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UNINA9910480299403321 |
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Ritzer George |
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Expressing America [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of the global credit card society / / George Ritzer |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, 1995 |
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0-8039-9069-3 |
1-4522-4311-5 |
1-4522-4666-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Pine Forge Press social science library |
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Credit cards - Social aspects - United States |
Credit cards - Social aspects |
Consumer credit - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues; Chapter 2 - Socio-History of the Credit Card: We Probably won't Recognize the Credit Card Field by the End of the Century; Chapter 3 - Credit Card Debt: Beware the Plastic Loan Shark; Chapter 4 - Credit Card Fraud: Screw You, Mac-I Got Mine; Chapter 5 - Secrecy, Privacy, and Credit Cards: Who isn't in Their Files?; Chapter 6 - Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization: All You Need is 42 Digits to Make One Long-Distance Phone Call |
Chapter 7 - An American Express: The Culture that Conquered the WorldAppendix; Endnotes; Index |
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In this book the author explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence of the modern US and why and how the credit card is helping to transform much of the world. |
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UNINA9910456684203321 |
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Autore |
Clason Susanna Shelton |
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Forensic rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : the force of closing arguments / / Susanna Shelton Clason |
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El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Collana |
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Criminal justice : recent scholarship |
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Disciplina |
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Summation (Law) - United States |
Forensic oratory |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-154) and index. |
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The power of legal rhetoric -- Research design and analytic strategy -- Ethos : a rhetoric of impression -- Logos : the rhetoric of reasoning -- Pathos : a rhetoric of engagement -- Conclusions. |
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Clason focuses on the closing argument rhetorical practices of five trial attorneys. She seeks to 1) learn how participants utilized rhetorical strategies in closing argument; 2) better understand how they selected those strategies; and 3) examine why they employed the strategies they did through the central categories of ethos, logos, and pathos. Study participants' awareness and consideration of the classical speaker, audience, and message Aristotelian speech situation as well as the power of persuasion demonstrates the continued influence of rhetoric in courts and rhetorical nature of legal |
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