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1	The Gender Reader more books like this by Merry G Perry, Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A Olson add to wishlist The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich classroom discussion and thoughtful student ... see all copies from $2.12! new only from $52.65!
2	Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric more books like this by Gary A Olson, Stanley Fish (Foreword by), J H Miller (Afterword by) add to wishlist While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works -- and perhaps his most important -- are his nonliterary writings. In Justifying Belief, Gary Olson examines Fish's nonliterary work and explains that what unites Fish's interventions in so many seemingly disparate ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $17.11! \| SVS
3	Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse more books like this by Lynn Worsham (Editor), Gary A Olson (Editor), Sidney I Dobrin (Editor) add to wishlist Documenting an era of dramatic change and growth in the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies, this book includes essays which find in contemporary theory the language to ask new questions, to reframe existing problems, and to move beyond current impasses in thought and action. The different perspectives offer a stand ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
4	The Gender Reader more books like this by Evelyn Ashton-Jones add to wishlist This text is appropriate for students taking courses in composition or women's studies or anyone else who is thinking and writing about questions of gender. The sixty-one essays in the collection represent a wide range of perspectives on numerous important issues. Although most of the selections were published in the last few decades, several are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.33! \| first editions
5	Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands more books like this by Stephen Gilbert Brown, Gary A Olson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Using the author's intensely personal, reflective, provocative account of his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska. Words in the Wilderness uniquely draws together individual experience and difficult abstract theory to make an educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions
6	Women Writing Cultures more books like this by Gary A Olson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.31! new only from $21.62! \| SVS
7	Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial more books like this by Gary A Olson (Introduction by), Lynn Worsham (Introduction by) add to wishlist Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial brings together six scholarly interviews with internationally renowned intellectuals outside of rhetoric and composition whose work has direct implications for scholarship within the discipline. Included are interviews with postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, postcolonial feminist and race theorist Gloria ... see all copies from $4.55! new only from $22.64! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Traditions & Transitions Israel St: Books on Israel, Volume VI more books like this by Gary A Olson add to wishlist This sixth volume in the Books on Israel series is an interdisciplinary compilation that encompasses contributions from both the social sciences and the humanities, and reflects the exciting integration of approaches that are on the cutting edge of Israel Studies. The contributors go beyond the review of recent books on Israel to offer original ... see all copies from $5.45! new only from $49.78!
9	Critical Intellectuals on Writing more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Lynn Worsham (Editor) add to wishlist Writing is central to the work of all intellectuals, yet any given scholar's relationship to writing is a uniquely personal one. Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham bring together some of the world's leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine how they conceive of their own relationship to writing and to the work of being a critical ... see all copies from $18.67! new only from $18.67!
10	Words in the Wilderness more books like this by Gary A Olson (Foreword by), Stephen Gilbert Brown add to wishlist Reflecting and building upon his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian reservation in Alaska, Brown (writing, U. of Tampa) attempts to incorporate his experience and the theories of Freire and other critical pedagogists into a work which recommends a resistance pedagogy for colonized and oppressed peoples. He relates his own transformation from a ... see all copies from $8.94! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
11 view cover	Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Lynn Worsham (Editor), Barney Cokeliss (Photographer) add to wishlist Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines--legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies--explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish's work. They examine Fish's understanding of how interpretation functions, the various philosophical issues ... see all copies from $9.53! new only from $56.33!
12 view cover	Race; Rhetoric & Postcolonial more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Lynn Worsham (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.30! new only from $29.50!
13 view cover	Traditions & Transitions in Israel St: Books on Israel, Volume VI more books like this by Gary A Olson add to wishlist This sixth volume in the Books on Israel series is an interdisciplinary compilation that encompasses contributions from both the social sciences and the humanities, and reflects the exciting integration of approaches that are on the cutting edge of Israel Studies. The contributors go beyond the review of recent books on Israel to offer original ... see all copies from $16.50! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	Publishing in Rhetoric & Compositi more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Todd W Taylor (Editor), J Hillis Miller (Foreword by) add to wishlist Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies. Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a collection of essays about the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition. The contributors to this book, many of whom are current or past editors of the ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $20.95!
15 view cover	Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor) add to wishlist In response to those who insist that rhetoric and composition should remain only a service discipline, editor Gary A. Olson's Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work demonstrates that it already is an intellectual discipline, that for at least a quarter of a century the field has developed an impressive tradition of intellectual work in a ... see all copies from $27.02! new only from $27.02! \| SVS
16 view cover	Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere more books like this by Christian R Weisser, Gary A Olson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Moving student writing beyond academic discourse and into larger public spheres is a difficult task, but Christian R. Weisser's study challenges composition instructors to do just that. This highly accessible book does what no other study has attempted to do: place the most current, cutting-edge theories and pedagogies in rhetoric and composition ... see all copies from $15.84! new only from $27.02! \| SVS
17	Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Methods: A Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Thomas Moran (Editor) add to wishlist This special issue contains essays regarding the CHI '95 conference, which featured a panel titled, 'Discount or Disservice', 'Discount Usability Analysis: Evaluation at a Bargain Price or Simply Damaged Merchandise'. Wayne Gray, who organized the panel, presented a controversial critique of studies that had evaluated various usability evaluation ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $29.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Lynn Worsham (Editor), Henry A Giroux (Foreword by) add to wishlist In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals. Poststructuralist philosopher Judith Butler discusses the "pain" of rigorous intellectual work, saying that it is "necessarily extremely hard labor," as she examines the intersection of discourse and ... see all copies from $43.99! new only from $43.99! \| SVS
19	Composition Theory Postm more books like this by Gary A Olson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.91!
20	Style and readability in technical writing : a sentence-combining approach more books like this by James DeGeorge, Gary A. Olson, Richard Ray add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	The Kinneavy Papers more books like this by Lynn Worsham (Editor), Gary A Olson (Editor), Sidney I Dobrin (Editor) add to wishlist Documenting an era of dramatic change and growth in the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies, this book includes essays which find in contemporary theory the language to ask new questions, to reframe existing problems, and to move beyond current impasses in thought and action. The different perspectives offer a stand ... see all copies from $29.75! new only from $29.75!
22 view cover	Publishing in Rhetoric & Composition more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Todd W Taylor (Editor) add to wishlist Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies. Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a collection of essays about the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition. The contributors to this book, many of whom are current or past editors of the ... see all copies from $34.29! new only from $84.05!
23	Composition Theory Postmod more books like this by Gary A Olson add to wishlist see all copies from $19.97! new only from $88.12!
24 view cover	Postmodern Sophistry more books like this by Olson Gary, Worsham Lynn (Editor), Gary A Olson (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literary Criticism: Interviews more books like this by Gary A Olson (Editor), Clifford Geertz (Foreword by), Patricia Bizzell (Introduction by) add to wishlist Gary A. Olson presents six in-depth interviews with internationally prominent scholars outside of the discipline and twelve response essays written by noted rhetoric and composition scholars on subjects related to language, rhetoric, writing, philosophy, feminism, and literary criticism. The interviews are with philosopher of language Donald ... see all copies from $6.39! first editions

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