In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. Backgrounds and Contexts includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe s prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic[...]

Musical theater has captivated American audiences from its early roots in burlesque stage productions and minstrel shows to the million-dollar industry it has become on Broadway today. What is it about this truly indigenous American art form that has made it so enduringly popular? How has it survive[...]

Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into "Arthur Gordon Pym" in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son[...]

Presents information on selecting analogies for instruction, why analogies are effective, and how to improve analogies, along with forty ready-to-use analogies for biology, earth science, space science, chemistry, and physics.[...]

This is the ultimate reference book on typographic history, design, and practice within the past thirteen years. It includes type terminology, typefaces, type design and development, principles of typography and classification, significant type designers-past and present-type foundries and much more[...]