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This thorough introduction to good reasoning has been refined over more than twenty years.

Set in Soweto, this is one of the most important novels of South Africa under apartheid. It depicts the life od an account typist in a large busy shop where most of the clientele are poor. The authors fine eye for detail provides an unrivalled sense of everyday life in the South Africa of that time.

Plain Aesthetics is an introduction to philosophical aesthetics and the philosophy of art written for all audiences. While students studying philosophy will find it informative, it is specifically constructed to be accessible to anyone, even those with no background in philosophy. It contains no jargon or technical language, except where such terms are defined at their point of use. Philosophers and theorists are discussed only where appropriate, and their views explained in context. Plain Aesthetics is written as a conversation between the author and the reader, and employs a great many examples of fascinating and influential artworks. Images and other works are presented to the reader both within the text and through an innovative interactive system. This book makes aesthetics accessible to everyone.

For centuries, English monarchs and governments have struggled with what they came to term 'the Irish Question'. Through 75 primary source documents, contextualized by informative introductions and annotations, this volume explores the political, economic, and cultural impacts of the relationship between Ireland and England.

Presents philosophical theories and ideas with reference to their practical relevance to the lives of student readers. Exercises, activities, and thought experiments are integrated throughout the text, encouraging active and self-reflective reading. Numerous original source texts are included.

Comprehensive in its treatment of poetry and fiction, this book offers features that students most often request, including concise definitions of basic terms of poetry and short fiction, focused discussion of craft, exciting literary models, and engaging hands-on exercises.

Provides classic and contemporary defenses and critiques of the central ethical theories, along with readings on a selection of moral issues such as freedom of expression, immigration, and the treatment of non-human animals. Generous excerpts of canonical texts are included alongside contemporary works.

Covers not only standard topics such as definitions, fallacies, and argument identification, but also other pertinent themes such as consumer choice in a market economy and political choice in a representative democracy. Interesting historical asides are included throughout, as are images, diagrams, and reflective questions.

Nellie McClung's two-volume autobiography provides a remarkable and very readable account of a truly extraordinary life. With her fine eye for detail, she makes the Canada of her time come vividly alive for readers.

"This is a fascinating and timely book on a topic that has attracted too little serious attention... It should help lead the way to both better politics and better tax policy in the future." - Jim Davies, University of Western Ontario

Being Changed is a book that directly challenges the rationalist bias in Western tradition by developing a new, 'experimental' approach to extraordinary experiences.

This is a rhetoric designed to cover the basics of a college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Anything inessential to the business of college writing has been excluded. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting.

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847.

Offers an engaging survey of central metaphysical topics, including truth, universals, the nature of mind, personal identity, free will, time, and the existence of God. The book is pitched at an intermediate undergraduate level and is suitable for students without background knowledge in these areas.

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 are of less interest to modern readers. Brian R. Clack's introduction offers a compelling overview of the text and explores the consistency and coherence of Burke's views.

Blending sensational drama with domestic tragedy and comic farce, this complex and multi-layered play by Dekker, Ford, and Rowley emphasizes the mundane realities and interpersonal conflicts that are so often at the heart of sensational occurrences.

Offers wide ranging coverage of academic argument; of writing and critical thinking; and of writing about literature. Coverage of personal and informal writing is included for the first time - as is a sample literary essay in MLA style (in addition to the sample MLA interdisciplinary essay).

The third edition of the Victorian Era volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature includes a number of changes and new additions, including the complete texts of In Memoriam A.H.H., The Importance of Being Earnest, Carmilla, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through the tragedy's central character, the matriarch Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides' commitment to speaking on behalf of the less powerful and offers a scathing critique of Athenian behaviour.

Offers introduction to academic writing in different disciplines. This title focuses on writing as a diverse and collaborative, rather than rule-bound and goal-oriented, activity, and includes discussions of genre and audience. It contains sections on ethics in research and in disciplines.

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 such as virtue, equality and difference, education, the passions, and love.