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Gossip
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Resisting Gossip: Winning the War of the Wagging Tongue by Matthew Charles MitchellISBN: 9781619580763
Publication Date: 2013-09-03
In Resisting Gossip, Pastor Matt Mitchell not only outlines the scriptural warnings against gossip, but also demonstrates how the truth of the gospel can deliver believers from this temptation. Mitchell explores several ways to counter gossip including making charitable judgements, producing edifying speech, and trusting God with one's reputation.
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Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit by Joseph EpsteinISBN: 9780547844596
Publication Date: 2012-11-27
Despite its reputation, Epstein argues, gossip is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World, along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a powerful case that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best to a corrosive new-school version, thanks to the reach of the mass media and the Internet. This book captures the complexity of this entertaining subject.
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Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul by Lori Palatnik; Bob Burg (As told to)ISBN: 9780757300554
Publication Date: 2002-08-25
Throughout this timely and enjoyable book, readers will learn what the Bible and Jewish wisdom have to say regarding speech and how their teachings relate to our world today. Readers will also learn via real-life examples how to break the gossip habit and how to teach others to do the same. Gossip will help people develop skills to improve their lives by getting along better with others; mending old hurts and reclaiming lost relationship; and keeping good relationships from going bad through hurtful words.
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Idle Talk, Deadly Talk: The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature by Ana Rodríguez NavasISBN: 9780813941622
Publication Date: 2018-10-22
In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodríguez Navas reveals gossip to be an urgent, utilitarian, and deeply political practice-a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. From the calypso singer's superficially innocent rhymes to the vicious slanders published in Trujillo-era gossip columns, words have been weapons, elevating one person or group at the expense of another.
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Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry by Chad BennettISBN: 9781421425375
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
In Word of Mouth, Chad Bennett explores the dynamic relationship between gossip and American poetry, uncovering the unexpected ways that the history of the modern lyric intertwines with histories of sexuality in the twentieth century. Through nuanced readings of Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, and James Merrill, Bennett demonstrates how gossip became a vehicle for alternative modes of poetic practice. This book attends to gossip's key role in modern and contemporary poetry.
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Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip by Pamela J. Stewart; Andrew StrathernISBN: 9780521808682
Publication Date: 2003-11-24
Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumours and gossip. It shows how rumour and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery, and demonstrates the role of rumour and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence, as in the case of both peasant rebellions and witch-hunts.
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Scandal: A Scurrilous History of Gossip by Roger WilkesISBN: 9781903809631
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
This is the first book to relate the history of gossip in both the British and American press over the past three centuries. Scandal shows how gossip columns have often functioned as a prism through which we construct a warts-and-all picture of the times.
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