Product Description: No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies...read more

Product Description: Literature and the English Civil War charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context during this era of profound change and upheaval for British society and culture. The volume demonstrates that literary texts are not merely passive reflections of the historical events that help to form them...read more

Product Description: Smart Choice is a complete four-skills course with a special focus on conversation. With its straightforward approach, the series requires minimal preparation, while allowing plenty of opportunity for supplementation. Each page of Smart Choice offers a self-contained lesson, focusing on a particular skill, and closes with a discussion activity...read more

A former Glasgow alcoholic pays tribute to his relationship with a faithful Doberman named Martin, an astute canine whom the author credits with saving his life by motivating him to make healthier choices. Reprint.

Product Description: This is the first study for some time which explores the whole range of Marlowe's writing. Plays such as Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second, The Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine continue to challenge and startle modern readers as much as they did the Elizabethan world...read more

Product Description: Through a series of readings of many key 16th- and 17th-century writers, including Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and Spenser, Thomas Healy shows how recent theoretical ideas have influenced our appreciation of different types of texts and of Renaissance culture in general.