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The Critical Thinking Book
The Critical Thinking Book covers not only standard topics such as definitions, fallacies, and argument identification, but also other pertinent themes such as consumer choice…
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A Writing Studies Primer
Writing is omnipresent in our lives, yet we too rarely stop and consider its history, tools, technologies, and mythologies. This volume introduces student readers to…
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An Introduction to Metaphysics
An Introduction to Metaphysics offers an engrossing survey of central metaphysical topics, including truth, universals, the nature of mind, personal identity, free will, time, and…
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Folk and Fairy Tales – Second Concise Edition
This concise version of Folk and Fairy Tales is designed to provide a more compact and versatile collection for teaching children’s literature. Like the complete…
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The Witch of Edmonton
At the center of this remarkable 1621 play is the story of Elizabeth Sawyer, the titular “Witch of Edmonton,” a woman who had in fact…
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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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Reflections on the Revolution in France
This abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke’s polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that may…
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The Great Gatsby – Second Edition
The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby’s grand effort to win…
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Low CostAcademic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students – Second Edition
Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise,…
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Early Modern Philosophy
This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology, but also new themes…
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Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents
The transformation of the American West is one of the key topics in the study of both US history and global environmental history. The role…
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Pop Culture for Beginners
Pop Culture for Beginners promotes reflective engagement with the world around us and provides tools for thinking critically about how meaning is created, reinforced, and…
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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction – Second Edition
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first…
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Joining the Dialogue: Practices for Ethical Research Writing
Joining the Dialogue offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication ethics. Holding to the current…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 5: The Victorian Era – Third Edition
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its inclusiveness and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural…
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Pandemic Bioethics
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every human being on the planet and forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this…
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Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations
Business and professional communication takes place in dynamic, ever-changing contexts. How can we best help students prepare to communicate in such a challenging environment? The…
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Readings in Ethics
Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western…
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Academic Writing: An Introduction – Fourth Edition
Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the…
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Trojan Women
Trojan Women tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through…
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Professions in Ethical Focus – Second Edition
This second edition of Professions in Ethical Focus comprises over seventy-five readings complemented by twenty case studies with corresponding discussion questions. These resources are organized…
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Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents
The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not only did they…
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The Broadview Anthology of Tudor Drama
English drama between the late fifteenth and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging; this anthology brings together eighteen of the…
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Githa Sowerby: Three Plays
Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son took the London theatre by storm in 1912. Following its triumphant run, the play toured to New York, was produced…
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The Tempest
The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers…
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Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students – Second Edition
This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams…
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Moral Tales: A Selection
In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in…
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The Red Laugh and The Abyss
Leonid Andreyev’s The Red Laugh is an experimental depiction of war and its psychological effects, both on those who participate in the fighting and on…
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Hagar’s Daughter
Hagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-02). The novel features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic…
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A Concise Guide to Technical Communication
This compact but complete guide shows that less is more—with fewer extraneous details getting in the way of students trying to learn on the run,…
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Barford Abbey
The great-grandmother of Downton Abbey, Barford Abbey is among the first of a new genre of “abbey fictions.” Using the abbey as both a site…
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Dreams
Dreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose…
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Write Here: Developing Writing Skills in a Media-Driven World
Write Here is designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice.…
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Ethical Reasoning: Theory and Application
The philosophical tradition has given rise to many competing moral theories. Virtue ethics encourages the flourishing of the person, theories of justice and rights tell…
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United States Immigration, 1800-1965: A History in Documents
The debate over immigration has been a hallmark of the American nation since its earliest days, and it persists in generating a complex spectrum of…
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Are They Women?
Deeply engaged in women’s rights debates and discussions of the “third sex,” Are They Women? is about the lively communities of lesbians across turn-of-the-century central…