, terroristen, activisten van Omar Dweik over het Israël- Palestinaconflict dat al jarenlang gaande is. De stem van de jongeren rondom dit conflict werd nog maar zelden gehoord en daar zal Dweik met dit boek verandering i...

16 persoonlijke, soms emotionele gesprekken met jonge denkers over onze toekomst

In het boek De allerbelangrijkste vraag van je leven gaat Harm Edens in gesprek met 16 jonge denkers met zeer diverse achtergronden, die zich op bijzondere manieren inzetten tegen klimaatverandering. Edens – die zich al meer dan 25 jaar inzet voor een betere en duurzame wereld – bespreekt dit urgente onderwerp met de nieuwe generatie om uit te vinden of hun kijk verschilt met die van hun voorgangers.

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- Het enige veelomvattende handboek op het gebied van politicologie;

- met uitgebreide maatschappelijk relevante casuïstiek en gegevens;

- omschrijft zowel nationale als internationale politiek.

Politiek en politicologie gaat in op de lokale, regionale en nationale Nederlandse politiek, maar richt zich ook op Europese en internationale politiek. De rol van politieke opvattingen, politieke partijen en belangengroepen wordt uitgebreid besproken. Traditionele begrippen als democratie, staat en ...