The New Humanities Reader (with 2016 MLA Update Card)

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THE NEW HUMANITIES READER presents 25 challenging and important essays from diverse fields that address current global issues. This cross-disciplinary anthology helps you attain the analytical skills necessary to become informed citizens. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for you to synthesize materials and formulate your own ideas and solutions. The thought-provoking selections engage and encourage you to make connections for yourself as you think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape your life. The fifth edition includes nearly 50 percent new selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition. Front Cover Contents Thematic Contents Preface Reading and Writing About the New Humanities New Humanities For New Times: The Search For Coherence Knowledge In Depth And Knowledge Of The World Creative Reading I: The Prospective View Creative Reading II: Interpretation and the Retrospective View Creative Reading III: Connective Thinking and the Search for a Shared Horizon Prospective Writing Developing a Thesis: From Prospective to Retrospective Writing The Spirit of the New Humanities Karen Armstrong Homo religiosus Leslie Bell Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom The Paradox Of Sexual Freedom Splitting Strategies Of Desire The Bad Girl: Jayanthi Tentative Identity The Bad-Girl Strategy The Good Girl: Alicia Good-Girl Rebel Escape From The Past Cathy Davidson Project Classroom Makeover Susan Faludi The Naked Citadel Barbara Fredrickson Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become Love, Our Supreme Emotion It's Not What You Think Love's Biology Love on the Brain Biochemistries in Love Touring Vagus Upward Spirals Unleashed Daniel Gilbert Immune to Reality Looking Forward To Looking Back Little Triggers The Intensity Trigger The Inescapability Trigger Explaining Away Onward Malcolm Gladwell The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime Karen Ho Biographies of Hegemony Recruitment The Cross-Pollination Of Elitism Elite Students and Life after Graduation "Wall Street University": Kinship Networks and Elite Extension Creating Pinnacle Status and Generic Smartness Steven Johnson The Myth of the Ant Queen Jonathan Lethem The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism Love and Theft Contamination Anxiety Surrounded by Signs Usemonopoly The Beauty of Second Use Source Hypocrisy, or, Disnial You Can't Steal a Gift The Commons Undiscovered Public Knowledge Give All Key: I Is Another Title Love and Theft Contamination Anxiety Surrounded By Signs Usemonopoly The Beauty of Second Use Source Hypocrisy, or, Disnial You Can't Steal a Gift The Commons Undiscovered Public Knowledge Give All Key to the Key Beth Loffeda Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder Michael Moss The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food I. 'In This Field , I'm A Game Changer.' II. 'Lunchtime Is All Yours.' III. 'It's Called Vanishing Caloric Density.' IV. 'These People Need A Lot Of Things, But They Don't Need A Coke." Azar Nafisi Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books Maggie Nelson Great to Watch Tim O'Brien How to Tell a True War Story Oliver Sacks The Mind's Eye Charles Siebert An Elephant Crackup? Andrew Solomon Son Joseph E. Stiglitz Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal Society General Principles Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and Inequality Shaping Markets Moving Money from the Bottom of the Pyramid to the Top Rent Seeking Monopoly Rents: Creating Sustainable Monopolies Politics: Getting to Set the Rules and Pick the Referee Government Munificence Martha Stout When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday Robert Thurman Wisdom Preamble: Selflessness Problem: Misknowledge and Self-Preoccupation Practice: Trying to Find Your "I" Sherry Turkle Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Life Reconsidered The Tamagotchi Primer Unforgettable Alive Enough What Does a Furby Want? Operating Procedures An Ethical Landscape Jean Twenge An Army of One: Me Boomers and Their "Journey" into the Self The Matter-of-Fact Self-Focus of Generation Me Changes in Self-Esteem: What the Data Say The Self-Esteem Curriculum Girls Are Great Self-Esteem and Academic Performance Are Self-Esteem Programs Good or Bad? Changes in Narcissism Ethan Watters The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan The Culture Of Sadness Junk Science And First World Medicine The Mega-Marketing Of Depression Speeding Up The Evolution Sources Tim Wu Father and Son Apple's Radical Origins Google Switches The Web The Internet And The Bell System A Battle For Territory Apple's Challenge To Its Own Territory Project Android Eight Sample Assignment Sequences Sequence One Sequence Two Sequence Three Sequence Four Sequence Five Sequence Six Sequence Seven Sequence Eight Author and Title Index Back Cover