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Here is Orwell s work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the his...

This rhetorically arranged reader contains 69 selections (45 essays, 8 stories, 16 paragraphs) representing diverse voices and views from student and professional writers. The extensive apparatus in T...

An intriguing introduction to a notorious and disturbing international phenomenon, "The Terrorism Reader" draws together material from a variety of experts, clearly explaining their opinions on terror...

The reader provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India, with an emphasis on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. The b...

Alfred Hitchcock, the "Master of Suspense," has been internationally recognized as a technical and stylistic innovator in the history of cinema. A Hitchcock Reader grows out of the editors' desire as ...

'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eig...

Through eight editions, this classic thematic anthology has been hailed for its exceptionally rich collection of essays, memoirs, stories, poems, plays, and fine art. Renowned for the quality of its s...

Grouped around the most salient themes, this compilation includes discussions of metropolitan politics, gender, sexuality, race, culture, nationalism and economy, and offers a comparative and interdis...

This comprehensive reader provides a great selection of readings from both classic sources and current ones. A great supplement to any undergraduate or graduate course in Organizational Behaviour. Ref...

Since 1986, "Film Genre Reader" has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent d...

The urban world is a provocative terrain on which to contemplate the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed over the last two hundred years. Th...

The Disability Studies Reader collects for the first time representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most import...

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary k...

This wide-ranging Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the interaction between postcolonial criticism and biblical studies. Examines how various empires such as the Persian and Roman affected bib...

In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not underm...

This reader is a suitable supplement to most managerial economics texts, and provides a selection of articles illustrating the concepts and techniques of managerial economics that textbooks only intro...

The Discourse Reader collects in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, the book covers the...

With television programmers like "Big Brother", to magazines like "Heat" and "Closer" feeding the public's obsession with celebrity, "The Celebrity Culture Reader" is a perfectly timed collection of w...

This pioneering anthology focuses exclusively on the history of industrial design. Sixty full-length primary source essays detail the most crucial movements, issues and accomplishments of industrial d...

The Urban Politics Reader draws together classic and contemporary writings that best illuminate the basic questions of urban politics  how interests contend for power over the distribution of resourc...

The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and include...

Gathering together key writings and many single-authored essays in to a handy one-volume resource, this is the only Reader currently available on political communication. The selected texts and articl...

These days "rock music" courses are ubiquitous at most universities and colleges, but until recently instructors seeking an anthology of readings on the History of Rock have looked in vain. The Rock H...

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectura...

Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean wo...

This multicultural, thematic reader takes on thought-provoking, global issues. "The New World Reader" presents first-year writing students with 66 timely essays by established writers on the most sign...

The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as a leading textbook in the field, providing the ideal introduction for students to this exciting and influential discipline. This ...

This book draws together the most authoritative articles on development economics published in the past few years, is aimed at undergraduate level and is suitable for students with little or no backgr...

The Performance Studies Reader is a lively and much-needed anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance ...

This text offers solid and succinct overviews of key topics plus timely and timeless readings that bring classic ideas to bear on current issues. This reader is designed to introduce students to class...