A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers (10th Edition)

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Students are introduced to renowned thinkers whose ideas have affected civilizations throughout history through the use of the first and only reader of its kind to achieve best-seller status: A World of Ideas. When students hear names like Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf, or Sigmund Freud, they recognize the author as important, and they rise to the challenge of engaging with the text and evaluating it critically. When students hear names like Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf, or Sigmund Freud, they recognize the importance of the author. There is no other composition reader that provides students with a comparable number of essential readings as well as the enabling machinery they need to comprehend, analyze, and respond to those readings.