75 Readingsoffers an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at less than $20 net (half the price of most readers),75 Readingsoffers an excellent value for students.

This volume continues to offer a collection of 75 widely anthologized essays, with an extensive compare/contrast section, new readings about social issues, new readings on the environment, and a new section on mixed metaphor.

Offering a balanced collection of classic contemporary essays, this guide includes coverage of writing styles, voices and cultural perspectives.

75 Readings Plus is a version of the best-selling 75 Readings that supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests.

Humiliated by his father's constant criticism, a dyslexic young man proves his worth when a fire threatens to sink their ship.

To read Romans from beginning to end, from letter opening to final doxology, is to retrace the steps of Paul. To read Romans front to back was what Paul certainly intended. But to read Romans forward may have kept the full message of Romans from being perceived. Reading forward has led readers to classify Romans as abstract and systematic theology, as a letter unstained by real pastoral concerns. But what if a different strategy were adopted? Could it be that the secret to understanding the relationship between theology and life, the key to unlocking Romans, is to begin at the letter's end? Scot McKnight does exactly this in Reading Romans Backwards. McKnight begins with Romans 12-16, foregrounding the problems that beleaguered the house churches in Rome. Beginning with the end places readers right in the middle of a community deeply divided between the strong and the weak, each side dug in on their position. The strong assert social power and privilege, while the weak claim an elected advantage in Israel's history. Continuing to work in reverse, McKnight unpacks the big themes of Romans 9-11--God's unfailing, but always surprising, purposes and the future of Israel--to reveal Paul's specific and pastoral message for both the weak and the strong in Rome. Finally, McKnight shows how the widely regarded universal sinfulness of Romans 1-4, which is so often read as simply an abstract soteriological scheme, applies to a particular rhetorical character's sinfulness and has a polemical challenge. Romans 5-8 equally levels the ground with the assertion that both groups, once trapped in a world controlled by sin, flesh, and systemic evil, can now live a life in the Spirit. In Paul's letter, no one gets off the hook but everyone is offered God's grace. Reading Romans Backwards places lived theology in the front room of every Roman house church. It focuses all of Romans--Paul's apostleship, God's faithfulness, and Christ's transformation of humanity--on achieving grace and peace among all people, both strong and weak. McKnight shows that Paul's letter to the Romans offers a sustained lesson on peace, teaching applicable to all divided churches, ancient or modern.

This book offers an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing at an affordable price. The latest edition boasts an extensive new argumentation section, new readings about social issues and the environment, and a new section on mixed strategies - those readings that employ two or more rhetorical modes. 21 of the 75 readings are new to this edition. Also available by Buscemi & Smith is: 75 Readings Plus, 7/e, ISBN 0071232311, Price pound]25.99 (42.36 Euros) Pub date: June 2003 This book adds to the above an Introduction to each mode, plus Headnotes, Questions for Discussion and Suggestions for Sustained Writing for each selection. - Readings chosen for the book are selected from among the most popular and widely-anthologized pieces. - The text contains a chapter dedicated to each of the Analogy and Mixed Modes writing strategies. - The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues and interests.