The Second Edition contains 34 new readings that teachers will want to teach and students will like to read, from Steven Pinker’s “Mind Over Mass Media” to Alex Horton’s “Advice for College-bound Vets,” as well as a chapter on academic writing, and editorial apparatus that explicitly links the readings to the writing instruction, with notes in the margins leading students from the text to specific examples in the readings—and the reverse. Thomas Cooley  (PhD, Indiana University) is emeritus professor of English at The Ohio State University. In addition to Back to the Lake , he is the editor of The Norton Sampler and the Norton Critical Edition of  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , and the author of several other books, among them Educated Lives: The Rise of Modern Autobiography in America  and  The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America . Used Book in Good Condition