Annotated Table of Contents

The Link-O-Mat is designed to help you learn more about the issues raised by the readings included in The New Humanities Reader. We've created a separate "link-o-mat" for each of the readings where you will find:

• a brief biographical essay about the author;

• links to resources that will enrich your understanding of the assigned reading;

• a series of questions that will help you make connections between the hyper-linked resources and the assigned reading.

To visit an author's link-o-mat, just click on the author's name.

Ahmed, Leila. "On Becoming an Arab." A Border Passage: Cairo to America—A Woman's Journey.

Armstrong, Karen. "Homo religiosus." The Case for God.

Boyarin, Jonathan. "Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul." Thinking in Jewish.

Carr, Nicholas. "'Is Google Making Us Stupid?" The Atlantic.

Faludi, Susan. "The Naked Citadel." The New Yorker.

Fraser, Caroline. "Rewilding North America." Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution.

Gilbert, Daniel. "Immune to Reality." Stumbling on Happiness.

Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime," The Tipping Point.

Johnson, Steven. "The Myth of the Ant Queen." Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.

Kenneally, Christine. "You Have Gestures." The First Word.

Krakauer, Jon. "The Alaska Interior" and "The Stampede Trail." Selections from Into the Wild.

Loffreda, Beth. "Selections from Losing Matt Shepherd: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder."

Nafisi, Azar. Excerpt from Reading Lolita in Tehran.

O'Brien, Tim. "How to Tell a True War Story." The Things They Carried.

Pallasmaa, Juhani. Excerpts from The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses.

Sacks, Oliver. "The Mind's Eye." The New Yorker.

Siebert, Charles. "An Elephant Crackup?" The New York Times Magazine.

Singer, Peter and Jim Mason. "Meat and Milk Factories." The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter.

Specter, Michael. "A Life of Its Own" New Yorker.

Stout, Martha. "When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday." The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness.

Tannen, Deborah. "The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue." The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue.

Tenner, Edward. "Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead." Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.

Thurman, Robert. "Wisdom." Infinite Life.

Twenge, Jean. "An Army of One: Me." Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable than Ever Before.

Wedel, Janine R. "Confidence Men and Their Flex Lives." Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free Market.

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