Of Bunsen Burners, Bones, and Belles Lettres : Classic Essays Across the Curriculum

by Lester, James D.

• ISBN13: 9780844258829
• ISBN10: 0844258822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Offer your students the finest examples of writing in the disciplines with this collection of twenty-eight classic and contemporary essays. Perfect for any composition course, this anthology illustrates the different approaches to thinking and writing in the humanities, the social sciences, the physical sciences, and the business and economics.

Table of Contents

Classic Essays in the Humanities

Why I am an Agnostic, Clarence Darrow

The Patron and the Crocus, Virginia Woolf

Comedys Greatest Era, James Agee

A Way of Writing, William Stafford

Tragedy and Common Man, Arthur Miller

To Impersonate, to Watch, and to Be Watched, Eric Bentley

Why a Surgeon Would Write, Richard Selzer

Classic Essays in the Social Studies

Some Thoughts Concerning Education, John Locke

from Conservation and Liberalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hebraism and Hellenism, Matthew Arnold

The Shadow, Carl Jung

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts, Bruce Catton

A Day in Samoa, Margaret Mead

The Yellow Bus, Lillian Ross

Classic Essays in the Physical Sciences

The Method of Scientific Investigation, Thomas Henry Huxley

Touch and Sight: The Earth and the Heavens, Bertrand Russell

What Is the Theory of Relativity? Albert Einstein

But Watch in the Night, A Scientific Fable, James C. Rettie

The Moving Tides, Rachel Carson

The Bird and the Machine, Loren Eiseley

The Long Habit, Lewis Thomas

Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy, Norman Cousins

Classic Essays in Business and Economics

Division of Labour, Adam Smith

Alienated labor, Karl Marx

The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie

The Peter Principle, Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

Why Women are Paid Less than Men, Lester C. Thurow

The Efficient Society, Jeremy Rifkin