New Humanities Reader

Name: New Humanities Reader
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ISBN: 9780495912866

ISBN-10: 0495912867

ISBN-13: 9780495912866

Edition: 4th 2012

Authors: Richard E. Miller, Kurt Spellmeyer

List price: $74.95

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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…

Book details

List price: $74.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540

Kurt Spellmeyer is an award-winning teacher and scholar in the English department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a Rinzai Zen Master. He is the author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-First Century and several other books.



Thematic Contents


Introduction


On Becoming an Arab



Homo religiosus



Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eight Street Shul



Is Google Making Us Stupid?



The Naked Citadel



Rewilding North America



Immune to Reality



The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime



The Myth of the Ant Queen



You Have Gestures



Selections from Into the Wild



Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder



Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books



How to Tell a True War Story



Selections from The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses



The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See



An Elephant Crackup?



Meat and Milk Factories



A Life of Its Own



When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday



The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue



Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead



Wisdom



An Army of One: Me



Confidence Men and Their Flex Lives