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75 Readings offers an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at less than $20 net (half the price of most readers), 75 Readings offers an excellent value for students.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1NARRATION 1George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Maya Angelou: Grandmother’s Victory Malcolm X: Coming to an Awareness of Language David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day Martin Gansberg: Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police
Chapter 2DESCRIPTION James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown E.B. White: Once More to the Lake Joan Didion: Marrying Absurd Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood F. Scott Momaday: Revisiting Sacred GroundMichael Byers: Monuments to Our Better Nature
Chapter 3PROCESS ANALYSIS Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Richard Marius: Writing Drafts John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes: Alone on the HilltopEdward Abbey: The Serpents of ParadiseAlan Lightman: Smile
Chapter 4DEFINITION Susan Sontag: Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source? Jo Goodwin Parker: What Is Poverty? Ellen Goodman: The Company Man Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a Word Tom Haines: Facing FamineJoe Epstein: The Green-Eyed Monster
Chapter 5CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Donald Hall: Four Kinds of ReadingKesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America Judith Viorst: The Truth about Lying William Lutz: Doublespeak Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the Imagination
Chapter 6COMPARISON AND CONTRAST Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers Mark Twain: Two Views of the Mississippi Scott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleVirginia Woolf: Shakespeare’s SisterBharati Mukherjee: Two Ways to Belong in America
Chapter 7EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for Superstition Edward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners Brent Staples: Black Men and Public Space Franz Kafka: Letter to His Father William Zinsser: ClutterBailey White: Forbidden ThingsJohn McPhee: Silk Parachute
Chapter 8CAUSE AND EFFECT Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone? Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably K. C. Cole: The Arrow of Time Paul Salopek: Shattered SudanDavid Ewing Duncan: DNA as Destiny
Chapter 9ANALOGY Plato: The Myth of the Cave Alice Walker: Am I Blue? Horace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic Prison Annie Dillard: Living Like Weasels
Chapter 10ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION ARGUMENT Economics and Social ResponsibilityBarbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse? Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor Jonathan Kozol: The Details of Life
Free SpeechNat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowitz: Shouting “Fire!”
CloningBrendan I. Koerner: Embryo PoliceJames Greenwood and Sam Brownback: Symposium: Should Congress Use Tax Dollars to Fund Therapeutic Cloning? PERSUASIONJonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and UnrealisticNaomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife Medicine Grizzlybear Lake: An Indian Father’s PleaBill McKibben: Designer Genes
Chapter 11MIXED STRATEGIES Stephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War Sandra Cisneros: Only Daughter Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. Acme Frank Bures: Test Day


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780073125138
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Edition: 0010-
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 007312513X
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 446
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 438 gr


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