Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings. Scott Kiesling and Christina Bratt Paulston, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xvi + 330 pp. SABINA PERRINO University of Pennsylvania In this valuable edited volume on intercultural communication, editors Scott F. Kiesling and Christina Bratt Paulston bring together 20 essays, from 1976 till 2003, two of which were com- missioned for this volume (by H. Samy Alim and Diana Eades). In their preface, Kiesling and Paulston make it clear that their collection is designed for the classroom, and it is in its role as a coursebook that I will comment on this volume here. The editors recognize that while the col- lection is composed of “essential readings” (p. xii), it should be read together with introductory texts on linguistic anthropology, such as Bonvillain’s (Language, Culture, and Communication: Book Reviews 307