Reading the World: Ideas That Matter - Softcover

Austin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393927865 ISBN 13: 9780393927863

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Synopsis

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.

From Lao Tzu to Aristotle, Charles Darwin to Jomo Kenyatta, Reading the World is 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 World presents a diversity of views on ideas that matter.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Austin (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at University of Evansville. Before moving to Evansville, he was Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Newman University (Kansas), and before that, Dean of Graduate Studies at Shepherd University (West Virginia) where he taught composition, world literature, and British literature. In addition to Reading the World, he is the author of several books, including A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0393927865
• ISBN 13: 9780393927863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 700