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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Volume I

Lawrence S. Cunningham, John J. Reich

Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available without end-of-chapter readings in two volumes, or as an alternate single comprehensive volume, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities. The volumes without readings can be customized with readings that you select through our innovative 'Make It Yours' program. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Humanities

Thomas Sinclair

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Discovering the Humanities

Henry M. Sayre

Combined and modified edition of: Humanities: culture, continuity & change. 2nd ed. 2012.

The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies

Eckhardt Fuchs, Annekatrin Bock

This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies. Cutting-edge essays by leading experts and emerging scholars explore the field’s theories, methodologies, and topics with the goal of generating debate and providing new perspectives. The Georg Eckert Institute’s unique transdisciplinary focus on international textbook research has shaped this handbook, which explores the history of the discipline, the production processes and contexts that influence textbooks, the concepts they incorporate, how this medium itself is received and future trends. The book maps and discusses approaches based in cultural studies as well as in the social and educational sciences in addition to contemporary methodologies used in the field. The book aims to become the central interdisciplinary reference for textbook researchers, students, and educational practitioners.

Culture and Values

A Survey of the Humanities

Lawrence S. Cunningham, John J. Reich

Includes selections from various works with some explanatory remarks.

The Changing Humanities

An Appraisal of Old Values and New Uses

David Harrison Stevens

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Culture and Values, Volume I: A Survey of the Humanities with Readings

Lawrence Cunningham, John Reich

Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available without end-of-chapter readings in two volumes, or as an alternate single comprehensive volume, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities. The volumes without readings can be customized with readings that you select through our innovative ’Make It Yours’ program. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

HUMANITIES THROUGH THE ARTS

F. DAVID. MARTIN

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Global Humanities Reader

Volume 2 - Engaging Premodern Worlds and Perspectives

Renuka Gusain, Keya Maitra, Katherine C. Zubko

The Global Humanities Reader is a collaboratively edited collection of primary sources with student-centered support features. It serves as the core curriculum of the University of North Carolina Asheville's almost-sixty-year-old interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Its three volumes--Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 1), Engaging Premodern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 2), and Engaging Modern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 3)--offer accessible ways to explore facets of human subjectivity and interconnectedness across cultures, times, and places. In highlighting the struggles and resilient strategies for surviving and thriving from multiple perspectives and positionalities, and through diverse voices, these volumes course correct from humanities textbooks that remain Western-centric. One of the main features of the The Global Humanities Reader is a sustained and nuanced focus on cultivating the ability to ask questions--to inquire--while enhancing culturally aware, reflective, and interdisciplinary engagements with the materials. The editorial team created a thoroughly interactive text with the following unique features that work together to actualize student success: * Cross-cultural historical introductions to each volume * Comprehensive and source-specific timelines highlighting periods, events, and people around the world * An introduction for each source with bolded key terms and questions to facilitate active engagement * Primed and Ready questions (PARs)--questions just before and after a reading that activate students' own knowledge and skills * Inquiry Corner--questions consisting of four types: Content, Comparative, Critical, and Connection * Beyond the Classroom--explore how ideas discussed in sources can apply to broader social contexts, such as job, career, project teams or professional communities * Glossary of Tags--topical 'hubs' that point to exciting new connections across multiple sources These volumes reflect the central role of Humanities in deepening an empathic understanding of human experience and cultivating culturally appropriate and community-centered problem-solving skills that help us flourish as global and local citizens.

Global Humanities Reader

Volume 1 - Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives

Brian S. Hook, Sophie Mills, Katherine C. Zubko, Keya Maitra

The Global Humanities Reader is a collaboratively edited collection of primary sources with student-centered support features. It serves as the core curriculum of the University of North Carolina Asheville's almost-sixty-year-old interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Its three volumes--Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 1), Engaging Premodern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 2), and Engaging Modern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 3)--offer accessible ways to explore facets of human subjectivity and interconnectedness across cultures, times, and places. In highlighting the struggles and resilient strategies for surviving and thriving from multiple perspectives and positionalities, and through diverse voices, these volumes course correct from humanities textbooks that remain Western-centric. One of the main features of the The Global Humanities Reader is a sustained and nuanced focus on cultivating the ability to ask questions--to inquire--while enhancing culturally aware, reflective, and interdisciplinary engagements with the materials. The editorial team created a thoroughly interactive text with the following unique features that work together to actualize student success: * Cross-cultural historical introductions to each volume * Comprehensive and source-specific timelines highlighting periods, events, and people around the world * An introduction for each source with bolded key terms and questions to facilitate active engagement * Primed and Ready questions (PARs)--questions just before and after a reading that activate students' own knowledge and skills * Inquiry Corner--questions consisting of four types: Content, Comparative, Critical, and Connection * Beyond the Classroom--explore how ideas discussed in sources can apply to broader social contexts, such as job, career, project teams or professional communities * Glossary of Tags--topical 'hubs' that point to exciting new connections across multiple sources These volumes reflect the central role of Humanities in deepening an empathic understanding of human experience and cultivating culturally appropriate and community-centered problem-solving skills that help us flourish as global and local citizens.

Writing about the Humanities

Robert DiYanni

Writing About the Humanities is a reader-friendly handbook designed to guide students through the writing process. Designed primarily for use in introductory humanities courses, this text helps students write about specific disciplines, including art and architecture, music, fiction and poetry, drama and theater, and dance and film. Highlights of this revision include a new oral presentation guide, new content on film, dance, sculpture, and architecture, and new student essays on sculpture and architecture. Book jacket.

University Language

A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers

Douglas Biber

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic study to date has investigated the range of academic and advising/management registers that students encounter. This book is a first step towards filling this gap. Based on analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus, the book describes university registers from several different perspectives, including: vocabularly patterns; the use of lexico-grammatical and syntactic features; the expression of stance; the use of extended collocations ('lexical bundles'); and a Multi-Dimensional analysis of the overall patterns of register variation. All linguistic patterns are interpreted in functional terms, resulting in an overall characterization of the typical kinds of language that students encounter in university registers: academic and non-academic; spoken and written.

The Humanities

Cultural Roots and Continuities

CENGAGE Learning

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The Humanities

Cultural Roots and Continuities

Mary Ann Frese Witt, Charlotte Brown, Roberta Dunbar, Frank Tirro

"The Humanities" provides an overview of the liberal arts, including literature, art, music, philosophy, and history. The book comes equipped with numerous pedagogical aids, including a web site that features 50-60 art images. The text begins with a "Chronicle of Events," which provides a timetable of key events in world history. "Continuities" sections--which cover political life, religion, art, music, and writing--summarize each part of the text by reviewing the lasting contributions of each society.

Culture and Values, Volume II: A Survey of the Humanities with Readings

Lawrence Cunningham, John Reich

Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available without end-of-chapter readings in two volumes, or as an alternate single comprehensive volume, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities. The volumes without readings can be customized with readings that you select through our innovative ’Make It Yours’ program. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Culture and Values, Volume I

Lawrence S. Cunningham, John J. Reich

Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without end-of-chapter readings, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities.

What's Worth Learning?

Marion Brady

The book explores essential knowledge for learners facing a complex future, criticizing the outdated core curriculum. It proposes organizing knowledge to improve intellectual performance and reduce education costs, offering a classroom-tested course of study for adolescents and older students.

The Humanities

Culture, Continuity, and Change, Book 2 (with MyHumanitiesKit Student Access Kit)

Henry M. Sayre

The Humanities by Henry M. Sayre helps the reader see context and make connections across the humanities by tying together the entire cultural experience through a narrative storytelling approach.