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Getting Away With Murder: Criminal Clerics in Late Medieval England

Author(s): Peter Johnstone

During the fourth century Roman emperor Constantine created laws exempting clergymen who committed a felony from having to answer for their actions before a secular court. This set about 1500 years of use and abuse of what became known as Benefit of Clergy. The unusual legal excuse traveled to Engla...

Biocalculus: Calculus and Mathematical Models for the Biological Sciences

Author(s): Timothy D. Comar, James Peirce, Olcay Akman

New Publication Coming Soon! Biocalculus: Calculus and Mathematical Models for the Biological Sciences is designed to be a rigorous first-year calculus text primarily for students whose primary interests lie in the biological sciences.  Biocalculus: Calculus and Mathematical Models for the Bio...

Literature Is Rhetoric: Beauty and Truth of Literature

Author(s): Robert Koppelman

Literature Is Rhetoric: Beauty and Truth of Literature is a second-semester composition course that will improve the readers ability to write more effectively and to read more insightfully. Blending the skills often covered separately in distinct courses,  helping you to perceive—and also to create—...

The Definitive Guide to Brand Building

Author(s): Robert Donnelly

Marketing is the battle for the customers mind. The goal for any brand is to own a share of customer’s minds – a position in their mental product grid that has value to the customer and the company that owns the brand. In reality, brand equity in their customer’s minds is any company’s most valua...

Classical Strategies for Composing Current Arguments

Author(s): Elizabeth Stolarek, Larry Juchartz

The contemporary arguments currently made by rhetoric’s primary practitioners— advertisers, speechwriters, and teachers—hold the keys to a treasure box that remains locked to many of the people who are constantly exposed to its many nuanced workings. Classical Strategies for Composing Current Arg...