History

• Concise and crisp narrative serves as an ideal foundation for African American history, and the condensed format allows instructors to easily supplement it with additional materials.
• Currency and Relevance: Incorporating up-to-date scholarship and research throughout The Struggle for Freedom brings the story to the immediate present with analysis of the racial issues posed by hurricane Katrina.
• Chapter-opening Vignettes: Each chapter begins with a personal story–such as the rebelliousness of Venture Smith (Chapter 4) or the wartime experience of First Lieutenant Thomas Edward Jones (Chapter 14)–that draws the reader into the chapter narrative, illuminates the chapter period, and heralds the chapter’s events and themes.
• Chronologies: Chapter chronologies, placed at the beginning of each chapter following the opening vignette, alert readers to the significant developments in African American history to be covered in the chapter.
• Conclusions: Each chapter ends with a summary of the main ideas and events discussed in the chapter, helping the reader recall the essential points of the narrative. A look ahead to the next chapter prepares the reader for the next installment of the story.
• Visual History: The graphic materials and illustrations–maps, charts, photographs, lithographs, and paintings–that enrich each chapter impart an additional dimension to the narrative, allowing the reader to see history as participants saw it. Tables that summarize a sequence of events or milestones–for example, judicial decisions, legislative acts, and protest movement flashpoints–facilitate the reader’s comprehension of complex or subtle concepts.

Preface

Meet the Authors

Chapter 1               Ancient Africa

Chapter 2               Africa and the Atlantic World

Chapter 3               Africans in Early North America, 1619—1726

Chapter 4               Africans in Bondage: Early Eighteenth Century to the American Revolution

Chapter 5               The Revolutionary Era: Crossroads of Freedom

Chapter 6               After the Revolution: Constructing Free Life and Combating Slavery, 1787—1816

Chapter 7               African Americans in the Antebellum Era

Chapter 8               African Americans in the Reform Era, 1831—1850

Chapter 9               A Prelude to War: The 1850s

Chapter 10             Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s

Chapter 11             Post Civil War Reconstruction: A New National Era

Chapter 12             The Post-Reconstruction South

Chapter 13             “Colored” Becomes “Negro” in the Progressive Era

Chapter 14             The Making of a “New Negro”: World War I to the Great Depression

Chapter 15             The New Politics of the Great Depression

Chapter 16             Fighting Fascism Abroad and Racism at Home

Chapter 17             Emergence of a Mass Movement Against Jim Crow

Chapter 18             Marching Toward Freedom, 1960—1966

Chapter 19             Resistance, Repression, and Retrenchment, 1967—1978

Chapter 20             The Search for New Directions During a Conservative Era, 1979—1991

Chapter 21             Continuing Struggles Over Identity and Destiny, 1992—Present

Appendix

Credits

Index

History of African-Americans  [PENGUIN ACADEMICS]   (U.S. History)

This textbook is well written, engaging, and provides excellent coverage. I believe it is the best African American history textbook on the market.

This text’s inclusive nature and abundance of useful information provide the student with a powerful introduction to African American issues.

The inclusion of women in this history is by far the best I have seen. The biographical approach of this text is its strongest aspect, but the inclusion of women’s issues make the text even stronger.

This is an excellent approach to teaching the ‘voices’ of African American history. I feel confident that my students would respond quite well overall because in general they feel much more passionate about history and its topics if it feels ‘real’ and personal to them. When they understand that history is about folks who lived, cried, struggled, and died just like them and their families, they get it."

For the U.S. History Discipline

Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Hamner
©2002 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 128 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319742 | ISBN-13: 9780205319749
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Discovering American History Through Maps and Views (Download Only)
Danzer
©1991 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0673537668 | ISBN-13: 9780673537669
This online resource is available at no cost.     View Downloadable Files

iClicker Classroom Response System
iClicker & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2008 | Prentice Hall | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205594506 | ISBN-13: 9780205594504
This online resource is available at no cost.

InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
InterWrite PRS & Allyn & Bacon/Longman
©2005 | Prentice Hall | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205436951 | ISBN-13: 9780205436958
This online resource is available at no cost.

Longman American History Study Site (Open Access)
Pearson Longman
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Website | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205568351 | ISBN-13: 9780205568352
This online resource is available at no cost at http://www.longmanamericanhistory.com.

Longman Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for History
Pearson Longman
©2003 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321149769 | ISBN-13: 9780321149763
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ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon & Barr
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 020552396X | ISBN-13: 9780205523962
Suggested retail price: $25.80Net price: $19.35  (What's this?)

ResearchNavigator.com Guide
Allyn & Bacon
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 48 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205517196 | ISBN-13: 9780205517190
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VangoNotes Audio Study Guide for U.S. History, Individual Chapter
Pearson Longman
©2007 | Prentice Hall | VangoNote | Instock
ISBN-10: 032145491X | ISBN-13: 9780321454911
Online purchase price: $2.99Students can purchase immediate access at http://www.vangonotes.com.

VangoNotes Audio Study Guide for U.S. History, since 1865
Pearson Longman
©2007 | Prentice Hall | VangoNote | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321464850 | ISBN-13: 9780321464859
Online purchase price: $19.95Students can purchase immediate access at http://www.vangonotes.com.

VangoNotes Audio Study Guide for U.S. History, to 1877
Pearson Longman
©2007 | Prentice Hall | VangoNote | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321459105 | ISBN-13: 9780321459107
Online purchase price: $19.95Students can purchase immediate access at http://www.vangonotes.com.

Visual Archives of American History, Updated Second Edition, 2/E
Pearson Longman
©2004 | Prentice Hall | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 032118694X | ISBN-13: 9780321186942
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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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 352 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321338987 | ISBN-13: 9780321338983
  Suggested retail price: $40.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $30.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1376 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321113411 | ISBN-13: 9780321113412
  Suggested retail price: $48.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $36.15  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321431332 | ISBN-13: 9780321431332
  Suggested retail price: $46.67  Net price: $35.00  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 640 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0205572480 | ISBN-13: 9780205572489
  Suggested retail price: $46.67  Net price: $35.00  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1584 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321116240 | ISBN-13: 9780321116246
  Suggested retail price: $46.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $35.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1024 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321445023 | ISBN-13: 9780321445025
  Suggested retail price: $55.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $41.25  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 512 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321421841 | ISBN-13: 9780321421845
  Suggested retail price: $48.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $36.15  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 032142185X | ISBN-13: 9780321421852
  Suggested retail price: $48.00  Net price: $36.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321172787 | ISBN-13: 9780321172785
  Suggested retail price: $33.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $25.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 320 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321332180 | ISBN-13: 9780321332189
  Suggested retail price: $36.00  Net price: $27.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 624 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321277228 | ISBN-13: 9780321277220
  Suggested retail price: $43.00  Net price: $32.25  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 480 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321366328 | ISBN-13: 9780321366320
  Suggested retail price: $41.60  Net price: $31.20  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 416 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205533531 | ISBN-13: 9780205533534
  Suggested retail price: $33.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $25.00  (What's this?)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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  Fifty Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series), 2/E
  DiYanni
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 415 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321261623 | ISBN-13: 9780321261625
  Suggested retail price: $33.33  Net price: $25.00  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 560 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321450019 | ISBN-13: 9780321450012
  Suggested retail price: $40.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $30.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321337778 | ISBN-13: 9780321337771
  Suggested retail price: $31.40  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $23.55  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032135740X | ISBN-13: 9780321357403
  Suggested retail price: $48.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $36.15  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321438744 | ISBN-13: 9780321438744
  Suggested retail price: $53.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $40.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1472 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 032117206X | ISBN-13: 9780321172068
  Suggested retail price: $46.67  Net price: $35.00  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1408 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321366298 | ISBN-13: 9780321366290
  Suggested retail price: $50.20  Net price: $37.65  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 448 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321441729 | ISBN-13: 9780321441720
  Suggested retail price: $33.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $25.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 864 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321276663 | ISBN-13: 9780321276667
  Suggested retail price: $40.00  Net price: $30.00  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 512 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 032136631X | ISBN-13: 9780321366313
  Suggested retail price: $43.00  Net price: $32.25  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 032142610X | ISBN-13: 9780321426109
  Suggested retail price: $26.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $20.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 640 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321413008 | ISBN-13: 9780321413000
  Suggested retail price: $44.67  Net price: $33.50  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321457420 | ISBN-13: 9780321457424
  Suggested retail price: $33.33  Net price: $25.00  (What's this?)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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 600 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205480500 | ISBN-13: 9780205480500
  Suggested retail price: $50.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $37.65  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198824 | ISBN-13: 9780321198822
  Suggested retail price: $41.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $30.90  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 240 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321198816 | ISBN-13: 9780321198815
  Suggested retail price: $35.80  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $26.85  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | 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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 352 pp | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 032135575X | ISBN-13: 9780321355751
  Suggested retail price: $49.33  Net price: $37.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 384 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321355741 | ISBN-13: 9780321355744
  Suggested retail price: $49.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $37.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 224 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205535569 | ISBN-13: 9780205535569
  Suggested retail price: $26.67  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $20.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321412982 | ISBN-13: 9780321412980
  Suggested retail price: $37.80  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $28.35  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  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.

   

Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students, browse our available packages below, or contact your Pearson Higher Education representative to create your own package.

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