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A Nose for the King: From the Short Story by Jack London
by Jack London Jane H. O'ReillyNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition
by Thomas CooleyA trusted and engaging collection of 65 short essays, both classic and contemporary. All are arranged by rhetorical pattern, with practical instruction on how to write an essay. <p><p>The Ninth Edition has a brand-new design, 22 NEW readings, a NEW chapter on the elements of the essay, and the most easy-to-use organization of any reader of its kind.
The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition (7th Edition)
by Thomas CooleyThe Norton Sampler is a rhetorically arranged short-essay reader that provides models and guidelines for writing description, narration, and all the other modes of discourse. The readings are brief, reflecting the length of the essays students are required to write. From classic texts by writers such as Annie Dillard and E. B. White, to contemporary texts from writers like Barack Obama and Marjorie Agosín, The Norton Sampler includes a range of readings that will delight teachers and engage students. Texts from a range of everyday media-from billboards to coffee mugs-demonstrate that the rhetorical modes play an important role in all the writing and reading that we do. Now with enough writing instruction that students will not need a separate rhetoric.
The Norton Sampler
by Thomas CooleyWith 71 readings (half new to this edition), well-written writing instruction (including templates to help students get started), and new navigation features that make it very easy to use, The Norton Sampler is a rhetorically arranged reader that practices what it preaches about good writing.
The Norton Reader (Fourteenth Edition, MLA Update)
by Melissa Goldthwaite Joseph Bizup John Brereton Anne Fernald Linda PetersonThe Norton Reader began as an attempt to introduce students to the essay as a genre, and to create an anthology of excellent nonfiction writing. This new edition continues that tradition, offering a wide selection of essays on a broad range of subjects, and including examples of the kinds of writing students are most assigned, from profiles and arguments to narratives and analyses.
The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction (13th Edition)
by Linda H. Peterson John C. Brereton Joseph Bizup Anne E. Fernald Melissa A. GoldthwaiteThe Norton Reader began as an attempt to introduce students to the essay as a genre, and to create an anthology of excellent nonfiction writing. This new edition offers a wide selection of essays on a broad range of subjects--from Jhumpa Lahiri recalling the town in Rhode Island where she grew up to Peter Singer contemplating how much billionaires should give, to Rita Dove meditating on her religious heritage.
The Norton Mix History: U.S. History through 1877 A Document Collection
by Ansley QuirosThe Norton Mix World History - The World 1500-1800 HTST 204 University of Calgary by Karen Dunn-Haley, Jared Poley, Erin Blakemore, Steve Davis, University of Calgary.
The Norton Introduction To Literature With 2016 MLA Update
by Kelly MaysThe Norton Introduction to Literature presents an engaging, balanced selection of literature to suit any course. Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading and thoughtful writing, the Twelfth Edition is unparalleled in its guidance of understanding, analyzing, and writing about literature.
The Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Eleventh Edition)
by Kelly J. MaysThe Norton Introduction to Literature offers teachers the finest, most diverse selections and the most carefully edited apparatus for analyzing texts and writing thoughtfully.
The Norton Introduction to Literature (Ninth Edition)
by Alison Booth J. Paul Hunter Kelly J. MaysThe Norton Introduction to Literature is a collection of the very best classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays, in a flexible and inviting format that accommodates many different teaching styles, reading tastes, and pedagogical needs. The Ninth Edition offers two new contextual chapters, a completely rewritten section on writing about literature, refreshed pedagogy throughout the book, many new student-writing samples, and 60 new literary selections.
The Norton Introduction to Literature
by Kelly J. MaysThis diverse and affordable collection offers the trusted writing guidance students need, along with the exciting mix of stories, poems, and plays instructors want. The Thirteenth Edition adds more contemporary works to engage today's students and new pedagogical tools to help foster close reading and careful writing, making this book the best choice for helping students appreciate, analyze, and write.
The Norton Field Guide to Writing, with Handbook (Third Edition)
by Richard Bullock Francine WeinbergFlexible, easy to use, just enough detail-and now the number-one best seller. With just enough detail - and color-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it - this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know. Designed for easy reference - with menus, directories, and a combined glossary/index. The Third Edition has new chapters on academic writing, choosing genres, writing online, and choosing media, as well as new attention to multimodal writing. The Norton Field Guide to Writing is available with a handbook, an anthology, or both - and all versions are now available as low-cost ebooks.
The Norton Field Guide to Writing: With Readings and Handbook
by Richard Bullock Maureen Goggin Francine WeinbergThe Norton Field Guide lets you teach the way you want to teach. Short chapters with just enough detail can be assigned in any order. Color-coded links send students to more detail if they need it. Menus, directories, and a glossary/index all make the book easy to navigate. This flexibility makes it work for first-year writing, stretch, ALP, co-req, dual-enrollment, and integrated reading-writing courses.
The Norton Book of Nature Writing, College Edition
by Robert Finch John ElderThe Norton Book of Nature Writing, College Edition offers, for the first time, a paperback edition of this ground-breaking anthology. In addition to its significantly expanded table of contents, the new version has been augmented by a Field Guide for teachers and students, written by Lilace Mellin Guignard, a writer and teacher at the Center for Environmental Literature of the University of Nevada at Reno. The Field Guide includes a thematic table of contents with useful groupings of the readings and a set of three study questions for each selection. These questions call attention to literary techniques and themes, suggest connections among various authors in the collection, and invite response to the personal or political challenges posed by particular selections. For students, these questions may offer a further context for their initial encounters with these readings and help to identify rich areas to explore further in their own writing. For teachers, they may serve as prompts for student journals or as topics for discussion in class.
The Norton Book of Composition Studies
by Susan MillerThe Norton Book of Composition Studies introduces new students to the historical development and most consequential themes and emphases of the field’s scholarship. It serves both as textbook as well as professional reference.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature: Volume E
by Martin Puchner Suzanne Conklin Akbari Wiebke Denecke Vinay Dharwadker Barbara Fuchs Caroline Levine Pericles Lewis Emily WilsonRead by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most- trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists, the editors of the Third Edition--a completely new team of scholar- teachers--have made this respected text brand-new in all the best ways. Dozens of new selections and translations, all- new introductions and headnotes, hundreds of new illustrations, redesigned maps and timelines, and a wealth of media resources all add up to the most exciting, accessible, and teachable version of this anthology ever published.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature: Volume D
by Martin Puchner Suzanne Conklin Akbari Wiebke Denecke Vinay Dharwadker Barbara Fuchs Caroline Levine Pericles Lewis Emily WilsonAn unmatched value and an incomparable resourceThe Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing the anthology with NEW selections and NEW translations of major works. As always, the Norton provides hundreds of literary selections, helpful apparatus, beautiful illustrations, and a robust suite of digital resources, all at an affordable price.
Norton Anthology Of Western Music: Ancient To Baroque
by J. Peter Burkholder Donald Jay Grout Claude V. PaliscaThe definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.
Norton Anthology of Western Music: 20th Century and Beyond
by J. Peter Burkholder Donald Jay Grout Claude V. PaliscaThe definitive history of Western Music <p><p> The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits, and why it matters. Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices, and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.
Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume Two Classic to Romantic
by J. Peter Burkholder Claude V. PaliscaThe definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what’s important, where it fits and why it matters. <p><p> Peter Burkholder weaves a compelling story of people, their choices and the western musical tradition that emerged. From chant to hip-hop, he connects past to present to create a context for tomorrow’s musicians.
The Norton Anthology of Western Literature
by Martin Puchner Suzanne Conklin Akbari Wiebke Denecke Barbara Fuchs Caroline Levine Pericles Lewis Emily WilsonThis edition of The Norton Anthology of Western Literature provides a generous collection of the Western literary tradition in a format that will suit the needs of instructors and students encountering that tradition for the first time. This Ninth Edition represents a thoroughgoing, top-to-bottom revision of the anthology that altered nearly every section in important ways. The book provide instructors and students with several supplements to make the study and teaching of Western literature an even more interesting and rewarding experience.
The Norton Anthology Of Poetry (Fifth Edition)
by Margaret Ferguson Mary Jo Salter Jon StallworthyThe Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Volume 1
by Sandra Gilbert Susan Gubar<p>Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women’s writing in English. <p>Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool.</p>