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Contemporary, fresh, and affordable, this anthology offers the stylistic and thematic range students need and the pedagogical apparatus instructors want in short story courses.

Designed for introduction to fiction and fiction-writing courses, 30/30 is part of Longman’s Penguin Academics series of portable, value-priced texts. This anthology offers an array of fiction that not only teaches craft, but also provides a context in which to study formal and thematic trends of the past 30 years. The stories are represented by a mix of well-established authors and newer voices, offering a stylistic range, from the traditional narrative to experimental forms, and thematic range as well, with stories that address issues including family and culture, love and loss, ethnicity and gender.

• In keeping with all of the titles in Longman's Penguin Academics series, this text is priced well below other traditional fiction anthologies.
• The rich diversity of stories brings together contemporary American classics with rarely anthologized stories by both known and newly discovered writers. All authors are critically acclaimed.
• The Introduction provides a brief overview of the history of the short story, discussing the development of the contemporary American short story and explaining the basic elements of fiction.
• Two appendices highlight the anthology’s flexibility, showing how the stories can be taught by fictional technique or by theme. 
• Author biographies and quotations offer useful background information, insight into narrative processes, and explanations of the context in which authors are working.

Preface.

Why Short Stories?

The Elements of Fiction.

Stories:

1. Sherman Alexie, “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”.

2. Dorothy Allison, “River of Names”.

3. Donald Barthelme, “The School”.

4. Charles Baxter, “Snow”.

5. Ann Beattie, “Snow”.

6. T.C. Boyle, “Greasy Lake”.

7. Ron Carlson, “Milk”.

8. Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”.

9. Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”.

10. Lydia Davis, “Story”.

11. Junot Díaz, “Fiesta, 1980”.

12. Stuart Dybek, “We Didn’t”.

13. Louise Erdrich, “Saint Marie”.

14. Percival Everett, “The Fix”.

15. Mary Gaitskill, “Tiny, Smiling Daddy”.

16. Aleksandar Hemon, “A Coin”.

17. Gish Jen, “Who’s Irish?”.

18. Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”.

19. David Leavitt, “Gravity”.

20. Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”.

21. Jhumpa Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies”.

22. David Wong Louie, “Cold-Hearted”.

23. Reginald McKnight, “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas”.

24. Rick Moody, “Boys”.

25. Lorrie Moore, “How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)”.

26. Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”.

27. Cynthia Ozick, “The Shawl”.

28. Z.Z. Packer, “Every Tongue Shall Confess”.

29. Annie Proulx, “Job History”.

30. June Spence, “Missing Women”.

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  Expanding Horizons (Penguin Academics Series)
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  Gwynn
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  Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Arguing (Penguin Academics Series)
  Gwynn & Zani
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  Inside Literature guides students through the process of analyzing a rich body of thematically arranged literature and crafting persuasive, well-supported argumentative essays.

   

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  LB Brief, MLA Update Edition, 3/E
  Aaron
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  ISBN-10: 020574527X | ISBN-13: 9780205745272
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  LB Brief offers the authority and currency of its best-selling parent, The Little, Brown Handbook, in a briefer, spiral-bound format at an affordable price.

   

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  Literature as Meaning (Penguin Academics Series)
  Steiner
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  ISBN-10: 032117206X | ISBN-13: 9780321172068
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  Using contemporary themes, culturally and historically diverse selections, and thought-provoking questions that illuminate key literary concepts, Literature as Meaning invites students to explore vital human issues shaped by literary art.

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  Literature: A Pocket Anthology, 4/E
  Gwynn
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  A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature.

  
  
  

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  Little Penguin Handbook,The: MLA Update, 2/E
  Faigley
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  This edition includes the most current MLA citation, documentation, and style guidelines.

   

  This very brief version of the best-selling Penguin Handbook offers the same student-friendly features and now includes expanded coverage of all documentation styles, research and writing across the curriculum.

   

  The Little Penguin Handbook continues to revolutionize the way brief handbooks present information.  With more visuals and sample documents than other essential handbooks, this handy full-color reference gives students just what they need to know about the writing and research processes, while providing extensive coverage of documentation and grammar.  “Source Samples” in the documentation chapters give students pages from actual sources with notes explaining where to find the information to create a citation. Unique “Common Errors” boxes in the grammar chapters provide quick guidance on key errors.  With a completely revised research section, a new visual five-step guide to the documentation process, and updated and expanded documentation coverage and a new section on writing in the disciplines, The Little Penguin Handbook will continue to be an invaluable resource for students in composition courses and in courses across the curriculum. 

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  Little, Brown Essential Handbook, MLA Update Edition, 6/E
  Aaron
  ©2009 | Longman | Spiral Bound; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205745296 | ISBN-13: 9780205745296
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  Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook, Sixth Edition, answers questions about academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, research writing, and documentation.

   

  Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on academic writing, research writing, source documentation, and document design support writers in all disciplines. The convenient pocket size, four-color design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids make the book convenient to carry and easy to use.

   

  Up-to-the-minute coverage of documentation styles reflects the 2008 MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, Third Edition and the 2007 supplement APA Style Guide to Electronic References.

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  Longman Concise Companion, The, 2/E
  Anson, Schwegler & Muth
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper; 576 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 020567366X | ISBN-13: 9780205673667
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  The Longman Concise Companion emphasizes writing for different audiences, thinking rhetorically, and connecting writing to reading in an easy-to-use, spiral-bound handbook at a value price.

   

  The Longman Concise Companion encourages students to consider how audiences, purposes, and writing conventions differ among academic, public, and workplace communities.  Students are then offered concrete strategies for adapting their writing to meet varying rhetorical situations. 

   

  Rather than present grammar as a set of jargon-filled rules, The Longman Concise Companion helps students learn to call upon their own experiences as readers to help them understand how grammar can communicate meaning clearly or hinder understanding.  The “Read, Recognize, Revise” approach to editing teaches students to see and hear errors in their writing and apply specific suggested strategies to correct them. 

   

   

   

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  Longwood Guide to Writing, The, 4/E
  Lunsford & Bridges
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205553761 | ISBN-13: 9780205553761
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  Reflecting the author's fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, authoritative, and current aims-based rhetorics on the market.

   

  This comprehensive rhetoric with readings, a research guide, and brief handbook helps students see writing as rhetorical and as a process.  Students are introduced to all phases of reading and writing and then engage in a range of “writing occasions”–writing personal essays; informative and evaluative essays; position, persuasive, and problem/solution essays; and essays about and from literature.  Each of the core “writing occasions” chapters features professional readings, discusses the rhetorical triangle, and follows a student through the writing process.  Students also learn effective ways to conduct research, write with sources, and take essay exams.  Throughout The Longwood Guide, students are offered opportunities to examine and refine their own individual writing processes.  

   

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  Major Themes for Modern Writers (Penguin Academics Series)
  Wiener
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 448 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321441729 | ISBN-13: 9780321441720
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  Part of the Penguin Academics series, Major Themes for Modern Writers is a thematically-organized reader offering a balance of contemporary and classic readings with minimal apparatus and a high-quality but low cost design.

   

  Major Themes for Modern Writers explores multiple perspectives on significant topics such as family, education, work and prosperity, law and democracy, gender, science and technology, language, and beliefs and values.  Classic readings whose theses consistently resonate with students are balanced with fresh readings on contemporary issues such as gay parenting, the return of the sweatshop to America’s manufacturing sector, voter apathy, the failures of feminism, global warming, the excesses of cyberspace, diet and behavior, the appeal of superheroes, and 21^st century American migration trends.

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  Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting
  Quick, Zimmer & Hocevar
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131944061 | ISBN-13: 9780131944060
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  Making Reading Relevant: The Art of Connecting teaches students to become better, more efficient readers by exposing them to essential reading strategies and “real-life” materials, or primary sources.

   

  For several years, Quick, Hocevar, and Zimmer searched for a simple, concise text to use in their reading classes. However, they could not find a brief text that still managed to address all of the topics and issues they found they needed  in order to conduct productive and meaningful courses. As well, they were unsuccessful in finding anything that stressed the application of reading strategies using primary reading sources as the basis of the content, a core idea too often sacrificed for the sake of brevity. It was then that the authors decided to collaborate and write a text to specifically fill all these needs while maintaining a simple premise: sometimes less is more. In this age of information overload, the authors find it imperative that students learn to become better, more efficient readers -- and not by just reading about how  to read, but by applying skills to reading real sources. 

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  Master Reader, The (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card), 2/E
  Henry
  ©2009 | Longman | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 832 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205685749 | ISBN-13: 9780205685745
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  The Master Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become effective readers and critical thinkers.

   

  The author integrates reading skills with the reading process (SQ3R) to produce more effective readers and lead students to discover the power and pleasure of reading.  Providing step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials (including a separate lab manual), and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources, the author makes students responsible for their reading and improves mastery of the major reading skills while teaching students to develop a system for reading.

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  Master Reader, The, Alternate Reading Edition (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card), 2/E
  Henry
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper Package; 858 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205745008 | ISBN-13: 9780205745005
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  The Master Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become effective readers and critical thinkers.

   

  The author integrates reading skills with the reading process (SQ3R) to produce more effective readers and lead students to discover the power and pleasure of reading.  Providing step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials (including a separate lab manual), and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources, the author makes students responsible for their reading and improves mastery of the major reading skills while teaching students to develop a system for reading.

  
  

  In this Alternate Readings Edition, the instruction, exercises, and apparatus of the second edition remain intact, while the readings in Part II have been replaced by new readings to help students develop a cultural literacy.  Instructors using the second edition can transition to the Alternate Readings Edition seamlessly, all the while providing readings that are timely and fresh to their students.

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  Mind's Eye, The: A Guide to Writing Poetry
  Clark
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 020549823X | ISBN-13: 9780205498239
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  Focusing on imagery and sound, The Mind’s Eye is concise, inexpensive, and handy - and is the only poetry writing textbook designed specifically for the college term. 

   

  Featuring a progressive gradation of writing exercises, The Mind’s Eye stresses the foundational importance of imagery as well as sound in contemporary poetry. The textbook guides students through a variety of discussions, models and prompts designed to give them fluency in the major aspects of contemporary poetry writing: imagery, sound, implication, conflict, the lyric (and lyricism), structure, portraiture, narrative, sequencing, surrealism, and other facets of the discipline, especially revision. Built on the author’s three decades of creative writing pedagogy and written in clear, active prose that instructs without condescension, The Mind’s Eye features The Poet’s Note Card, a concise summary of main ideas at the end of each chapter. It discusses traditional form and provides templates for the sonnet and reduces anxiety about writing on difficult topics, including mortality, eros, religion, and politics. Compact and handy, the textbook provides information on how to form friendly poetry writing groups, how to arrange and give poetry readings, and how to publish poems in journals. Teachers will also like the fact that it sells at a lower cost than almost all other textbook options, thus allowing them to assign additional volumes of poetry without fear of burdening students economically.

   

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  New Century Pocket Guide for Writers, The, 3/E
  Hult & Huckin
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205661092 | ISBN-13: 9780205661091
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  This handbook, the first built on the assumption that students write and research on computer, offers everything a handbook should–in a portable, inexpensive pocket edition!

   

  The New Century Pocket Guide for Writers, 3E, offers extensive coverage of grammar, usage, and documentation (MLA, APA, CMS, CBE), including the 2008 MLA guidelines, and provides essential coverage of the writing and research processes. The pocket edition retains the technology integration of the larger editions, with special chapters that include design considerations in print and on the Web, electronic communications, and oral presentations using PowerPoint.  Comprehensive coverage of writing in the disciplines, evaluating and using sources and avoiding plagiarism, and conducting research projects using the Internet make this the most valuable pocket handbook available.
  
  

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  One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  DiYanni
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 800 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205535550 | ISBN-13: 9780205535552
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  One Hundred Great Essays is published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

   

  One Hundred Great Essays collects one-hundred of the most teachable and rewarding essays used in today's college composition class. The anthology combines classic, commonly taught essays with frequently anthologized contemporary essays by today's most highly regarded writers. The selections are broadly diverse in both subject matter and authorship. Essays have been selected as both models for good writing and useful springboards for student writing. An introductory section discusses the qualities of the essay form and offers instruction on how to read essays critically, and shows students how to use the writing process to develop their own essays.

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  Poetic Form: An Introduction
  Caplan
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 250 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198204 | ISBN-13: 9780321198204
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  Poetic Form offers a clear, compact, and entertaining introduction to the history, structure, and practice of the language’s most popular verse forms. 

   

  Written with humor and wit, this guide aims to convey the pleasures of poetry — a sestina’s delightful gamesmanship, an epigram’s barbed wit, a haiku's deceptive simplicity — and the fun of exploring the poetic forms.  Each chapter defines a particular verse form, briefly describes its history, and offers examples.  Writing exercises challenge students to utilize the forms in creative expression.  Covering a wider range of forms in greater detail and with more poetic examples than similar guides on the market, it provides enough material to thoroughly introduce the language’s major forms while allowing flexibility in the classroom.

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  Professional Writing Online, Version 3.0, 3/E
  Porter, Sullivan & Johnson-Eilola
  ©2009 | Longman | Access Code Card; 64 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205652123 | ISBN-13: 9780205652129
  URL:  http://www.pearsonhighered.com/pwo
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  This unique Web text offers an innovative approach to the theory and practice of writing for the workplace and allows students to work with the medium that is becoming increasingly dominant in the real world.  PWO makes full use of the flexibility of online delivery and the dynamic capabilities and resources of the World Wide Web.

   

  Professional Writing Online 3.0 provides far more material than a conventional textbook and provides additional links to a wealth of related material on the World Wide Web.  This unique site offers four primary points of entry, corresponding to the four major sections of content:  Projects, Documents, Principles, and Resources. These sections are interlinked so students can move back and forth among them to find what they need in focusing on a particular topic. 

  • The Projects section provides extended case studies and shorter exercises for use inside and outside the classroom.
  • The Documents section provides a wealth of real-world examples of a variety of document types.
  • The Principles section offers description and guidance on the topics that are integral to an applied writing course.
  • The Resources section provides teachers and students with additional materials that will be useful in the teaching and practicing of writing on the job.

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  Quick Access Compact, 2/E
  Troyka & Hesse
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper; 552 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205687342 | ISBN-13: 9780205687343
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  QA Compact, from trusted authors Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse, provides both composition students and instructors with the support they need to be successful, and is designed for easy, economical access to the most important concepts in writing. 

   

  The Troyka/Hesse family of handbooks provides the most balanced coverage of the writing process, grammar, research, and topics important to today’s students.  Both respected teachers and authors, Troyka and Hesse give practical advice to students about the writing they will do in composition courses, in other classes, and in the world beyond.  Offering instructors a full range of choices in handbooks, the Troyka/Hesse family of handbooks is available in a variety of formats, including Web-based and customized options, so instructors can select the handbook that best fits their course needs.

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  Reading Skills Handbook, 9/E
  Wiener & Bazerman
  ©2006 | Longman | Paper; 640 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321199243 | ISBN-13: 9780321199249
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  Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, teaches the essential reading and study skills required for success in college. 

   

  The cornerstone of the Wiener/Bazerman System, Reading Skills Handbook, 9/e, retains the features that have made it a bestseller for more than twenty-five years: flexible format, high-interest readings, clear explanations, and a multitude of practice exercises.  The step-by-step approach encourages students to move with confidence from simple to more complex skills.  An anthology of readings helps students apply newly learned skills in selections drawn from books, magazines, and newspapers and including essays, articles, textbook pages, journals, fiction, photographs, illustrations, cartoons, advertisements, and Web sites–in short, the wide range of reading opportunities available to today’s readers at home or on the job.

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  Readings for Today
  Goshgarian
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 400 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205568564 | ISBN-13: 9780205568567
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  This affordable new reader from best-selling author Gary Goshgarian provides a wide-ranging collection of contemporary readings–almost 80% written in the 21^st century--designed to get today’s students talking–and writing.

   

  With chapters focusing on complex, current issues like global warming, media influence, and immigration, Readings for Today offers a wide range of contemporary opinion by journalists, academics, and public figures like Peggy Orenstein, David Brooks, Charles Murray, and Al Gore.

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  Short Guide to College Writing, A (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Barnet, Bellanca & Stubbs
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321457420 | ISBN-13: 9780321457424
  Brief Description

  

  One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing.

   

  Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers students clear, practical guidance on college writing.  Students can turn to this book for help with everything from choosing a topic, writing an analysis, and documenting sources to constructing a paragraph and punctuating a quotation. Separate chapters provide support for revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy.  Discussion and examples of description and narration are included, but the emphasis throughout is on the most common college writing assignments: analysis, argument, and research. Students are taught the essential skills for effective college writing–skills they will need when writing for a first-year composition course, or for any other college-level course.

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  Skilled Reader, The, Alternate Reading Edition (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card), 2/E
  Henry
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper Package; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205744982 | ISBN-13: 9780205744985
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  The Skilled Reader combines solid skill instruction with a wealth of guided practice to develop the quintessential abilities students need to become skilled readers and critical thinkers.

   

  The author integrates reading skills with the reading process (SQ3R) to produce more effective readers and lead students to discover the power and pleasure of reading.  Providing step-by-step reading instruction, a wide range of practice and test materials, and a rich selection of readings from textbooks and other sources, the author makes students responsible for their reading–improving their major reading skills while developing a system for reading.

  
  

  In this Alternate Readings Edition, the instruction, exercises, and apparatus of the second edition remain intact, while the readings in Part II have been replaced by new readings to help students develop a cultural literacy.  Instructors using the second edition can transition to the Alternate Readings Edition seamlessly, all the while providing readings that are timely and fresh to their students.

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  Steps for Writers: Composing Essays, Volume 2 (Penguin Academics Series)
  Eggers
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198824 | ISBN-13: 9780321198822
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  Concise and affordable, Steps for College Writers, Volume 2, teaches students the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays in preparation for freshman composition.

   

  Steps for College Writers is organized around three phases of college writing: finding one’s own writing process, writing essays based on one’s own experience and perceptions, and writing essays involving texts and research.  Grammar and usage, peer review, and student and professional models are incorporated throughout the text to effectively teach the writing process to today’s developing writers.

   

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  Steps for Writers: Sentence & Paragraph to Essay, Volume 1, (Penguin Academics Series)
  Eggers
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 240 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198816 | ISBN-13: 9780321198815
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  Steps for Writers teaches the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays through a graduated approach to emphasize the author’s goal of growth and development.

   

  Phil Eggers’ graduated approach to writing and grammar empowers students to move in “steps” and build confidence as they progress through the book. Students who feel they need more practice can work through all levels; the more confident students can check their competency and move to the areas in which they are not proficient.  Similarly, the sequence of chapters also builds comfort with writing.  After an introduction to the writing process, students apply the steps to paragraph writing, building up to the essay.  This flexibility helps students overcome their anxiety, and, therefore, contributes to their discovery of writing’s intrinsic qualities.

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  Technical Communication Handbook, The
  Gurak & Hocks
  ©2009 | Longman | Spiral Bound; 656 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321365070 | ISBN-13: 9780321365071
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  The Technical Communication Handbook is a comprehensive reference guide with coverage of the major genres and strategies for creating and editing technical documents.

   

  The Technical Communication Handbook is a reference for technical communication students at all levels, being used independently or in conjunction with a primary text, as well as practicing technical communicators and other writers in the technical fields and workplace.

   

  This handbook boasts a full-color design, extensively annotated model documents, and coverage of current topics in intellectual property, digital communication, collaboration, and accessibility issues.  Additionally, the coverage of document design, research, technical editing, and citation models for all major technical documentation styles, general writing and grammar advice makes The Technical Communication Handbook a life-long companion for technical communicators.

   

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  The Art of the Short Story
  Gioia & Gwynn
  ©2006 | Longman | Paper | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321363639 | ISBN-13: 9780321363633
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  This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. 

   

  From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible, engaging, and relevant.  The book's unique integration of biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate understanding of the works and their authors.   

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  Twenty-Five Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  DiYanni
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 224 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205535569 | ISBN-13: 9780205535569
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  Twenty-Five Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

   

  This brief reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Twenty-Five Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

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  What it Takes: Writing in College
  Behrens & Rosen
  ©2009 | Longman | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205647820 | ISBN-13: 9780205647828
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  What It Takes: Writing in College covers the types of college writing assignments for which Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum is best known: the summary, the critique, and the synthesis, as well as analysis.  This brief, handy guide introduces each of the strategies required for writing successful college papers, and takes students step by step through the process of writing based on source material.  

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  Words on Paper: Essays on American Culture for College Writers
  DiNardo Hayes & Waltman
  ©2009 | Longman | Paper; 336 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205558739 | ISBN-13: 9780205558735
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  Words on Paper is a thematically organized reader/rhetoric that seeks to empower students to interact proactively and constructively with all types of essays.

   

  The essays selected were meant to excite and motivate readers into sharing their experience and opinions in writing.  To reflect the mosaic of American culture, Words on Paper includes essayists from varied and diverse backgrounds— American, British, Canadian, African-American, Jamaican, Asian, Asian-American, and more.  The authors combine highly engaging essays with solid writing instruction and continuing reinforcement of the reading-writing connection to strengthen writing.  

   

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  Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E
  Arlov
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper Package; 606 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205703313 | ISBN-13: 9780205703319
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  Wordsmith was written to counter students’ objections to textbooks being too dry, too irrelevant, and too big, and is Pearson’s value-priced option that students will appreciate across the developmental writing curriculum.

   

  Pamela Arlov wrote the Wordsmith series for instructors who genuinely want to connect with their students. To engage students and enable instructors to meet students where they are, Pam Arlov provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice via relevant instruction, plenty of visuals, and an inviting writing style that students really respond to. Wordsmith covers the rhetorical modes, is realistic, and does not overwhelm students with too much information.  

   

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  Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E
  Arlov
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper Package; 526 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0205703321 | ISBN-13: 9780205703326
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  Wordsmith was written to counter students’ objections to textbooks being too dry, too irrelevant, and too big, and is Pearson’s value-priced option that students will appreciate across the developmental writing curriculum.

   

  Pamela Arlov wrote the Wordsmith series for instructors who genuinely want to connect with their students. To engage students and enable instructors to meet students where they are, Pam Arlov provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice via relevant instruction, plenty of visuals, and an inviting writing style that students really respond to. Wordsmith covers the rhetorical modes, is realistic, and does not overwhelm students with too much information.  

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  Writing Conventions
  Lu & Horner
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 464 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321143108 | ISBN-13: 9780321143105
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  Writing Conventions teaches the fundamentals of writing by inviting students to reflect on their own experiences as writers and to explore new strategies for a variety of academic writing projects.

   

  Writing Conventions offers a roadmap for instructors who wish to teach through inquiry rather than rote. It begins with the assumption that many students, especially under-prepared first-year students, are limited by a perception that there is one “right” way to write in college. These students are frustrated and intimidated when confronted with writing assignments that expect them already to have mastered critical reading and thinking skills like textual analysis, synthesis, and argumentation. Writing Conventions responds to these frustrations directly. It speaks to students in their own terms and invites them to reflect on and draw from their own experiences as writers as they try out new strategies. This approach helps students develop flexibility as writers by acknowledging that each new writing situation calls for different strategies, challenging the idea that there is only one route to take through any writing project.  

   

  Each chapter begins with a set of questions and explores the meanings of a term linked to a specific step in the writing process: How should I begin? How do I get unstuck? (Process); Why can’t I see what others see in the text? (Reading); What form should my writing take? (Genre); What’s the right word? (Vocabulary); Who am I writing to? (Audience); What am I supposed to be doing?  What’s the point?  (Purpose); Why can’t I see the mistakes my teacher does in my writing? (Error).  Each chapter then leads students through a reflective exploration of what prompts these concerns in different occasions, the uses and limitations of conventional ways to address them, and alternative strategies writers might take in specific academic contexts.
  
  

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  Writing Poems, 7/E
  Boisseau, Wallace & Mann
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 336 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321474066 | ISBN-13: 9780321474063
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  This renowned guide to writing poetry offers comprehensive coverage of the creative process and the technical aspects of writing poetry.

   

  For poets/teachers who embrace a writing text as a companion to the larger conversation that happens in the classroom, nothing measures up to Writing Poems: 1) to introduce to the beginning student poetry's traditions, discipline and (hard-won) rewards, and 2) to guide more experienced poets through the deep oceans of making and remaking poems.  Filled with practical advice, this text enlivens students' understanding of poetry, illustrates poetic principles, and serves as a reliable handbook. It also includes an anthology of classic and contemporary poems, that can be used as a springboard for classroom discussion and student writing. This market-leading, student-friendly text can be used at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

   

  One reviewer says, ''Simply the best text available (or likely to be available) for teaching the essentials of poetry writing either to beginning or advanced students.'' - Robert Collins, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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  Writing with Confidence: Writing Effective Sentences and Paragraphs, VangoBooks, 9/E
  Meyers
  ©2009 | Longman | Paper; 496 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205617808 | ISBN-13: 9780205617807
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  Writing with Confidence, a sentence-and-paragraph level worktext, incorporates high-interest themes in its exercises and discourse while fully developing the writing process and fundamental writing skills.

   

  The text's five units include chapters on the writing process, paragraph organization and development, the shape of the essay, all the rhetorical modes, and all the sentence skills.  The writing chapters are fully process-oriented, showing the development of a paragraph in six steps, from planning and outlining through drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.   For all students, but especially for visual learners, the popular “Blueprints for Writing” in the rhetorical chapters offer models and concrete guidance, as do “Templates,” which, new this edition, help students structure sentences and transitions.  This focus on writing is balanced with equal attention to sentence skills, not only for native speakers of English who need help, but for non-English-dominant speakers as well.

   

  This edition of Writing with Confidence is available as a Vangobook. The Vangobook edition includes the author's revisions for the ninth edition without the extraneous information or boxes. Created with the philosophy of quality over quantity, Writing with Confidence VangoBook can be read in less time than a traditional text. At approximately half the cost of a traditional book, this Vangobook edition will not break a student's budget.

   

This title is a member of the The Penguin Academics Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Penguin Academics Series page.

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  30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years (Penguin Academics Series)
  Shreve & Nguyen
  ©2006 | Longman | Paper; 352 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321338987 | ISBN-13: 9780321338983
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  Contemporary, fresh, and affordable, this anthology offers the stylistic and thematic range students need and the pedagogical apparatus instructors want in short story courses.

   

  Designed for introduction to fiction and fiction-writing courses, 30/30 is part of Longman’s Penguin Academics series of portable, value-priced texts. This anthology offers an array of fiction that not only teaches craft, but also provides a context in which to study formal and thematic trends of the past 30 years. The stories are represented by a mix of well-established authors and newer voices, offering a stylistic range, from the traditional narrative to experimental forms, and thematic range as well, with stories that address issues including family and culture, love and loss, ethnicity and gender.

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  African American Literature (Penguin Academics Series)
  Gilyard & Wardi
  ©2004 | Longman | Paper; 1376 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321113411 | ISBN-13: 9780321113412
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  African-American Literature is a thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature.

  The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African-American literature. The thematic approach gives students a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.

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  America's Democratic Republic, Penguin Academics Series, 2/E
  Greenberg & Page
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 592 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321431332 | ISBN-13: 9780321431332
  Brief Description

  

  Part of the popular “Penguin Academics” Series, America's Democratic Republic is a brief, affordable book in an accessible trade-like format that explores the clash between the democratic aspirations of the American people and the republican foundations of our Constitution.

   

  Written with a lively, narrative style this text traces the storyline of American government and examines the coexistence of Americans' strong democratic aspirations with the republican constitutional framework-designed to constrain popular influence. By drawing students into this story and highlighting the tension between these competing elements of American government, this text helps students understand the "democratic republic." As a result, the author hopes to diminish student apathy, quell cynicism, and inspire their reengagement in civic life.

   

  The “Penguin Academics” series offers accessibly written, elegantly designed, and highly affordable trade-format books by pre-eminent scholars.

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  America's New Democracy, 5/E
  Fiorina, Peterson, Johnson & Mayer
  ©2009 | Longman | Paper; 608 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205662935 | ISBN-13: 9780205662937
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  This concise, highly affordable text provides an engaging, analytical approach to American Government that stresses the importance of elections in contemporary American politics.

   

  America’s New Democracy  is written in a strong narrative voice and contains student-relevant examples.  It provides a focused and stimulating treatment of politics in the United States. The book challenges the pessimistic view that government seldom listens to ordinary people by illustrating popular influence across the political system in defense of a central theme—-that elections matter more in America’s political system today than they have in the past or do in other democracies. America’s New Democracy encourages readers to see that in a system where votes are the main currency, both power and responsibility rest on the shoulders of all citizens.

   

  America's New Democracy is part of our Penguin Academic Series.

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  America's New Democracy (Penguin Academics Series), 4/E
  Fiorina, Peterson, Johnson, Mayer & Voss
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 640 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0205572480 | ISBN-13: 9780205572489
  Brief Description

  

  This highly affordable text provides an engaging, analytical approach to American Government that stresses the importance of elections in our political system today.

   

  Written in a strong narrative voice and brimming with student-relevant examples, America’s New Democracy provides a focused and stimulating treatment of politics in the United States. Illustrating popular influence across the political system in defense of a central theme–-that elections matter more in America’s political system todaythan they have in the past or do in other democracies-–the book challenges the pessimistic view that government seldom listens to ordinary people. America’s New Democracy encourages readers to see that in a system where votes are the main currency, both power and responsibility rest on the shoulders of all citizens.

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  American Literature, Volume I (Penguin Academics Series)
  Cain
  ©2004 | Longman | Paper; 1392 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321116232 | ISBN-13: 9780321116239
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  As part of the Penguin Academics series, American Literature offers a wide range of selections with minimal editorial apparatus at an affordable price.

  Longman is proud to announce the Penguin Academics Series Edition of American Literature. The Penguin Academics Series, in the tradition of Penguin Publishers, offers highly respected, highly affordable, trade-format books by preeminent scholars.

  American Literature emphasizes its range of selections and minimal apparatus, challenging the existing books on the market by offering a briefer and less expensive book. Rather than including dry academic period overviews, American Literature uses a “Letter to the Reader” format to give students the contextual information they need for each major historical period. Through a packaging relationship with Penguin Classics, we can offer larger works without increasing the page count.

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  American Literature, Volume II (Penguin Academics Series)
  Cain
  ©2004 | Longman | Paper; 1584 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321116240 | ISBN-13: 9780321116246
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  As part of the Penguin Academics series, American Literature offers a wide range of selections with minimal editorial apparatus at an affordable price.

  Longman is proud to announce the Penguin Academics Series Edition of American Literature. The Penguin Academics Series, in the tradition of Penguin Publishers, offers highly respected, highly affordable, trade-format books by preeminent scholars.

  American Literature emphasizes its range of selections and minimal apparatus, challenging the existing books on the market by offering a briefer and less expensive book. Rather than including dry academic period overviews, American Literature uses a “Letter to the Reader” format to give students the contextual information they need for each major historical period. Through a packaging relationship with Penguin Classics, we can offer larger works without increasing the page count.

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  American Story, The, Combined Volume (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 1024 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321445023 | ISBN-13: 9780321445025
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  The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative.

   

  Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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  American Story, The, Volume I, (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 512 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321421841 | ISBN-13: 9780321421845
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  The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative.

   

  Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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  American Story, The, Volume II, (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032142185X | ISBN-13: 9780321421852
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  The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative.

   

  Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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  Argument in America: Essential Issues, Essential Texts (Penguin Academics Series)
  Selzer
  ©2004 | Longman | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321172787 | ISBN-13: 9780321172785
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  Brief, flexible, and economical, this Penguin Academics anthology presents classic and contemporary arguments on landmark issues in American life: the environment, education, censorship, civil disobedience, the struggle for liberation, and immigration and assimilation.

  Argument in America offers multi-sided dialogues on timeless issues fundamental to American culture and civic identity. The book introduces students to an historical dimension as well as contemporary perspectives from a wide range of authors writing in many genres: essays, speeches, poems, stories, and visual arguments. The final section of the anthology, “Arguments on Argument,” features several selections on the nature of argument itself. Helpful but unobtrusive editorial apparatus includes a brief general introduction, introductions to the seven sections, discussion questions, and headnotes for the selections, many of which explain how the selection contributes to the argumentative issue at hand.

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  Changing Minds (Penguin Academics Series): Arguments on Contemporary and Enduring Issues
  Ford & Ford
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper; 582 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205568130 | ISBN-13: 9780205568130
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  Changing Minds is a collection of classic and contemporary readings designed to acquaint readers with strategies for developing effective, persuasive arguments and to demonstrate the rich and complex nature of persuasive writing through essays from a wide variety of contexts.

   

  An introductory chapter presents essential elements of argument, as well as common strategies and misunderstandings, and is followed by nine thematic chapters, each including a brief introduction and eight essays.  The thematic chapters integrate opportunities for stengthening reading and critical thinking skills through a focus on issues that have had an evolving and controversial history.

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  College Success Strategies (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  Nist-Olejnik & Holschuh
  ©2006 | Longman | Paper; 320 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321332180 | ISBN-13: 9780321332189
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  The concise and affordable Penguin Academic Edition of College Success Strategies, 2/e, teaches students the skills and strategies that will enable them to be lifelong learners capable of knowing how to approach new and challenging material in college and beyond.

  Although the first priority of College Success Strategies is to help students learn effectively in their college courses, the skills they learn from this text will serve them well in the future in a variety of learning situations. College Success Strategies is designed to engage students in thought about their own learning and the important role they play in the learning process.

  Because effective learning is a complex process, the authors have based College Success Strategies on the idea that there are four key factors that must interact for learning to occur: 1.) The characteristics of the learner (motivation, interest, beliefs, etc); 2.) The tasks that students are asked to do (both the level of thinking required and type of assessment); 3.) The strategies that students must use (previewing, annotation, mapping, etc); and 4.) The characteristics of the texts with which students interact (textbooks, lecture, internet, and other sources of information).

  The strategies used in this book are based on the authors’ many years of experience interacting with college students and professors, as well as their own research focusing on how college students study. Students are often unprepared for the study demands of college and therefore overwhelmed and frustrated with the work. It takes more than just a few simple tips for a student to succeed academically and this book is designed to help students obtain lifelong methods and strategies to achieve success in college and beyond.

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  Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin Academics Series)
  Gwynn & Lindner
  ©2005 | Longman | Paper; 544 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321182820 | ISBN-13: 9780321182821
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  Edited by poets about poets, Contemporary American Poetry is a brief, inexpensive, chronologically organized anthology of the work of major poets born after 1920.

  Featuring a broad scope of works from some of the most important and influential poets of the late 20th century—Howard Nemerov, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Anthony Hecht, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin—to the newest poetic voices, this anthology is a concise, but essential collection of contemporary poetry in America. Each poet is introduced with a brief informative headnote and most are represented by several poems to allow for in-depth study.

  Part of the Penguin Academics series, this text is distinguished for its brevity, economy, and quality. The perfect alternative to lengthy anthologies, it is an affordable introduction to the study of contemporary American literature.

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  Drama: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Gwynn
  ©2006 | Longman | Paper; 624 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321277228 | ISBN-13: 9780321277220
  Brief Description

  

  The perfect alternative to lengthy drama anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of the discipline's most widely taught plays provides a concise, but complete, introduction to the study of drama.

  In keeping with the objectives of the Penguin Academics series, Drama: A Pocket Anthology offers highly respected playwrights and a quality trade-format book at a very affordable price.  This expanded edition features five new selections—including plays by Paula Vogel and Athol Fugard—and a revised, updated section on “Writing about Drama.”

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  Expanding Horizons (Penguin Academics Series)
  Thurman
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 400 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321276698 | ISBN-13: 9780321276698
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  Expanding Horizons is an off-beat collection of essays, poems, stories, and images certain to stimulate the imagination while improving both reading and writing skills.

   

  Each unusual reading selection and image is presented within a pedagogical framework of pre-reading discussion topics and vocabulary work, post-reading comprehension questions, journal responses, writing topics, and a unique feature Expanding Horizons, which introduces research and encourages students to be curious and critical about what they read. Students are urged to look beyond the given world, giving them analytical skills they need to forge their own connections among reading, writing, and thinking.

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  Fiction: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 5/E
  Gwynn
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321366328 | ISBN-13: 9780321366320
  Brief Description

  

  The perfect alternative to lengthy fiction anthologies, this brief, inexpensive, and diverse collection of 42 short stories provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of fiction.

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  Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  DiYanni
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 416 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205533531 | ISBN-13: 9780205533534
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  Fifty Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

   

  This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

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  Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  DiYanni
  ©2005 | Longman | Paper; 415 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321261623 | ISBN-13: 9780321261625
  Brief Description

  

  Fifty Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

  This medium-sized reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Fifty Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

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  Great Interdisciplinary Ideas: A Reader for Writers (Penguin Academics Series)
  Vesterman
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321450019 | ISBN-13: 9780321450012
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  Great Interdisciplinary Ideas: A Reader for Writers provides an outstanding collection of essays by major thinkers exploring great ideas in different fields of study.  It is part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

   

  This reader introduces students to the central issues of modern life–such as human rights, gender, economics, and utopias and dystopias–through an exploration of major ideas at work through time within and among different disciplines.  The book’s 58 selections have been chosen both for the high quality and importance of their thought and for their usefulness in stimulating critical reading and analytic and argumentative writing. 

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  How to Think Logically
  Seay & Nuccetelli
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321337778 | ISBN-13: 9780321337771
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  This concise, affordable, and engaging new text is designed for introductory courses on logic and critical thinking.  This unique book covers the basic principles of informal logic while also raising substantive issues in other areas of philosophy: epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.  

   

  The author’s presentation strikes a careful balance: it offers clear, jargon-free writing while preserving rigor.  Brimming with numerous pedagogical features this accessible text assists students with analysis, reconstruction, and evaluation of arguments and helps them become independent, analytical thinkers.  Introductory students are exposed to the basic principles of reasoning while also having their appetites whetted for future courses in philosophy.

   

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  Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  Burroway
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032135740X | ISBN-13: 9780321357403
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  Written by best-selling author Janet Burroway, Imaginative Writing—an introduction to creative writing—covers all four genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama.

   

  Imaginative Writing discusses elements of craft common to all creative writing before delving into the individual genres. Each of the first five chapters investigates a specific element of craft–Image, Voice, Character, Setting, and Story–from a perspective that crosses all genres. Integrated readings from talented and renowned writers illustrate the chapter topics. Chapter 6 explores development and revision and serves as a bridge between the craft chapters and the genre chapters–Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. This unique organization allows students to experiment with creative techniques shared by all genres before deciding which form best suits their imagination. Unique "Try-This" exercises help students develop writing skills, while new “Working Toward a Draft” exercises encourage students to think ahead about the direction and possibilities of their work.

   

  In keeping with Longman's "Penguin Academics" series, Imaginative Writing offers an attractive, trade-format book at an affordable price.

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  Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Arguing (Penguin Academics Series)
  Gwynn & Zani
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 1408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321438744 | ISBN-13: 9780321438744
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  Inside Literature guides students through the process of analyzing a rich body of thematically arranged literature and crafting persuasive, well-supported argumentative essays.

   

  As a part of the Penguin Academics series, Inside Literature offers students a compact and portable volume with state-of-the-art scholarship, streamlined editorial apparatus, and an affordable price. Unlike bulky, expensive anthologies that indulge in process-oriented overkill, Inside Literature is designed for instructors who prefer to offer their students general strategies for approaching texts and generating things to say about them.

   

  Inside Literature takes a pragmatic approach. In the introductory chapters, students learn how to apply strategies for reading and responding thoughtfully to the short stories, poetry, drama, and essays, that follow, grouped around six engaging themes.

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  Literature as Meaning (Penguin Academics Series)
  Steiner
  ©2005 | Longman | Paper; 1472 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 032117206X | ISBN-13: 9780321172068
  Brief Description

  

  Using contemporary themes, culturally and historically diverse selections, and thought-provoking questions that illuminate key literary concepts, Literature as Meaning invites students to explore vital human issues shaped by literary art.

  In this brief, new thematic anthology, acclaimed author Wendy Steiner masterfully addresses a variety of approaches to exploring literature, including close readings of literary texts, a social issues-based approach--gender identity, ecology, and war--and an introduction to literature as a discipline with discussions of genre, canon, metaphor, etc. The text's organization, content, and pedagogy provides students with the opportunity to analyze all aspects of literature, rather than just focusing on the moral, social, or political themes raised.

  Part of the Penguin Academics series, this text is distinguished for its brevity, economy, and quality. The perfect alternative to lengthy anthologies, it is an affordable introduction to the study of literature.

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  Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Gwynn
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 1408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321366298 | ISBN-13: 9780321366290
  Brief Description

  

  A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature.

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  Major Themes for Modern Writers (Penguin Academics Series)
  Wiener
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 448 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321441729 | ISBN-13: 9780321441720
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  Part of the Penguin Academics series, Major Themes for Modern Writers is a thematically-organized reader offering a balance of contemporary and classic readings with minimal apparatus and a high-quality but low cost design.

   

  Major Themes for Modern Writers explores multiple perspectives on significant topics such as family, education, work and prosperity, law and democracy, gender, science and technology, language, and beliefs and values.  Classic readings whose theses consistently resonate with students are balanced with fresh readings on contemporary issues such as gay parenting, the return of the sweatshop to America’s manufacturing sector, voter apathy, the failures of feminism, global warming, the excesses of cyberspace, diet and behavior, the appeal of superheroes, and 21^st century American migration trends.

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  New American Democracy, The, Alternate Edition, 6/E
  Fiorina, Peterson, Johnson & Mayer
  ©2009 | Longman | Paper; 672 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205662943 | ISBN-13: 9780205662944
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  With an emphasis on elections and their importance in the American political system, this groundbreaking offers a stimulating, analytical approach to American government and a unique perspective on contemporary politics.

   

  Noted scholars and teachers all, the authors propose in their text that politicians today are perpetually engaged in the election process–a “permanent campaign”–which has profoundly affected how our government functions today.  The proliferation of public opinion polls, the growing influence of the Internet, the ubiquitous nature of the news media, and the increasingly important role of interest groups—all demonstrate that America is moving toward a more popular democracy and have blurred the lines between politicians campaigning and governing. 

   

  The sixth edition of this prestigious text will have been brought completely up-to-date through the end of the George W. Bush administration and 2008 Presidential Election, by its publication.  The alternate version of The New American Democracy includes the exact same coverage as the comprehensive version without the policy chapters. 

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  One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  DiYanni
  ©2005 | Longman | Paper; 864 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321276663 | ISBN-13: 9780321276667
  Brief Description

  

  One Hundred Great Essays is published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

  One Hundred Great Essays collects that number of the most teachable and rewarding essays used in today's college composition class. The anthology combines classic essays that are commonly taught in composition courses with the most frequently anthologized essays of recent note by today's most highly regarded writers. The selections exhibit a broad range of diversity in subject matter and authorship. All essays have been selected for their teachability, both as models for writing and for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the qualities of the essay form and offers instruction on how to read essays critically and use the writing process to develop their own essays.

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  One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  DiYanni
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 800 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205535550 | ISBN-13: 9780205535552
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  One Hundred Great Essays is published as part of the Penguin Academics Series, a series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

   

  One Hundred Great Essays collects one-hundred of the most teachable and rewarding essays used in today's college composition class. The anthology combines classic, commonly taught essays with frequently anthologized contemporary essays by today's most highly regarded writers. The selections are broadly diverse in both subject matter and authorship. Essays have been selected as both models for good writing and useful springboards for student writing. An introductory section discusses the qualities of the essay form and offers instruction on how to read essays critically, and shows students how to use the writing process to develop their own essays.

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  Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series), 5/E
  Gwynn
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 512 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 032136631X | ISBN-13: 9780321366313
  Brief Description

  

  This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology features more than 250 poems, presenting a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to Cathy Song and Sherman Alexie.

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  Principles of Writing Research Papers (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  Lester & Lester
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032142610X | ISBN-13: 9780321426109
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  The Principles of Writing Research Papers is the ultimate brief research reference. Pocket-sized and inexpensive, this research guide is priced to work as a supplement in any research-oriented course.

   

  Designed as a guide for writing research papers both in first-year composition courses and in upper-level courses in all disciplines, The Principles of Writing Research Papers is rooted in the fundamentals of thorough library research but encourages and equips students to use the Internet as well as field research where appropriate. It endorses the written word while recognizing the value of graphics, audio, video, and slide presentations.

   

  Numerous student samples and excerpts model research papers with particular attention to MLA documentation style. With all the authority of the best-selling author of freshman research manuals, in an easy-to-use and value-priced Penguin Academic Edition, this text is the perfect complement to any freshman course that requires the completion of a full research paper.

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  Readings on the Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  Rauhut & Smith
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 640 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321413008 | ISBN-13: 9780321413000
  Brief Description

  

  Accessible and engaging, this brief and inexpensive anthology provides contemporary and classical readings in the key areas of Introductory Philosophy.

   

  Part of Longman's Penguin Academics series, this brief, low-cost, anthology is only $30.00 net, much less than similar anthologies. Designed to be used on its own or with its companion text, Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy, this collection of readings covers the major topic areas in philosophy: Knowledge; Free Will; Personal Identity; Mind/Body; God; Ethics; and Political Philosophy. While focusing primarily on contemporary philosophy, it also includes many of the classic works essential to an introductory course.

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  Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for Writers (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  Gilyard, Holdstein & Schuster
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 672 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321444922 | ISBN-13: 9780321444929
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  Part of the Penguin Academics Series, Rhetorical Choices is a rhetorically-organized reader whose selections and apparatus encourage students to pay attention to the social and rhetorical dimensions of language and writing.

   

  The exploration of these dimensions throughout the book also helps students to see the power of writing and the lifelong benefits of writing well.  Through its choice of readings and pedagogical elements throughout the book, Rhetorical Choices stresses more than any other reader the idea that writers are always making choices and that these choices always occur in a particular social, political, and cultural context.

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  Short Guide to College Writing, A, 4/E
  Barnet, Bellanca & Stubbs
  ©2010 | Longman | Paper; 368 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205706606 | ISBN-13: 9780205706600
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  For courses in first year composition or academic writing.

   

  One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing.

   

  Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers students clear, practical guidance.  Students can turn to this book for help with everything from choosing a topic, writing an analysis, and documenting sources to constructing a paragraph and punctuating a quotation. Separate chapters provide support for revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy.  Discussion and examples of description and narration are included, but the emphasis throughout is on the most common college writing assignments: analysis, argument, and research. Students are taught the essential skills for effective college writing—skills they will need when writing for a first-year composition course, or for any other college-level course.

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  Short Guide to College Writing, A (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  Barnet, Bellanca & Stubbs
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321457420 | ISBN-13: 9780321457424
  Brief Description

  

  One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing.

   

  Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers students clear, practical guidance on college writing.  Students can turn to this book for help with everything from choosing a topic, writing an analysis, and documenting sources to constructing a paragraph and punctuating a quotation. Separate chapters provide support for revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy.  Discussion and examples of description and narration are included, but the emphasis throughout is on the most common college writing assignments: analysis, argument, and research. Students are taught the essential skills for effective college writing–skills they will need when writing for a first-year composition course, or for any other college-level course.

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  Society: Myths and Realities, An Introduction to Sociology (Penguin Academics Series)
  Thio
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 600 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205480500 | ISBN-13: 9780205480500
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  Society: Myths and Realities offers a complete and balanced introduction to sociology in the accclaimed Penguin Academic format--a textbook that is economical, portable, and highly readable, like a Penguin trade paperback.

   

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  Steps for Writers: Composing Essays, Volume 2 (Penguin Academics Series)
  Eggers
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198824 | ISBN-13: 9780321198822
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  Concise and affordable, Steps for College Writers, Volume 2, teaches students the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays in preparation for freshman composition.

   

  Steps for College Writers is organized around three phases of college writing: finding one’s own writing process, writing essays based on one’s own experience and perceptions, and writing essays involving texts and research.  Grammar and usage, peer review, and student and professional models are incorporated throughout the text to effectively teach the writing process to today’s developing writers.

   

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  Steps for Writers: Sentence & Paragraph to Essay, Volume 1, (Penguin Academics Series)
  Eggers
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 240 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198816 | ISBN-13: 9780321198815
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  Steps for Writers teaches the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays through a graduated approach to emphasize the author’s goal of growth and development.

   

  Phil Eggers’ graduated approach to writing and grammar empowers students to move in “steps” and build confidence as they progress through the book. Students who feel they need more practice can work through all levels; the more confident students can check their competency and move to the areas in which they are not proficient.  Similarly, the sequence of chapters also builds comfort with writing.  After an introduction to the writing process, students apply the steps to paragraph writing, building up to the essay.  This flexibility helps students overcome their anxiety, and, therefore, contributes to their discovery of writing’s intrinsic qualities.

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  Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Combined Volume
  Carson, Lapsansky-Werner & Nash
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 640 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321355768 | ISBN-13: 9780321355768
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  The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history.

  In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present.

  Inasmuch as that history is grounded in struggle–in the consistent and insistent call to the United States to deliver on the constitutional promises made to all its citizens–this book is also an American history text, weaving into the narrative the milestones of mainstream American history, economy, politics, arts and letters.

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  Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume I
  Carson, Nash & Lapsansky-Werner
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 352 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032135575X | ISBN-13: 9780321355751
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  The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history.

  In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present.

  Inasmuch as that history is grounded in struggle–in the consistent and insistent call to the United States to deliver on the constitutional promises made to all its citizens–this book is also an American history text, weaving into the narrative the milestones of mainstream American history, economy, politics, arts and letters.

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  Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume II
  Carson, Nash & Lapsansky-Werner
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321355741 | ISBN-13: 9780321355744
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  The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history.

  In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present.

  Inasmuch as that history is grounded in struggle–in the consistent and insistent call to the United States to deliver on the constitutional promises made to all its citizens–this book is also an American history text, weaving into the narrative the milestones of mainstream American history, economy, politics, arts and letters.

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  Twenty-Five Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
  DiYanni
  ©2008 | Longman | Paper; 224 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205535569 | ISBN-13: 9780205535569
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  Twenty-Five Great Essays provides an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing as part of Longman's Penguin Academics Series of low-cost, high-quality offerings intended for use in introductory college courses.

   

  This brief reader features a collection of eminently teachable and rewarding essays for today's college composition courses. Combining commonly taught, classic essays with the best of contemporary writing, Twenty-Five Great Essays provides flexible options for every composition classroom. The selections are diverse in both subject matter and authorship. They have been chosen as models of good writing, as well as for their usefulness as springboards for student writing. An introductory section informs students about the characteristics of the essay form and offers instruction both on reading essays critically and on the process of writing effective essays.

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  Ultimate Questions: Thinking About Philosophy (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  Rauhut
  ©2007 | Longman | Paper; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321412982 | ISBN-13: 9780321412980
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  Part of the Penguin Academic Series, this inexpensive ($25.00 net) and brief text examines the main problems in contemporary philosophy and uses more than 100 “Food for Thought” exercises that promote learning by helping students become true active learners of philosophy.

   

  Vivid and engaging examples further enhance this up-to-date examination of the main problems in contemporary philosophy. It is written for professors teaching a problems-oriented course.

   

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