• Culture offers readings on a range of cultural issues, including Jacob Riis’s landmark discussion of race division, arguments about cultural justice from Martin Luther King Jr. and John Rawls, Neil Postman’s essay on language and culture, and discussions on gender from Virginia Woolf, Margaret Mead, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Judith Butler.
• Science presents classic essays from Plato, Francis Bacon, and Charles Darwin alongside contemporary discussions of science from Richard Feynman, Edward O. Wilson, Michio Kaku, Philip Kitcher, and Lisa Randall.

• Considerations questions at the end of each chapter introduction ask students to examine their own assumptions about the theme before they begin reading.

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