A best-selling popular culture reader, The Contemporary Reader offers more than 70 readings taken from today's headlines to inspire the reader to write on topics that really ...

Chapter titles posed as questions invite students to read and write critically about 10 high-interest topics including media and the culture of fear, campus speech codes, gay ...

LANGUAGE: ITS STRUCTURE AND USE explains core concepts in an interactive style that you can understand no matter what your major. With features like "What Do You Think?" and ...

Rachel Whitman has everything. She’s young, attractive, and affluent. Her husband is the brilliant CEO of his own company. They have a big new house in a flossy Boston suburb ...

A professor of archaeology hurries to uncover a circle of stones before construction begins on the spot, until he begins having nightmares and finds himself catapulted into a ...

Tells the anecdotal history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent, expressive, and fast-growing ...

This composition reader offers accessible and thought-provoking readings on a full range of topics in the field of popular culture. Following a general introduction that ...

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.