Product Description: Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day...read more

Part of the “Longman Topics” reader series, Listening to Earth explores nature and environmental conflict in the United States from personal and thematic perspectives. Focusing on today¿s environmental issues, this engaging collection contains a wide range of readings that cover a variety of topics, attitudes, and rhetorical styles. It presents essays, reportage, and fiction that probe the contradictions surrounding environmental issues in the United States today and presents arguments for using, conserving, preserving, and finding pleasure, beauty, and spirituality in land.

Product Description: This culturally diverse, gender-balanced anthology is organized by seven types of human relationships: Parents and Children, Sisters and Brothers, Women and Men in Love, Wives and Husbands, Friends and Enemies, Students and Teachers, and People Alone...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s. Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

LIVES THROUGH LITERATURE is a thematic literature anthology that interweaves texts to demonstrate interrelationships between life and literature, academic study and life experience.

Product Description: This unique anthology of readings engages students with current ecological issues and the history of the environmental movement. Chronologically organized from 1850 through 1993, it exposes students to the Green Perspectives in historical, political and social contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)