The presence of others : voices and images that call for response / [edited by] Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lunsford, Andrea A., 1942-

Ruszkiewicz, John J., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College readers.

English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.

English language.

Critical thinking--Problems, exercises, etc.

Critical thinking.

Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.

Report writing.

English language--Rhetoric.

Genre:

Problems and exercises

Physical Description:

xxxii, 701 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

5th ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, ©2008.

Contents:

1. On reading and thinking critically

2. From reading to writing

3. Education. The idea of a university / John Henry Newman

Learning in the key of life / John Spayde

What does a woman need to know? / Adrienne Rich

Can this campus be bought? / Jennifer L. Croissant

Lives on the boundary / Mike Rose

Football is a sucker's game / Michael Sokolove

Slate's College makeover

Male pride and female prejudice / John Tierney

The war against boys / Christina Hoff Sommers

Girls against boys? / Katha Pollitt

Acting white / Roland G. Fryer

We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks.

4. Ethics. Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.

The rules about the rules / Stephen L. Carter

Grade A: the market for a Yale woman's eggs / Jessica Cohen

A whole lot of cheatin' going on / Mark Clayton

An animal's place / Michael Pollan

The making of a divorce culture / Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Scenes from the exhibitionists / Kay S. Hymowitz

The moral hazard myth / Malcolm Gladwell

Where would you rather be sick? / David Gratzer

Whatever it takes / Jane Mayer

With "all necessary and appropriate force" / John Yoo

Ta / Nora Naranjo-Morse.

5. Science and technology. Frankenstein / Mary Shelley

My bionic quest for Boléro / Michael Chorost

Enemies of promise / J. Michael Bishop

Biotech century: playing ecological roulette with Mother Nature's designs / Jeremy Rifkin

Cars and their enemies / James Q. Wilson

Struggling back from war's once-deadly wounds / Denise Grady

The new fundamentalism / Gregg Easterbrook

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's open letter to the Kansas School Board / Bobby Henderson

The image culture / Christine Rosen.

6. Identities. Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth

The end of gay culture / Andrew Sullivan

No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston

Guys vs. men / Dave Barry

How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston

An ode to country music from a black Dixie chick / Tyina L. Steptoe

Witness / Andre Dubus

Should English be the law? / Robert D. King

Common scents / Lynda Barry

The good immigrant student / Bich Minh Nguyen

What Sacagawea means to me / Sherman Alexie

Reptile dreams / Keith Bradsher

Making peace with the Greeks / Susanna Ashton

Theme for English B / Langston Hughes.

7. American cultural myths. Declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson

What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass

The real story of the superheroes / Dulce Pinzón

A letter to America / Margaret Atwood

Cultural globalization is not Americanization / Philippe Legrain

One nation, slightly divisible / David Brooks

And our flag was still there / Barbara Kingsolver

A secret society of the starving / Mim Udovitch

The way we wish we were / Stephanie Coontz

In the ruins / Nicholas Lemann

Free inquiry?: not on campus / John Leo.

8. Business and labor. Women and work / Meridel Lesueur

The other gender gap: why women still fail to receive comparable wages for comparable work / Naomi Barko

Gender / Steven Pinker

Work makes life sweet / bell hooks

Work union / Dagoberto Gilb

The most dangerous job / Eric Schlosser

Don't do the math / James Surowiecki

In praise of chain stores / Virginia Postrel

Global cooling costs too much / Jonah Goldberg

To be of use / Marge Piercy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780312464394

0312464398

OCLC:

196599772