An edition of Perspectives on contemporary issues
(2008)
Perspectives on contemporary issues
readings across the disciplines
1st Canadian ed.
by Katherine Anne Ackley, G. Kim Blank, and Stephen Eaton Hume
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Academic writing, Rhetoric, Anglais (Langue), Readers, Popular culture, English language, Lectures et morceaux choisis, College readers, Problemes et exercices, Rhetorique, Ecriture savante, Current events, Problems, exercises, Culture populaire, Actualite, Interdisciplinarite en education, Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement superieur), Interdisciplinary approach in educationShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Perspectives on contemporary issues: readings across the disciplines
2008, Thomson Nelson
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Table of Contents
pt. 1.
Writing critically and conducting research --
Reading critically --
Writing a summary --
Writing a critique --
Writing an argument --
Documenting sources using MLA style --
Writing a research paper using MLA style.
pt. 2.
The arts, media studies and popular culture.
Music -- Allan Bloom
Rock n' revolt -- Isabelle Leyamrie
Ogre to slay? outsource it to Chinese -- David Barboza
Aggression: the impact of media violence -- Sissela Bok
I agree with me -- R.J. O'Rourke
Playboy interview with Marshall McLuhan --
Selling suds [the text of the ad, my name is Joe, and I am Canadian] --
The game is at Canada's core, and no labor dispute can dislodge it -- Dough Beardsley
The game -- Ken Dryden
Chapter One from hockey dreams -- David Adams Richards
New age daydreams -- Pauline Kael
A Century of cinema -- Susan Sontag
Trailer Park Boys -- Dan Brown
Behold the stone age -- Robert Hughes
Canadian and colonial painting -- Northrop Frye
Letter to America -- Margaret Atwood.
pt. 3.
Social and behavioral sciences.
30 little turtles -- Thomas Friedman
Development without borders -- Kofi Annan
Africa's world of forced labor, in a 6-year-old's eyes -- Sharon LaFramiere
A Modest proposal -- Jonathan Swift
On the meaning of plumbing and poverty -- Melanie Scheller
On Dumpster Diving -- Lars Eighner
There are no lessons to be learned from Littleton -- Gary Kleck
Homeboy Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley) --
Another accolade for Charter Arms Corp. -- Mike Royko
Reaping what we sow -- David Frum
You can never have too many -- Jane Smiley
Marilyn Monroe: the woman who died too soon -- Gloria Steinem
Canada's mew PM worries gay couples -- Rebecca Cook Dube
Kill 'em! crush 'em! eat 'em raw -- John Mcmurtry
The ethics of courage -- Taiaiake Alfred
Letter from Birmingham jail -- Martin Luther King, Jr
From satchel through Hank Greenberg to el divino loco -- Mordecai Richler
Address by the Prime Minister on the Chinese head tax redress -- Stephen Harper
Japan's Kamikaze pilots and contemporary suicide bombers: war and terror -- Yuki Tanaka
Introduction to shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda Lt. -- Gen Romeo Dallaire (with Brent Beardsley)
An unquiet awakening -- Mordecai Richler
A new kind of war -- Ernest Hemingway
The unveiling of the American empire -- Chalmers Johnson
Women confronting the war -- Jennifer Turpin.
pt. 4.
Science and technology --
Wild web of China -- David Barboza
Code-breaker -- Jim Holt
Dining with robots -- Ellen Ullman
Genetics after Auschwitz -- David Suzuki
The discus thrower -- Richard Selzer
Evens bees must rest their heads -- Diane Ackerman
Cranes -- Jennifer Ackerman
Pandemic: my country is on its knees -- Stephen Lewis
Excerpt: a journal of the plague year -- Daniel Defoe
"This is the end of the world": the black death -- Barbara Tuchman
In epoch of man, earth takes a beating -- Marianna Gosnell
Chapter 1 of field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature and climate change -- Elizabeth Kolbert
Roughing It in the Bush: My plans for moose hunting in the Canadian wilderness -- Stephen Leacock
A fable for tomorrow -- Rachel Carson
Green winter -- Franke James.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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