The new humanities reader
Designed to help students attain the analytical skills and big-picture overview necessary to become informed citizens, the collection contains challenging and important readings from diverse fields that address critical issues in contemporary society. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources pro...
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Houghton Mifflin Company
2003
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The new humanities reader |c Richard E. Miller ; Kurt Spellmeyer |
| 260 | |a New York |b Houghton Mifflin Company |c 2003 | ||
| 300 | |a xviii, 721 p. |b ill. |c 24 cm | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The ecology of magic / David Abram -- Honor and shame / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Science in the courtroom: opinions without evidence / Marcia Angell -- Does God have a future? / Karen Armstrong -- Time, work, and leisure in a civil society / Benjamin R. Barber -- Selections from 'Hungry ghosts: Mao's secret famine' / Jasper Becker -- Waiting for a Jew: marginal redemption at the eighth street Shul / Jonathan Boyarin -- What you know / Peter Ho Davies -- The wreck of time: taking our century's measure -- The core of art: making special / Ellen Dissanayake -- The age of social transformation / Peter F. Drucker -- The naked citadel / Susan Faludi -- The power of context: Bernie Goetz and the rise and fall of new York city crime / Malcolm Gladwell -- Selections from 'Through a window: my thirty years with the chimpanzees of Gombe / Jane Goodall -- What does the dreaded "E" word mean, anyway? A reverie for the opening of the new Hayden planetarium / Stephen Jay Gould -- Second proms and second primaries: the limits of majority rule / Lani Guinier -- Prescription for profit / Stephen Hall -- Perfecting democracy's tools / Hazel Henderson -- Beyond militarism, arms races, and arms control / Mary Kaldor -- Selections from 'Into the wild' / Jon Krakauer -- Selections from 'Losing Matt Shepard: life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder' / Beth Loffreda -- Women and cultural universals / Martha Nussbaum -- Selections from 'To engineer is human' / Henry Petroski -- Playing god in the garden / Michael Pollan -- Global realization / Eric Schlosser -- Behind the official story / James C. Scott -- Thinking "about the stream": new philosophies / Mitchell Stephens -- The Ganges' next life / Alexander Stille -- The roots of debate in education and the hope of dialogue / Deborah Tannen -- Selections from 'The ape and the sushi master' / Frans De Waal -- Selections from 'Dreaming me: an African American woman's spiritual journey' / Jan Willis -- Cloning people / Ian Wilmut | |
| 520 | |a Designed to help students attain the analytical skills and big-picture overview necessary to become informed citizens, the collection contains challenging and important readings from diverse fields that address critical issues in contemporary society. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for students to synthesize materials and come up with their own ideas and solutions. Students will be engaged by reading and rereading, analyzing, and working with these selections because they present powerful ideas, not simply because they are models of good writing style. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Humanity in literature | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |y 20th century |x History and criticism | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Humanities | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Culture | |
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