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Successful Methods of Public Speaking
The Floating Press 1919; US$ 5.99You can acquire valuable knowledge for use in your own public speaking by studying the successful methods of other men. This does not mean, however, that you are to imitate others, but simply to profit by their experience and suggestions in so far as they fit in naturally with your personality. All successful speakers do not speak alike. Each man has... more...
The Training of a Public Speaker
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 5.99The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized. To-day the public speaker plays a vital part in the solution of every great question and problem. Oratory, in the true sense, is not a lost art, but a potent means of imparting information, instruction, and persuasion. Eloquence is still "the appropriate organ of the highest... more...
Television Style
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95Style matters. Television relies on style?setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on?to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In this book, Jeremy G. Butler examines the meanings behind television?s stylstic... more...
Satiristas
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 23.99Our nation's finest comedians, contrarians, and comic subversives come together to discuss the nature of humor, its relevance to society, and how simply speaking the truth as one sees it can give life meaning We are living in a new golden age of satire. In a nation divided, polarized, and cynical of "official" news and information, it's... more...
Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a... more...
A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.95The new edition of the bestselling favorite that you have been waiting for! This is the same nuts-and-bolds look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design that you need, but with a unique focus on design with a combination of theory and application that can't be found anywhere else. A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting has... more...
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 86.00Wide-ranging study by leading experts focusing on the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid and the responses they provoked. more...
From Homer to Harry Potter
Baker Publishing Group 2006; US$ 24.00Drawing from a Christian viewpoint informed by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Dickerson and O'Hara assess modern fantasy writers such as Philip Pullman, Walter Wangerin, and J. K. Rowling. more...
Behind the Screen
Baker Publishing Group 2005; US$ 18.00When it comes to Hollywood, Christians too quickly wash their hands of popular culture and leave this immensely influential media to unbelievers. In truth, the industry is listening. There is a church in Hollywood, but too often their work is unrecognized. Behind the Screen offers a glimpse of Hollywood insiders who, through their jobs on movie sets,... more...
Poetry in a Divided World
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 27.00This book comprises four lectures presented at Trinity College in 1985 concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century. more...









