A Guide to Building Bridges Across the Political Divide
by Nolan Finley and Stephen Henderson
With Lynne Golodner
Price: $25.99
ISBN: 9780814352182
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: June 2025
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
184 Pages
This conversational, no-nonsense guide provides valuable lessons, a detailed curriculum, probing questions for consideration, and an extensive appendix of resources outlining ongoing efforts to curb unproductive contention and advance a more harmonious society.
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.
Voices of the Self, Let's Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories
by Keith Gilyard
Series edited by Melba Joyce Boyd
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9780814351925
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: January 2025
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
516 Pages
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.
Each encounter brings clarity and a new lens through which to understand the world, revealing how language shapes our lives and how our lives shape language.
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.
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 sphere.
What to Count is a remarkable collection of contemporary poetry—both a lyrical splendor and a contemplative account of lineage, silenced history, and identity.
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.
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.
Exercises for Reading, Writing, and Retrieval, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
by Susan Howell Brubaker
Price: $99.00
ISBN: 9780814333174
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: Spiral bound
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
288 Pages
Speech and language pathology clinicians as well as individuals in need of self-study exercises will appreciate the updated Workbook for Language Skills.
Exercises for Thought Processing and Word Retrieval, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
by Susan Howell Brubaker
Price: $99.00
ISBN: 9780814333136
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: December 2008
Format: Spiral bound
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
376 Pages
Clinicians who work with patients with aphasia, cognitive impairments, or word/memory loss will be grateful for the new edition of this popular workbook.
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).
Exercises for the Development of Higher Level Language Functioning
by Susan Howell Brubaker
Price: $99.00
ISBN: 9780814333112
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: Spiral bound
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
360 Pages
This revised and updated third edition will enhance the ability of speech-language pathologists to address the language-impaired population within their practices.
Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation
by Kermit E. Campbell
Price: $26.99
ISBN: 9780814329252
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 2005
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
216 Pages
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.
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
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.
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.
Introduction by Geneva Smitherman and Teun Van Dijk
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814319581
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: April 1988
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
272 Pages
Discourse and Discrimination is valuable reading for students and scholars in linguistics, discourse analysis, mass communication, sociology, social psychology, and Black and ethnic studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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