About the Book
Addressing the continuing interest in liberal arts issues, interdisciplinary themes, multicultural perspectives, and critical thinking, "The McGraw-Hill Reader" provides students with a full range of quality prose works spanning various ages, cultures, and subjects.
Table of Contents:
* New to this edition1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Preparing to ReadCritical ReadingBeyond Content: Focusing on StructureParaphrasing, Summarizing, QuotingReading and Analyzing Visual Texts* Classic and Contemporary Images: How Do We Communicate?Amos Bad Heart, View of Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting BullThomas E. Franklin, Fire Fighters Raising the Flag at Ground Zero Drafting RevisingStudent Essay (Jamie Taylor), Cultist Behavior or Doltish Behavior?Readings for Critical Response and for WritingMortimer J. Adler, How to Read a BookArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Cult of EthnicityAnnie Dillard, The Writing Life* Peter Elbow, Freewriting* Donald M. Murray, The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts2. Reading and Writing Effective ArgumentsThe Purpose of ArgumentationThe Test of JustificationThe Language of ArgumentAppeals to Reason, Emotion, and EthicsThinking Critically About ArgumentWriting Powerful ArgumentsReadings for Critical Response and WritingClassic and Contemporary Essays: How Do We Argue?H.L. Mencken, The Penalty of Death* Coretta Scott King, The Death Penalty Is a Step Back* Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address* Classic and Contemporary Images: What Is an Argument?Francisco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808Eddie Adams, Police Chief Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executes a Viet Cong OfficerTwo Argumentative Essays for Analysis* Barbara Lawrence, Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You* Molly Ivins, Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns3. Education* Classic and Contemporary Images: Does Education Change Over Time?Zoology Lab, Oberlin College during the 1890sTom Stewart, Food Science Lab, University of Maine during the 1990sClassic and Contemporary Essays: What Is the Value of Education?Fredrick Douglass, Learning to Read and WriteRichard Rodriguez, The Lonely, Good Company of BooksMaya Angelou, Graduation* Santha Rama Rau, By Any Other NameAnna Quindlen, Sex Ed* David Gelernter, Unplugged: The Myth of Computers in the ClassroomSusan Jacoby, When Bright Girls Decide That Math is "a Waste of Time"E. D.Hirsch, Jr., Why America's Universities Are Better than Its SchoolsGloria Steinem, The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your LifeBenjamin R. Barber, America Skips School4. Family Roles and Gender Roles: How Do We Become Who We Are?* Classic and Contemporary Images: How Do We Respond to Social Events?Pieter Brueghel the younger, Rustic WeddingVanessa Vick, Photograph from a Contemporary Wedding ReceptionClassic and Contemporary Essays: How Much Do Families Matter?* E.B. White, Once More to the LakeBarbara Kingsolver, Stone SoupAnnie Dillard, An American Childhood* Richard Rodriguez, Family ValuesAmitai Etzioni, Parenting as an IndustryFrancis Fukuyama, Immigrants and Family ValuesMargaret Atwood, The Female BodyPaul Theroux, Being a Man* Natalie Angier, Why Men Don't LastDeborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard For Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?5. History, Culture, and Civilization: Are We Citizens of the World?* Classic and Contemporary Images: How Do We Become Americans?Alice Austin, Immigrants arriving at Ellis IslandAssociated Press, Illegal Immigrants Crossing the Border Between Guatemala and Mexico, 1999Classic and Contemporary Essays: Are We Heading Toward a World Culture?Oliver Goldsmith, National Prejudices* Ishmael Reed, America: The Multinational SocietyJudith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named MariaN. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy MountainLangston Hughes, SalvationMaxine Hong Kingston, The Woman WarriorEdward T. Hall, The Arab World* Barbara Tuchman, This Is the End of the World: The Black Death* Ronald Takaki, Strangers From a Distant Shore* Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death6. Government, Politics, and Social Justice: How Do We Decide What Is Fair?* Classic and Contemporary Images: Is There Too Much Money in Politics?Thomas Nast, The 'Brains' That Achieved the Tammany Victory at the Rochester Democratic ConventionAnn Telnaes, Soft Money RaisedClassic and Contemporary Essays: What Is the American Dream?Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence: In Congress, July 4, 1776Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream* George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant* Esther Dyson, Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave ItNiccolo Machiavelli, The Circle of GovernmentsBruce Catton, Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast* Bharati Mukherjee, American DreamerMartin Luther King, Jr., The World HouseJames Baldwin, Stranger in the VillageAlexis de Tocqueville, Some Reflections on American Manners7. Business and Economics: How Do We Earn Our Keep?* Classic and Contemporary Images: Will Workers Be Displaced by Machines?Diego Rivera, Portion of a mural from the Detroit Institute of ArtsGeorge Haling, Photograph of a Chrysler Assembly LineClassic and Contemporary Essays: Does Equal Opportunity Exist?Virginia Woolf, Professions for WomanHenry Louis Gates, Jr., Delusions of GrandeurAnna Quindlen, Men at WorkPerri Klass, Ambition* Chang Rae Lee, Uncle Chul Gets Rich* Benjamin Franklin, The Way to WealthRichard Rodriguez, Los PobresRobert Reich, Why the Rich are Getting Richer, and the Poor, Poorer* Harvey Cox, The Market as GodJonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal8. Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion: What Do We Believe?* Classic and Contemporary Images: How Do We View Angels and Devils?Islamic art from India, Angel and MortalJacob Epstein, St. Michael and the Devil, Coventry CathedralClassic and Contemporary Essays: Is Superstition a Sign of Weakness or Strength?* Margaret Mead, New Superstitions for Old* Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Superstitious MindsRobert Coles, I Listen to My Parents and I Wonder What They BelieveWilliam J. Bennett, What Really Ails AmericaVirginia Woolf, The Death of the MothPlato, The Allegory of the CaveJohn Donne, No Man Is an IslandGilbert Highet, The Mystery of ZenStephen L. Carter, The Culture of DisbeliefC.S. Lewis, The Rival Conceptions of God*9. Communication, Film, and Media: How Do We Express Ourselves?* Classic and Contemporary Images: What Do Gangster Films Reveal about Us?Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, 1930Al Pacino in The Godfather, Part III, 1990Classic and Contemporary Essays: Why Are We Fascinated by Outlaws?* Robert Warshow, The Gangster as Tragic Hero* Roger Ebert, Review of Goodfellas * Amy Tan, The Language of DiscretionRita Dove, Loose EndsMarie Winn, Television AddictionHenry Louis Gates, Jr., 2 Live Crew, Decoded* Stephen King, My Creature from the Black LagoonDave Barry, Red, White, and BeerGeorge Orwell, Politics and the English LanguageCasey Miller and Kate Swift, Who's in Charge of the English Language?10. Science and Technology: What Can Science Teach Us?* Classic and Contemporary Images: Where Is Science Taking Us?Flemish School, The Movements of the Sun and Moon, Fifteenth CenturyJ. Hester and P. Scowen, Photograph of Gaseous Pillars taken from the Hubble Space Telescope, 1995*Classic and Contemporary Essays: What Is Technological Progress?Lewis Mumford, The Monastery and the ClockJeremy Rifkin, The Age of SimulationCharles Darwin, Natural Selection* Richard Selzer, SarcophagusCarl Sagan, Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of SandPerri Klass, Macho* Lewis Thomas, The Technology of Medicine* Loren Eiseley, The Bird and the MachineStephen J. Gould, The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDSTerry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-breasted Women11. Nature and the Environment: How Do We Relate to the Natural World?* Classic and Contemporary Images: Are We Destroying Our Natural World?John Frederick Kensett, Along the HudsonMichael Brophy, PowerlineClassic and Contemporary Essays: Do We Own Nature?Chief Seattle, Letter to President Pierce, 1855* Barry Lopez, The Stone HorseRachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure* Alice Walker, Am I Blue?* Noel Perrin, The Greenest Campuses: An Idiosyncratic GuideGretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open SpacesMark Twain, Two Views of The MississippiBarbara Kingsolver, High Tide in TucsonHenry David Thoreau, EconomyJohn Steinbeck, Americans and the Land12. A Guide to Research and DocumentationResearch Writing: Preconceptions and PracticeThe Research ProcessPhases in the Research ProcessPhase 1: Defining Your ObjectivePhase 2: Locating Your SourcesPhase 3: Gathering and Organizing DataPhase 4: Writing and Submitting the PaperDocumenting SourcesSample Student Paper
About the Author :
Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Muller's awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.
