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Reading the World : Ideas That Matter by Michael Austin (2016, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393617424
ISBN-139780393617429
eBay Product ID (ePID)228616487
Product Key Features
Number of Pages752 Pages
Publication NameReading the World : Ideas That Matter
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
SubjectEducational Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing, Essays
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education, Literary Collections
AuthorMichael Austin
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight34.4 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Edition Number3
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal808
Table Of Content*New to this editionPART I: READING THE WORLDChapter 1: EDUCATIONHsün Tzu, Encouraging LearningSeneca, On Liberal and Vocational Studies*(IMAGE) Laurentias de Voltolina, Lecture of Henricus de AlemaniaFrederick Douglass, Learning to ReadJohn Henry Newman, Knowledge Its Own End*Rabindranath Tagore, To Teachers*Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare's SisterRichard Feynman, O Americano, Outra Vez*Martha Nussbaum, Education for Profit, Education for DemocracyChapter 2: HUMAN NATURE AND THE MINDPlato, The Speech of AristophanesMencius, Man's Nature Is GoodHsün Tzu, Man's Nature Is EvilThomas Hobbes, LeviathanJohn Locke, Of Ideas*(IMAGE) Two Images of the Brain*(IMAGE) Carl Jung,The Red BookRuth Benedict,The Individual and the Pattern of Culture*Nicholas Carr, The Shallows*Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and SlowChapter 3: LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC*(IMAGE and text) Aeschylus, The EumenidesPericles, The Funeral OrationPlato, GorgiasAristotle, Rhetoric*Augustine, On Christian Doctrine*Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, La Respuesta*Wayne C. Booth,The Rhetorical StanceGloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild TongueToni Morrison, Nobel Lecture*Zeynep Tufekci, Networked Politics from Tahrir to Taksim*Chapter 4: THE ARTS Mo Tzu, Against Music* Boethius, Of Music*Murasaki Shikibu, On the Art of the Novel*(IMAGE) Johannes Vermeer, Study of a Young Woman*Edmund Burke,The Sublime and the Beautiful*(IMAGE and text) William Blake, The Tyger*Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?*Alice Walker, Beauty, When the Other Dancer Is the Self*(IMAGE) Lisa Yuskavage, Babie I*Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being JustChapter 5: SCIENCE AND NATURE*Lucretius, On the Nature of Things*Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Interior(IMAGE) Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump*William Paley, Natural TheologyCharles Darwin, Natural SelectionRachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure*Karl Popper, Science as Falsification*Barry Commoner, The Four Laws of EcologyEdward O. Wilson, The Fitness of Human Nature*Wangari Maathai, Foresters without Diplomas*Vandana Shiva, Soil, Not OilChapter 6: LAW AND GOVERNMENT(IMAGE) The Papyrus of Ani Lao Tzu, Tao Te ChingChristine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of LadiesNiccolò Machiavelli, The Prince*(IMAGE) Abraham Bosse, Frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan*James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious AssessmentsMartin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham JailAung San Suu Kyi, In Quest of DemocracyDesmond Tutu, Nuremberg or National Amnesia: A Third WayBarack Obama, A More Perfect UnionChapter 7: WAR AND PEACEMo Tzu, Against Offensive WarfareSun Tzu, The Art of WarSt. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica*Erasmus, Against War(IMAGE) Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People(IMAGE) Pablo Picasso, GuernicaMargaret Mead, Warfare: An Invention--Not a Biological NecessityGeorge Orwell, Pacifism and the War*Marevasei Kachere, War Memoir*(IMAGE) Women of World War II Monument*Tawakkol Karman, Nobel LectureChapter 8: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND SOCIAL CLASS*Epictetus, To Those Who Fear Want*Po Chü-I, The Flower MarketNew Testament, Luke, Chapter 16(IMAGE) William Hogarth, Gin LaneThomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of PopulationMohandas K. Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress(IMAGE) Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother*Simone Weil, EqualityOctavio Paz, The Day of the DeadGarrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor*Joseph Stiglitz, Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal SocietyPART II: A GUIDE TO READING AND WRITINGChapter 9: READING IDEASPrereadingAnnotatingIdentifying PatternsReading Visual TextsSummarizingReading with a Critical EyeChapter 10: GENERATING IDEASConsidering ExpectationsExploring Your TopicAchieving SubtletyChapter 11: STRUCTURING IDEASThesis StatementsIntroductionsTransitionsConclusionsChapter 12: SUPPORTING IDEASSupporting Claims with EvidenceLogos: Appealing to Logic and Reas
SynopsisTHIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE. The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective., With 80 readings by some of the world's greatest thinkers--from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldúa to Toni Morrison--Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual., With 80 readings by some of the world's greatest thinkers--from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzald a to Toni Morrison--Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.
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