New Humanities Reader

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The New Humanities Reader is the cross-disciplinary anthology for first-year composition that has revolutionized the esteemed writing program at Rutgers University. This text requires students to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write. Thousands of students who have class tested the "new humanities" approach and many of the readings in this volume, have responded with more reflective and interesting papers. 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 wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for students to synthesize materials and come up with their own ideas and solutions. Students will be engaged by reading and rereading, analyzing, and working with these selections because they present powerful ideas, not simply because they are models of good writing style. Articles and essays are alphabetically organized by last name of writer to allow instructors maximum flexibility in organization.The 32 high-interest selections are drawn from well-known nonfiction trade books, newly published writers, and periodicals, including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times.Selections address such significant, global issues as the population explosion, a diminishing water supply, and racial inequities.The New Humanities Web Site for students features more information on each author and his or her areas of interest, hot links to related sites, sample student papers, advice on protecting against plagiarism, grading criteria, and moreThe New Humanities Web Site for instructors provides numerous sample assignments and assignment sequences submitted by users of the text, professional issue essays by the authors, essays on how to use text, and more. Front Cover Contents Preface New Humanities for New Times: The Search for Coherence Knowledge in Depth and Knowledge of the World Creative Reading: From Explicit to Implicit Connective Thinking: The Search for a Shared Horizon Writing to Tell, Writing to See Developing a Position The Spirit of the New Humanities David Abram The Ecology of Magic: A Personal Introduction to the Inquiry Lila Abu-Lughod Honor and Shame The Education of Girls Arranged Marriage Generations The Dangers of Schooling Egyptians Europeans Piety A New Order Marcia Angell Science in the Courtroom: Opinions Without Evidence Karen Armstrong Does God Have a Future? Benjamin R. Barber Time, Work, and Leisure in a Civil Society Jasper Becker Selections from Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine False Science, False Promises The Popularization of New Breeds and Seeds Close Planting Deep Ploughing Increased Fertilization The Innovation of Farm Tools Improved Field Management Pest Control Increased Irrigation How Many Died? Jonathan Boyarin Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul Peter Ho Davies What You Know Annie Dillard The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century's Measure II III IV V VI VII Ellen Dissanayake The Core of Art: Making Special The Extra-Ordinary Play and Ritual Differentiating Ordinary from Extra-Ordinary A Closer Look at Making Special The Relationship of Making Special and Art Implications of Making Special Peter F. Drucker The Age of Social Transformation The Social Structure Transformed The Rise and Fall of the Blue-Collar Workers The Rise of the Knowledge Worker The Emerging Knowledge Society How Knowledges Work What Is an Employee? Management in the Knowledge Society The Social Sector The School as Society's Center How Can Government Function? The Need for Social and Political Innovation Susan Faludi The Naked Citadel Malcolm Gladwell The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime 1 3 4 5 Jane Goodall Selections from Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe The Mind of the Chimpanzee Bridging the Gap Stephen Jay Gould What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean, Anyway? A Reverie for the Opening of the New Hayden Planetarium Lani Guinier Second Proms and Second Primaries: The Limits of Majority Rule The Case of the Majority Vote Run-off Racial Districting Proportionality Stephen S. Hall Prescription for Profit Hazel Henderson Perfecting Democracy's Tools Democracy's Future: Citizens Want to Set Priorities Mary Kaldor Beyond Militarism, Arms Races, and Arms Control Netforce: Informal or Privatized Armed Forces The New American Militarism Neo-Modern Militarism Protectionforce: Peacekeeping/Peace-Enforcement Controlling War? Jon Krakauer Selections from Into the Wild The Alaska Interior The Stampede Trail Beth Loffreda Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder Martha Nussbaum Women and Cultural Universals I. A Matter of Survival II. Anti-Universalist Conversations III. The Attack on Universalism Neglect of Historical and Cultural Differences Neglect of Autonomy Prejudicial Application IV. A Conception of the Human Being: The Central Human Capabilities Central Human Functional Capabilities V. Capability as Goal VI. Answering the Objections: Human Functioning and Pluralism VII. Women and Men: Two Norms or One? Henry Petroski Selections from To Engineer Is Human Being Human Lessons from Play; Lessons from Life Michael Pollan Playing God in the Garden Planting Sprouting Growing Flowering Meeting the Beetles Harvest Eric Schlosser Global Realization Uncle McDonald At the Circus McLibel Back at the Ranch James C. Scott Behind the Official Story Mitchell Stephens Thinking "Above The Stream": New Philosophies Alexander Stille The Ganges' Next Life Deborah Tannen The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue Roots of the Adversarial Approach to Knowledge Onward, Christian Soldiers Sharing Time: Early Training in School Integrating Women in the Classroom Army Learning by Fighting Graduate School as Boot Camp The Culture of Critique: Attack in the Academy Believing as Thinking The Socratic Method - Or Is It? Knowledge as Warring Camps Question the Basic Assumption Consensus Through Dissension? Who Will Be Left to Lead? The Cost in Human Spirit Getting Beyond Dualism Moving from Debate to Dialogue Frans de Waal Selections from The Ape and the Sushi Master Survival of the Kindest: Of Selfish Genes and Unselfish Dogs The Spider and the Fly The Midwife Bat Depressed Rescue Dogs Apples and Oranges Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness Westermarck Beats Freud Bulldog Bites Master Moral Emotions The Ke Willow Jan Willis Selections from Dreaming Me Decision Time: A "Piece" or Peace? This, Too, Is Buddha's Mind My Great Seal Retreat Ian Wilmut Cloning People Just Another Reproductive Technology? Are Clones Identical? Why Clone People? Cloning to Overcome Infertility People Engineered Risk Acknowledgments Author and Title Index Back Cover