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Across Cultures / Across Borders
Across Cultures/Across Borders is a collection of new critical essays, interviews, and other writings by twenty-five established and emerging Canadian Aboriginal and Native American scholars…
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A History of Old English Literature
Alexander’s A History of Old English Literature is an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. It provides a simple historical and cultural…
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered…
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Black in America – Second Edition
Black in America samples the breadth of nonfiction writing on African American experiences in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. The…
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Business in Ethical Focus: An Anthology – Second Edition
Business in Ethical Focus is a compilation of classical and contemporary essays and case studies in business ethics. Readers will become acquainted with seminal ideas…
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Clear Writing
Clear Writing is a compact, varied, and very readable collection of prose, designed to provide models of excellent and engaging writing for courses in rhetoric,…
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Considering Children’s Literature
“The study of children’s literature is not just about children and the books said to be for them; it is also about the societies and…
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European Racism: A History in Documents
European Racism provides more than 130 primary sources—from religious tracts, legal codes, and government edicts, to novel excerpts, paintings, and songs—to help readers trace the…
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Experiencing Philosophy – Second Edition
Experiencing Philosophy begins with the assumption that philosophy is not merely something you know but also something you experience and participate in. The book presents…
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Glances Backward
Glances Backward brings together in one volume a broad selection of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American writings about gay male love, including love stories, Westerns,…
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God, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza
Can God’s existence be proven by logic? Are computers smart enough to follow rules—or to cheat? What is an out-of-body experience? How can tables be…
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Gothic Evolutions
The texts in this unique collection range from the Gothic Revival of the late eighteenth century through to the late Victorian gothic, and from the…
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How to Read (and Write About) Poetry – Second Edition
How to Read (and Write About) Poetry invites students and others curious about poetry to join the critical conversation about a genre many find a…
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Improved by Cultivation
This anthology combines some of the finest writing by such well-known writers as Leacock, Moodie, Ernest Thompson Seton and Lucy Maud Montgomery with fascinating pieces…
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Imre
Winner of the 2003 Silver Medal for Gay/Lesbian Fiction, ForeWord Magazine Imre is one of the first openly gay American novels without a tragic ending.…
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King Solomon’s Mines
When first published, King Solomon’s Mines (1885) was an enormous popular success. The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels…
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Laon and Cythna
Laon and Cythna is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated, and most controversial, literary works. At once philosophical treatise and love story, it follows…