Designed to help students attain the analytical skills and big-picture overview necessary to become informed citizens, the collection contains challenging and important readings from diverse fields that address critical issues in contemporary society. Ideas and research from wid…
[This book] sets out to reinvent composition as the one place in the curriculum where students - and their instructors - can draw on multiple disciplines to explore the most pressing issues of our time: globalization, the widening gap between rich and poor, biotechnology, the in…
The new humanities reader
by Spellmeyer, Kurt, Miller, Richard Earl, Miller, Richard Earl
[This book] sets out to reinvent composition as the one place in the curriculum where students - and their instructors - can draw on multiple disciplines to explore the most pressing issues of our time: globalization, the widening gap between rich and poor, biotechnology, the in…
Timely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world - and offers a clarion call to awaken from a pervasive culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane pea…