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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Table of Contents:
- 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