Perspectives on contemporary issues
Subtitle: readings across the disciplines
By: [compiled and edited by] Katherine Anne Ackley, G. Kim Blank, Stephen Eaton Hume
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: Thomson Nelson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780176103286
Subjects: 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 education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Writing critically and conducting research --; title: Reading critically --; title: Writing a summary --; title: Writing a critique --; title: Writing an argument --; title: Documenting sources using MLA style --; title: Writing a research paper using MLA style.; title: pt. 2.; title: The arts, media studies and popular culture.; title: Music  -- Allan Bloom; title: Rock n' revolt  -- Isabelle Leyamrie; title: Ogre to slay? outsource it to Chinese  -- David Barboza; title: Aggression: the impact of media violence  -- Sissela Bok; title: I agree with me  -- R.J. O'Rourke; title: Playboy interview with Marshall McLuhan --; title: Selling suds [the text of the ad, my name is Joe, and I am Canadian] --; title: The game is at Canada's core, and no labor dispute can dislodge it  -- Dough Beardsley; title: The game  -- Ken Dryden; title: Chapter One from hockey dreams  -- David Adams Richards; title: New age daydreams  -- Pauline Kael; title: A Century of cinema  -- Susan Sontag; title: Trailer Park Boys  -- Dan Brown; title: Behold the stone age  -- Robert Hughes; title: Canadian and colonial painting  -- Northrop Frye; title: Letter to America -- Margaret Atwood.; title: pt. 3.; title: Social and behavioral sciences.; title: 30 little turtles  -- Thomas Friedman; title: Development without borders  -- Kofi Annan; title: Africa's world of forced labor, in a 6-year-old's eyes  -- Sharon LaFramiere; title: A Modest proposal  -- Jonathan Swift; title: On the meaning of plumbing and poverty  -- Melanie Scheller; title: On Dumpster Diving  -- Lars Eighner; title: There are no lessons to be learned from Littleton  -- Gary Kleck; title: Homeboy Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley) --; title: Another accolade for Charter Arms Corp.  -- Mike Royko; title: Reaping what we sow  -- David Frum; title: You can never have too many  -- Jane Smiley; title: Marilyn Monroe: the woman who died too soon  -- Gloria Steinem; title: Canada's mew PM worries gay couples  -- Rebecca Cook Dube; title: Kill 'em! crush 'em! eat 'em raw  -- John Mcmurtry; title: The ethics of courage  -- Taiaiake Alfred; title: Letter from Birmingham jail  -- Martin Luther King, Jr; title: From satchel through Hank Greenberg to el divino loco  -- Mordecai Richler; title: Address by the Prime Minister on the Chinese head tax redress  -- Stephen Harper; title: Japan's Kamikaze pilots and contemporary suicide bombers: war and terror  -- Yuki Tanaka; title: Introduction to shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda Lt.  -- Gen Romeo Dallaire (with Brent Beardsley); title: An unquiet awakening  -- Mordecai Richler; title: A new kind of war  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: The unveiling of the American empire  -- Chalmers Johnson; title: Women confronting the war -- Jennifer Turpin.; title: pt. 4.; title: Science and technology --; title: Wild web of China  -- David Barboza; title: Code-breaker  -- Jim Holt; title: Dining with robots  -- Ellen Ullman; title: Genetics after Auschwitz  -- David Suzuki; title: The discus thrower  -- Richard Selzer; title: Evens bees must rest their heads  -- Diane Ackerman; title: Cranes  -- Jennifer Ackerman; title: Pandemic: my country is on its knees  -- Stephen Lewis; title: Excerpt: a journal of the plague year  -- Daniel Defoe; title: "This is the end of the world": the black death  -- Barbara Tuchman; title: In epoch of man, earth takes a beating  -- Marianna Gosnell; title: Chapter 1 of field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature and climate change  -- Elizabeth Kolbert; title: Roughing It in the Bush: My plans for moose hunting in the Canadian wilderness  -- Stephen Leacock; title: A fable for tomorrow  -- Rachel Carson; title: Green winter -- Franke James.