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Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition of this science fiction classic includes extensive materials on Wells's scientific and political influences.

Robert Boyle, one of the most important intellectuals of the seventeenth century, was a gifted experimenter, an exceptionally able philosopher, and a dedicated Christian. In Boyle's two Excellencies, he explains and justifies his new philosophy of science while reconciling it with Christian theology.

An important work in the debate between materialists and dualists, the public correspondence between Anthony Collins and Samuel Clarke provided the framework for arguments over consciousness and personal identity in eighteenth-century Britain. Appendices include philosophical writings that influenced, and responded to, the correspondence.

Willa Cather's My Antonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture. This Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source materials.

Few medieval plays in English have attracted as much contemporary interest as the Digby Mary Magdalene, an early-fifteenth-century drama that, as Chester Scoville puts it, is ""probably the most spectacular of the late medieval English plays."" This new edition presents a modernized text of the play, with extensive annotation, an insightful introduction, and background contextual materials.

For the third edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. These include, author entries for James Macpherson and Thomas Moore have been added, as have additional poems by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Robert Burns, Joanna Baillie, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, John Clare, and several others. Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience is now included in its entirety.

Peter Alward's rigorous introductory text functions as a roadmap for students, laying out the key issues, positions, and arguments of academic philosophy. The book covers central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. An introductory chapter presents the foundations of philosophical discourse and offers a primer on the basics of logic.

An undergraduate text suitable for courses in symbolic logic. This title offers coverage of truth-functional and quantificational logic, as well as the basics of more advanced topics such as set theory and modal logic. Complex ideas are explained in plain language that doesn't presuppose any background in logic or maths, and derivation strategies are illustrated with examples.

A concise and thoughtful guide to common errors in English. This volume covers frequently confused and misused words along with problems of grammar, punctuation, and style, and offers a brief and up-to-date guide to major citation styles. A friendly, flexible, and easy-to-read reference, Writing Wrongs will be useful to students and general readers alike.

Presents an introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. This book explains the basic mathematical concepts; sets out the most commonly used notational conventions; and, demonstrates how mathematics applies to many fundamental issues in branches of philosophy such as metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic and ethics.

Israel Zangwill, an Anglo-Jewish author and son of immigrants, wrote The Melting-Pot to demonstrate how immigrants could become good American citizens, hoping to forestall the kinds of restrictions - particularly against Russian Jews - that had been enacted in his home country. This edition presents the play in its historical context.

The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book's effect on readers as ""something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to."" This edition of Gertrude Stein's transformative work immerses the text in its cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, Tender Buttons also had modernism's most voluminous and varied response.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's last play, an adaptation of August von Kotzebue's Die Spanier in Peru first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatizes English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but it is also surprisingly and critically engaged with Britain's colonial exploits abroad. Pizarro is a play of firsts: the first use of music alongside action, the first collapsing set, the first production to inspire such celebratory ephemera as cartoons, portraits, postcards, even porcelain collector plates. Pizarro marks the end of eighteenth-century drama and the birth of a new theatrical culture. This edition features a comprehensive introduction and extensive appendices documenting the play's first successful performances and global influence. It will appeal to students and scholars of Romantic literature, theatre history, post-colonialism, and Indigenous studies.

Offers a guided tour of the philosophy of biology, canvassing three broad areas: the early history of biology, from Aristotle to Darwin; traditional debates regarding species, function, and units of selection; and recent efforts to better understand the human condition in light of evolutionary biology.

The first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British emigre to America, the New York theatre critic Alfred J. Cohen, under the pseudonym of ""Alan Dale"", this first-person narrative is told by a young Englishwoman, Elsie Bouverie, who gradually discovers that her new husband, Arthur Ravener, is romantically involved with another man.

Contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. A number of key works, including Machiavelli's The Prince, Locke's Second Treatise, and Rousseau's The Social Contract, are included in their entirety. Each selection has been painstakingly annotated.

Provides an introduction to the history of English that recognises multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and also to extend and complicate those histories.

Mary Shelley's Gothic novella was not published for 140 years after she wrote it; this new edition brings together an authoritative text and a selection of biographical and cultural documents.

Brings together central texts on such topics as legal reasoning, the limits of individual liberty, responsibility and punishment, and international law. The included selections provide superb coverage of both classic and contemporary views, and are edited only lightly to allow readers to grapple with arguments in their original form.

"In Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's most successful book, Alger codified the basic formula he would follow in nearly a hundred subsequent novels for boys: a young hero, inexperienced in the temptations of the city but morally armed to resist them, is unexpectedly forced to earn a livelihood. The hero's exemplary struggle--to retain his virtue, to clear his name of accusations, and to gain economic independence--was the basis of the Alger plot. Hugely popular at the turn of the twentieth century, Alger's works have at different times been framed as a model for the "American dream" and as dangerously exciting sensationalism for young readers; Gary Scharnhorst's new introduction separates the myth of Alger as "success ideologue" from the more complex messages conveyed in his work. Ragged Dick is paired in this edition with Risen from the Ranks, another coming-of-age story of a young man achieving respectability. Historical appendices include extensive contemporary reviews, material on the "success myth" associated with Alger, and parodies of Alger's work."--

The concept and values of wilderness have been under attack for the past several decades. Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. He offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom.

Offers a case-based introduction to ethical issues in health care. Through seventy-eight compelling scenarios, the authors demonstrate the practical importance of ethics, showing how the concerns at issue bear on the lives of patients, health care providers, and others. Each chapter includes a selection of important legal cases as well as clinical case studies for critical analysis.

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. The two-volume Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. It provides instructors with substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical authors and a sampling of lesser-known works.

Business Ethics: An Interactive Introduction connects the academic to the practical, extracting the basic elements of rigorous philosophical ethics into a format that can be understood and applied in the business world. Concepts such as utility, duty, and sustainability are given practical value and connected to examples and methods familiar to business people. Classical ethical theories are surveyed, as are modern perspectives on justice, equality, and the environment. Where possible, quantitative examples and methods are used to show that ethics need not be subjective or vague. Kernohan provides an overview of the basic tools of ethical decision-making and shows how each can be used to resolve moral problems in business environments. Readers are then invited to apply those tools by completing a series of online exercises, receiving immediate objective feedback on their success. The book and its accompanying exercises thus work in concert, offering a unique opportunity for interactive self-directed learning.

The correspondence of one of the most important writers of African descent in the eighteenth century is gathered in Vincent Carretta's new edition.

Set in a primal past, the Mabinogi bridges many genres; it is part pre-Christian myth, part fairytale, part guide to how nobles should act, and part dramatization of political and social issues. This edition of what has become a canonical text provides a highly engaging new translation of the work, an informative introduction, and a set of background contextual materials that help place the Mabinogi in the context of medieval Welsh history and culture.

For the third edition of this volume a considerable number of changes have been made. These include excerpts from Thomas Hoby's influential translation of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier; selections from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia; the range of selections from Elizabeth I's poems, letters, and speeches has been broadened considerably, as have Spenser's Fairie Queene.

This is a new translation of Freud's most popular work, his psychoanalysis of Kultur--a German word that simultaneously means culture, society, and civilization.

A quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero, Byron's poetic drama Manfred centres on the interior sufferings of its psychologically tortured title character, who is haunted by the death of his forbidden lover. This edition of Manfred is accompanied by a substantial selection of contextual materials.

The editors have selected 33 of the 100 tales, including at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Included as well are Boccaccio's general introduction and conclusion to the work, as well as the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron's framing narrative.