Nonfiction

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  1. Book ImageDoing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

    Hazel Rose Markus, Paula M. L. Moya

    A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to race and ethnicity.
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  2. Book ImageThe Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift

    Jonathan Swift, Claude Rawson, Ian Higgins

    This Norton Critical Edition is the fullest single-volume collection of Jonathan Swift's writings, encompassing not only the major prose satires—A Tale of the Tub, Gulliver’s Travels, and A Modest Proposal—but also a large number of other works, including his most important poems and political writings. The texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations by Ian Higgins, thirty illustrations, and a full introduction by Claude Rawson. This is an indispensable edition for scholar and student alike.More

  3. Book ImageHow the Other Half Lives

    Jacob Riis, Hasia R. Diner

    How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books—along with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jungle, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and Unsafe at Any Speed—that changed public opinion, influenced public policy, and left an indelible mark on history.More

  4. Book ImageA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

    Third Edition

    Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

  5. Book ImageKeep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

    Lee Gutkind

    The one guide every creative nonfiction writer needs to turn to when being "creative."More

  6. Book ImageThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    Max Weber, Richard Swedberg

    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More

  7. Book ImageWalden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings

    Henry D. Thoreau, William Rossi

    Third Edition

    This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.More

  8. Book ImageThe Seagull Reader: Essays

    Joseph Kelly

    Second Edition

    A small and inexpensive reader that includes the most widely taught essays—along with some pieces that have never before been anthologized in a composition reader.More

  9. Book ImageDemocracy in America

    Alexis de Tocqueville, Isaac Kramnick, Henry Reeves

    The Norton Critical Edition presents Tocqueville’s classic text in the Henry Reeve translation.More

  10. Book ImageThe Best Creative Nonfiction

    Lee Gutkind

    Volume(s): 1

    Narrative nonfiction at its cutting-edge best from writers at the cusp of recognition and fame.More

  11. Book ImageRoughing It in the Bush

    Susanna Moodie, Michael Peterman

    In 1832, Susanna Moodie immigrated to Canada from Britain with her husband and daughter in search of comfort and independence in the unsettled Canadian backwoods.More

  12. Book ImageThe Writings of St. Paul

    Saint Paul, Wayne A. Meeks, John T. Fitzgerald

    Second Edition

    The Second Edition of this perennially popular Norton Critical Edition is based on the Today’s New International Version of Paul’s letters, a new translation that is heralded for its inclusiveness and accuracy in representation of gender.More

  13. Book ImageShort Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction

    Judith Kitchen

    Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief.More

  14. Book ImageThe Selected Political Writings of John Locke

    John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund

    John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.More

  15. Book ImageIn Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction

    Lee Gutkind, Annie Dillard

    Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.More

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