50 essays
Subtitle: a portable anthology
By: edited by Samuel Cohen
Edition: 2nd ed., instructor's ed.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; MPS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780312446994
Subjects: College readers; American essays; English essays
Other titles: Fifty essays; Resources for teaching Essays : a portable anthology.
Notes: Included at end of text: Resources for teaching Essays : a portable anthology.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-487) and index.
Table of contents: title: The joy of reading and writing : Superman and me  -- Sherman Alexie; title: Graduation  -- Maya Angelou; title: Men, women, sex, and Darwin  -- Natalie Angier; title: How to tame a wild tongue  -- Gloria Anzaldua; title: On compassion  -- Barbara Lazear Ascher; title: Notes of a native son  -- James Baldwin; title: Lost in the kitchen  -- Dave Barry; title: Never just pictures  -- Susan Bordo; title: How you became you  -- Bill Bryson; title: Why don't we complain?  -- William F. Buckley, Jr.; title: The insufficiency of honesty  -- Stephen L. Carter; title: The myth of the Latin woman : I just met a girl named Maria  -- Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: A clack of tiny sparks : remembrances of a gay boyhood  -- Bernard Cooper; title: On keeping a notebook  -- Joan Didion; title: Death of a moth  -- Annie Dillard; title: Learning to read and write  -- Frederick Douglass; title: Serving in Florida  -- Barbara Ehrenreich; title: On dumpster diving  -- Lars Eighner; title: The ways we lie  -- Stephanie Ericsson; title: Women's brains  -- Stephen Jay Gould; title: What's wrong with animal rights?  -- Vicki Hearne; title: Salvation  -- Langston Hughes; title: How it feels to be colored me  -- Zora Neale Hurston; title: The declaration of independence  -- Thomas Jefferson; title: Letter from a Birmingham jail  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: No name woman  -- Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Notes of a native speaker  -- Eric Liu; title: On being a cripple  -- Nancy Mairs; title: Learning to read  -- Malcolm X; title: The way to Rainy Mountain  -- N. Scott Momaday; title: Two ways to belong in America  -- Bharati Mukherjee; title: Shooting an elephant  -- George Orwell; title: Crito  -- Plato; title: Aria : memoir of a bilingual childhood  -- Richard Rodriguez; title: "I just wanna be average"  -- Mike Rose; title: Clashing civilizations?  -- Edward Said; title: The inheritance of tools  -- Scott Russell Sanders; title: Me talk pretty one day  -- David Sedaris; title: Animal liberation  -- Peter Singer; title: Declaration of sentiments and resolutions  -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton; title: Just walk on by : black men and public space  -- Brent Staples; title: A modest proposal  -- Jonathan Swift; title: Mother tongue  -- Amy Tan; title: Where I lived and what I lived for  -- Henry David Thoreau; title: Ain't I a woman?  -- Sojourner Truth; title: Shooting dad  -- Sarah Vowell; title: Beauty : when the other dancer is the self  -- Alice Walker; title: Once more to the lake  -- E.B. White; title: Television : the plug-in drug  -- Marie Winn; title: The death of the moth -- Virginia Woolf.