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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.

Everyday Ethics is an engaging treatment of the ethical questions that we all must answer on a regular basis. Each of the book's forty chapters provides short pro and con arguments on a particular issue, designed to get readers talking and thinking about obligations, rights, societal expectations, and ethical principles. Instructors are sure to appreciate the way in which Everyday Ethics generates interest and participation from their students on day one. And students will appreciate the opportunity to engage with concerns that actually arise in their day-to-day lives and over which they have control.

Pulling from ethics, computer science, philosophy of science, and history, this book offers a series of investigative tools to enable readers to establish interdisciplinary connections and explore ethical issues involving artificial intelligence. Covering broad themes including democracy and the moral responsibility of scientists, the text also delves into specific topics such as modelling bias, risk assessment, privacy, epistemic concerns, the implementation of AI in medicine, the uses of generative AI for writing and art, and the impact that AI can have on human behaviour. Throughout the book, the application of various ethical theories and conceptual frameworks is modelled for students, helping them to become thoughtful inquirers in the exciting and growing field of artificial intelligence.

This exciting second edition provides an exceptional range of plays edited by leading scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre. In addition to fifteen plays from the first edition are four new plays and one new afterpiece: Nathaniel Lee's The Rival Queens, John Vanbrugh's The Provoked Wife, David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens, Richard Cumberland's The West Indian, and Elizabeth Inchbald's Such Things Are. Every play now features an engaging headnote and a fully edited dramatis personae, prologue, and epilogue. The innovative introduction plunges its readers into the experience of playgoing in London, and the edition features supplementary texts, including select actor and actress biographies and theatrical documents that provide a vivid cultural context.

Reading Young Adult Literature is the most current, comprehensive, and accessible guide to this burgeoning genre, tracing its history and reception with nuance and respect. Unlike any other book on the market, it synthesizes current thinking on key issues in the field and presents new research and original analyses of the history of adolescence, the genealogy of YA literature, key genres and modes of writing for young adults, and ways to put YA in dialogue with canonical texts from the high school classroom. Reading Young Adult Literature speaks to the core concerns of contemporary English studies with its attention to literary history, literary form, and theoretical approaches to YA. Ideal for education courses on Young Adult Literature, it offers prolonged attention to YA literature in the secondary classroom and cutting-edge approaches to critical visual and multimodal literacy. The book is also highly appealing for library science courses, offering an illuminating history of YA Librarianship and a practical overview of the YA field.

In her final play, Aphra Behn looks across the Atlantic and reimagines Bacon's Rebellion, the notorious revolt whose participants took up arms against the government of colonial Virginia with the aim of driving the Indigenous population from the region. Heavily fictionalized and featuring a memorable cast of both heroic and comic characters, Behn's long-neglected tragicomedy is an important and entertaining contribution to the catalogue of transatlantic and Restoration literature. This edition supplements the play with an informative introduction and a robust selection of historical documents that situate it in the context of the historical rebellion and of late-seventeenth-century discourses around empire and colonization.

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.

The Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings - both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery.

Examines environmental philosophy in the context of climate denial, inaction, and thoughtlessness. The book introduces readers to the varied theories and movements of environmental philosophy. But more than that, it seeks to unsettle our received understanding of the world and our role in it.

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.

First written in Egypt between the second and fourth centuries, the Physiologus brought together poetic descriptions of animals and their Christian allegories. As the Physiologus was translated into a wide range of languages from across North Africa and much of Europe, each version adapted the text in culturally specific ways that yield fascinating insights for those who delve into this truly global tradition of representing and interpreting animals. This edition provides the original texts and facing-page modern translations of the only two surviving English versions--the Old English Physiologus from the late-tenth-century Exeter Book and the Middle English Physiologus from the mid-thirteenth-century MS Arundel 292--as well as translations of a range of Latin, French, and Old English sources and analogues. Underpinned by a commitment to the fields of medieval studies and animal studies, this edition provides an accessible introduction to the literary history of the Physiologus and the politics of animal representation. It asks the vital question: how can we understand humanity's relationships with non-human animals and the environment today without understanding those relationships' history?

In a fast-moving media world where most workers begin as freelancers (and many may spend their whole careers doing so), this book is a guide for journalism students, recent graduates, and new journalists to orient themselves in the world of freelance work.

A book about how to approach the world with a listening ear, target the perfect audience, and learn the basics of audio editing software. While the book is research-based, it's straightforward, clear, and practical.

Approaches the structure of English from a form-function perspective that is both theoretical and practical. The book asks learners to consider meaning, structure and use, in contrast to many grammars that focus on structure, sometimes to the exclusion of use and even meaning.

In his autobiography, David Hume famously noted that A Treatise of Human Nature "fell dead-born from the press." Yet it is now widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophical works written in the English language. Within, Hume offers an empirically informed account of human nature, addressing a range of topics such as space, time, causality, the external world, personal identity, passions, freedom, necessity, virtue, and vice. This edition includes not only the full text of the Treatise but also Hume's summarizing Abstract, as well as selections drawn from critical book reviews which showcase the work's reception in Hume's own time. Angela Coventry's expert introduction and annotations serve to contextualize the book's themes and arguments for modern readers.

When Branded: A Diary was published in Berlin in 1920, Emmy Hennings was called the most important woman writer of her day. Her autobiographical novel offers a sharp critique of patriarchy and the social injustices of the last decade of the German Empire, infused with a mysticism that celebrates sexual love as a spiritual gift.

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.

Drawing on the pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and student editor insights of The Argument Handbook, The Argument Toolbox is a very concise resource designed to help writing and composition students build persuasive arguments in various genres. Like the more comprehensive text, The Argument Toolbox is organized and designed so that students can zero in on the content they need to respond to an assignment when faced with a blank screen, a hard deadline, and a skeptical audience.

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.

The role of ranching in the West is central to the field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition of horses in the 18th century, to the introduction of Hispanic horsemanship techniques and market cattle in the 'Old West', and finally to the work of ranching families to sustain their way of life.

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.

Presents a rhetorical framework for writing and analysing content for social media and the web. The book offers an interdisciplinary approach to writing scenarios with insights from classical and contemporary rhetoric, the philosophy of technology, and digital media theory.

This competitively priced edition includes a fascinating selection of historical documents on the cultural context of the Jazz Age.