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Bending opinion: essays on persuasion in the public domain
With communication playing an increasingly important role in contemporary society, rhetoric appears to have gained in influence and importance. The ancients knew all along: power belongs to those who know how to use their words. Nowadays, we know that rhetoric pervades all discourse. There is no communication without rhetoric. In a society with ever-increasing amounts of information, and with m…
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- 9789400600201
- Collation
- 455 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- Rhetoric in society
- Call Number
- 320.014 BEN b
Literary cultures and public opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performanc…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789004206168
- Collation
- x, 324 p.
- Series Title
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
- Call Number
- 839.109002 BLO l
Drones and support for the use of force
Drones and Support for the Use of Force utilizes experimental research to analyze the effects of combat drones on Americans’ support for the use of force. The authors develop expectations drawn from social science theory and then assess these conjectures using a series of survey experiments. Their findings—that drones have had important but nuanced effects on support for the use of forceâ…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901173
- Collation
- 244p. : ill.
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- Call Number
- 358.414 WAL d
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