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A thorough examination of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings that reshaped a nation's culture

Mao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized b…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534568/The-Press-and-Slavery-in-America-1791-1859
An examination of how press coverage of slave revolts forced public discussions that ultimately influenced public opinion

Slavery remains one of the United States' most troubling failin…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534577/Rhetoric-of-the-Chinese-Cultural-Revolution
A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its effects

Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534584/The-Ides-of-War
An examination of the powerful role human agency and rhetoric played in the founding of the nation

History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534601/Queerly-Remembered
An interdisciplinary examination of the strategies GLBTQ communities have used to advocate for political, social, and cultural change

Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which g…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534608/Textual-Curation
A study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative works

Wikipedia is arguably the most famous collaborat…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534652/The-Keys-of-Power
Examines Transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power

Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534708/The-Interruption-That-We-Are
In a world of ever-increasing medical technology, a study of the need for wisdom, truth, and public moral argument

In this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534694/Introducing-Science-through-Images
An examination of how images can serve as communication tools to popularize science in the public eye

As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure,…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534546/Assembling-Arguments
Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700