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  Arguing with People

  Arguing with People brings developments from the field of Argumentation Theory to bear on critical thinking in a clear and accessible way. This book expands…

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  The Octoroon

  Regarded by Bernard Shaw as a master of the theatre, Dion Boucicault was arguably the most important figure in drama in North America and in…

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  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

  Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is among the most ambitious and influential philosophical works of the early twentieth century, and in recent years it has again…

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  Henry V

  Upon opening their expensive new book in 1623, buyers of the folio collection of William Shakespeare’s plays were promised The Life of Henry the Fift.…

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  Science and Society

  Developed for use in college and university courses, Science and Society provides a broad selection of science writing intended to help students think critically about…

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  Science and the World

  This new anthology includes both classic and contemporary readings on the methods and scope of science. Jeffrey Foss depicts science in a broadly humanistic context,…

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  The Grasshopper – Third Edition

  In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. “Nonsense,”…

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  Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry

  A century ago Tennyson had begun to be dismissed as a poet whose work embodied everything the modern world was looking to leave behind. He…

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  Old English Poetry: An Anthology

  R.M. Liuzza’s Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney’s; in reviewing the two together in July 2000…

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  The Clockmaker

  The serial publication of The Clockmaker in 1835-36 launched Canadian judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton to literary fame. A broad satire with a garrulous, deceitful American…

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  Tamburlaine the Great

  Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two are the first plays that Christopher Marlowe wrote for London’s then new freestanding, open-air public playhouses. They…

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  Making Up Your Mind – Revised Edition

  Making Up Your Mind is oriented toward the writing of arguments. It gives students techniques that they can use to better understand, organize, and present…

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  Ancient Political Thought

  This book presents selections from the political and social thought of the ancient West from the early sixth century BCE up to the early years…

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  Buddhism

  This book philosophically introduces the basic truths, doctrines, and principles of Buddhism. Its goal is to explain the teachings of the Buddha and of Buddhism…

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  The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms

  This compact guide covers a wide variety of terms commonly used in academic discussions of poetry, fiction, drama, rhetoric, and literary theory. Definitions are kept…

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  The Siege of Jerusalem

  The Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the story of…

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  The Age of Authors

  Eighteenth-century critics differed about almost everything, but if there was one point on which they almost universally agreed, it was that they were living through…

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  Samson Agonistes and Other Poems

  In Samson Agonistes, Milton’s last great work, he addresses questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who were unhappy with the changes wrought…

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  The Book in Society

  The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture examines the origins and development of one of the most important inventions in human history. Books…

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  A Child of the Jago

  “Learn to read and write, learn all you can, learn cunning, spare nobody and stop at nothing. … Do your devilmost … for the Jago’s…

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  Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion – Second Edition

  This book develops a sophisticated account of propaganda and its intriguing history. It begins with a brief overview of Western propaganda, including Ancient Greek theories…

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  Conclusion of the Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

  In 1761, Frances Sheridan published her novel The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, which became a popular and widely praised example of the sentimental novel.…

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  The Morality of War – Second Edition

  The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second…

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  Henry IV – Part One

  Henry IV, Part One has been one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays since it was first produced, and was reprinted several times during the playwright’s…