Bøger udgivet af Broadview Press Ltd

Offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication ethics. The book is geared to helping students discover the key ethical practices of dialogue - receptivity and responsivity - as they join a research conversation.

Deeply engaged in women's rights debates and discussions of the 'third sex', Are They Women? is about the lively communities of lesbians across turn-of-the-century Central Europe. It is one of the first lesbian novels written in German - indeed, in any language.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on modern health-care systems and has given rise to complex ethical issues. This collection of readings and case studies offers an overview of some of the most pressing of these issues, such as the allocation of scarce resources, and the curtailing of standard privacy measures.

A work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture Dreams unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream vision poem.

Takes a rhetorical approach to technical communication; instead of setting up a list of rules that you should apply uniformly to all writing situations, this book introduces students to the bigger picture of how the words they write can affect the people intended to use them. Assignments and exercises are integrated throughout.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-1902). The novel itself features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists.

Guides the reader through the basics of moral theories, showing their strengths and weaknesses and emphasizing the ways in which competing moral reasons can be collectively employed to guide decision-making. Throughout, the focus is on practical applications and on how each theory can play a role in solving problems and addressing issues.

Agnes Grey was one of a trio of novels that defined the'governess novel' in 1847 and 1848. Alongside Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair, Agnes Grey may be the most radical of the three. This Broadview Edition provides extensive historical documents on the novel's reception.

The great-grandmother of Downton Abbey, Barford Abbey is among the first of a new genre of 'abbey fictions'. Using the abbey as a site and a question mark, Susannah Minifie weaves a story of new and broken relationships, of change and fear of change, and of heredity and inheritance.

Provides new translations of Rene Descartes's two most important philosophical works. Discourse offers a concise presentation and defense of Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry; Meditations presents numerous powerful arguments that to this day influence debates in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion.

The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas. This edition includes an introduction to the play, offering discussion of its performance history and background information on alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials.

Discusses the current state of hypocrisy and mistrust in the American political system, especially as these affect ethnic minorities and low-income groups. In powerful and inspiring prose, Julius Bailey writes with a voice well-informed by current events, empirical data, and philosophical observation.

Recent debates over immigration have given rise to a complex spectrum of opinions, attitudes, and emotions. In fact, these debates have been a hallmark of American history. James Pula provides a selection of primary documents that illuminate immigration as one of the defining features of the American social, cultural, and political landscape.

Designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice. Write Here provides examples that are interesting to students, while allowing them to connect to the subject matter on a more personal level.

Introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle to the present day. Over forty primary source readings are included. Extensive commentaries from the editors are provided to guide student readers through the arguments and jargon and to offer historical context.

Provides an introduction to the history of English that recognises multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book enables students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and to extend and complicate those histories.

Provides an introduction to contemporary ethical issues in health care, designed especially for Canadian audiences. The book is organised around six key concepts: beneficence, autonomy, truth-telling, confidentiality, justice, and integrity. Each of these concepts is explained and discussed with reference to professional and legal norms.

The best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely considered the first professional woman writer in England, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery.

This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. What has become known as "the Broad Street pump episode" is one of the most significant early examples of team-oriented investigations into the causes of epidemic disease.

The Victorian writer George Meredith completed Modern Love, his most famous poem, in the months following his wife's death in 1861. The series of 16-line sonnets (a stanzaic form Meredith invented) depicts isolated scenes in an unhappy marriage as both partners take lovers.

In this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents.

This new edition of Homer's epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections include all the most famous and most frequently taught episodes. The edition features explanatory footnotes, a wide-ranging introduction, and a range of background materials.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, written in the early 1920s as the new government of the Soviet Union was beginning to show its authoritarian character, is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. It presents a chilling vision of the future of the Soviet experiment.

Provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada's political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and current affairs to give students an orderly picture of the wide-ranging landscape of Canadian government and politics.

A story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, Benito Cereno represents Herman Melville's most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery.

The second edition of Peg Tittle's ambitious business ethics text brings together readings, cases, and the author's own informed opinions on the central ethical issues faced by the business community today. This book examines important contemporary topics such as privacy in IT and whistleblowing, as well as broad questions about the nature of business and the ideal forms of corporate governance.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This book captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context.

The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written. This dual-language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It also includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas.

Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, this anthology features an extraordinarily wide-ranging canon, with close attention paid throughout to issues such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It offers a fuller range of contextual materials than any competing anthology, including extensive illustrations throughout.

This thematic reader offers a selection of expository prose on current and historical issues facing African Americans.