The Blair Reader (4th Edition) - Softcover
This thematic collection of readings offers provocative selections, questions, and suggestions for writing designed to appeal to readers with varied backgrounds and reading levels. It encourages readers to think critically about a variety of contemporary issues that shape the world. Contains 125 thematically arranged, diverse, high-interest readings, including 114 essays, 2 short stories, and 7 poems. Combines time-tested favorites with provocative new pieces and represents a balance of genders, races, cultures, and viewpoints. Themes include Family and Memory, Issues in Education, The Politics of Language, Media and Society, Women and Men, The American Dream, The Wired Revolution, Medicine and Human Values, Earth in the Balance, and Making Choices. For anyone interested in contemporary literature.
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This thematic reader offers provocative readings, discussion questions, and writing assignments designed to appeal to students with varied backgrounds and reading levels. Easy to use in the classroom and accessible and engaging for students, this text encourages them to think critically and make their own contributions through discussion and writing to the issues that shape the world.
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THE BLAIR READER offers 114 essays, seven poems, and two short stories arranged thematically under ten interesting and thought-provoking topics (e.g., Family and Memory, The Politics of Language, The American Dream, and The Wired Revolution).
NEW FEATURES:
- Thirty-seven new selections highly-rated by faculty reviewers to encourage critical inquiry
- Photographic images with reflective thinking questions in every chapter
- End-of-chapter Internet research activities for further discovery
COMPANION WEBSITE™ www.prenhall.com/kirszner
The Companion Website provides additional chapter exercises, links, and activities that reinforce and build upon the material presented in the text.
Website features include:
· Additional essay and short answer questions for every reading
· Web links that provide additional contextual information
· Web destinations for each essay topic
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- PublisherPrentice Hall
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 013091066X
- ISBN 13 9780130910660
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number4
- Number of pages798
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