Designed to accompany <em>Cultures of the West</em>, Second Edition, by Clifford R. Backman (OUP, 2015), the two-volume <em>Sources for Cultures of the West</em>, Second Edition, features approximately six written sources per chapter that highlight key themes in the study of Western civilization. Each of the 175 sources is accompanied by a headnote. Each volume begins with a special unit, "How to Read a Primary Source," that provides students with important advice on how to work with textual documents in studying the past. This second edition features forty-one new sources and offers increased coverage of Islam, Judaism, and women's history.