Featuring the same superior teaching apparatus and thought-provoking selections as its widely-praised parent text, The Longman Reader, Brief Edition is a shorter and more portable alternative to the best-selling, rhetorically-organized original, The Longman Reader (formerly titled The Macmillian Reader). Thirty-four outstanding selections represent a blend of favorite standards and fresh, new pieces on a variety of topics such as family life, education, technology, race, mass culture, and morality.