THE NEW HUMANITIES READER presents 25 challenging and important essays from diverse fields that address current global issues. This cross-disciplinary anthology helps you attain the analytical skills necessary to become informed citizens. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for you to synthesize materials and formulate your own ideas and solutions. The thought-provoking selections engage and encourage you to make connections for yourself as you think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape your life. The fifth edition includes nearly 50 percent new selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.
Author(s): Richard E. Miller, Kurt Spellmeyer
Edition: 5
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 608
Front Cover
Contents
Thematic Contents
Preface
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
Leslie Bell
Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
The Paradox Of Sexual Freedom
Splitting
Strategies Of Desire
The Bad Girl: Jayanthi
Tentative Identity
The Bad-Girl Strategy
The Good Girl: Alicia
Good-Girl Rebel
Escape From The Past
Cathy Davidson
Project Classroom Makeover
Susan Faludi
The Naked Citadel
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 Back
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
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
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
Beth Loffeda
Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
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 Nafisi
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
Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye
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 Turkle
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
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 Up The Evolution
Sources
Tim Wu
Father and Son
Apple's Radical Origins
Google Switches The Web
The Internet And The Bell System
A Battle For Territory
Apple's Challenge To Its Own Territory
Project Android
Eight Sample Assignment Sequences
Sequence One
Sequence Two
Sequence Three
Sequence Four
Sequence Five
Sequence Six
Sequence Seven
Sequence Eight
Author and Title Index
Back Cover
