Author: Jay Ingram
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: speech, mysteries, decoding
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0385473834
ISBN-13: 9780385473835

A witty and knowledgeable investigation into the sociology and science of talking explores the brain processes responsible for this unique skill, traces the language roots of North America, and discusses the speech differences between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons.

Author: Carrie Finn
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Keywords: kids, junior, fairness
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-09
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 1404823166
ISBN-13: 9781404823167

Author: Alim Merali
Publisher: Gravitas Publishing
Keywords: easy, made, debate, speech
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-01-09
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0973868201
ISBN-13: 9780973868203

Talk the Talk explains the tools and strategies necessary for students to excel at debate. It illustrates the key concepts with examples, and also includes debates with commentary and analysis. Talk the Talk goes light on the technical jargon, instead using smart tips and simple tricks to make debate interesting. The book starts by discussing how to craft and deliver speeches effectively. Then, it explains what it takes to win debates: developing solid arguments and countering the other team’s points. Finally, it goes over the tools of the trade for parliamentary, cross-examination, and foru

Author: Bolivar J. Bueno
Publisher: Creative Crayon Publisher
Keywords: brand, customers, reasons, seven
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2007-02-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0971481539
ISBN-13: 9780971481534

Learn the seven reasons your customers will or will not talk about your brand. In Why We Talk, gifted marketing strategist and professional listener Bolivar J. Bueno dissects the evolution of word-of-mouth in the digital age and the unmistakable power shift that has taken place between marketer and consumer. Sharing one of the most insightful, organic concepts of this decade, Bueno bridges the monumental gap between the results business people want and the frustration they often get.

Author: Joshua Gamson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: nonconformity, sexual, shows, tabloid, freaks
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-05-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226280659
ISBN-13: 9780226280653

Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions among those becoming visible. With wit and passion, Freaks Talk Back illuminates the joys, dilemmas, and practicalities of media visibility."This entertaining, accessible, sobering discussion should make every viewer sit up and ponder the effects and possibilities of America’s daily talk-f

Author: Tricia Rose
Publisher: Basic Civitas Book
Keywords: hip, hop, matters, wars
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0465008976
ISBN-13: 9780465008971

Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and ’hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent gh

Author: Raymond Carver
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: stories, love
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1989-06-18
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0679723056
ISBN-13: 9780679723059

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is not only the most well-known short story title of the latter part of the 20th century; it has come to stand for an entire aesthetic, the bare-bones prose style for which Raymond Carver became famous. Perhaps, it could be argued, too famous, at least for his fiction’s own good. Like those of Hemingway or any other writer similarly loved, imitated, parodied, and reviled, these stories can sometimes produce the sense of reading pastiche. "A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house." "That morning she pours Teacher