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Aristotle on Political Reasoning: A Commentary on the Rhetoric 1 review
Larry Arnhart
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1982
The Capacity of Persuasion
I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle.
Definition of Rhetoric- capacity of persuasion. Plato is critical of the Rhetoric and the tragic poetry. Rhetoric is approach to political public speeches in the forum. Plato thought that they clouded the mind and thus created a part of his critique of democracy in general. Plato thinks Socrates was killed by rhetoric used by the ...
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Learning to Read and Spell: The Child's Knowledge of Words1 review
Edmund H. Henderson
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1982
One of the most important books ever on teaching reading
It is inevitable that in fields which put a high value on up-to-dateness and "staying on the cutting edge" that there are important books that are overlooked and under-read. In the field of reading education, Ed Henderson's Learning to Read and Spell is one of these books. A master clinician with a first-rate analytical mind and a heart to match, Henderson produced a small book--shot full of ...
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Duck Calls of Illinois 1863-19632 reviews
Robert D. Christensen
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1994
This book is a must for anyone who collects duck calls.
Although Duck Calls of Illinois, 1863-1963 by Robert D. Christensen is limited to Illinois calls made prior to 1964, it encompasses all of the early documented history of the modern duck call. This is because all of the documented history happened to occur in Illinois. This is a fascinating and very well done book that no duck call collector could possibly do without. Over 100 Illinois call ...
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Midwest at Noon1 review
Graham Hutton
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1990
History of the Midwest in the 40's...
history of the U.S. Midwest in the 1940's. It's extremes, its paradoxes, its tensions, and its relentless growth. Here, in less than five generations, men have wrought a civilization from the wilderness with a rapidity such as history had never witnessed. Hutton tells of the first settlers...violent, quarrelsome, individualistic...who came to the Midwest to brave a climate which only central ...
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Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia (Studies of ...1 review
Laurie Manchester
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2008
Not following in the footsteps of ones father is not an entirely new concept
Not following in the footsteps of ones father is not an entirely new concept, says "Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia". Around 1860, the sons of clergymen were allowed to leave the strict caste of the clergy to pursue their own interests if they so pleased. What followed was an interesting endeavor where the sons began to push social ...
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Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring1 review
Frederick H. Damon
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1989
Melanesian culture
Adds substantially to the ethnography of Melanesian mortuary ritual. . . . The cumulative result is a forceful demonstration of how mortuary ritual can organize and channel the flow of Melanesian social life.
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Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System1 review
Kurt Hohenstein
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2007
An eye-opening examination of the history, flaws, and bright points of America's modern political system.
Author Kurt Hohenstein (Assistant Professor of History, Winona State University) has served as a Research Assisstant on the National Commission on Election Reform. In Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System, Hohenstein reveals the untold story about the triumphs and pitfalls of political reform. The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Buckley v. Valeo (1976) defined ...
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The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago: A Political Biography of William E. Dever1 review
John R. Schmidt
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1989
HAROLD DEVER CUNNINGHAM
UNCLE WILLIE. I ALWAYS WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT MY GREAT UNCLE WILLIE. MY GRANDFATHER, FATHER AND BROTHER WERE NAMED FOR HIM. MY YOUNGER BROTHER NAMED HIS SON DEVER. I HAVE A LETTER FROM HIM WHILE IN OFFICE ADDRESS TO MY GREAT AUNT MINA CUNNINGHAM BRADLEY, I ALSO HAVE COMPTONS ENCYLOPEDIA HE HAD FROM THE MAYORS OFFICE. HE WAS MENTIONED IN THE TV SHOW "UNTOUCHABLES" AND WAS BURNED IN EFFAGY BY ...
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Melville's Major Fiction: Politics, Theology, and Imagination1 review
James Duban
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1983
Historical Contextualism
It may be surprising to note that the author of this exciting book is my teacher. He is real smart, much smarter than I could ever hope to be. That is why you must buy his book and cry when you are not reading its many beautiful texts.
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George Gissing: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him (An Annotated secondary bibliography series ...1 review
Joseph J. Wolff
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1974
gissing review
I rate this book 5 stars because it gives you all the information you need on gissing. I had to write a four page paper on him and it gave me everything I needed. I wish that there were more books in the world that gave that much information on one single, simple little subject. I haven't seen a book in years that has actually had all the information you need all in one book. I didn't have to ...
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Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris 2 reviews
Craig S. Abbott
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2007
The biography of a con man that once picked up, cannot easily be put down.
Craig Abott (Professor Emeritus of Northern Illinois University) presents Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris, the intriguing biography of poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger Scharmel Iris, whose unusual self-aggrandizing life linked him to wide variety of writers and public figures ranging from T.S. Eliot to Salvador Dali to Eleanor Roosevelt. Forging Fame examines both the ...
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A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time6 reviews
Michael Gelven
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1989
Make time for this one!
If you're workin through B&T then you know you need help: where to turn. Depends, if you want themes laid individually, but not always making the big picture cohere and with further goals in mind (refuting certain analytic thoughts) Dreyfus is a must and probably necessary for any advanced philosophy student (if you don't want Heidegger to ultimately smell of spinach completely). If you want a ...
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Russia Gathers Her Jews: The Origins of the "Jewish Question" in Russia, 1772-18251 review
John Doyle Klier
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1986
Russian Jewish History
According to the author, the Russian response to the Jewish Question was based less on a tradition of religious antipathy than on the failure to develop a consistent, well-articulated policy in the face of a new and unusual problem. This failure led to ineffective social legislation and became the legacy of Russia's first encounter with the Jews. Anyone interested in Russian studies or History ...
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King of the Mountain: The Life and Death of Giuliano the Bandit 2 reviews
Billy Jaynes Chandler
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1989
Sicilie
I haved look for this book a long time and hope this try will be succesfull.
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In Defense of the Indians; The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolom¦E De Las Casas, of the ...2 reviews
Bartolome De Las Casas, Stafford Poole
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1974
Seminal work
This is the seminal work of Bartolome De las Casas, a Spanish conquistador and priest who became a passionate defender of the native people of the Americas and has, of late, been accused of thus provoking the slave trade. However that was not his intention as is clear in this primary source, his original appeals on behalf of the natives. Las Casas was appaled by what he saw in the new world in ...
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150 Years of Opera in Chicago
Robert C./ Pellegrini, Norman (EDT) Marsh
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2006
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The Sweetness of Power: Machiavelli's Discourses & Guicciardini's Considerations1 review
Niccolo Machiavelli; Francesco Guicciardini
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2002
Father of Modern Political Philosophy
Niccolo Machiavelli, (1469-1527), writes the greatest treatise on keeping a republic vibrant by comparing Rome to republican Venice. Machiavelli has gained an unwarranted notorious reputation for his "evil" treatise on political thinking and acting through his authorship of "The Prince". "The Prince" received more notoriety than his politically erudite work "Discourses on the First Ten Books of ...
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City of Big Shoulders: History of Chicago 2 reviews
Robert G. Spinney
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2000
An entertaining, informative overview
I loved reading this book, which is full of interesting facts about Chicago's rich history. It doesn't go into extreme detail of every event, but it definitely completes its intended task of entertaining and educating the reader.
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150 Years of Opera in Chicago
Robert C./ Pellegrini, Norman (EDT) Marsh
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2006
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Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor 1 review
Paul Kleppner
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1985
Jumping All Over
I thought this book jumped all over the place. I found there to be just a small section on Harold Washington. Very diappointing for research material.
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