Emerging : Contemporary Readings for Writers

It's a new world complex and increasingly interconnected. Living in such a world doesn't mean we all have to agree on solutions, but it does mean that we must learn how to mediate cultural differences in order to solve common problems.Emergingimmerses your students in global ideas and global thinking to help them develop the critical thinking skills needed to meet the demands of a new age. With selections drawn from a variety of disciplines,Emergingprovides complex ideas in approachable language to help students learn to decode, interpret, and compose texts on today's urgent concerns and provides the concepts and tools students need to advocate for change. Introducing Author Talk: Watch our video introduction of Barclay Barrios.

Barclay Barrios (PhD Rutgers University) is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the world wide web, and composing digital identities. He was Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and currently serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is a contributor to Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition (Bedfordbits.com) and is a frequent presenter at professional conferences.

Preface Introduction: Thinking Globally, Reading Critically  The Readings  Madeleine Albright, Faith and Diplomacy  Julia Alvarez, Selections from Once Upon a Quinceañera  Kwame Anthony Appiah, Making Conversation and The Primacy of Practice  Dalai Lama, Ethics and the New Genetics  Joan Didion, After Life  Helen Epstein, AIDS, Inc.  Thomas Friedman, The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention  Francis Fukuyama, Human Dignity  Daniel Gilbert, Reporting Live from Tomorrow  Steven Johnson, Listening to Feedback  Michael Kimmelman, The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs  Rebekah Nathan, Community and Diversity  Steve Olson, The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples  Marshall Poe, The Hive  Michael Pollan, The Animals: Practicing Complexity  Virginia Postrel, The Boundaries of Design  Richard Restak, Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era  Mary Roach, The Cadaver Who Joined the Army  Leslie Savan, What’s Black, Then White, and Said All Over?  Julia Serano, Before and After: Class and Body Transformations  Debora L. Spar, Trading Places: The Practice and Politics of Adoption  James Surowiecki, Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster and How Small Groups Can Be Made to Work  Diana Taylor, False Identifications: Minority Populations Mourn Diana  Kenji Yoshino, Preface and The New Civil Rights  The Assignment Sequences 1. Rites/Rights of Passage: Identifying the Self 2. Surviving Alone, Surviving Together: Ethical Conflict in a Global Economy 3. Yes We Can, But Should We?: The Politics of Science 4. The Talking Cure: Conversation as Social Medicine 5. Wonderful Displays: Revelations of Art and Culture 6. Trouble with a Capital "C": Communities and Integration 7. Deep Impact: Technology and Our World 8. Every Body’s Right: Buying Bodies 9. The Melting Not: One American Culture? 10. Putting the "I" in Team: The Practices of Collaboration