Preface for Instructors
Like its predecessor, Our Times~3 is a collection of contemporary non-
fiction and short fiction intended for use in composition courses. This wealth
of very recent writing -- most of it published since 1991 and drawn from
virtually every important American periodical -- provides an intriguing and
distinctive view of life in America today.
This third edition contains sixty-seven selections, fifty-seven of which
are new. The readings are grouped into twenty-two units that treat many of
the dominant themes, issues, and ideas of our time. A number of these topics
pertain directly to the everyday lives of today s students: the difficulties of
parent-teenager communication, the problems of conflicting identities, the
obsession with physical appearance, and the significance of personal names.
Represented, too, are a variety of perspectives on some of our country s most
compelling social and political issues- AIDS, the homeless, gun control,
animal rights, immigration.
Articles on new and important issues have been added to this edition,
many of them revolving around gender and education. Though gender issues
surface throughout the book, several units are devoted exclusively to such
issues. New units cover the significance of gender differences, the debate
over sexual harassment, concern over a feminist backlash, and the fledgling.
men s movement. On education, Our Times~3 expands its previous coverage,
of three topics that have continued to command enormous media attention:
the canon controversy, free speech in the classroom, and multiculturalism.
This edition also features new thematic units on virtual reality, New Age
religion, and paranormal experiences.
A word about the length of these chapters. In contrast to most themat-
ically arranged readers, which contain a small number of broad categories,
Our Times/3 features a large number of tightly focused units, most with
only two or three selections that directly address each other. For example,
instead of one large chapter on education, Our Times~3 presents smaller
units on the canon, free speech, and multiculturalism. The advantages of
using these smaller bite-size units in a composition course should be imme-
diately apparent to "instructors: they permit a wider range and variety of
topics to be covered in a syllabus; they allow for more focused discussion
and writing; and they can be adequately handled in one or two class periods.
New to this edition are two expanded chapters designed to be used for
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评分阅读这本书的过程,与其说是吸收知识,不如说是一场智力上的马拉松。我必须承认,这本书并非适合那种追求速成的读者,它的内容密度和思想的深度要求读者投入足够的时间和心力去消化。我个人的阅读习惯是,每读完一篇重要文章,我都会放下书本,花上几分钟时间在脑海中重构作者的论点结构,并试图用我自己的语言来复述其核心思想。只有这样,这些观点才能真正沉淀下来,成为我知识体系的一部分。这种主动的、带有“反刍”性质的阅读方式,是这本书所倡导和激励的。它像一位严谨的导师,不断地考察你是否真正理解了它所传授的智慧,而非仅仅是浏览了文字。因此,如果你正在寻找一本能够真正挑战你的思维边界,并让你在合上书本后,依然能感受到思维火花持续闪耀的作品,那么这本书绝对值得你投入时间去细细品味和反复咀嚼。
评分从实用性的角度来看,这本书的价值远超其标价所体现的意义。我发现它更像是一张“时代快照”的地图,而非仅仅是记录历史的文献。它汇聚的这些选材,为理解当前世界的运行机制提供了极佳的参照系。比如,关于某项科技突破的讨论,它没有停留在技术参数上,而是深入剖析了它对劳动力市场和文化认同可能产生的长远影响。这种前瞻性的洞察力,对于任何需要对未来趋势做出判断的专业人士来说,都是无价的。我特别喜欢那些带有批判性视角的评论,它们敢于挑战既定的叙事框架,迫使读者跳出自己的信息茧房去审视问题。可以说,这本书不是让你轻松地“知道”世界是什么样,而是让你更费力、更深入地去“理解”世界正在如何塑造自己。它为那些渴望拥有深度思考工具的人,提供了一套现成的、经过筛选的高质量工具箱。
评分这本书的装帧设计着实让人眼前一亮,那种厚重而不失典雅的气质,仿佛在无声地诉说着其内容的深度与广度。初翻开扉页,那精致的字体排版和清晰的行距,立刻带来一种阅读的愉悦感。我特别欣赏它在版式布局上的用心,每一篇文章的引言部分都设计得引人入胜,仿佛有一个无形的手在引导你深入探索。那种对细节的执着,从纸张的选择到墨水的饱和度,都体现出出版者对品质的极致追求。我手里拿着的这个版本,边缘处理得干净利落,即便是长时间翻阅,也不会感到疲劳。而且,装帧的坚固程度也令人放心,这样的书脊设计,即便是经常需要携带外出或放在书架上频繁取用,也丝毫不用担心散页的问题。总的来说,它给人的第一印象是:这是一本值得珍藏的书,它的物理形态本身就是一种阅读享受,这种对实体书体验的尊重,在今天的电子阅读时代显得尤为珍贵。每一次拿起它,都像是在进行一次庄重的仪式。
评分我之所以对这类汇编性质的读物抱有极高的期待,核心在于其内容遴选的独到眼光。好的选集绝不仅仅是文章的简单堆砌,它需要一个高明的“编辑之手”来构建起内在的逻辑脉络。这本书给我的感觉是,它成功地捕捉到了当代社会思潮中最具穿透力、最能引发群体共鸣的那些核心议题。阅读过程中,我深刻体会到作者群(或译者群)在主题跨度上的平衡把握。你会发现,从宏大的地缘政治分析到微观的社会心理观察,两者之间过渡得自然而然,没有突兀的跳跃感。更妙的是,许多文章的观点并非是教科书式的陈述,而是充满了鲜活的、带着泥土气息的现场感,这使得复杂的议题变得触手可及。它不是在“告知”你什么,而是在“邀请”你一起思考,那种被挑战和启发的感觉,是阅读最迷人的部分。这种内容上的精炼与深度,完全超越了普通期刊的水平线。
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