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Offers a remarkable perspective on eighteenth-century America. A white settler by birth, Mary Jemison was taken captive as a child in 1758 and adopted by two Seneca sisters. Refusing offers to return to settler society, she chose to spend the remainder of her life as a Seneca wife, mother, and respected community member.

Heavily fictionalized and featuring a memorable cast of both heroic and comic characters, Aphra Behn's long-neglected tragicomedy is an important and entertaining contribution to the catalogue of transatlantic and Restoration literature. This edition supplements the play with an informative introduction and a selection of historical documents.

Written collaboratively by writing instructors at the Queen's University Writing Centre, A Writer's Handbook is a compact yet thorough guide to academic writing for a North American audience. This clear and concise handbook outlines strategies both for thinking assignments through and for writing them well.

For centuries, English monarchs and governments have struggled with what they came to term 'the Irish Question'. Through 75 primary source documents, contextualized by informative introductions and annotations, this volume explores the political, economic, and cultural impacts of the relationship between Ireland and England.

The Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings - both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery.

Provides an overview of the philosophy of sport, ranging from fundamental questions about the nature of sport to ethical issues at the forefront of discussions of what sport should be. This edition has been updated and expanded to provide broader and deeper coverage of this rapidly evolving field.

Presents a fresh new edition of the most important play by one of Shakespeare's most creative contemporaries. Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a free-wheeling, satirical romp through the world of early modern theatre. Hilarious, outrageous, and unpredictable, Beaumont's comedy confounded its first audiences.

Provides an accessible introduction to the literary history of the Physiologus and the politics of animal representation, asking the vital question: how can we understand humanity's relationships with non-human animals and the environment today without understanding their past?

In a fast-moving media world where most workers begin as freelancers (and many may spend their whole careers doing so), this book is a guide for journalism students, recent graduates, and new journalists to orient themselves in the world of freelance work.

A book about how to approach the world with a listening ear, target the perfect audience, and learn the basics of audio editing software. While the book is research-based, it's straightforward, clear, and practical.

Comprehensive in its treatment of poetry and fiction, this book offers features that students most often request, including concise definitions of basic terms of poetry and short fiction, focused discussion of craft, exciting literary models, and engaging hands-on exercises.

A succinct primer meant especially for those without any prior background in logic. Its brevity makes it well-suited to introductory courses with a formal logic component, and its friendly tone offers a welcoming introduction to this often intimidating subject.

David Hume's first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature is widely considered to be one of the greatest philosophical works written in the English language. In this work, he attempts an empirically informed account of human nature. This edition includes the complete primary text, annotated and introduced by Angela Coventry.

Using sentence diagraming, Grammar by Diagram explains how ten basic sentence patterns can be expanded into more complex sentences, and how verbals can provide further versatility. This third edition includes more exercises at the foundational level, and also more focus on how to arrange and combine sentences for maximum effect.

Charlotte Riddell's The Uninhabited House (1875) tells the story of River Hall and the secrets that are hidden behind its doors. Within this haunted house, Riddell combines the supernatural with Victorian anxieties over stolen inheritance, crime, greed, and class mobility.

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Using sentence diagraming, Grammar by Diagram explains how ten basic sentence patterns can be expanded into more complex sentences, and how verbals can provide further versatility. The third edition includes more exercises at the foundational level, and also more focus on how to arrange and combine sentences for maximum effect.

Provides classic and contemporary defenses and critiques of the central ethical theories, along with readings on a selection of moral issues such as freedom of expression, immigration, and the treatment of non-human animals. Generous excerpts of canonical texts are included alongside contemporary works.