This completely revised and updated handbook will help your book group have more lively and rewarding discussions. It includes all the basics you need to get started with Shared Inquiry™, as well as information about where to find additional...

*Purchase individually on Amazon: Sound Bites: Big Ideas in Popular Music, Double Features: Big Ideas in Film, and Tube Talk: Big Ideas in Television. The great ideas are all around us! Across music, film, and television, popular culture is a rich source...

“The collective agreement to gather with a group of strangers in a darkened theater to watch moving images on a screen is one of the most unusual human behaviors of recent times.”—From the introduction by Nick Clement Double Features:...

“[Television] is the greatest mirror that our global society has ever held up to itself, and even though sometimes we may not like what we see, it is impossible to look away.”—From the introduction by Chris Lamson Tube Talk: Big Ideas...

"[Writing about music adds] an irreplaceable dimension to our experience of the artform. As long as humans crave music, they will also long to share their experiences of it.”—From the introduction by Geeta Dayal In Sound Bites: Big Ideas in...

Counterparts presents pairs of contrasting texts that interact with one another in differing and surprising ways. These 20 texts may take opposing views on issues or contend with ideas presented by other scholars. Together they offer a range of...

The selections in Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community explore the experiences, challenges, and achievements of women from a contemporary point of view. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short stories, memoirs, and journalistic...

This 75th anniversary anthology is a working set of provocative selections from notable works of literature and thought intended for careful reading, reflection, discussion, and the mutual, unplanned insights that arise from Shared Inquiry. It is a...

This 75th anniversary anthology is a working set of provocative selections from notable works of literature and thought intended for careful reading, reflection, discussion, and the mutual, unplanned insights that arise from Shared Inquiry. It is a...

This 75th anniversary anthology is a working set of provocative selections from notable works of literature and thought intended for careful reading, reflection, discussion, and the mutual, unplanned insights that arise from Shared Inquiry. It is a...

This full-sized, four-color replica edition of legendary urban designer Daniel Burnham's groundbreaking vision for a new Chicago marks the 2009 centennial of its original publication. If urban planners now talk about ecological responsibility and the...

The Leader's Guide for Introduction to Great Books First Series includes recommended approaches for working with fiction and nonfiction, prereading questions, interpretive questions for discussion, note-taking activities, suggested passages for textual...

Perfect for those new to the world of Great Books, this first volume in our Introduction to Great Books Series contains mid-length readings and broad discussion questions that will help guide first-time Shared Inquiry™ participants. Also available...

The Leader's Guide for Introduction to Great Books Third Series includes recommended approaches for working with fiction and nonfiction, prereading questions, interpretive questions for discussion, note-taking activities, suggested passages for textual...

This expanded edition of Citizens of the World is a comprehensive anthology for readers interested in how the concept of human rights has developed throughout history. Selections ranging from memoir and fiction to legal and historical documents help...

The Civically Engaged Reader assembles more than 40 provocative and diverse readings that range across literature, philosophy, and religion. These selections invite reflection on all kinds of civic-minded activities—from giving and serving to...

The 18 stories collected in Immigrant Voices highlight the complex relationships of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century with their families, friends, new surroundings, and home countries. The authors themselves...

The selections in Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions illustrate the best and worst of what can happen when we attempt to mold the complex communities in which we live into our vision of a perfect state. All 23 selections in this anthology...

Edited by seasoned teachers and published poets, this anthology is ideal for courses in American literature, poetry, or creative writing. Each group of poems is preceded by thoughts from the poet on the art of poetry, as well as biographical information...

“How did life begin? How is it changing? How are human beings related to other forms of life? What are the ethical implications of studying or altering life?”—From the introduction to the new edition This new edition of our popular...