World of Ideas Essential Readings for College Writers

Name: World of Ideas Essential Readings for College Writers
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ISBN: 9780312434441

ISBN-10: 0312434448

ISBN-13: 9780312434441

Edition: 7th 2006

Authors: Lee A. Jacobus

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The most successful reader of its kind, "A World of Ideas" is ideal for composition instructors who want to introduce their students to some of the world's most important thinkers and their ideas: for example, Niccolo Machiavelli on government, Sigmund Freud on the mind, and Virginia Woolf on feminism. Because students perceive writers such as these as serious and important, they take the writing course more seriously: they learn to read more attentively, think more critically, and write more effectively. But more important, this may be a student's only opportunity to encounter these thinkers. No other composition reader offers a comparable collection of important readings along with the…

Book details

Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 7/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 928
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.13" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Preface	p. iii
To the Student	p. xi
Evaluating Ideas: An Introduction to Critical Reading	p. 1
Government	p. 13
Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching	p. 19
The Qualities of the Prince	p. 35
The Origin of Civil Society	p. 53
The Declaration of Independence	p. 75
Total Domination	p. 85
The Separation of Church and State	p. 99
Justice	p. 113
The Defense of Injustice	p. 119
Civil Disobedience	p. 133
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	p. 161
Letter from Birmingham Jail	p. 171
A Theory of Justice	p. 195
The Central Human Functional Capabilities	p. 209
Education	p. 225
Of the Education of Children	p. 231
On Education	p. 247
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave	p. 263
The Montessori Method	p. 281
Thinking in Education	p. 297
The Banking Concept of Education	p. 315
Wealth and Poverty	p. 335
Of the Natural Progress of Opulence	p. 341
The Communist Manifesto	p. 353
Social Consequences of Changes in the Value of Money	p. 381
The Position of Poverty	p. 403
Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer	p. 417
Mind	p. 437
The Allegory of the Cave	p. 443
Discourse Four	p. 457
The Oedipus Complex	p. 469
The Personal and the Collective Unconscious	p. 483
The Psychological Principles of Infant Analysis	p. 499
A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences	p. 515
Nature	p. 535
The Four Idols	p. 541
Natural Selection	p. 559
The Sunless Sea	p. 577
Nonmoral Nature	p. 597
The Mystery of Dark Matter	p. 613
Ethics and Morality	p. 627
Moses and the Ten Commandments	p. 633
The Aim of Man	p. 649
The Sermon on the Mount	p. 671
The Night Journey	p. 683
Morality as Anti-Nature	p. 697
Morality and Religion	p. 713
The Ethic of Compassion	p. 729
Feminism	p. 739
Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society	p. 745
Shakespeare's Sister	p. 761
Woman: Myth and Reality	p. 781
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