Author: Jon Shefner
Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. Shefner analyzes the variegated nature of the interests represented in civil coalitions, arguing that the differences among civil society actors are at least as important as their similarities in explaining how they function and what success, or lack thereof, they have experienced.

Co-Authors: George W. Kuney and Robert M. Lloyd
This text is a blend of classic common law contract cases with modern, 21st-century opinions and draws heavily upon the problem method of instruction.

Co-Author: Stanton B. Garner Jr.
The Norton Anthology of Drama is the most comprehensive and distinctive collection of its kind, offering 65 major plays, including three twentieth-century plays not available in any other drama anthology, and is the first drama anthology ever published by Norton.

Author: Debby Schriver
While the record-setting basketball dynasty of Coach Pat Summitt and the regional and national successes of ten other sports teams create fascinating stories in themselves, the saga of the Lady Volunteers actually began as early as 1893 when the first women enrolled as students at the University of Tennessee.

Author: Barbara Thayer-Bacon
In this unique union of philosophy and ethnographic research, Thayer-Bacon explains how the individualist legacy of liberal democracy, as conceived by Locke and Rosseau, ignores and excludes the needs of American students raised in cultures with strong communal traditions.