Reading the World
Ideas That Matter
3rd Edition
Published on 13. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-0-393-93630-8 (ISBN)
Description
With 80 readings by some of the world's greatest thinkers-from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldua to Toni Morrison-Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.
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Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-93630-8 (9780393936308)
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07/2017
3rd Edition
WW Norton & Co
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09/2010
2nd Edition
WW Norton & Co
€68.27
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Person
Michael Austin is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Snow College. Before moving to Utah, he served as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at University of Evansville, and before that, Dean of Graduate Studies at Shepherd University (West Virginia) where he taught composition, world literature, and British literature. In addition to Reading the World, he is the author of several books, including A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams.