Reading the World: Ideas That Matter

The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.

With 80 readings by some of the world’s greatest thinkers―from Plato to Gandhi, Carl Jung to Edmund O. Wilson, Gloria Anzaldúa to Toni Morrison―Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective. Selections strike a balance between western and nonwestern, classic and contemporary, longer and shorter, verbal and visual.

• From Critical Thinking to Argument: A Portable Guide
• The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Third Edition)
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
• Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)
• They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Fourth Edition)
• The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook (Cengage Advantage Books)
• "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, with 2016 MLA Update (Third Edition)
• Writing from Sources
• EasyWriter with Exercises
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex