The Carolina reader
By: edited by Lee Bauknight with William W. Garland
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Fountainhead Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Southlake, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781598716634
Subjects: College readers; Academic writing; Problems, exercises; English language; Rhetoric; Report writing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "National Information Literacy Awareness Month: a proclamation" / President Barack Obama; title: "Drowning, surfing and surviving" / James Gleick; title: Reading the world. "The allegory of the cave" / Plato; title: "The wreck of time: taking our century's measure" / Annie Dillard; title: "Imagination and reality" / Jeanette Winterson; title: "What will future generations condemn us for?" / Kwame Anthony Appiah; title: "One professor's attempt to explain every joke ever" / Joel Warner; title: "Wake up, geek culture. Time to die" / Patton Oswald; title: "Dehumanized: when math and science rule the school" / Mark Slouka; title: "Even for cashiers, college pays off" / David Leonhardt; title: Reading response. "Am I my brother's keeper?" / Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner; title: Excerpt from The lonely American / Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz; title: Excerpt from Do it anyway: the new generation of activists / Courtney E. Martin; title: "Is pure altruism possible?" / Judith Lichtenberg; title: "Why he's putting your face all over the world" / Guy Horton; title: "SlutWalks and the future of feminism" / Jessica VAlenti; title: "Indian women alter SlutWalk" / Rama Lakshmi; title: "Sports: a powerful strategy to advance women's rights" / Astrid Aafjes; title: "Sports saves the world" / Alexander Wolff; title: "How much are we willing to share?" / Monica Potts; title: Reading.com. "The third replicator" / Susan Blackmore; title: "Trolls" / Jaron Lanier; title: "What if privacy is keeping us from reaping the real benefits of the infosphere?" / Leon Neyfakh; title: "Hooked on technology, and paying a price" / Matt Richtel; title: "Is Google making us stupid?" / Nicholas Carr; title: "Get smarter" / Jamais Cascio; title: "Nation shudders at large block of uninterrupted text" / The Onion; title: "Wall of sound" / Nikil Saval; title: "Liking is for cowards. Go for what hurts." / Jonathan Franzen; title: "Even in real life, there were screens between us" / Caitlin Dewey; title: Reading Green. "For the love of life" / Edward O. Wilson; title: "In defense of difference" / Maywa Montenegro and Terry Glavin; title: Excerpts from The American forests / John Muir; title: Excerpts from Ecology of a cracker childhood / Janisse Ray; title: Excerpt from As the world burns: 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial / Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan; title: "Prime-time subversion: the environmental rhetoric of The Simpsons" / Anne Marie Todd; title: "The geoengineering gambit" / Kevin Bullis; title: "Reframing the problems" / Stewart Brand; title: Reading eating. Excerpts from "The cooking ape" / Elisabeth Townsend; title: "The pleasures of eating" / Wendell Berry; title: "The culinary seasons of my childhood" / Jessica B. Harris; title: "A healthy constitution" / Alice Waters; title: Angelica Kitchen menu; title: "Attention Whole Food shoppers" / Robert Paarlbert; title: "Fear factories: the case for compassionate conservatism; title: for animals" / Matthew Scully; title: "Organic foods: do eco-friendly attitudes predict eco-friendly behaviors?" / Molly J. Dahm, Aurelia V. Samonte, and Amy R. Shows; title: "Bad food? Tax it" / Mark Bittman; title: "Declare your independence" / Joel Salatin.