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Society's attitudes to rhetoric are often very negative. Here, Richard Toye provides an engaging, historically informed introduction to rhetoric, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Wide-ranging in its scope, this Very Short Introduction is the essential starting point for understanding the art of persuasion....

Volume 1: InfernoRobert Durling's prose translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor. Readers will prize the directness and clarity, the rich expressiveness, and the rigorous accuracy of this contemporary prose translation. The concise...

From Bretton Woods to the Rise of ChinaThis book provides historical and analytical perspectives on the different phases of the postwar dollar standard in order to better understand its resilience in spite of the great volatility in today's global monetary system....

Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn'tn A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships, and the science behind them. He offers advice, based primarily on the writings of the Stoic philosophers, on how best to curb our own insulting tendencies...

How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment SystemFifty years after John F. Kennedy's speech on mental illness and retardation, E. Fuller Torrey's book provides an insider's perspective on the birth of the federal mental health program. Torrey draws on his own first-hand account of the creation and launch of the...