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Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain

gary olson

The mostcritical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy’s revolutionarypotential and today’s empathically-impaired society is the interaction betweenthe brain and our dominant political culture.

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A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life

Gary A. Olson

Witty, savvy, incisive, and entertaining short essays on the culture, mores, and practices of higher education.

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A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life

Gary A. Olson

Witty, savvy, incisive, and entertaining short essays on the culture, mores, and practices of higher education.

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Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work

In response to those who insist that rhetoric and composition should remain only as a service discipline, this book demonstrates that it already is an intellectual discipline and has developed…

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Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Methods: A Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction

Contains essays regarding the CHI ‘95 conference, which featured a panel titled, 'Discount or Disservice’, ‘Discount Usability Analysis: Evaluation at a Bargain Price or Simply Damaged Merchandise’.

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Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible: The Authorized Biography

Gary A. Olson

One of the twentieth century’s most original and influential literary theorists, Stanley Fish is also known as a polarizing public intellectual. The truth and limitations of his reputation are explored…

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Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

Gary A. Olson

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish’s nonliterary writings.

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Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet

Judy Olson,Gary Olson

We describe a database of geographically distributed projects we have studied and introduce the Collaboration Success Wizard, an online tool for assessing past, present, or planned distributed collaborations.

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Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility: A New Puzzle to Solve

Gary Olson (GHO Group LLC, USA)

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes, and-most importantly-the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP…

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Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility: A New Puzzle to Solve

Gary Olson (GHO Group LLC, USA)

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes, and-most importantly-the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP…

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In the Margins: A Book of Poems

Gary K Olson

Important things take place in the seams and margins of life. In this new book of poetry, Gary K. Olson’s keen observations of life’s intimate moments, large and small, come…

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Olson’s Prose

Author of The Maximus Poems, Rector of Black Mountain College, and quondam Democratic Party activist, Charles Olson is one of the central figures of mid-twentieth-century American poetry.

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Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition: Volume 10

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Women Writing Culture

This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.

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Women Writing Culture

This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.

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Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.

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Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.

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Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies

Explores theoretical and pedagogical approaches to resistance, showing how this concept plays out in the college writing classroom.

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Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies

Explores theoretical and pedagogical approaches to resistance, showing how this concept plays out in the college writing classroom.

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Critical Intellectuals on Writing

A fascinating look at how some of the world’s most eminent scholars conceive of their own relationship with writing and with the work of being a critical intellectual.

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Critical Intellectuals on Writing

A fascinating look at how some of the world’s most eminent scholars conceive of their own relationship with writing and with the work of being a critical intellectual.

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Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition: Volume 10

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Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Methods: A Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction

This special issue contains essays regarding the CHI ‘95 conference, which featured a panel titled, Discount or Disservice? Discount Usability Analysis: Evaluation at a Bargain Price or Simply Damaged Merchandise?

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Empirical Studies of Programmers: Second Workshop

This volume contains the papers presented at the second workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers. These chapters contribute to a growing knowledge base about how programmers go about their task…

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Empirical Studies of Programmers: Second Workshop

This volume contains the papers presented at the second workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers. These chapters contribute to a growing knowledge base about how programmers go about their task…

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The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders

Written by leading education experts and by university presidents, provosts, and other leaders nationally recognized for their innovations, the 22 original and provocative chapters in this new book comprise a…

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The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders

Written by leading education experts and by university presidents, provosts, and other leaders nationally recognized for their innovations, the 22 original and provocative chapters in this new book comprise a…

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Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the…

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Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the…

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Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.

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Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.

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Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands

Stephen Gilbert Brown

Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher’s experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska.

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Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands

Stephen Gilbert Brown

Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher’s experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska.

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North of Twelfth Street: The Changing Face of Sioux Falls Neighborhoods

Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota, although it would barely register as a small town in some states. But it is blessed with a rich history and…

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Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere

Christian R. Weisser

This work attempts to place the most current, cutting-edge theories and pedagogies in rhetoric and composition in their intellectual and historical contexts, while at the same time offering a practical…

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Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise

An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.

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Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise

An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.

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The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination

Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham,Henry A. Giroux

In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals

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The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination

In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals

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Living High Off The Hog: Over 100 Recipes and Techniques to Cook Pork Perfectly

Michael Olson

Chef and teacher Michael Olson shares over 100 recipes for one of the most adaptable, affordable and delicious cuts of meat: pork.

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The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse

Award-winning essays in the field of rhetoric and composition.

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The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse

Award-winning essays in the field of rhetoric and composition.

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Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

Gary A. Olson

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish’s nonliterary writings.

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Scientific Collaboration on the Internet

Offers views of how technology is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering collaboration. This book points to a future of scientific collaborations that build successfully on aspects from multiple…

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Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology

This book is in memory of Laurence Rosenberg of the National Science Foundation for his work in Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology. This book explores the global revolution in human…

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Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology

This book is in memory of Laurence Rosenberg of the National Science Foundation for his work in Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology. This book explores the global revolution in human…

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Learning and Motivation in the Classroom

Taking advantage of a period of enthusiasm, this title, originally published in 1983, looks at the amalgamation of the recent advances at the time in theory and research in education…

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Learning and Motivation in the Classroom

Taking advantage of a period of enthusiasm, this title, originally published in 1983, looks at the amalgamation of the recent advances at the time in theory and research in education…

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Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain

A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life

A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life

Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work

Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Methods: A Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction

Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible: The Authorized Biography

Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet

Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility: A New Puzzle to Solve

Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility: A New Puzzle to Solve

In the Margins: A Book of Poems

Olson’s Prose

Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition: Volume 10

Women Writing Culture

Women Writing Culture

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies

Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies

Critical Intellectuals on Writing

Critical Intellectuals on Writing

Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition: Volume 10

Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Methods: A Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction

Empirical Studies of Programmers: Second Workshop

Empirical Studies of Programmers: Second Workshop

The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders

The Future of Higher Education: Perspectives from America’s Academic Leaders

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom

Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands

Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands

North of Twelfth Street: The Changing Face of Sioux Falls Neighborhoods

Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere

Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise

Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise

The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination

The Politics of Possibility: Encountering the Radical Imagination

Living High Off The Hog: Over 100 Recipes and Techniques to Cook Pork Perfectly

The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse

The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse

Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

Scientific Collaboration on the Internet

Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology

Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology

Learning and Motivation in the Classroom

Learning and Motivation in the Classroom

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