In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us on detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton’s Satanic realm, t
Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it's not just for politicians: it's all around us, whether you're buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their greens. You have
Rhetoric is all around us. It’s what inspires armies, convicts criminals, and makes or breaks presidential candidates. And it isn’t just the preserve of politicians. It’s in the presentation to a key
Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep.A mistimed twee
An entertaining, no-nonsense guide to writing everything, from a pro who knows it allFor students of any age struggling to write their essays as well as for anyone needing to polish an application or
Many well known evangelicals have influenced Leith Samuel, and his ministry has touched the lives of many too.An engaging, brisk style and an honest account of high points and low - all prefaced by fi
Once seen as a prediction of the sinking of the Titanic, this novella was written 14 years before that ill-fated event of 1912?now, on the centenary anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, the striking
Leith shows that while other African nations with resources failed to develop economically Botswana prospered because economic interests, working within a democratic political system anchored in tradi
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