Synopses & Reviews
Western and non-Western, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual, accessible and challenging. With 72 readings by thinkers from around the world--Plato to Toni Morrison, Lao Tzu to Aung San Suu Kyi-- is the only great ideas reader for composition students that offers a truly global perspective. The Second Edition offers more contemporary readings and provides more help to make the texts accessible for undergraduate readers. Brief overviews of each reading give students a sense of what the piece is about, and detailed headnotes call attention to the rhetoric of each reading to help students focus not only on what the authors say but also on how they say it.
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The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.
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'A wide selection of classic Western and non-Western texts allows students to explore the development of ideas at different times and in different cultures.
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'From Lao Tzu to Aristotle, Charles Darwin to Jomo Kenyatta, Reading the Worldis a collection of 79 texts by some of the world\'s great thinkers. And because ideas have long been expressed visually as well as verbally, the collection includes 15 drawings, paintings, photographs, and other visual works. Organized around universal themes, and featuring a wide selection of both Western and non-Western texts, Reading the Worldpresents a diversity of views on ideas that matter.'
About the Author
Michael Austin (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Newman University. He was previously Dean of Graduate Studies at Shepherd University, where he taught composition, world literature, and British literature. In addition to Reading the World, he is the author of A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams.