Past to Present Ideas That Changed Our World

Name: Past to Present Ideas That Changed Our World
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ISBN: 9780130979483

ISBN-10: 0130979481

ISBN-13: 9780130979483

Edition: 2003

Authors: Stuart Hirschberg, Terry Hirschberg

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For Freshman Composition, honors and advanced composition, history of ideas courses, Humanities, and for courses that emphasize writing across the disciplines. Past to Present encapsulates for students essential readings from the fields of humanities, social science, and science of the great ideas that have changed our world. It is divided into seven thematic parts that trace the history of important ideas from their roots to their current incarnations. Each of the 74 readings includes discussions that focus on the history of the idea, the writer's rhetorical strategies, and the context in which the piece was written.

Book details

List price: $130.60
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 8/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 768
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Introduction



The Individual Experience: Private Lives, Public Voices


A Princess Remembers



From The Diary of Anne Frank



I Have Nothing More to Say



Becoming a Man



Letter to His Son



The Crystallization of Love John Keats, Letters to Fanny Brawne



Reflections in Westminster Abbey



She Would Have Enjoyed It




The Collective Experience: The Human Condition


The Principle of Population



The Social Sense



Rights of Man



To Make Them Stand in Fear



Learning to Read and Write



Letter to My Nephew



Decolonising the Mind



Shooting an Elephant



The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery



The Married Woman



The Wife Today




The Historical Dimension: The Importance of the Past


What Is History?



Concerning Egypt



Finding the Tomb



Challenge and Response



The Social History of Satan



On Heroes and Hero-Worship



Death of Abraham Lincoln



The Man from Hiroshima



Inaugural Address 1961



Steerage



Reflections on Exile




The Natural World: Instinct and Survival


The Homing Salmon



From The Origin of Species



The Dove and the Wolf



The Praying Mantis



The Lowest Animal



Slaughter of the Innocent



Identical Twins Reared Apart



Genome



A Clone Is Born




The Physical Universe: Knowledge of Animate and Inanimate Worlds


The Flood



The Prize



The Attack



How to Kill an Ocean



Rare Earth



The Two Infinites



The Continuous Creation of the Universe



Harnessing Light



The Revolution Begins



Information



The Road Ahead




The Mind and the Spirit: Understanding the Unknown


The Indefinability of Good



The Allegory of the Cave



Typical Dreams



The Bodily Memory



Readings from the Scriptures in Hinduism: Rig-Veda, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad-Gita


Three Texts from The Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Burning Bush, and The Ten Commandments


The Prophet Muhammad The Koran


Parables in The New Testament



The Enlightenment of the Buddha, Buddhacarita


Beat Zen, Square Zen,