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02683aim a22003855a 4500 001 2E707BD0A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160428s2015 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 1452627657 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781452627656 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11372920 040 $a Midwest $d SILO 100 1 $a Heinrichs, Jay. 245 10 $a Thank you for arguing: $b what Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion $h [electronic resource] / $c Jay Heinrichs. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [United States] : $b Tantor Audio : $c 2015. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 30 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 $a Read by David Drummond. 520 $a Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero's three-step strategy for moving an audience to action as well as Honest Abe's Shameless Trick of lowering an audience's expectations by pretending to be unpolished. But it's also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians' use of "code" language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment of popular-culture dodges, including The Eddie Haskell Ploy, Eminem's Rules of Decorum, The Belushi Paradigm, Stalin's Timing Secret, The Yoda Technique, Whether you're an inveterate lover of language books or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments on the page, at the podium, or over a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Written by one of today's most popular online language mavens, it's warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening. It not only teaches you how to recognize a paralipsis and a chiasmus when you hear them, but also how to wield such handy and persuasive weapons the next time you really, really want to get your own way. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Interpersonal communication. 650 0 $a Persuasion (Rhetoric) 650 0 $a Debates and debating. 700 1 $a Drummond, David $c (Narrator) 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11372920 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781452627656_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20161103011731.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2E707BD0A18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search