The New Humanities Reader

by Miller, Richard E.; Spellmeyer, Kurt

• ISBN13: 9780495912866
• ISBN10: 0495912867
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

THE NEW HUMANITIES READER presents 25 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 Fourth Edition includes nearly 25% new reading selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing.

Table of Contents

Thematic Contents

Introduction

On Becoming an Arab

Homo religiosus

Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eight Street Shul

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

The Naked Citadel

Rewilding North America

Immune to Reality

The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime

The Myth of the Ant Queen

You Have Gestures

Selections from Into the Wild

Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder

Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

How to Tell a True War Story

Selections from The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See

An Elephant Crackup?

Meat and Milk Factories

A Life of Its Own

When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday

The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue

Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead

Wisdom

An Army of One: Me

Confidence Men and Their Flex Lives

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