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  Anglo-American Feminist Challenges To The Rhetorical Traditions

  Krista Ratcliffe

  In this lucid and innovative work, Krista Ratcliffe successfully extrapolates rhetorical theories from three feminist writers not generally thought of as rhetoricians. Ratcliffe's skillful use of her methodology demonstrates a new model for examining women's texts. Her work situates Woolf's, Daly's, and Rich's feminist theories of rhetoric within current conversations about feminist pedagogies, particularly the interweavings of critical thinking, reading, and writing. Ratcliffe concludes with an application to teaching.

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  Dialogue on the Two Natures in Christ. (Vol. XXXI, Sixteenth Century Essay and Studies)

  John Donnelly

  In this last work of Vermigli’s distinguished career as a theologian, he uses a dialogue to discuss the disagreement among Christians about the Eucharist and Christ’s presence in the Lord’s Supper.

  Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562) is considered to be one of the most important Italian reformers of the early modern period. Martyr is the subject of renewed interest for historical and theological scholars. The Peter Martyr Library, a series of critical English translations of the chief works of Peter Martyr Vermigli, allows his own words in context to speak for themselves.

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  Annotations on the First Epistle to the Corinthians. (Vol. II, Reformation Texts with Translation (1350-1650))

  John Donnelly and Philipp Melanchthon

  Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) was one of the most influential lay theologians in the history of Christianity. He was also important in the development of the Lutheran Church. This is a translation of his annotations on the first epistle to the Corinthians.

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  Modern Control Systems, 7th edition

  Richard C. Dorf

  This text has been revised to make more use of MATLAB integration, and features a new chapter on digital controls. Whilst maintaining its real-world perspectives and practical applications, this edition also features: expanded and updated coverage of state space topics; tutorial instruction on using MATLAB in controls and designated MATLAB problems; and a wider variety of applications in examples and problems. This text is intended for students taking courses in electrical and mechanical engineering.

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  In a Perilous Hour: The Public Address of John F. Kennedy

  Steven R. Goldzwig and George N. Dionisopoulos

  This first book-length critical analysis of Kennedy's public address defines how he aroused Americans to rise to the opportunities and challenges that he defined for them. This rigorously researched study offers an in-depth analysis of the development of President Kennedy as a public speaker and a balanced view of his civil rights, foreign policy, presidential, and other types of speeches. Eight speech texts accompany the analysis. This reference and teaching tool also offers a selected chronology of major speeches along with a bibliography of important primary and secondary sources. Designed for students, teachers, and professionals in the fields of rhetoric, political communication, presidential studies, and American history.

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  Newsworkers: Toward a History of the Rank and File

  Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen

  The traditional construction of media history has relied on notions of democracy, progress, and community leadership to produce the image of an institution that has secured the place of journalism in the annals of the United States. Current attempts to modernize the representation of media history through widely used textbooks repeat traditional views of what constitutes a history of the press; they present ideologically predisposed accounts that fail to consider issues of work and class. The result has been a history of institutional power without any consideration of the rank of file and their contribution to the social and political empowerment of contemporary media industries.

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  Leasing the Ivory Tower : the Corporate Takeover of Academia

  Lawrence Soley

  This text exposes the growing corporate threats to the future of intellectual inquiry and civil society itself. Corporate investments, Soley argures, have dramatically changed the mission of higher education; they have led universities to attend to the interests of their well-heeled patrons, rather than those of students.

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  Keynes's Philosophical Development

  John B. Davis

  This book examines Keynes's philosophical thinking as it developed from his earliest works through to The General Theory. It explains the role of philosophy in Keynes's later economics, showing how development and change in Keynes's philosophical thinking affected the development of his later economic thinking. The book represents a case study in the philosophy of economics, and unlike other books on the topic of Keynes and philosophy, argues that Keynes changed his philosophical views as he came to think about economics.

  • Presents the argument that Keynes's philosophical thinking changed from his earliest work to The General Theory
  • Discusses relationship between Keynes's ethical thinking and his economic policy thinking
  • Examines Keynes's unpublished 'Apostles' papers

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  The State of Interpretation of Keynes

  John B. Davis

  Interest in John Maynard Keynes's economic, political and philosophical thinking has undergone a tremendous revival in the last decade. The essays and comments collected in this volume were written on a set of themes representative of the current state of interpretation of Keynes's thinking. Some of the topics investigated have received much attention in the past, and some are of more recent interest. In the former category are topics on standard issues in the interpretation of Keynes's economics: the transition in Keynes's thinking from the The Treatise on Money to The General Theory, the nature of the argument in The General Theory, and Keynes's economic policy views. The latter category introduces themes of a wider nature, and includes two papers on Keynes's vision and one on Keynes's philosophical thinking.
  The strategy adopted in the selection of topics was to review the debates over Keynes's economics from fresh perspectives, and then go on to supply discussions of broader issues concerning the nature of Keynes as a thinker. This collection as a whole adds to our general understanding of Keynes's work, and contributes to the current revival of interest in Keynes.

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  The Social Economics of Human Material Need

  John B. Davis and Edward J. O'Boyle

  This collection of seven essays, a project of the Association for Social Economics, challenges the conventional paradigm of mainstream economics—which rejects human need as a viable concept—and seeks to establish a new paradigm grounded in human material need under its two distinct aspects: physical need and the need for work as such.

  In the Introduction, John B. Davis maintains that mainstream economic theory denies that needs can be distinguished from wants and so does not recognize the importance of this dimension of economic life. He argues that it is virtually impossible to discuss the economy without addressing the individuals, families, and communities whose needs go unmet and who thus become the focus of social and economic policies.

  The contributors establish in their essays a philosophical and methodological foundation to explain the nature of need and its centrality to economics. They present a new socioeconomic paradigm based on human material need, which is presented in the context of the three principles that organize economic affairs—competition, cooperation, and intervention—and which is underlaid by the social values of freedom, community, and equality. Essayists strive to incorporate the duality of human nature—the recognition that every human being is at once an individual and a social being—in their definition of human physical need and the need for work. They further address unmet individual material need through private- and public-sector remedies.

  The essays include "Need as a Mode of Discourse," by Warren J. Samuels; "The Person and the Social Economy: Needs, Values, and Principles," by Peter L. Danner; "Human Physical Need: A Concept That Is Both Absolute and Relative," by Edward J. O’Boyle; "Government Participation to Address Human Material Need," by Anthony E. Scaperlanda; "The Need for Work as Such: Self-Expression and Belonging," by Edward J. O’Boyle; "Social Management and the Self-Managed Firm," by Severyn T. Bruyn; and "Reconstruction of Mainstream Economics and the Market Economy," by John B. Davis and Edward J. O’Boyle.

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  Parent Behavior Checklist

  Robert A. Fox

  In order to tailor our support to families in the most helpful and cost-effective manner possible, an objective assessment of a family's strengths and needs is the logical starting place. The Parent Behavior Checklist (PBC) was developed to contribute to this family evaluation process. The PBC is an empirically derived instrument developed specifically for parents of children 1 through 4 years of age. It was normed on a representative sample of 1,140 mothers and measures three aspects of parenting: Expectations, Discipline, and Nurturing. The PBC is efficient to use, taking parents only 10-20 minutes to complete, and is easy to score. Interpretation is straightforward and leads to an identification of parenting strengths and needs that can be translated into practical intervention strategies.

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  Prison Meditations on Psalms 51 and 31. (Vol. I, Reformation Texts with Translation (1350-1650))

  Girolamo Savonarola and John Donnelly

  “In a famous remark Machiavelli dismissed Girolamo Savonarola as a prophet unarmed and hence doomed to failure. He was certainly a political failure, and paid with his life for that failure, but there are many ways to measure success and failure. It was Machiavelli’s own failure in politics that led to his career as a writer and to undying fame. It was Savonarola’s failure in politics that led to his arrest and imprisonment, but he was not a prophet totally unarmed, for in prison he retained the pen, which is often mightier than the sword. There he wrote the two works printed in this volume. They became the most read of all his writings and prove that physical torture did not destroy his literary and spiritual powers.

  Savonarola’s exposition or meditation on Psalm 50 (51) (the Miserere) and Psalm 30 (31) (‘In te, Domini, speravi’) have not been printed in English during the twentieth century. The primary purpose of this book is to make that text available in modern English. The secondary purpose is to help students who are trying to learn to read post- classical Latin. As an undergraduate the translator found the Loeb series, which printed the text and translation of classical Roman authors on facing pages, the best single help to acquire facility in reading Latin. Fewer such volumes exist to help students of post-classical Latin. This series tries to fill that gap for both Latin and early modern vernaculars. Savonarola’s Latin seems well suited to that purpose because it is fluent and powerful but without great grammatical complexity.”

  —From the Preface by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.

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  The Meaning and Reliability of Economic Summit Undertakings: 1975-1989

  Joseph Daniels

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  Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre

  Diane Hoeveler and Beth Lau

  Taught more frequently than any of Charlotte Brontë's other novels, Jane Eyre presents distinct problems for the contemporary undergraduate instructor, one being the work's sheer length. Almost all the instructors who responded to a survey conducted for this volume spent two to three weeks teaching the novel in their courses and seminars; their students discovered, in the words of the volume coeditor Diane Long Hoeveler, "as much about themselves, their own memories of childhood, their own struggles for autonomy, as they [did] about the cultural, social, economic, religious, and literary backgrounds that constitute the milieu of the novel."

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  The Believer as Citizen: John Courtney Murray in a New Context

  Thomas Hughson

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  Democracy and the "Kingdom of God"

  Howard P. Kainz

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  Ethical Marketing Decisions: The Higher Road

  Gene R. Laczniak and Patrick E. Murphy

  Designed to help foster ethically and socially responsible behavior in marketing, the book reviews the tough ethical issues that marketing managers must face in both operational and strategic areas, and covers the major dimensions of all marketing activities. It contains specific managerial and strategic recommendations in every chapter and is written from a managerial viewpoint.

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  The Economic Surplus in Advanced Economies

  John B. Davis

  The theory of monopoly capital is central to any satisfactory analysis of accumulation and stagnation in advanced capitalist economies. This major new book presents in one volume recent discussions of monopoly capitalism to emphasize the centrality and vitality of this tradition in modern political economy.

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  Utopia

  Thomas More, John Donnelly, and John F X Sheehan

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  The News Shapers : The Sources Who Explain the News

  Lawrence C. Soley

  Analysts, political scientists, scholars, and consultants,--The News Shapers describes the elite club of individuals that the media approach for inside information, background, or predictions concerning the outcome of still-unfolding stories. Although they are presented as detached experts, Lawrence C. Soley uncovers their long histories of partisanship as former government officials or politicians, and charges that most of the shapers have no better credentials than the millions of people to whom the news media never turn. Soley's findings, based on a University of Minnesota study which examined three major networks' evening newscasts during 1987-1988, reveal that a small number of white, politically conservative men associated with Washington-based think tanks, former Republican administrations, and private, East Coast universities virtually monopolize political discourse in the mass media.

  Dispelling the myth of the media's liberal bias, Soley discusses the shortcomings of both print and broadcast journalism which lead to selection of partisan news analysts, and the effects of their commentaries on foreign and domestic affairs. Special attention is given to Henry Kissinger, Washington Think Tanks, and the media's handling of the conflict with Iraq. The News Shapers identifies the experts, their past political affiliations, and their often thin academic credentials. It is highly recommended for scholars in communications, journalism, and political science, as well as for newspaper readers and television news viewers.

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  Keynes and Philosophy: Essays on the Origins of Keynes's Thought

  Bradley W. Bateman and John B. Davis

  This work brings together recent perspectives on an emerging Keynesian fundamentalism and demonstrates the level of controversy that enlivens the debate.

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  A Bibliography of the Works of Peter Martyr Vermigli (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Vol. 13)

  John Donnelly, Robert M. Kingdon, and Marvin W. Anderson

  This bibliography is designed to guide future researchers into the writings of Peter Martyr Vermigli. Most of the bibliography is devoted to data on Vermigli’s writings, and has been enriched by a register of the surviving correspondence of Vermigli. Frontispieces have been printed for each of the volumes cited. The book has considerable importance in light of the Peter Martyr Vermigli Library now in publication.

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  Interpreting Public Issues

  Robert J. Griffin Ph.D., Dayle H. Molen, Clay Schoenfeld, and James F. Scotton

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  Beginner’s Guide To Doing Qualitative Research In Mass Communication

  John J. Pauly

  John Pauly offers a sensitive and rich description that demonstrates, in its style and structure, the very best aspects of the qualitative perspective. He takes as his focus mass communication scholarship, showing how definitions of communication as meaning-making, rather than information transferal, underlie qualitative perspectives in communications research. By noting the different "lenses" on the communication process-- product, practice, and commentary-- he delineates broad categories of qualitative inquiry that currently figure in media study

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  Understanding Students with High Incidence Exceptionalities: Categorical and Noncategorical Perspectives

  John O. Schwenn, Anthony F. Rotatori, and Robert A. Fox

  This book is a general introduction to the characteristics and education of individuals with high incidence exceptionalities. These include learning disabilities, speech and language disorders, mental retardation, and emotional/behavioral disorders. These high incidence exceptionalities comprise 94 percent of the population with handicaps. Gifted and talented students were also included as they are a high incidence but nonhandicapped segment of our population with special educational needs. Nearly every general education teacher will teach some of these individuals,. In fact, it is difficult to imagine that a teacher would never have a student with an exceptionality in class. This book is therefore written to benefit the regular educator as well as the special educator.

  The major emphasis of this book is on educating the learner with special needs. The first chapter gives a historical overview of the treatment of those with exceptionalities, major litigation and legislation, referral-to-placement needs, and types of classrooms and educational environments at each age level.

  The chapter on each exceptionality provide historical background, definitions, characteristics, curriculum, needs, teaching procedures, special topics, and a glossary. The sixth chapter makes this book special as it details the noncategorical aapproach to teaching the learner with exceptionalities as many special education classrooms no longer contain only one type of exceptional population but contain various exceptionalities together. This book therefore addresses all types of classrooms for high incidence exceptionalities found in all of our schools.