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This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible. Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Countering the commonsensical notion that mandatory insurance coverage functions primarily to relieve the problem of infertility, Britt argues instead that the coverage serves to expose its contours. Britt finds that the mandate, operating a

Aspirations to "whoop" the North notwithstanding, Confederates set their hopes for independence not on the belief that they could defeat the North but on the hope that their armies could stave off defeat long enough for the North to weary of war. The South's single biggest opportunity to effect political change in the North was the presidential contest of 1864. If Lincoln's support foundered and the North elected a president with a more flexible vision of peace on the continent, the South might realize its dream of independence. In Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric, Larry Nelson vividly brings to

The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste.Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered -toxic tours,- non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their popular reception, a new understand

Added engraved title page: The history of Lapland. ; Digital reproduction, The National Library of Finland, Centre for Preservation and Digitisation, Mikkeli ; A comprehensive description of Lapland written by Johannes Schefferus, Skyttean professor of Eloquence and Government at Uppsala University and one of the most important humanists in Sweden at that time. The work was translated into English, German, French and Dutch. ; TravelEuropeana ; Schefferus, Johannes Johannis (1621-1679)

"Die Complimentier-comödie": p. 292-434. ; Engraved added t.-p. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Regarding the course of study of his son, Henry Dearborn; stresses the importance of an able instructor in rhetoric and elocution. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Thanks Partridge for his lecture on national defense and for the journal of an expedition (pedestrian excursion) made by the cadets; further continues to explain his opinions of education expressed in former letters; thinks an academy following Partridge's plan would succeed in Boston. ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.