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volume 2, number 2
April 2002

Jeffrey B. Kurtz, Recovering Emerson

Sarah Ann Wider. The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things.   Rochester, NY: Camden House [Boydell and Brewer Inc.], 2000. ix + 239. Notes, bibliography, index. $59.00.

T. Gregory Garvey, editor. The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001. v + 264. Notes, index, photo essay. $40.00.

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Per Fjelstad, Constituting Democratic Order in Ancient Athenian Lawsuits

Steven Johnstone. Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. xiv + 207 pages. Notes, bibliography, and two indexes. $37.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper)

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Craige B. Champion, Classical Interstices: Imperial Democracy and Athenian Culture

Deborah Boedeker and Kurt A. Raaflaub, editors. Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii + 504. $52.50.

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Brian E. Butler, The Necessity of Understanding Thumos, and The Misuse of Emotion in Modern Political Theory

Barbara Koziak. Retrieving Political Emotion: Thumos, Aristotle, and Gender. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. x + 203 pages. Bibliography and index. $29.95.

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Bradford Vivian, Nietzsche and Rhetoric

Douglas Thomas. Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically. New York: The Guilford Press, 1999. 190 pages. $30.00.

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William N. Denman, Middle America and the Development of a Practical Rhetoric

Edward Gale Agran. “Too Good a Town”: William Allen White, Community, and the Emerging Rhetoric of Middle America. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. 178 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).

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Franklyn S. Haiman, Roger Baldwin and the ACLU

Robert Cottrell. Roger Nash Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xiv + 608 pages. $34.50.b  

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Erica Hollander, Access Denied: Freedom of Information in the Information Age

Charles N. Davis and Sigman L. Splichal, editors. Access Denied: Freedom of Information in the Information Age. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

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Victoria Smith Ekstrand, The 21st Century Plagiarist: An Old Problem Meets a New Age

Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy, editors. Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 302 pages. $23.95 (paper).

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Vanessa Warne, Documenting Sexual Difference

Todd C. Parker. Sexing the Text: The Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in British Literature, 1700-1750. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 218 pages. Notes, bibliography, index. $54.40 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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James Ferris, Bodies That Haunt Us

Susan Bordo. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 358 pages. Bibliography, index. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

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 Nikki C. Townsley and Cynthia Stohl, Creating Common Ground or (Re)producing Gendered Paradigm Wars?

Ann Oakley. Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences. New York: The New Press, 2000, viii + 402 pages. $30.00.

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Joseph Eric Massey, Cultural Management and Organizational Change

Stanley A. Deetz, Sarah J. Tracy, and Jennifer Lyn Simpson. Leading Organizations Through Transition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. xvi + 232 pages. $72.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

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James Arnt Aune, The Dirty Little Secret

Donald G. Ellis. Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory.  Mahway, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. xvi + 229. $49.95.

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Mark Allan Steiner, Remembering the Rhetorical Tradition of Social Protest Scholarship

Charles E. Morris III and Stephen H. Browne, editors. Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2001. 480 pages. $47.50 (paper).

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Martin J. Medhurst, Not Easily Led: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

John Robert Greene. The Presidency of George Bush. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. ix + 245 pages. $35.00.

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James F. Tracy, Communication Itself

Armand Mattelart and Michèle Mattelart. Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction. Trans. Susan Gruenheck Taponier and James A. Cohen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999. $57.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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Debian Marty, The State of the Field in Interracial Communication

Mark P. Orbe and Tina M. Harris. Interracial Communication: Theory into Practice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001. xviii + 326 pages. Bibliography and indices. $46.95 (paper).

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Theresa Conefrey, Haoles in Hawaii

Houston Wood. Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawaii. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. 240 pages.  $63.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

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Brenda J. Allen, Why and How Black Women Should Revive Their Activist Roots

Sheila Radford-Hill. Further to Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment. Minneapolis, MN. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 176 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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Andra McCartney, Sounds Like a Movie

James Lastra. Sound Technology and the American Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 288 pages. $49.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

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Janet McMullen, Star Trek: Myth or Missed Opportunity

Chris Gregory. Star Trek: Parallel Narratives. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. 253 pages. Notes, Bibliography, and Index. $35.00

Michael C. Pounds. Race in Space: The Representation of Ethnicity in Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999. $32.50

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Lisa R. Barry, Our Sisters, Ourselves: Understanding Cinematic Images of Sisters

Eva Rueschmann. Sisters on Screen: Siblings in Contemporary Cinema. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2000. x + 175 pages. Notes and index. $69.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

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Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart, The Monster in the Machine

Zakiya Hanafi, The Monster in the Machine: Magic, Medicine and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000). $59.95 (cloth); $20.95 (paper).

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