Usage and Abusage

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140512816
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
A paperback version of the updated edition of Eric Partridge's classic text published by Hamish Hamilton in 1994, examining the use of language in everyday life, and now reflecting the language of the 1990s. First published in 1942.

Usage and Abusage

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393317091
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
A handbook of advice on the proper use of the English language. Includes a section on vogue words that have acquired a power and influence beyond what they originally possessed.

The Use and Abuse of Literature

Author: Marjorie Garber
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307277127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking. But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one’s worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its “commercial” instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study—and what would that mean?

The Use and Abuse of Art

Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216339
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth century In this witty, provocative, and learned book, acclaimed cultural historian and writer Jacques Barzun traces our changing attitudes to the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that we are living in a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance. He challenges our conceptions and misconceptions about art “in order to reach a conclusion about its value and its drawbacks for life at the present time.”

Eminent Domain Use and Abuse

Author: Dwight H. Merriam
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590316382
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London. It addresses the controversial and important question of when eminent domain may constitutionally be used to take property for projects that are not publicly owned and operated facilities, such as schools and town halls. The volume captures and conveys the context within which this debate is taking place as well as offers guidance concerning the Kelo decision itself and how it may be used.

Use and Abuse of Statistics

Author: William John Reichmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description

How to Win Every Argument

Author: Madsen Pirie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147252697X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arguments in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and in 140 characters (on Twitter), Pirie provides the complete guide to triumphing in altercations ranging from the everyday to the downright serious. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in argument. We all like to think of ourselves as clear-headed and logical - but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are guilty. The author shows you how to simultaneously strengthen your own thinking and identify the weaknesses in other people arguments. And, more mischievously, Pirie also shows how to be deliberately illogical - and get away with it. This book will make you maddeningly smart: your family, friends and opponents will all wish that you had never read it. Publisher's warning: In the wrong hands this book is dangerous. We recommend that you arm yourself with it whilst keeping out of the hands of others. Only buy this book as a gift if you are sure that you can trust the recipient.

The Use and Abuse of Music

Author: Eleanor Peters
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787690016
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of 'harmful' or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.

Seeing Green

Author: Finis Dunaway
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226169901
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
"Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship, " telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over" -- Publisher information.

Age of Propaganda

Author: Anthony R. Pratkanis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805074031
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Book Description
Examines the patterns, motives, and effects of mass persuasion, discussing the history of propaganda, how the message of propaganda is delivered, and counteracting the tactics of mass persuasion.