Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: Reading the World
- 1. Human Nature
- IMAGE The Shaft of the Dead Man
- Maitrâyana-Brâhmana-Upanishad
- Mencius, from the Mencius
- Hsün Tzu, Man’s Nature Is Evil
- IMAGE Giotto di Bondone, Madonna and Child
- Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan
- Sigmund Freud, The Dependent Relationship of the Ego
- IMAGE Igbo Mother and Child
- Ruth Benedict, The Individual and the Pattern of Culture
- Simone de Beauvoir, from The Ethics of Ambiguity
- 2. Law and Government
- Hammurabi’s Code
- IMAGE The Papyrus of Ani
- The Hebrew Bible, 1 Samuel 8-10
- Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, from the Aggañña Sutta
- Lao Tzu, from the Tao te Ching
- Prince Shotoku, Seventeen-Article Constitution
- Christine de Pizan, from The Treasure of the City of the Ladies
- Niccoló Machiavelli, from The Prince
- James Madison, Federalist #10
- Simón BolĖvar, An Address at the Congress of Angostura
- IMAGE Leni Riefenstahl, from The Triumph of the Will
- Jomo Kenyatta, The Gikuyu System of Government
- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail
- Aung San Suu Kyi, from In Quest of Democracy
- 3. War and Peace
- Sun Tzu, from The Art of War
- Bhagavad Gita, from Book 2
- St. Thomas Aquinas, from Summa Theologica
- Ibn Khaldun, Methods of Waging War Practiced by the Various Nations
- IMAGE Eugéne Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
- Carl von Clausewitz, What Is War?
- IMAGE Pablo Picasso, Guernica
- Margaret Mead, Warfare: An Invention—Not a Biological Necessity
- George Orwell, Pacifism and the War
- Arundhati Roy, Come September
- Jean Bethke Elshtain, What Is a Just War?
- 4. Wealth, Poverty, and Social Class
- Mo Tzu, Against Music
- New Testament, Luke, Chapter 16
- Quran, from Sura Four: Women
- Glückel of Hameln, from Memoirs
- IMAGE William Hogarth, Beer Street and Gin Lane
- Thomas Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from The Communist Manifesto
- Mohandas K. Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress
- Octavio Paz, from The Day of the Dead
- John Rawls, Two Principles of Justice
- Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: the Case against Helping the Poor
- 5. Science and Nature
- Aristotle, from Physics
- IMAGE Cosmological Chart of the Ptolemaic Universe
- Al-Ghazali, from The Incoherence of the Philosophers
- Averroës, from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
- Francis Bacon, from Novum Organum
- IMAGE Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
- Charles Darwin, from Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest
- Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
- Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan, The Universe in a Grain of Sand
- 6. Education
- Plato, Allegory of the Cave
- Hsün Tzu, Encouraging Learning
- Al-Ghazali, Manners to Be Observed by Teachers and Students
- IMAGE Ten Oxherding Pictures
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Émile, or On Education
- Pages from the New England Primer
- Mary Wollstonecraft, On National Education
- Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read
- John Henry Newman, from Knowledge Its Own End
- Simone Weil, Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
- Paulo Freire, The Banking Concept of Education
- 7. Language and Rhetoric
- Plato, from Gorgias
- Aristotle, from Rhetoric
- Han Fei Tzu, The Difficulties of Persuasion
- Gotama, from the Nyâya Sutras
- Cicero, from On Rhetorical Invention
- Quintilian, from Institutio Oratoria
- IMAGE Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech
- Kenneth Burke, from A Rhetoric of Motives
- Chinua Achebe, Language and the Destiny of Man
- IMAGE Ad for Chinese Population Policy
- Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
- June Jordan, Nobody Mean More to Me than You, and the Future Life of Willie Jordan
- Part Ii: A Guide to Reading and Writing
- 8. Reading Ideas
- Prereading
- Annotating
- Identifying Patterns
- Reading Visual Texts
- Summarizing
- Reading with a Critical Eye
- 9. Generating Ideas
- Considering Expectations
- Exploring Your Topic
- Achieving Subtlety
- 10. Structuring Ideas
- Thesis Statements
- Introductions
- Transitions
- Conclusions
- 11. Supporting Ideas
- Supporting Claims with Evidence
- Logos: Appeals to Logic and Reason
- Pathos: Appeals to Emotion
- Ethos: The Writer’s Appeal
- Anticipating Counterarguments
- 12. Synthesizing Ideas
- Summarizing Multiple Sources
- Comparing and Contrasting
- Finding Themes and Patterns
- Synthesizing Ideas to Form Your Own Argument
- 13. Incorporating Ideas
- Finding Sources
- Evaluating Sources
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
- Documenting Sources
- Sample Documented Paper (MLA Format)
- Revising, Rewriting, and Editing
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