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Disturbing Argument
This edited volume represents the best of the scholarship presented at the 18th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation. This biennial conference brings together a lively group of argumentation scholars from a range of disciplinary approaches and a variety of countries. Disturbing Argument contains selected works that speak both to the disturbing prevalence of violence in the contemporary world and to the potential of argument itself, to disturb the very relations of power that enable that violence. Scholars’ essays analyze a range of argument forms, including body and visual argument, interpersonal and group argument, argument in electo...
Cross Bones
___________________________________ A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones. A full week after death, a barely recognisable body is discovered in a closet. 'Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head' is the initial assessment, but the victim's relatives are adamant that this was not suicide. Extreme heat has accelerated decomposition, and Dr Temperance Brennan's forensic expertise is required. Even for her, it is virtually impossible to determine the trajectory of the bullet. But just as Tempe is attempting to make sense of th...
Trigger Point
When US and China play nuclear wargames expect “as much gut-wrenching suspense as any thriller in recent memory” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by terrorists, President Tom Knowles opts for military intervention. It’s his chance to put a stamp on world affairs. But for China, which considers Uganda its African sphere of influence, it’s a bad, bad move. Six weeks later, stock prices on Wall Street fall. Amid rumors of insolvency, a major bank leads the rout, refusing a government bailout. Its major shareholder: a Chinese sovereign investment corporation. As market slide turns to panic, Knowles suspects that the US economy is bein...
Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York
Includes Special sessions.
Old Islam in Detroit
Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The lost history of America's first mosque -- 3. They are orientals and love the east: locating Muslims in the racial hierarchies of Detroit, 1922-1930 -- 4. Dearborn's first mosques -- 5. Doctors of the soul: building Detroit's mid-century mosques -- 6. Homegrown Muslim leaders: convergences of race and class -- 7. Raising the bar: movements of revival and change -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography.
