The Blair Reader: Exploring Contemporary Issues |  | Authors: Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 6th
Pages: 848
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 013230869X
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.0427
EAN: 9780132308694
ASIN: 013230869X
Publication Date: February 8, 2007
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This collection offers provocative selections designed to appeal to readers with varied backgrounds. Accessible and engaging, The Blair Reader encourages critical thinking; you can make your own decisions about issues that shape the world. The sixth edition includes new ficiton, literature, and poetry as well as new essays and new illustrations. Varied and numerous, the themes covered in this collection include: Family and Memory, Issues in Education, The Politics of Language, Media and Society, Women and Men, The American Dream, The Wired Revolution, Medicine and Human Values, Earth in the Balance, and Making Choices. An interesting and exciting group of selections for anyone interested in the world's issues, and how writers, past and present, have interpreted them.
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 Great book if you want to get ripped off. November 18, 2009
JackOfMostTrades (Washington, DC)
Take it from somebody who got a "C" in college English and who now is an editor of college English textbooks and a published fiction and non-fiction writer: if you want a way to get completely turned off to reading critically and writing clearly, spend $70 for this bloated book. Be sure to read a bunch of the essays reprinted here--the quality of which can be found in hundreds of free essays available on the internet. Then read a bunch of obvious suggestions for clear writing like including a thesis sentence in your essay. Try answering some of the dumb questions the authors provide after each reading selection, like "What is the author trying to claim about gender in the workplace?" Then pracice a few exercises for writing contained herein that you can find on any university English tutorial website. The result will be that you'll probably hate college English more than when you started the course. I'm not sure why this book is called _The Blair Reader_ simply because the publishing firm "Blair" published it. I have a copy of Don Quixote published by HarperCollins, and it's not called "The HarperCollins Don Quixote." The subtitle to this book is "Exploring Contemporary Issues. To which contemporary issues are the authors referring? And what gives them the authority to know what they are? Besides, what's so contemporary about justice, gender roles, society, education, etc. They've always been 'issues.' If your teacher assigns this book, and you have to pay for it, ask why you can't just get the 4th or 5th edition for a couple of dollars? It will essentially be the same book, and even though it will be awful, at least you won't get ripped off. If you wonder where the assignments in this book came from, try reading the novel _I, Claudius_ by Robert Graves. The 'narrator,' writing 2,000 years ago, describes some of the same assignments his tutor gives him. They're pretty much the same assignments. This is just old wine in a new bottle, and the bottle itself is cracked.
 The Blair Reader: Exploring Contemporary Issues July 18, 2009
Lisa Johnson
Just what I needed to get started for school. Everything I needed for the assignment was in this book.
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