Cultural Conversations : The Presence of the Past

Rating:
Summary: Thoughtful and well-designed anthology.
Review: The book is great in providing several opinions on a particular unit studied. This way students (who are most often the readers of this book) get more than just a biased opinion. The context sections that follow the main text provide readers with additional information on the subject as well as the ideas for writing compositions. Furthermore, the book incorporates very well many diverse subjects including psychology, history of the Western Frontier,sex and gender, as well as several others. It contains many contemporary authors and provides the students with examples of different writing styles. In other words it's a great book for an English class or even for future reference and ideas.