Benson: 1173 books

Book cover of Oddsfish!
by Robert Hugh Benson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of A City of Marble

A City of Marble

The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

by Kathleen S. Lamp, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate...
Book cover of Living Alone
by Stella Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018

They were interrupted, not by the expected Mayor, but by a young woman, who came violently in by the street door, rushed into the middle of the room, and got under the table. The members, in surprise, pushed back their chairs and made ladylike noises of protest and inquiry. "They're after me,"...
Book cover of Battle Exhortation

Battle Exhortation

The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership

by Keith Yellin, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle...
Book cover of Time and Time-Tellers
by James W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

Book cover of Back from "Hell"
by Samuel Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015

When the old Chicago cut loose from her moorings in an Atlantic port it was a red letter day for me. She was a good sized craft, of the French Line, and was to carry a lot of other Ameri-cans, besides myself, from the United States to France. We were all in a spirit of expectancy, mingled perhaps...
Book cover of The Angel of Pain
by E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014

Book cover of Michael
by E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015

In the year leading up to World War I, Michael Comber, the homely, awkward son of the earl of Ashbridge, defies his conventional and stuffy father to take up the serious study of music. He befriends Sylvia and Hermann Falbe, two half-German siblings, a famed singer and her brother and accompanist,...
Book cover of Daily Training

Daily Training

"Sleep, Rest and Relaxation"

by E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

The following pages contain certain rules and suggestions concerning health, and certain simple and sensible ways in which it may, we hope, be acquired and maintained at a very small expense of time and self-denial, by a large number of people who are naturally accustomed to feel not very well. The...
Book cover of Thorley Weir
by Edward Frederic Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The hottest day of all days in the hottest June of all Junes was beginning to abate its burning, and the inhabitants of close-packed cities and their perspiring congregations cherished the hope that before long some semblance of briskness might return into the ardent streets. Providence, it would...
Book cover of David Blaize
by E.F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

David Blaize is the son of an archdeacon, the friend of a bishop's nephew, and this is a story of their friendship and life at a public school. Possibly the tale may be reminiscent of the author's own youth. It tells of cleanliness, physical and moral, of the self-restraint learned from one another by boys who were to be among the future leaders in England.
Book cover of You Can't Padlock an Idea

You Can't Padlock an Idea

Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961

by Stephen A. Schneider, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014

You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932 by educator Myles Horton, the Highlander Folk School sought...
Book cover of Michael
by Edward Frederic Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his having run into debt; but now when the moment came for giving,...
Book cover of The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China
by Ming Xiao, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult threatening political orthodoxy and national stability. The author, a...
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