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  A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication – Second Edition (Canadian)

  A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been…

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  Readings in Political Philosophy

  This anthology surveys important issues in Western political philosophy from Plato to the present day. Its aim is to show both the continuity and the…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance

  This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant…

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  Treasure Island

  The adventure story told in Treasure Island has become a part of popular folklore. John Sutherland discusses the novel’s place in Stevenson’s biography and oeuvre…

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  The Jew of Malta

  First performed by Shakespeare’s rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic…

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  Daisy Miller

  Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the…

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  There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book, Revised and Expanded (Again)

  As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is the search for the right…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose

  The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose makes available not only extensive selections from the works of canonical writers, but also substantial extracts from…

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  The Correspondence of Samuel Clarke and Anthony Collins, 1707-08

  An important work in the debate between materialists and dualists, the public correspondence between Anthony Collins and Samuel Clarke provided the framework for arguments over…

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  Clarence

  Honorable mention recipient for the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Award. A pioneering American novel of manners first published in 1830,…

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  At the Back of the North Wind

  The unique blend of fairy tale atmosphere and social realism in this novel laid the groundwork for modern fantasy literature. In the novel, Little Diamond,…

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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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  Mrs. Spring Fragrance

  Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance present a…

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  An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

  Over a series of elegantly written, engaging essays, the Enquiry examines the experiential and psychological sources of meaning and knowledge, the foundations of reasoning about…

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  Suicide

  Suicide was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012! Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions is a provocative and comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical…

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  Travels through France and Italy

  Tobias Smollett travelled through Europe with his wife in 1763-65 in a journey designed to recover his mental and physical health after the death of…

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  The Age of Reason

  The Age of Reason is one of the most influential defences of Deism (the idea that God can be known without organized religion) ever written.…

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  The Coquette and The Boarding School

  Hannah Webster Foster based The Coquette on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, an unmarried woman who died in childbirth in New England. Fictionalizing Whitman’s…

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  Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

  This anthology offers a selection of popular dramatic works by female playwrights from Aphra Behn in the 1670s through Hannah Cowley in the later eighteenth…

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  The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

  The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked…

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  What Should I Believe?

  This book is unique in its treatment of critical thinking not as a body of knowledge but instead as a subject for critical reflection. The…

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  Peter Pan

  For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations:…

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  The Awakening and Other Writings

  Critically acclaimed as Kate Chopin’s most influential work of fiction, The Awakening has assumed a place in the American literary canon. This new edition places…

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  The Immorality of Punishment

  In The Immorality of Punishment Michael Zimmerman argues forcefully that not only our current practice but indeed any practice of legal punishment is deeply morally…