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Craft of Research Fourth Edition

Booth Wayne C., Colomb Gregory G., Williams Joseph M., Bizup Joseph, FitzGerald William T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226239736, ISBN: HB: 9780226239569, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 8 tables

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, "The Craft of Research" has helped generations of researchers at every level – from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Now Don't Try to Reason with Me Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065809, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
398 pp., 23x15 cm

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. F...

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Education

Knowledge Most Worth Having

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065762, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
226 pp., 23x15 cm

"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 kno...

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Literary Criticism

Essential Wayne Booth

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065922, University of Chicago Press, July 2006
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables

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...

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For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065861, ISBN: HB: 9780226065854, University of Chicago Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23x15 cm

"For the Love of It" is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love...

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Literary Criticism

Art of Growing Older Writers on Living and Aging

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065496, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
386 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Wayne Booth has selected, and has been inspired by, the works by some of our greatest writers on the art of growing older. In this widely praised anthology he shows that the very making of art is in itself a victory over time.

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Education

Vocation of a Teacher Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065823, ISBN: HB: 9780226065816, University of Chicago Press, January 1991
372 pp., 23x15 cm

This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also v...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric of Fiction

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065588, University of Chicago Press, February 1983
572 pp., 23x15 cm

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictiona...

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Philosophy

Critical Understanding The Powers and Limits of Pluralism

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065557, University of Chicago Press, September 1982
422 pp., 23x15 cm

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 on...

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Rhetoric of Irony

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065533, University of Chicago Press, August 1975
310 pp., 23x15 cm

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 ana...

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