1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248294703316

Autore

Jamieson Kathleen Hall

Titolo

Eloquence in an electronic age [[electronic resource] ] : the transformation of political speechmaking / / Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

0-19-972889-5

1-280-52470-7

9786610524709

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

808.5/1

Soggetti

Public speaking

Eloquence

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 bibliography: p. 269-292 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""1. Educating the Eloquent Speaker""; ""2. Incapacitating the Eloquent Speaker""; ""3. The Flame of Oratory, The Fireside Chat""; ""4. The ""Effeminate"" Style""; ""5. The Memorable Phrase, The Memorable Picture""; ""6. Dramatizing and Storytelling""; ""7. Conversation, and Self-Revelation""; ""8. The Divorce Between Speech and Thought""; ""9. Mating the Best of the Old and the New""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""

""W""""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking.     Jamieson addresses such fundamental issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers.  She also analyzes the speeches of modern presidents from Truman to Reagan and of political players from Daniel Webster to Mario Cuomo.Ranging from the classical orations of Cicero to Kennedy's ""Ich bin ein Berliner""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787709703321

Autore

Päs Heinrich (Heinrich)

Titolo

The perfect wave : with neutrinos at the boundary of space and time / / Heinrich Päs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-674-72619-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

539.7/215

Soggetti

Particles (Nuclear physics) - History

Neutrinos - Mass

Cosmology

Space and time

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Dawn Patrol in Honolulu -- 2 Eleusis, Plato, Magic Mushrooms -- 3 Quantum Physics: The Multiverse of Parmenides -- 4 Black Dots on a White Background: The Particle World -- 5 Beyond the Desert: Symmetries and Unification -- 6 From Symmetry Breaking to Supersymmetry -- 7 Birth of an Outlaw: The Neutrino -- 8 Nuclear Decays a Thousand Meters Underground -- 9 New Physics Is Falling from the Skies -- 10 Cosmic Connections -- 11 Neutrinos: Key to the Universe -- 12 Extra Dimensions, Strings, and Branes -- 13 Einstein's Heritage: What Is Time? -- 14 How to Build a Time Machine -- 15 Against Hawking and the Timekeepers -- 16 Into the Wilderness of the Terascale -- 17 Epilogue: Major Tom and the Singing Socrates -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos may offer answers to questions ranging from relativity and quantum mechanics to more radical theories about dark energy and supersymmetry. Heinrich Päs serves as our fluent guide to a particle world that tests the boundaries of space, time, and human



knowledge.