Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.

Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.

A celebration of childhood pick-up games.

Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.

Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.

Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.

Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.

The story of one African American woman’s decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.

Takes a firsthand look at a case of public participation in environmental policy.

Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities.

Offers an extended critique of key assumptions in composition theory and a new paradigm for thinking about writing in an increasingly globalized and textualized world.

Using penetrating, in-depth interviews, examines the individual political development of young adults in post-1960s America, and the roles that news media play in that development.

An insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport.

Examines the ways Daoist (Taoist) thought may contribute to an understanding of human communication.

Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.

Shows how using texts from popular culture in the classroom can help young people to become critical consumers of media without losing the pleasure they derive from it.

Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.

Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.

Offers a fundamental rethinking of the rhetorical tradition as dialogue.

A history and social psychology of punk music.