Title:
The New humanities reader
Edition:
4th ed., instructor's edition.
Publication Information:
Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012
Physical Description:
xxxii, 536 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780495912866
General Note:
Includes index
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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 students to synthesize materials and formulate their own ideas and solutions. The thought-provoking selections engage students and encourage students to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape their lives. The Fourth Edition includes nearly 25% new reading selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing.
Table of Contents
| Thematic Contents |
| Introduction |
| On Becoming an ArabLeila Ahmed |
| Homo religiosusKaren Armstrong |
| Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eight Street ShulJonathan Boyarin |
| Is Google Making Us Stupid?Nicholas Carr |
| The Naked CitadelSusan Faludi |
| Rewilding North AmericaCarolyn Fraser |
| Immune to RealityDaniel Gilbert |
| The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City CrimeMalcolm Gladwell |
| The Myth of the Ant QueenSteven Johnson |
| You Have GesturesChristine Kenneally |
| Selections from Into the WildJon Krakauer |
| Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay MurderBeth Loffreda |
| Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksAzar Nafisi |
| How to Tell a True War StoryTim O'Brien |
| Selections from The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the SensesJuhani Pallasmaa |
| The Mind's Eye: What the Blind SeeOliver Sacks |
| An Elephant Crackup?Charles Siebert |
| Meat and Milk FactoriesPeter Singer and Jim Mason |
| A Life of Its OwnMichael Specter |
| When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was FridayMartha Stout |
| The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of DialogueDeborah Tannen |
| Another Look Back, and a Look AheadEdward Tenner |
| WisdomRobert Thurman |
| An Army of One: MeJean Twenge |
| Confidence Men and Their Flex LivesJanine Wedel |
