xsBusiness - 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 428
EAN: 9780312446987
ISBN: 0312446985
Label: Bedford/St. Martin's
Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2006-11-06
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Studio: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary: Poor Shipping
Comment: The product was what I expected but the shipping of the item was below my expections. The product was suppose to arrive on the 20th and it did not arrive until the 27th. It appeared that the producted showed shipped but it did not actually leave the warhouse until several days later.

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Summary: 50 Essays
Comment: I bought this book for my son for school. They are reading it for English in the 11th grade. He is enjoying it and I will certainly read it when he is done. As books go it is rather an expensive book for school reading, but Amazon had the best price and I had to buy some other books too, so we received free shipping. As always, Amazon did not let us down.

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Summary: Good essays, but too liberal for a text book.
Comment: This book is commonly used as an english writing class text. It is very liberally biased and does not offer any balance. I would not recommend its use as a text with out using something that provides more contrast.

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Summary: 50 Essarys: A Portable Anthology
Comment: I enjoyed the book. It was a terrific way to gain insight on the writing styles of some of America's most noted writers. I would recommend it to any student or person who wants to gain literary knowledge and become familiar with 20th century American authors.

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Summary: 50 Essays pages out of order
Comment: Right in the middle of a Sarah Vowell story "Shooting Daddy" is part of a story by Amy Tran (at page 436). Pages 421 - 436 are repeated causing confusion when one of those stores is required reading.

This book (50 Essays: A portable Anthology (2nd edition) by Samuel Cohen and published by Bedford/St. Martin should have not left the publisher in this state and customers should not have had to pay full price for this book.

It is just too much trouble to try and get my money back or get some sort of other solution as my daughter needs this book every day as her class is a summer class and meets every day.

Shame on you Bedford/St. Martins and author Sam Cohen who edited this book. If anyone wants to contact the publisher on my behalf I will not agrue.

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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $19.50, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the needs of a wide variety of classrooms. The carefully chosen table of contents presents enough familiarity to reassure instructors, enough novelty to keep things interesting, and enough variety to accommodate many different teaching needs. The editorial apparatus has been designed to support that variety of needs without being intrusive. In its second edition, 50 Essays continues to offer selections that instructors love to teach, with even more flexibility and more support for academic writing.