The New Humanities Reader

Front Cover
Contents
Thematic Contents
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
Karen Armstrong
Homo religiosus
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The First White President
Cathy Davidson
Project Classroom Makeover
Susan Faludi
The Naked Citadel
Franklin Foer
Mark Zuckerberg's War on Free Will
Barbara Fredrickson
Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become
Love, Our Supreme Emotion
It's Not What You Think
Love's Biology
Love on the Brain
Biochemistries in Love
Touring Vagus
Upward Spirals Unleashed
Daniel Gilbert
Immune to Reality
Looking Forward To Looking Backward
Little Triggers
The Intensity Trigger
The Inescapability Trigger
Explaining Away
Onward
Karen Ho
Biographies of Hegemony
Recruitment
The Cross-Pollination Of Elitism
Elite Students and Life after Graduation
"Wall Street University": Kinship Networks and Elite Extension
Creating Pinnacle Status and Generic Smartness
Steven Johnson
The Myth of the Ant Queen
Naomi Klein
Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet
Trade Trumps Climate
A Wall Comes Down, Emissions Go Up
Trade And Climate: Two Solitudes
Cheap Labor, Dirty Energy: A Package Deal
A Movement Digs Its Own Grave
From Frenetic Expansion To Steady States
Growing The Caring Economy, Shrinking The Careless One
Jonathan Lethem
The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism
Love and Theft
Contamination Anxiety
Surrounded by Signs
Usemonopoly
The Beauty of Second Use
Source Hypocrisy, or, Disnial
You Can't Steal a Gift
The Commons
Undiscovered Public Knowledge
Give All
Key: I Is Another
Title
Love and Theft
Contamination Anxiety
Surrounded By Signs
Usemonopoly
The Beauty of Second Use
Source Hypocrisy, or, Disnial
You Can't Steal a Gift
The Commons
Undiscovered Public Knowledge
Give All
Key to the Key
Michael Moss
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
I. 'In This Field, I'm A Game Changer.'
II. 'Lunchtime Is All Yours.'
III. 'It’s Called Vanishing Caloric Density.'
IV. 'These People Need a Lot of Things, but They Don’t Need a Coke.'
Azar Nafasi
Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Maggie Nelson
Great to Watch
Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story
Richard O. Prum
Darwin's Really Dangerous Idea
Charles Siebert
An Elephant Crackup?
Andrew Solomon
Son
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society
General Principles
Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and Inequality
Shaping Markets
Moving Money from the Bottom of the Pyramid to the Top
Rent Seeking
Monopoly Rents: Creating Sustainable Monopolies
Politics: Getting to Set the Rules and Pick the Referee
Government Munificence
Martha Stout
When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday
Robert Thurman
Wisdom
Preamble: Selflessness
Problem: Misknowledge And Self-Preoccupation
Practice: Trying to Find Your "I"
Sherry Tuckle
Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Life Reconsidered
The Tamagotchi Primer
Unforgettable
Alive Enough
What Does a Furby Want?
Operating Procedures
An Ethical Landscape
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
Rick Wartzman
The New Face of Capitalism
Ethan Watters
The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan
The Culture of Sadness
Junk Science and First World Medicine
The Mega-Marketing of Depression
Speeding the Evolution
Author and Title Index
Back Cover