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new Array("book-mitchell.jpg", "Hitting First: Preventive Force in U.S. Security Strategy", "William W. Keller and Gordon R. Mitchell", "<em>Hitting First</em> presents interdisciplinary research from the Ridgway Center for Security Studies working group on preventive military intervention. Co-editor Gordon Mitchell chaired the working group, which brought together argumentation theorists, international relations scholars, and former government officials to consider the political and military dimensions of security strategies that assert a prerogative to strike adversaries before they pose an imminent threat.</p><p> <a href='books/mitchell.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>"),

/*new Array("book-warnick.jpg", "Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web", "Barbara Warnick", "<em>Rhetoric Online</em> is a systematic examination of the forms and nature of Web-based public discourse in the fields of social activism, political campaigning, and other venues where persuasive messages are addressed to public audiences. The book develops and adapts existing rhetorical theories to the study of Web-based persuasive discourse in the public sphere.</p><p> <a href='books/warnick.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>"),*/

new Array("book-Olson2.jpg", "Visual Rhetoric:A Reader in Communication and American Culture", "Lester Olson","<em>Visual Rhetoric</em> examines visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful role in shaping U.S. culture.  To understand the dynamics of public persuasion, students must understand this 'visual rhetoric.'  This rich anthology contains 20 exemplary studies of visual rhetoric, exploring an array of visual communication, and explores the role of the visual in the cultural space of the United States.</p><p> <a href='books/olson.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>"),

new Array("book-poulakos.jpg", "Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece", "John Poulakos", "In <em>Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece</em>, John Poulakos offers a new conceptualization of sophistry, accounting for the shape and direction of sophistical rhetoric and explaining why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable.</p><p> <a href='books/poulakos.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>"),

new Array("book-zboray2.jpg", "Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders", "Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray","<em>Everyday Ideas</em> presents the most comprehensive analysis of literate communicative practices within a major American region ever attempted. Accumulating a data set of over 2.5 million words from visits to thirty-five archives over twelve years, the Zborays recorded every reference to print media use appearing in nearly 4,000 unpublished personal letters, diaries, and other documents produced by common folk of all sorts who lived in New England during the three decades before the Civil War.</p><p> <a href='books/zboray.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>"),

new Array("book-egolf.jpg", "Forming Storming Norming Performing", "Donald B. Egolf", "The purpose of <em>Forming Storming Norming Performing</em> is to provide an introduction to Small Group and Team Communication. Emphasis is placed on giving readers guidelines for becoming successful communicators in groups and teams.</p> <p> <a href='books/egolf.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>"),

new Array("book-smith-warnick.jpg", "The Responsibilities of Rhetoric", "Michelle Smith<br/>and Barbara Warnick", "This book contains essays from the conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in May 2008. It was designed to answer the question: If rhetors are responsible and responsive to their publics, if rhetoricians instruct and empower those who learn from them, what are the responsibilities of rhetoric in our time?</p> <p> <a href='books/smith-warnick.html'>Read more about this book and its author <img src='images/arrow-small.gif' /> </a>")
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