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Provides an introduction to the history of English that recognises multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book enables students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and to extend and complicate those histories.

This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. What has become known as "the Broad Street pump episode" is one of the most significant early examples of team-oriented investigations into the causes of epidemic disease.

The Victorian writer George Meredith completed Modern Love, his most famous poem, in the months following his wife's death in 1861. The series of 16-line sonnets (a stanzaic form Meredith invented) depicts isolated scenes in an unhappy marriage as both partners take lovers.

In this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents.

This new edition of Homer's epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections include all the most famous and most frequently taught episodes. The edition features explanatory footnotes, a wide-ranging introduction, and a range of background materials.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, written in the early 1920s as the new government of the Soviet Union was beginning to show its authoritarian character, is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. It presents a chilling vision of the future of the Soviet experiment.

Provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada's political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and current affairs to give students an orderly picture of the wide-ranging landscape of Canadian government and politics.

A story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, Benito Cereno represents Herman Melville's most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery.

The second edition of Peg Tittle's ambitious business ethics text brings together readings, cases, and the author's own informed opinions on the central ethical issues faced by the business community today. This book examines important contemporary topics such as privacy in IT and whistleblowing, as well as broad questions about the nature of business and the ideal forms of corporate governance.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This book captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context.

The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written. This dual-language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It also includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas.

Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, this anthology features an extraordinarily wide-ranging canon, with close attention paid throughout to issues such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It offers a fuller range of contextual materials than any competing anthology, including extensive illustrations throughout.

This thematic reader offers a selection of expository prose on current and historical issues facing African Americans.

Offers a satirical take on marriage and the bourgeois nuclear family. This new edition offers a fresh translation, an illuminating brief introduction, and a selection of background materials that help to set the play in context.

Offers an intriguing selection of readings on ethics, social-political philosophy, and issues of life, death, and happiness. Canonical texts from historical figures such as Plato, Hobbes, and Wollstonecraft are included alongside contemporary selections from such thinkers as Claudia Card, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Offers a thoughtful selection of readings in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Substantial selections from important historical texts are provided (including the entirety of Descartes's Meditations), as are a number of contemporary readings on each topic.

An anthology of carefully edited readings designed to serve as an introduction to many of the fundamental concepts of ethical and socio-political thought. The book includes primary sources from a variety of traditions, with selections that range chronologically from ancient times through to the present day.

A comprehensive anthology that surveys core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion, theories of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, social-political philosophy, and issues of life, death, and happiness.

An updated edition of Broadview (TM)s top-selling anthology with more critical material and illustrations.

Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines gathers exciting current scholarship across the disciplines in a concise collection of academic prose.

Unlike other craft books on writing, Your First Page is based on the premise that almost everything that can go right or wrong in a work of fiction or memoir goes wrong or right on the first page.

Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, Captain Singleton is a tale of loneliness, brotherhood, and the lust for profit.

The titular Roaring Girl of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's comedy is Moll Cutpurse, a fictionalized version of a real person, Mary Frith, who attained legendary status in London by flouting gendered dress conventions, illegally performing onstage, and engaging in all sorts of transgressive behaviour.

The narrator of The Library Window is a young woman who is recuperating at her aunt's house in a Scottish town-and spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs window. Across the way is a university library; one of its windows holds particular interest-but the things she sees there at one moment are gone the next.

Offers guidance to help writers succeed in a broad range of writing tasks and purposes in science and other STEM fields. Concise and current, the book takes most of its examples and lessons from scientific fields, such as the life sciences, chemistry, physics, and geology, but some examples are taken from mathematics and engineering.

Offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children's literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, this is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children's literature.

Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, this is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language. Guidelines and templates for business correspondence, formal and informal reports, brochures and press releases, and oral presentations are included.

Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, this is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasises clarity, conciseness, and plain language. Guidelines and templates for business correspondence, formal and informal reports, brochures and press releases, and oral presentations are included.