Product Description: Essential Readings on Argumentation offers a compendium of key primary works related to the study of argument. Tracing the expositions on argument from Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and an examination of contemporary thought on argument, Essential Readings on Argumentation explores the main thinkers and ideas behind the classical discipline of argument...read more

Product Description: Essential Readings on Rhetoric offers a compendium of key primary works related to the study of rhetoric. Tracing the expositions on rhetoric from Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and a brief examination of contemporary rhetorical thought, Essential Readings on Rhetoric explores the main thinkers and ideas behind the classical discipline of rhetoric...read more

Product Description: Reasoned Rationales provides a collection of key articles that detail the educational value of debate. From social scientific studies to reports on debate participant perceptions of efficacy, this volume offers an overarching rationale for the educational reasons we do academic and competitive debate...read more

Product Description: From the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe to his devotion to Mary to his championing of social justice and orthodox theology, this book examines Pope John Paul II's several moments of persuasive finesse as well as instances when his message could have been crafted more effectively...read more

Product Description: This book features a completely new section on argumentation for debaters, promoting a more complete examination of the process of argument construction, a new classification of debate propositions, and a thorough discussion of constructing arguments for and against each of the kinds of debate propositions...read more

Presents articles which address both sides of the debate about whether the United Nations' International Criminal Court should exist on a continuing basis.