Praised for its focus on writing strategies and coverage of critical thinking and reading, this successful rhetoric, reader, and research guide has been reorganized so that students move more quickly
Connelly presents readers with a comprehensive examination of the life and literary career of National Book Award, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. He provides a chronology of Bellow’s lif
GET WRITING: SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS is a flexible textbook that meets the needs of a variety of developmental writers including recent high school graduates, working adults, and those for whom Engl
GET WRITING: SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS is a flexible textbook that meets the needs of a variety of developmental writers including those in career and community as well as four-year schools, and those
This book provides an original perspective on the West's most enduring social and cultural institution. The author covers all the vital themes contributing to the modern Christmas: its Anglo-German or
This interesting volume on political cinema examines depictions of the Irish Republican Army in film and television, and explores the ways in which depictions of difficult themes and personalities hav
From bridezillas and wedding planners to mother-in-laws, bad bridesmaids, and clueless best men—at last, a laugh-a-minute survival guide for men about the pitfalls and pleasures of getting marriedIn t
GET WRITING: PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS helps developmental students learn to think and plan before they write, and evaluate their own and others' writing, with a focus on critical thinking through feature
Follows the development of the Hardy Boys series through 1979, and includes the writing of Stratemeyer and McFarlane; the Cold War and the disco age; race, class, gender; family values; law and order;
George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and in
This fifth edition of a writing handbook for college students contains a new chapter on print and electronic writing portfolios, plus expanded material on the audiences of various modes of electronic
Creating Celluloid War Memorials for the British Empire looks at the British Instructional Film company and its production of war re-enactments and documentaries during the mid to late 1920s. It is bo
Explores the considerable influence of novelist George Gissing (1857-1903) on compatriot British writer George Orwell (1903-50). Finds antecedents for Keep the Aspidstra Flying and A Clergyman's D
