Reading the World: Ideas That Matter (Second Edition)
Austin, Michael
ISBN 10: 0393933490 ISBN 13: 9780393933499
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2010
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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 Reading the World 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.
About the Author: Michael Austin is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Snow College. Before moving to Utah, he served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at University of Evansville, 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.
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Title: Reading the World: Ideas That Matter (Second...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 2nd Edition