50 Essays
Subtitle: A Portable Anthology
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: September 17, 2010
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780312609658
Table of contents: title: Preface for instructors; title: Introduction for students : Active reading, critical thinking, and the writing process; title: The joy of reading and writing : Superman and me / Sherman Alexie; title: Graduation / Maya Angelou; title: How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua; title: On compassion / Barbara Lazear Ascher; title: Notes of a native son / James Baldwin; title: Turkeys in the kitchen / Dave Barry; title: Why don't we complain?/ William F. Buckley Jr.; title: The obligation to endure / Rachel Carson; title: The myth of the Latin woman : I just met a girl named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer; title: The ends of the world as we know them / Jared Diamon; title: On morality / Joan Didion; title: Seeing / Annie Dillard; title: Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass; title: Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner; title: The ways we lie / Stephanie Ericsson; title: Sex, drugs, disasters, and the extinction of dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould; title: Salvation / Langston Hughes; title: How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston; title: The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson; title: Games / Steven Johnson; title: Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr.; title: No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Our vanishing night / Verlyn Klinkenborg; title: The Fourth of July / Audre Lorde; title: On being a cripple / Nancy Mairs; title: Learning to read / Malcolm X; title: Curbing nature's paparazzi / Bill McKibben; title: The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday; title: Two ways to belong in America / Bharati Mukherjee; title: Shooting an elephant / George Orwell; title: The allegory of the cave / Plato; title: What's eating America / Michael Pollan; title: Aria : memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez; title: “I just wanna be average” / Mike Rose; title: The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders; title: Kid Kustomers / Eric Schlosser; title: A plague of tics / David Sedaris; title: Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag; title: Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton; title: Just walk on by : Black men and public space / Brent Staples; title: A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift; title: Mother tongue / Amy Tan; title: Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau; title: Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth; title: Shooting Dad / Sarah Vowell; title: In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker; title: Once more to the lake / E. B. White; title: Television : the plug-in drug / Marie Winn; title: Death of the moth / Virginia Woolf; title: Documentation guide; title: Glossary of writing terms