Title:
The new humanities reader
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Edition:
5th ed.
Publication Information:
Stamford, CT : Cengage Learning, 2015
Physical Description:
xxxv, 570 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781285428994
General Note:
Includes index
Added Author:
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Summary
Summary
THE NEW HUMANITIES READER presents 25 challenging and important essays from diverse fields that address current global issues. This cross-disciplinary anthology helps readers attain the analytical skills necessary to become informed citizens. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for readers to synthesize materials and formulate their own ideas and solutions. The thought-provoking selections engage and encourage readers to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape their lives. The fifth edition includes nearly 50 percent new reading selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xv |
Reading and Writing About the New Humanities | p. xxi |
Homo religiosus | p. 1 |
Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom | p. 24 |
Project Classroom Makeover | p. 47 |
The Naked Citadel | p. 72 |
Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become | p. 105 |
Immune to Reality | p. 129 |
The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime | p. 148 |
Biographies of Hegemony | p. 165 |
The Myth of the Ant Queen | p. 192 |
The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism | p. 210 |
Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder | p. 235 |
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food | p. 258 |
Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books | p. 278 |
Great to Watch | p. 299 |
How to Tell a True War Story | p. 315 |
The Mind's Eye | p. 328 |
An Elephant Crackup? | p. 351 |
Son | p. 368 |
Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society | p. 393 |
When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday | p. 419 |
Wisdom | p. 440 |
Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other | p. 457 |
An Army of One: Me | p. 486 |
The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan | p. 512 |
Father and Son | p. 533 |
Eight Sample Assignment Sequences | p. 560 |
Author and Title Index | p. 569 |