The iDeal Reader Spring 2012 The iDeal Reader Table of Contents by Genre* • All selections are available with or without apparatus. • Selections with eBook Option can be used in an eBook. • All selections are available in 8.5x11 and 6x9 trim size. DRAMA Ed Bullins, “A Son, Come Home” Christopher Durang, “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You” Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” eBook Option! Jane Martin, “Twirler” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” eBook Option! J. M. Synge, “Riders to the Sea” eBook Option! Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” eBook Option! ESSAY/NON-FICTION Edward Abbey, “The Right to Arms” Michael Abernethy, “Male Bashing on TV” eBook Option! Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa” from Hopes and Impediments Diane Ackerman, “The Winter Palace of Monarchs/Psychopharmacology of Chocolate” Mortimer J. Adler, “How to Mark a Book” eBook Option! Alfred Alvarez, “Sylvia Plath: A Memoir” Maya Angelou, “Graduation Day” Gloria Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Hannah Arendt, “Total Domination” from The Origins of Totalitarianism eBook Option! Mary Arguelles, “Money for Morality” Aristotle, “On the Soul” eBook Option! Aristotle, “Politics, Book One” eBook Option! Aristotle, “Politics, Book Two” eBook Option! James Atlas, “The Battle of the Books” Margaret Atwood, “The Female Body” Francis Bacon, “Of Studies” eBook Option! Francis Bacon, “Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Envy, and Of Love” eBook Option! Russell Baker, “The Price of Liberty” Russell Baker, “Learning to Write” Russell Baker, from “Growing Up” Russell Baker, “Work in Corporate America” James Baldwin, “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son” Benjamin Barber, “America Skips School” eBook Option! Lincoln Barnett, “Einstein’s Relativity” selections Dennis Baron, “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies” eBook Option! Dennis Baron, “The New Technologies of the Word” eBook Option! Dave Barry, “Red, White, and Beer” Luigi Barzini, “The Americans: Why We Baffle the Europeans” Scott Bass, “Collision Course” eBook Option! Simone de Beauvoir, “The Making of a Woman” Simone de Beauvoir, from The Married Woman eBook Option! *Contents subject to change www.idealreader.com 1 The iDeal Reader Spring 2012 Robert Bellah, et al., “Community, Commitment, and Individuality” Robert Bellah, et al., “Love and Marriage” from Habits of the Heart Ruth Benedict, “The Pueblos of New Mexico” John Berger, “Manhattan” John Berger, “On Visibility/Painting and Time” Ingmar Bergman, “What Is ‘Film-Making’?” Wendell Berry, “Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems” Wendell Berry, “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” Bruno Bettelheim, “The Child’s Need for Magic” Bruno Bettelheim, “Cinderella” Bruno Bettelheim, “The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank” Bruno Bettelheim, “The Importance of Play” Ambrose Bierce, excerpts from The Devil’s Dictionary eBook Option! Caroline Bird, “Where College Fails Us” Laura Bohannan, “Shakespeare in the Bush” Sissela Bok, “Gossip” Sissela Bok, “White Lies” Daniel J. Boorstin, “Overcommunication: Are We Talking Too Much?” Daniel J. Boorstin, “Technology and Democracy: Getting There Is All the Fun” Kenneth E. Boulding, “After Civilization, What?” Joel K. Bourne, “The End of Plenty” eBook Option! Harry C. Boyte, “Turning On Youth to Politics” Anthony Brandt, “Rite of Passage” Robert G. Bringle & Julie A. Hatcher, “Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education” eBook Option! Suzanne Britt, “That Lean and Hungry Look” Suzanne Britt, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” Jacob Bronowski, “The Nature of Scientific Reasoning” Jacob Bronowski, “The Reach of Imagination” David Brooks, “The Organization Kid” eBook Option! Susan Brownmiller, “On Pornography” Holly Brubach, “Rock-and-Roll Vaudeville” J. Alison Bryant, Ashley Sanders-Jackson, & Amber M. K. Smallwood, “IMing, Text Messaging, and Adolescent Social Networks” eBook Option! NEW! Jim Buie, “The Case for Legal Late-Term Abortions” eBook Option! Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus, “The Rebel” Rachel Carson, “The Obligation to Endure” Jimmy Carter, “Nobel Lecture” eBook Option! Ernst Cassirer, “Human Culture” Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” selections Linda Chavez, “The Real Aim of the Promoters of Cultural Diversity” Wayson Choy, “I’m a Banana and Proud of It” eBook Option! Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman” K. C. Cole, “A Theory of Everything” Colette, from “Earthly Paradise” www.idealreader.com 2 The iDeal Reader Spring 2012 Patricia Hill Collins, “Black Women and Motherhood” Henry Steele Commager, “The Nineteenth-Century American” eBook Option! Humanities Commission, “The Humanities in America” Confucius, “Perfect Virtue” eBook Option! Aaron Copland, “How We Listen to Music” Sara Corbett, “The Lost Boys” eBook Option! Norman Cousins, “The Right to Die” Harvey Cox, “Understanding Islam” Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, “What Is An American?” eBook Option! Robert Crichton, “Across the River and Into the Prose” Mario Cuomo, “Religious Belief and Public Morality” Edwidge Danticat, “We Are Ugly, But We Are Here” eBook Option! John M. Darley & Bibb Latane, “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis” Clarence Darrow, “Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” eBook Option! Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection” eBook Option! Meghan Daum, “Virtual Love” eBook Option! Paul Davies, “The End of the Universe” Edwin Denby, “Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets” Alan Dershowitz, “Shouting ‘Fire!’” eBook Option! René Descartes, “Meditation I: Of the Things of Which We May Doubt” eBook Option! John Dewey, “My Pedagogic Creed” Joan Didion, “In Bed,” from The White Album Joan Didion, “Marrying Absurd” Joan Didion, “On Going Home” Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” Joan Didion, from Salvador Joan Didion, “Why I Write” eBook Option! Annie Dillard, from An American Childhood Annie Dillard, “Death of a Moth” eBook Option! Frederick Douglass, “Escape from Slavery” from The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave eBook Option! Frederick Douglass, “How I Learned to Read and Write” from The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave eBook Option! Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” eBook Option! W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” eBook Option! The Economist, “What September 11th Really Wrought” Thomas Byrne Edsall, “The Return of Inequality” Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, “The Advantages of Sociability” Barbara Ehrenreich, “Class Struggle 101” eBook Option! Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Naked Truth about Fitness” Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” selections Barbara Ehrenreich, “What I’ve Learned from Men” Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, “Life on the Global Assembly Line” Gretel Ehrlich, “About Men” Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving” Loren Eiseley, “The Brown Wasps” Loren Eiseley, “How Flowers Changed the World” Loren Eiseley, “The Judgment of the Birds” www.idealreader.com 3 The iDeal Reader Spring 2012 Nawal El Sadaawi, “Circumcision of Girls” Nawal El Saadawi, “Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab” Peter Elbow, “Freewriting” Black Elk, “High Horse’s Courting” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature Nora Ephron, “A Few Words about Breasts: Shaping Up Absurd” Susan Faludi, from Backlash: The Undeclared War on Women William Faulkner, “Nobel Prize Award Speech” Joel Feinberg, from “Abortion” Robert Finch, “What the Stones Said” M. F. K. Fisher, “I Was Really Very Hungry” George Fitzhugh, “The Universal Trade” from Cannibals All! eBook Option! E. M. Forster, “What I Believe” Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth” eBook Option! Benjamin Franklin, “A Witch Trial at Mount Holly” eBook Option! Sir James George Frazer, “The Myth and Ritual of Adonis” Richard M. Freeland, “The Third Way” eBook Option! Paulo Freire, Chapter 2 from Pedagogy of the Oppressed eBook Option! Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed Sigmund Freud, “Relation of Dream to the Waking State and Material of Dreams” Carlos Fuentes, “The Mirror of the Other” Ernesto Galarza, from “Barrio Boy” Eduardo Galeano, “Language, Lies, and Latin Democracy” Tess Gallagher, “Reading the Waterfall” John Gardner, “What Writers Do” Bob Garfield, “YouTube vs. Boob Tube” eBook Option! William Lloyd Garrison, “Address to the American Colonization Society” eBook Option! Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Whose Canon Is it Anyway?” Jennifer L. Geddes, “Blueberries, Accordions, and Auschwitz” eBook Option! James Paul Gee, “Conclusion: Duped or Not?” eBook Option! Clifford Geertz, “Being Here: Whose Life Is It Anyway?” Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” Martha Gellhorn, “White into Black” Reuel Marc Gerecht, “The Gospel According to Osama Bin Laden” eBook Option! A. Bartlett Giamatti, “A Meditation on Power” Keith Gilyard, “First Lessons” eBook Option! Keith Gilyard, “Rapping, Reading, and Role-playing” eBook Option! Todd Gitlin, “Television and American Culture” Ira Glasser, “Cigarette Ads and the Press” Gail Godwin, “The Watcher at the Gates” selections Oliver Goldsmith, “National Prejudices” eBook Option! Janet Mendell Goldstein, “The Quick-Fix Society” eBook Option! Ellen Goodman, “The Company Man” Ellen Goodman, “The Tapestry of Friendships” Sherry Gorelick, “The Gender Trap” Kathleen Gough, “The Origin of the Family” www.idealreader.com 4 The iDeal Reader Spring 2012 Steven Jay Gould, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs”