Presidential Campaign Communication is designed to help readers understand and appreciate more fully the ways that the people of the United States use the process of human communication to select their Presidents. It explores presidential politics as one of the things about which Americans talk, thereby building relationships and redefining communities and shaping public identities and priorities.

The book highlights three major areas:

• Presidential Campaigns as Communication - A consideration of the ways in which Constitutional requirements create political challenges...

Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky, hanky-panky, cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky-tonky, winky wonky, donkey. Full color.

Today's attacks on the Bible come from every direction: adventure novels and blockbuster movies, university classes and news magazines. Everywhere we turn, questions are being raised about how we got the Bible, how we interpret the Bible and whether or not we can trust the Bible. But the modern skepticism about Scripture has an easily-overlooked bright side: people are asking questions about a crucial subject. If Christians are prepared with credible answers to authentic questions, they have an opportunity to speak truth into our culture in natural and meaningful ways. Anyone interested in...

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice is profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant Supreme Court decisions. These chapters provide a rhetorical frame that each of these justices would find appealing regarding First Amendment case law.