The Little, Brown Reader - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 032102401X ISBN 13: 9780321024015

Casa editrice: Addison-Wesley, 2000

Riassunto

The eighth edition of The Little, Brown Reader offers abundant readings that engage readers and promote critical thinking and writing. Throughout the book, questions on individual works stimulate readers to think about writing analyses, evaluations, and other thoughtful responses. The strength of The Little, Brown Reader has always been the quality readings and the unmatched apparatus; the revision enhances both features, further improving the text's focus on critical thinking and writing.

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Instructors who have used The Little, Brown Reader know that it helps to develop students' powers of critical thinking and their skills as readers and writers.

• Five introductory chapters that emphasize ways of thoughtfully reading and responding to texts and to pictures.
• Over 140 readings, 60 of which are new to this edition, ranging from Plato to the present. Selections are arranged thematically, on topics such as art and life, teaching and learning, identities, and work, with a final chapter of "Classics Essays".
• Two new thematic chapters: "Memoirs" (Chapter 6) and "The Millennium" (Chapter 14).
• New casebooks in five of the thematic chapters: A Casebook on Divorce; A Casebook on Race; A Casebook on Computers in the Schools; A Casebook on Crime; and A Casebook on the Ethics of Cloning.
• Questions--"Topics for Critical Thinking and Writing"--after each selection.
• Photographs and "Short Views" at the beginning of each thematic chapter.

Product Description

Book by Stubbs Marcia Barnet Sylvan

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Addison-Wesley
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 032102401X
• ISBN 13: 9780321024015
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 893
• Redattore: Stubbs Marcia, Barnet Sylvan
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Pearson; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; Italia