This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter.

- Three maps and eight illustrations.

- A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Sources, Influences, Analogues", "Circumstances, Composition, Revision" and "Reception, Impact, Adaptation".

- Eleven critical essays on Frankenstein's major themes, six of them new to the Third...

Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.

Research Methods in Psychology, a text loved by instructors and students, provides the best learning experience for both future consumers and producers as they evaluate all facets of research. Award-winning author Beth Morling has thoroughly updated her groundbreaking text with fresh examples, revised ethics and statistics coverage, and a new section on qualitative methods. The new Fifth Edition is available as a Norton Illumine Ebook designed to support students as they practice being resear...

President Franklin Roosevelt told Americans in a 1936 fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” These United States builds on this foundation to present a readable, accessible history of the United States throughout the twentieth century—an ongoing and inspiring story of great leaders and everyday citizens marching, fighting, voting and legislating to make the nation’s promise of democracy a reality for all Americans.

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.

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Essentials of Comparative Politics is the best-selling book for the course because it provides clear, concise, and contemporary coverage of core concepts in flexible, affordable formats. The Eighth Edition goes even further to address course needs with new coverage of the methods used by comparativists to answer contemporary questions in the discipline. With new Check Your Understanding questions and Dynamic Data Figures in the Norton Illumine Ebook, in addition to InQuizitive, Norton’s ada...

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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.

Not your parents’ social problems textbook