Overview
CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES, Ninth Edition, takes you on a tour of some of the world's most interesting and significant examples of art, music, philosophy, and literature, from the beginnings of civilization to today. Chapter previews, timelines, glossaries of key terms, Compare + Contrast, new Connections and Culture & Society features, and 'Big Picture' reviews all help make it easy for you to learn the material and study more effectively. Links to full readings and playlists of the music selections discussed in your text are available online in MindTap, where you will also find study resources and such tools as image flashcards, guides to research and writing, practice quizzes and exercises, and more.
Full Product Details
Author: Lawrence Cunningham (University of Notre Dame) ,
John Reich (Visiting Professor, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy) ,
Lois Fichner-Rathus (College of New Jersey)
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Edition: 9th edition
Dimensions:
Width: 22.80cm
, Height: 27.40cm
, Length: 2.50cm
Weight: 1.065kg
ISBN: 9781305958104
ISBN 10: 1305958101
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 01 January 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By: 9780357640098
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
-The text is great in that it covers everything, which allows the professors to focus on just a few eras or all of them.-
The text is great in that it covers everything, which allows the professors to focus on just a few eras or all of them. Culture and Values represents the best scholarship of any of the humanities texts. Each sentence hints at volumes of scholarship.
The text is great in that it covers everything, which allows the professors to focus on just a few eras or all of them.
Culture and Values represents the best scholarship of any of the humanities texts. Each sentence hints at volumes of scholarship. The text is great in that it covers everything, which allows the professors to focus on just a few eras or all of them.
Culture and Values represents the best scholarship of any of the humanities texts. Each sentence hints at volumes of scholarship. The text is great in that it covers everything, which allows the professors to focus on just a few eras or all of them. -Culture and Values represents the best scholarship of any of the humanities texts. Each sentence hints at volumes of scholarship.- -The text is great in that it covers everything, which allows the professors to focus on just a few eras or all of them.-
Author Information
Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus) at the University of Notre Dame. The author or editor of over 25 books and hundreds of essays and reviews, his books reflect his interest in the history of Christian spirituality, hagiography, the intersection of theology and culture, as well as the relationship of contemplation and action. Professor Cunningham is the recipient of three honorary doctorates and the winner of Notre Dame's Presidential Award for service to academy and church (2002) and the Christus Magister award from the University of Portland in 2011 for distinguished scholarship and teaching. He has served as a visiting lecturer in this country and in Europe, Asia, and South Africa. A native of England, John J. Reich was trained as a classical archaeologist and did both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Manchester. He is an authority on Minoan civilization, pre-Roman Italy, and music. Professor Reich is associated with the Syracuse University study program in Florence, Italy. He lectures frequently in Europe and the United States on history, art, and the humanities and is the author of many scholarly articles and several books, including ITALY BEFORE ROME (1979). Lois Fichner-Rathus is a professor of art in the Department of Art and Art History of The College of New Jersey. She holds a combined undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history, an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and a Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include contemporary art, feminist art history and criticism and modern art and architecture as well as the theory and foundations of art and design. Dr. Fichner-Rathus is also the author of the Cengage Learning textbooks, UNDERSTANDING ART and FOUNDATIONS OF ART AND DESIGN. She teaches study-abroad programs in Paris, Rome, Spain and Cuba and resides in New York.
