1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480299403321

Autore

Ritzer George

Titolo

Expressing America [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of the global credit card society / / George Ritzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : Pine Forge, 1995

ISBN

0-8039-9069-3

1-4522-4311-5

1-4522-4666-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

The Pine Forge Press social science library

Disciplina

332.765

332.7650973

Soggetti

Credit cards - Social aspects - United States

Credit cards - Social aspects

Consumer credit - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456684203321

Autore

Clason Susanna Shelton

Titolo

Forensic rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : the force of closing arguments / / Susanna Shelton Clason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-59332-550-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Disciplina

347.73/75

Soggetti

Summation (Law) - United States

Forensic oratory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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