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1. St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

   Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund

   St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.More

2. Reading the World: Ideas That Matter

   Michael Austin

   Second Edition

   The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.More

3. The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work

   Andrea Barrett, Peter Turchi

   In a splendid display of show-and-tell, 26 writers tell a story and lift the curtain to reveal how they did it.More

4. The Deer Pasture

   Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes Bass

   Rick Bass's first collection of essays captures the clear, passionate voice of this acclaimed author at the very beginning of his career.More

5. Wild to the Heart

   Rick Bass, Elizabeth Hughes

   A lyrical exploration of wildness and freedom in nature and in ourselves.More

6. New Worlds of Literature: Writings from America's Many Cultures

   Jerome Beaty, J. Paul Hunter

   Second Edition

   An introduction to literature and also a text for courses in composition, multicultural, or contemporary American literature.More

7. Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor

   Roy Blount, Jr.

   There may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a Southern writer on a roll.More

8. The Consolation of Philosophy

   Boethius, Douglas C. Langston

   One of the most influential texts to come out of the late Middle Ages.More

9. Literacies: Reading, Writing, Interpretation

   Terence Brunk, Suzanne Diamond, Priscilla Perkins, Et Al.

   Second Edition

   Literacies provides students with engaging selections on complex issues that resist easy answers.More

10. My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family

    Anne Burt

    "[Includes] a take on just about every version of a newly extended family....Stellar."—Boston GlobeMore

11. Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women

    Susan Cahill

    A pathbreaking anthology representing a tradition of the prophetic and practical wisdom of women's spirituality.More

12. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition

    Thomas Cooley

    Seventh Edition

    An outstanding collection of brief essays providing high-interest models of the rhetorical modes, along with beautifully written instruction that demonstrates its own lessons about good writing.More

13. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition

    Thomas Cooley

    Eighth Edition

    A trusted collection of short essays arranged by rhetorical mode—with charming, practical writing instruction.More

14. The Lifespan of a Fact

    John D'Agata, Jim Fingal

    Named a top 10 Best Book of 2012 by Slate.com
    
    An innovative essayist and his fact-checker do battle about the use of truth and the definition of nonfiction.More

15. Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women

    Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

    "Not since Breaking Ice has an anthology so freed the spirits of African American women."—AiMore