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The first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas introduces students to great thinkers whose ideas have shaped civilizations throughout history. When students hear names like Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Sigmund Freud, they recognize the author as important — and they rise to the challenge of engaging with the text and evaluating it critically. No other composition reader offers a comparable collection of essential readings along with the supportive apparatus students need to understand, analyze, and respond to them.
Paperback: 960 pages
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; 9 edition (January 4, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1457604434
ISBN-13: 978-1457604362
ASIN: 1457604361
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 8.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #25,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #79 in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Rhetoric #3926 in Books > Textbooks
Great book has bios of the authors whose works you are about to read, its nice to learn a little about their life before reading something they wrote because it enhances their works and makes me understand where they are coming from. There are many great works in this book.
To get out the way yes the book came alright and right as expected ao there are no complaints. Anyways this book can be very challenging to read due to its old english literature however it can be very rewarding when you fully understand. Some of the topics closely relate to our lives today
Amazing read. I rented this book for one of my courses and I honestly couldn't get my hands off the dang computer to read it! I personally hate reading and am disgusted by any sight of a book, but this was enjoyable and brought up many amazing critical thinking points.
It is a great book and I love the way it is set up.The themes of the book as well as individual selections were very interesting to read and made it exciting to go through and learn different styles. However, I didn't enjoy having to go online for some of the readings. If I wanted an eBook, I would have purchased that instead. Having a physical textbook means not relying on patchy internet connections just to access a textbook for a freshman writing class.
I currently have this work in paperback form for my English composition class. It's a fantastic book - an excellent collection of essays, with useful notes in the margins and questions for the reader. I would recommend this book highly, not just to the college student, but to anyone diving into the world of literature in any serious way. This collection of works makes an excellent jumping off point for future readings.So, why only 3 stars, instead of 4, or more? Because I own a Kindle. Not a Kindle Fire, and certainly not an iPad, but an actual Kindle Reader. For reasons unknown to me, the publisher has seen fit to ignore Kindle reader devices and only supplies this work for the Fire, or the iPad.This book is not small. It's rather thick, and has some heft to it. I imagine, even in paperback form, if I launched it at someone I could do some bodily harm. It's no lighter in my knapsack, either, where I carry a variety of other books, a laptop, and the usual allotment of implements college students must lug all over campus (pens, stickies, cables, notebooks, folders, and of course, my Kindle). Trading the weight of this substantial work for just a bit more data on my Kindle would save some stress on my shoulders, further stress on the stitching of my book-bag, and result in a lot more rentals of this work by college students, who are more interested in reading the texts on their device than watching movies or playing Angry Birds.
So many concepts and ideas, my English professor and i are still picking it apart and looking at all that which makes this book so unique, and the fact that it arrived in perfect condition is really helpful
The quality of the book itself. The cover is torn up and bent. Also, the essays I needed in the book itself for class are Ebooks and the books access code expired so I can't access them.
The book itself is worth the price because of the requirement. It is exactly what the instruction calls for therefore it gets 5 stars.
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