The New Humanities Reader

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. Front Cover Contents Thematic Contents Preface Reading and Writing About the New Humanities New Humanities for New Times: The Search for Coherence Knowledge in Depth and Knowledge of the World Creative Reading I: The Prospective View Creative Reading II: Interpretation and The Retrospective View Creative Reading III: Connective Thinking and The Search for a Shared Horizon Prospective Writing Developing a Thesis: From Prospective To Retrospective Writing The Spirit of The New Humanities Leila Ahmed On Becoming an Arab Karen Armstrong Homo religiosus Jonathan Boyarin Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul Nicholas Carr Is Google Making Us Stupid? Susan Faludi The Naked Citadel Caroline Fraser Rewilding North America Pluie The Trouble with Islands Rewilding in the Real World Daniel Gilbert Immune to Reality Looking Forward to Looking Backward Little Triggers The Intensity Trigger The Inescapability Trigger Explaining Away Onward Malcolm Gladwell The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime Steven Johnson The Myth of the Ant Queen Christine Kenneally You Have Gestures Jon Krakauer Selections from Into the Wild The Alaska Interior The Stampede Trail Beth Loffreda Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder Azar Nafisi Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books Tim O'Brien How to Tell a True War Story Juhani Pallasmaa Excerpts from The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Vision and Knowledge The Significance of the Shadow Acoustic Intimacy Silence, Time, and Solitude Spaces of Scent The Shape of Touch The Taste of Stone Oliver Sacks The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See Charles Siebert An Elephant Crackup? Peter Singer and Jim Mason Meat and Milk Factories The Poop on Pigs A Pig's Life "Wayne Bradley," Iowa Pig Producer Making Bacon Profitability and Animal Welfare Tracking Down Jake's Milk The Beef Industry Australian Beef Slaughter Michael Specter A Life of Its Own Martha Stout When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday Deborah Tannen The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue Roots of the Adversarial Approach to Knowledge Onward, Christian Soldiers Sharing Time: Early Training in School Integrating Women in the Classroom Army Learning by Fighting Graduate School as Boot Camp The Culture of Critique: Attack in the Academy Believing as Thinking The Socratic Method - Or Is It? Knowledge as Warring Camps Question the Basic Assumption Consensus Through Dissension? Who Will Be Left to Lead? The Cost in Human Spirit Getting Beyond Dualism Moving from Debate to Dialogue Edward Tenner Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead The Ambiguity of Disaster The Automobile and Revenge Effects Conservation of Catastrophe? Retreating from Intensity Robert Thurman Wisdom Preamble: Selflessness Problem: Misknowledge and Self-Preoccupation Practice : Trying to Find Your "I" Jean Twenge An Army of One: Me Boomers and Their "Journey" into the Self The Matter-of-Fact Self-Focus of Generation Me Changes in Self-Esteem: What the Data Say The Self-Esteem Curriculum Girls Are Great Self-Esteem and Academic Performance Are Self-Esteem Programs Good or Bad? Changes in Narcissism Janine R. Wedel Confidence Men and Their Flex Lives Naming the Animal Evolution of the Species Beyond Old Boys Eight Sample Assignment Sequences Sequence 1 Sequence 2 Sequence 3 Sequence 4 Sequence 5 Sequence 6 Sequence 7 Sequence 8 Credits Author and Title Index Back Cover 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 25percent new selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing. -- Description from http://www.booktopia.com.au (Mayb 20, 2015)