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This innovative reader takes a content-based and global approach to writing-across-the-curriculum. Recognizing that composition courses are the natural place in the college curriculum for the disciplines to meet, "Thinking Globally" offers students a variety of exciting opportunities to read and write about substantial and challenging essays from a wide range of disciplines. The text also features comprehensive treatment of writing and research concerns.

Table of Contents:
UNIT ONE: A SENSE OF TIME James S. Trefil: "The First Yesterday" William F. Allman: "Who We Were: The Origins of Modern Humans" Daniel J. Boorstin: "The Temptations of the Moon" Stephen Jay Gould: "Evolution as Fact and Theory" UNIT TWO: A SENSE OF PLACE Kenneth C. Davis: Selections from "Don't Know Much About Geography" Joel Makower: "The Map Unfolds" Roland-Pierre Paringaux: "A Day in the Life of Catherine Bana" Yi-Fu Tuan: "A View of Geography" UNIT THREE: A SENSE OF MODERN HISTORY Glenn Frankel: "How Europeans Sliced Up Africa" Paul Gray: "The Astonishing Twentieth Century" Paul Kennedy: "The (Relative) Decline of America" Jack Beatty: "Along the Western Front" UNIT FOUR: A SENSE OF THE WORLD Charles Lane: "Let's Abolish the Third World" Deepa Oilapally: "The South Looks North: The Third World in the New World Order" David Attenborough: "The Furnaces of the Earth" Alan Ryan: "Twenty-First Century Limited" UNIT FIVE: A SENSE OF NUMBER World Bank. "Overview" (extracts) and "What Do We Know About The Poor?" (extracts) Mort Rosenblum and Doug Williamson: "People: Women and Children First" United Nations Development Programme UNDP): "Assessing Human Development" Charles C. Mann: "How Many Is Too Many?" UNIT SIX: A SENSE OF NATURE Kenneth Maxwell: "The Tragedy of the Amazon" Sandra Postel: "Denial in the Decisive Decade" James Goldsmith: "The Environment -- Three Options" Edward O. Wilson: "Million-Year Histories: Species Diversity as an Ethical Goal" UNIT SEVEN: A SENSE OF VALUES Elvin Hatch: "The Evaluation of Culture" Janusz L. Mucha: "An Outsider's View of American Culture" Nemi C. Jain: "World View and Cultural Patterns in India." Kenneth Minogue: "The History of the Idea of Human Rights" UNIT EIGHT: A SENSE OF BEAUTY H.W. Janson: "The Artist and His Public" Robert Penn Warren: "On Reading Fiction" Joseph Conrad: "Preface" to the novel, "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Roald Hoffman: "How Should Chemists Think?" UNIT NINE: A SENSE OF HUMOR Arthur Asa Berger and Aaron Wildavsky: "Who Laughs at What?" Laura Bohannan: "Shakespeare in the Bush" Alleen PaceNilsen: "In Defense of Humor" Molly Ivens: "Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest" George Orwell: "Politics and the English Language"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780070533981
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
  • Height: 233 mm
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 878 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0070533989
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum
  • Width: 185 mm


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