Words like loaded pistols

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Rhetoric is all around us. It’s what inspires armies, convicts criminals, and makes or breaks presidential candidates. And it isn’t just the preserve of politicians. It’s in the presentation to a key client, the half-time talk in the locker room, and the plea to your children to eat their vegetables. Rhetoric gives words power: it persuades and cajoles, inspires and bamboozles, thrills and misdirects. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?
In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us on detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton’s Satanic realm, the Springfield of Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield of Homer Simpson. He explains how language has been used by the great heroes of rhetoric (such as Cicero and Martin Luther King Jr.), as well as some villains (like Adolf Hitler and Richard Nixon.)

Leith provides a primer to rhetoric’s key techniques. In Words Like Loaded Pistols, you’ll find out how to build your own memory-palace; you’ll be introduced to the Three Musketeers: Ethos, Pathos and Logos; and you’ll learn how to use chiasmus with confidence and occultation without thinking about it. Most importantly of all, you will discover that rhetoric is useful, relevant and absolutely nothing to be afraid of.

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Words Like Loaded Pistols

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an entertaining history of great oratory new yorker and a primer to rhetoric s key techniques rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire but it s not just for politicians it s all around us whether you re buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their vegetables Uiterlijk 13 december in huis .. MEER INFO

You Talkin' To Me?

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Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire but it s not just for politicians it s all around us whether you re buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their greens you have been using rhetoric yourself all your life after all you know what a rhetorical question is don Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Three Graves Full

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A library journal best book of 2013 a booklist best crime novel of 2013 there is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard but it could always be worse more than a year ago mild mannered jason getty killed a man he wished he d never met then he planted the problem a little Op voorraad. Voor 15:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 mei 2012

Aantal pagina's: 320

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Sam Leith

Hoofduitgeverij: Perseus Books Group

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 32 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 150 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm

Verpakking lengte: 211 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 417 g

EAN: 9780465031054

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