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East End Jews
Publication Date: April 2025
Detailed historical context, biographies of each writer, and evocative illustrations support this meaningful collection of urban sketches and enrich our understanding of the Jewish East End.
Discourse in Black
Publication Date: January 2025
Through all three of the essential works in this compendium, Gilyard has nourished American literary and rhetorical discourse with a reframing of topics and conversations spanning language, culture, and educational praxis.
Rust Belt Reporter
Publication Date: September 2024
Alongside sage insight into the difficulties and decline of traditional media, Gallagher's experience and advice inspire hope, often underscoring and celebrating the surprising and happy reinvention of heartland cities like Detroit.
On Rhetoric and Black Music
Publication Date: June 2024
Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public...
What to Count
Publication Date: August 2023
What to Count is a remarkable collection of contemporary poetry—both a lyrical splendor and a contemplative account of lineage, silenced history, and identity.
The Lyric Essay as Resistance
Publication Date: March 2023
Their work demonstrates the power of the lyric essay to bring about change, both on the page and in our communities.
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Publication Date: March 2022
A notable work in the landscape of Asian American literature as well as Midwest and Michigan-based literature, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids features a clear and powerful voice that brings all people together in these political and pandemic times.
Grief's Country
Publication Date: October 2021
Those interested in the subject area of death and dying will find it useful as a book that bypasses recovery narratives, truisms, and "stages of griefto get as close as possible to the experience itself.
The Orbit Magazine Anthology
Publication Date: September 2015
Anyone interested in Detroit arts and culture or the history of alternative publishing will be grateful for The Orbit Magazine Anthology.
To Light a Fire
Publication Date: August 2015
Fellow educators, poets, and creative writers will be moved and inspired by this collection.
Reading, Translating, Rewriting
Publication Date: November 2013
Reading, Translating, Rewriting is informative reading for students and teachers of fairy-tale studies and translation studies.
Keepin' It Hushed
Publication Date: February 2011
Rhetoricians and readers interested in African American life and culture will appreciate the cogent analysis in Nunley’s volume.
Workbook for Language Skills
Publication Date: August 2009
Speech and language pathology clinicians as well as individuals in need of self-study exercises will appreciate the updated Workbook for Language Skills.
Workbook for Cognitive Skills
Publication Date: December 2008
Clinicians who work with patients with aphasia, cognitive impairments, or word/memory loss will be grateful for the new edition of this popular workbook.
Sourcebook for Receptive and Expressive Language Functioning
Publication Date: January 2007
Target areas in this book include receptive language functioning (yes/no questions, multiple choice, sentence comprehension, basic math, functional material, paragraphs) and expressive language functioning (nonverbal communication, completions, naming, word fluency, sentence formulation, longer answers).
Workbook for Aphasia
Publication Date: March 2006
This revised and updated third edition will enhance the ability of speech-language pathologists to address the language-impaired population within their practices.
"Gettin' Our Groove On"
Publication Date: September 2005
Itself infused with the hip hop idiom and an engaging style free of academic jargon, Gettin’ Our Groove On presents a thorough and provocative contribution to cultural and rhetorical studies.
Dialogic Moments
Publication Date: September 2004
In another sense, however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication and language as its quintessential loci."—From the Introduction by Tamar Katriel
Our Lives Are but Stories
Publication Date: August 2002
The result is a fascinating blend of analysis, narration, and history.
The Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children
Publication Date: July 1995
(Additional test booklets can be purchased separately, 25 to a package.)
Voices of the Self
Publication Date: July 1991
Encompassing the perspectives of both the "streetand the "academy,Voices of the Self presents an eloquent argument for cultural and linguistic pluralism in American public schools.
Right Hemisphere Stroke
Publication Date: May 1990
Fred Johnson's book is valuable, then, not only as a testament to the courage and determination of one man but for the lessons it provides for medical students and health care professionals.
Aphasia, My World Alone
Publication Date: July 1986
A new chapter has been added to this revised edition in which Helen Wulf assesses her feelings and the progress she has made six to eight years post-stroke.
Talkin and Testifyin
Publication Date: January 1986
Documenting her insights with quotes from notable Black historical, literary and popular figures, Smitherman makes clear that Black English is as legitimate a form of speech as British, American, or Australian English.
Latin via Ovid
Publication Date: September 1982
For additional complimentary materials on this topic, please see the accompanying text Practice, Practice: A Latin Via Ovid Workbook by Norma Goldman and Michael Rossi.
Old English
Publication Date: January 1970
The poetry includes: Caedmon's "Hymnfrom Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Battle of Brunanburg; The Battle of Maldon; The Dream of Rood from the Vercelli Book; The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament, The Storm Riddles, The Panther, and The Whale from The Exeter Book.
