| Rhetorical Contents |
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| Preface |
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| Introduction: Joining the Conversation: Reading, Research, and Writing |
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| Part 1 Conversations About Education |
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37 | (130) |
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38 | (3) |
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Chapter 1 The Goals and Condition of Public Education |
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41 | (82) |
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John Taylor Gatto, How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why |
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41 | (8) |
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Ron Miller, Review of Dumbing us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling |
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49 | (6) |
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John Taylor Gatto, Reply to Ron Miller |
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55 | (10) |
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Kathleen Anderson, Reflections in Education: Considering the Impact of Schooling on the Learner |
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65 | (11) |
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Dennis Fermoyle and Respondents to the Blog, From the Trenches of Public Education |
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76 | (11) |
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Conversations 2.0: Is Public Education Failing? |
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87 | (2) |
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Larry Cuban, Making Public Schools Business-Like... Again |
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89 | (7) |
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Herb Childress, A Subtractive Education |
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96 | (9) |
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Getting into the conversation 1: The Goals and Condition of Public Education |
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105 | (2) |
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Conversations in context 1: Debating Standardized Testing |
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107 | (16) |
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108 | (15) |
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Chapter 2 What and Who Is College For? |
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123 | (44) |
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W.J. Reeves, College Isn't for Everyone |
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123 | (5) |
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Garry B. Trudeau, Doonesbury |
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128 | (2) |
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Thomas Reeves, College Isn't for Everybody, and It's a Scandal that We Think It Is |
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130 | (2) |
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Conversations 2.0: Is College for Everyone? |
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132 | (1) |
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Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin, What the Critics of "College for All" Say |
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133 | (9) |
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Jay Mathews, Multiplying Benefits of College for Everybody |
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142 | (3) |
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Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, The Challenge of Liberty |
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145 | (10) |
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Advertisements for The American Indian College Fund and West Hill College |
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155 | (2) |
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Clive Crook, A Matter Of Degrees: Why College Is Not An Economic Cure-All |
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157 | (4) |
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Getting into the conversation 2: What and Who Is College for? |
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161 | (2) |
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Extending the conversation 1: Opportunities for Reading, Writing, and Research |
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163 | (4) |
| Part 2 Conversations About Information and Technology |
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167 | (108) |
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168 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Information and Misinformation in New Media Journalism |
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171 | (64) |
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Caryl Rivers, The New Media Politics of Emotion and Attitude |
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171 | (3) |
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Matt Welch, Blogworld and Its Gravity |
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174 | (9) |
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Rachel Smolkin, The Expanding Blogosphere |
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183 | (9) |
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David Weinberger, Blogs and the Values of journalism |
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192 | (2) |
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Frank Partsch, Unbounded Misrepresentation |
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194 | (2) |
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Jeff Jarvis, Response to Frank Partsch |
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196 | (6) |
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Greg Gutfield, Mad About You |
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202 | (3) |
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Moises Naim, The YouTube Effect |
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205 | (3) |
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Getting into the conversation 3: Information and Misinformation in New Media Journalism |
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208 | (2) |
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Conversations in context 2: What Good Is Wikipedia? |
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210 | (25) |
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211 | (24) |
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Chapter 4 Is Technology Making Us Stupid? |
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235 | (40) |
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Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? |
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235 | (9) |
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Pew Research Center, Does Google Make Us Stupid? |
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244 | (14) |
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Trent Batson, Response to Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" |
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258 | (2) |
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Conversations 2.0: Is Google Making Us Stupid? |
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260 | (2) |
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Katherine Allen, Is Technology Making Us Dumb? |
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262 | (2) |
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Chris DeWolfe, The MySpace Generation |
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264 | (2) |
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Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil |
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266 | (4) |
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Getting into the conversation 4: Is Technology Making Us Stupid? |
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270 | (2) |
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Extending the conversation 2: Opportunities for Reading, Writing, and Research |
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272 | (3) |
| Part 3 Conversations About Identity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity |
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275 | (112) |
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276 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 Gender Identities |
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279 | (50) |
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Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman? |
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279 | (1) |
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Sherryl Kleinman, Why Sexist Language Matters |
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280 | (6) |
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Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry In Our Minds |
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286 | (4) |
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Michael Norman, From Carol Gilligan's Chair |
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290 | (3) |
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Christina Hoff Sommers, Do Boys Need to Be Saved? |
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293 | (9) |
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Michael Kimmel, A War Against Boys? |
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302 | (9) |
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Marshall Poe, The Other Gender Gap |
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311 | (3) |
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Getting into the conversation 5: Gender Identities |
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314 | (2) |
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Conversations in context 3: The Beauty Myth and Personal Identity |
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316 | (13) |
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Virginia Postrel, The Truth About Beauty |
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317 | (12) |
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Chapter 6 Racial and Ethnic Identities |
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329 | (58) |
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Conversations 2.0: Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King |
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329 | (1) |
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Bell Hooks, Overcoming White Supremacy: A Comment |
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330 | (8) |
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Amitai Etzioni, Leaving Race Behind |
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338 | (12) |
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Richard Rodriguez, The Third Man |
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350 | (11) |
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Rosie Molinary, The Latina Mystique |
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361 | (3) |
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Emma Violand-Sanchez and Julia Hainer-Violand, The Power of Positive Identity |
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364 | (8) |
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Helen Zia, From Nothing, a Consciousness |
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372 | (10) |
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Getting into the conversation 6: Racial and Ethnic Identities |
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382 | (2) |
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Extending the conversation 3: Opportunities for Reading, Writing, and Research |
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384 | (3) |
| Part 4 Conversations About Love Relationships and Marriage |
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387 | (140) |
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388 | (3) |
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Chapter 7 Hooking Up: Relationships in the 21st Century |
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391 | (85) |
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Jillian Straus, Lone Stars: Being Single |
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391 | (8) |
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Jessica Bennett, Only You. And You. And You. |
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399 | (5) |
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Sandra Barron, R We D8TING? |
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404 | (4) |
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Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up: What Life Was Like At the Turn of the Second Millennium |
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408 | (9) |
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Matt Sigl, You Aught to Remember Blog Post |
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417 | (2) |
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Laura Sessions Stepp, The Unrelationship |
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419 | (7) |
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Kathleen Bogle, Hooking Up and Dating: A Comparison |
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426 | (15) |
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Getting into the conversation 7: Hooking Up: Relationships in the 21 Century |
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441 | (1) |
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Conversations in context 4: Loving Online |
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442 | (34) |
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Nicola Daring: Studying Online-Love and Cyber-Romance |
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443 | (33) |
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Chapter 8 The Ideal and Real of Marriage |
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476 | (51) |
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Stephanie Coontz, The Evolution of Matrimony: The Changing Social Context of Marriage |
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476 | (6) |
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Jennifer Marshall, Marriage: What Social Science Says and Doesn't Say |
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482 | (3) |
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Sandra Tsing Loh, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off |
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485 | (10) |
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Amy Benfer, When Date Night Is Not Enough |
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495 | (3) |
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Amanda Fortini, Why Your Marriage Sucks |
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498 | (5) |
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Elizabeth Weil, Married (Happily) with Issues |
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503 | (17) |
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Conversations 2.0: Debates About Non-Traditional Marriage |
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520 | (2) |
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Getting into the conversation 8: The Ideal and Real of Marriage |
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522 | (2) |
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Extending the conversation 4: Opportunities for Reading, Writing, and Research |
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524 | (3) |
| Part 5 Conversations About Sustainability |
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527 | (166) |
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528 | (3) |
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Chapter 9 Feeding the World: Toward Sustainable Foods |
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Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation |
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531 | (4) |
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Steve Ettinger, Consider the Twinkie |
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535 | (5) |
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James E. McWilliams, From the Golden Age to the Golden Mean of Food Production |
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540 | (12) |
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Steven Sexton, Does Local Food Production Improve Environmental and Health Outcomes? |
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552 | (9) |
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Vasile Stanescu, "Green" Eggs and Ham? The Myth of Sustainable Meat and the Danger of the Local |
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561 | (22) |
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Michael Pollan, The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know |
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591 | (11) |
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Victoria Moran, Veg and the City: My Beef with Locavores |
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602 | (3) |
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Conversations 2.0: Is Local Always Better for Food Production? |
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605 | (3) |
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Getting into the conversation 9: Feeding the World: Toward Sustainable Foods |
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608 | (2) |
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Conversations in context 5: The Past and Future of Nuclear Energy |
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610 | (2) |
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Steven Chu, Small Modular Reactors will Expand the Ways We Use Atomic Power |
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612 | (1) |
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Patrick Moore, Going Nuclear: A Green Makes the Case |
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613 | (4) |
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Stephen Cohen, Nuclear Power is Complicated, Dangerous, and Definitely Not the Answer |
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617 | (13) |
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Chapter 10 Sustaining Our Environment: Who Are the Best Guardians? |
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630 | (63) |
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Patrick Moore, Hard Choices for the Environmental Movement |
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630 | (10) |
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Greenpeace International, Statement on Patrick Moore |
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640 | (3) |
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Patrick Moore, How Sick Is That? Environmental Movement Has Lost Its Way |
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643 | (3) |
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Emma Marris, In the Name of Nature |
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646 | (8) |
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Margery Kraus and Michael Brune, Are Businesses Better Equipped Than Governments to Address 21st-Century Environmental Challenges? A Dialogue |
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654 | (3) |
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Marc Gunther, Doris Burke, and Jia Lynn Yang, The Green Machine |
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657 | (9) |
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Gregg Easterbrook, Some Convenient Truths |
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666 | (4) |
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Heather Rogers, Green by Any Means |
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670 | (18) |
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Getting into the conversation 10: Sustaining Our Environment: Who Are the Best Guardians? |
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688 | (2) |
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Extending the conversation 5: Opportunities for Reading, Writing, and Research |
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690 | (3) |
| A Guide to Incorporating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism |
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693 | (8) |
| Credits |
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701 | (2) |
| Author/Title Index |
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