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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.

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Author:   Santi Buscemi ,  Charlotte Smith
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Edition:   10th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.10cm
Weight:   0.438kg
ISBN:  

9780073125138

ISBN 10:   007312513
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   16 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   0073383856
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

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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Santi V. Buscemi teaches reading, composition, and literature at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, where he was chair of the Department of English for twenty-eight years. He is the author of A Reader for College Writers, 75 Readings, and 75 Readings Plus. He has lectured on freshman composition and developmental education at regional and national conferences in the United States and South Africa.

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