The New Humanities Reader presents 33 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 Third Edition contains 14 new readings, drawn from the latest books and journals. These selections continue in the text's pattern of being current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing.
Author(s): Richard E. Miller; Kurt Spellmeyer
Edition: 3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 788
Front Cover
Contents
Thematic Contents
Preface
New Humanities for New Times: The Search for Coherence
Knowledge in Depth and Knowledge of the World
Creative Reading: From Explicit to Implicit
Connective Thinking: The Search for a Shared Horizon
Writing to Tell, Writing to See
Developing a Position
The Spirit of the New Humanities
Web Site
Acknowledgments
David Abram
The Ecology of Magic: A Personal Introduction to the Inquiry
Leila Ahmed
On Becoming an Arab
Andrew J. Bacevich
The Real World War IV
Jonathan Boyarin
Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul
Bryan Caplan
"Market Fundamentalism" Versus the Religion of Democracy
The Charge of Market Fundamentalism
Democratic Fundamentalism
Will the Real Fundamentalism Please Stand Up? The Case of the Policy Analysis Market
Private Choice as an Alternative to Democracy and Dictatorship
Voter Irrationality, Markets, and Democracy
Correcting Democracy?
Economics: What Is It Good For?
Conclusion
Amy Chua
A World on the Edge
Devra Davis
Presumed Innocent
Phones and Our Cells
Annie Dillard
The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century's Measure
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II
Ill
IV
V
VI
VII
Susan Faludi
The Naked Citadel
Daniel Gilbert
Immune to Reality
Looking Forward to Looking Backward
Little Triggers
The Intensity Trigger
The Inescapability Trigger
Explaining Away
Onward
Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime
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3
4
5
William Greider
Work Rules
Henry Jenkins
Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy
and the Harry Potter Wars
Hogwarts and All
Rewriting School
Defense Against Dark Arts
Muggles for Harry Potter
What Would Jesus Do with Harry Potter?
Steven Johnson
The Myth of the Ant Queen
Christine Kenneally
You Have Gestures
Jon Krakauer
Selections from Into the Wild
The Alaska Interior
The Stampede Trail
Beth Loffreda
Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics
in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
Tanya M. Luhrmann
Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity
The Ethnography
Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: The Lexicon
Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: Syntax
Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: Conversation Narrative
Metakinesis
Relational Practice
Discussion
Azar Nafasi
Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir
in Books
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story
Virginia Postrel
Surface and Substance
Pietra Rivoli
Dogs Snarling Together: How Politics Came to Rule the Global Apparel Trade
Chinese T-Shirts versus American Jobs
A Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 2003
Snarling Together
Auggie Goes to Washington
Making Deals and Making Exceptions
Jobs for Bureaucrats
Unity 1985 to 1990
Snarling Back
Gone On Long Enough
The Slow Unraveling
Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See
Charles Siebert
An Elephant Crackup?
Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Meat and Milk Factories
The Poop on Pigs
A Pig's Life
"Wayne Bradley," Iowa Pig Producer
Making Bacon
Profitability and Animal Welfare
Tracking Down Jake's Milk
The Beef Industry
Australian Beef
Slaughter
Rebecca Solnit
The Solitary Stroller and the City
Sandra Steingraber
War
Gregory Stock
The Enhanced and the Unenhanced
The Enhanced
Humans and Posthumans: Our Evolutionary Future
The Tensions of Living Together
Breeds Apart
A World Aborning
Martha Stout
When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday
Deborah Tannen
The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue
Roots of the Adversarial Approach to Knowledge
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Sharing Time: Early Training in School
Integrating Women in the Classroom Army
Learning by Fighting
Graduate School as Boot Camp
The Culture of Critique: Attack in the Academy
Believing as Thinking
The Socratic Method - Or Is It?
Knowledge as Warring Camps
Question the Basic Assumption
Consensus Through Dissension?
Who Will Be Left to Lead?
The Cost in Human Spirit
Getting Beyond Dualism
Moving from Debate to Dialogue
Edward Tenner
Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead
The Ambiguity of Disaster
The Automobile and Revenge Effects
Conservation of Catastrophe?
Retreating from Intensity
Robert Thurman
Wisdom
Preamble: Selflessness
Problem: Misknowledge and Self-Preoccupation
Practice: Trying to Find Your "I"
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
Credits
Author and Title Index
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