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1	The Craft of Research more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb, Joseph M Williams see all copies from £5.52! new only from £8.28! \| first editions
2	A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers more books like this by Kate L Turabian, Wayne C Booth (Revised by), Gregory G Colomb (Revised by) see all copies from £10.18! new only from £10.18!
3	The Rhetoric of Fiction more books like this by Wayne Booth see all copies from £7.59! new only from £17.76! \| first editions
4	The Company We Keep more books like this by Wayne C Booth In "The Company We Keep", Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and ... see all copies from £7.32! new only from £18.09! \| first editions
5	The Harper and Row Reader more books like this by Paul R Gregory, Wayne C Booth Teaching writing, critical thinking, and argument, this popular reader features more than 100 thought-provoking selections written by some of history's classic thinkers. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £49.67!
6	For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals more books like this by Wayne C Booth see all copies from £5.52! new only from £11.09! \| first editions
7	Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent more books like this by Wayne C Booth When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that "you cannot reason about values" and that "the job of thought is to doubt whatever can be doubted, ... see all copies from £5.06! new only from £12.50! \| first editions
8	Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age more books like this by Wayne C Booth In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason--a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. First delivered as lectures in the 1960s, when Booth was a professor at Earlham College and the ... see all copies from £6.04! new only from £6.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 more books like this by Wayne C Booth see all copies from £5.52! new only from £12.42! \| first editions
10	The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging more books like this by Wayne Booth (Editor) see all copies from £6.21! new only from £19.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	A rhetoric of irony more books like this by Wayne C. Booth Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. ... see all copies from £10.35! new only from £18.38! \| first editions
12 view cover	Knowledge Most Worth Having more books like this by Wayne C Booth (Editor) "The Knowledge Most Worth Having "represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago--faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one's chosen field. The papers collected here were delivered during an often-heated ... see all copies from £2.59! new only from £16.12! \| first editions
13	Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism more books like this by Wayne C. Booth Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism--a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralists--Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abrams--to ... see all copies from £8.24! new only from £28.28! \| first editions
14	The Harper & Row Rhetoric: Writing as Thinking, Thinking as Writing more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Paul R Gregory see all copies from £5.52! new only from £25.53! \| first editions
15	The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction more books like this by Wayne C Booth see all copies from £11.04! new only from £25.87! \| first editions
16	The Harper & Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Marshall W Gregory see all copies from £5.52!
17 view cover	Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communications more books like this by Wayne C Booth In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. This title was written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, "The Rhetoric of Fiction" (1961). It explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media. It ... see all copies from £15.17! new only from £16.57!
18 view cover	The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature more books like this by Francis-Noel Thomas, Wayne C. Booth (Foreword by) In a challenge to deconstructed texts, this treatise argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual. It offers readings of Shaw's "Saint Joan" and Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu". see all copies from £5.52! first editions
19 view cover	Selected Writings of Richard McKeon Volume 2: Culture, Education, and the Arts more books like this by Zahava K McKeon (Editor), William G Swenson (Editor), Wayne C Booth (Introduction by) see all copies from £22.91! new only from £32.08! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Essential Wayne Booth more books like this by Wayne C Booth, Mr. Walter Jost (Editor) Wayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism of our time, most notably the 1961 classic "The Rhetoric of Fiction", a book that transformed literary criticism and became the standard reference point for advanced discussions of how fiction works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers re-create texts. While ... see all copies from £19.62! new only from £22.30!
21	The Harper & Row Reader: Liberal Education Through Reading and Writing more books like this by Marshall W Gregory see all copies from £5.52!
22 view cover	My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony more books like this by Wayne C Booth In his autobiography, "My Many Selves," Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes part of a quest to harmonize the diverse, ... see all copies from £22.04! new only from £57.90!
23	The Art of Deliberalizing; a Handbook for True Professionals Association of American Colleges 76th Annual Meeting January 1990 by Wayne C. Booth see all copies from £21.39!
24	Booth family history. more books like this by Relva Booth Ross, Wayne C. Booth see all copies from £20.87!
25	Las Companias Que Elegimos more books like this by Wayne C Booth see all copies from £54.21! new only from £54.21!

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