Landmarks in Humanities (5th Edition) – PDF

LANDMARKS in Humanities, 5th Edition is a comprehensive guide. This book takes humanities students on a journey through the history of culture in one semester. By exploring important moments from prehistory to the present, this course immerses college students in the creative achievements of humanity. The book also explores ideas and issues that have shaped the world’s diverse cultures.

The landmarks in this book are testaments to human ingenuity and expression. Passed down through generations, they hold a rich cultural heritage. Understanding that teaching global humanities is different at various institutions, Gloria Fiero has designed a more flexible approach.

Through a variety of digital resources, tailored to individual teaching goals, Fiero creates a rich learning experience for both instructors and students, and this can all be accomplished in less time.

Using the power of McGraw-Hill Education’s SmartBook 2.0, Landmarks in Humanities 5th Edition breaks down traditional educational barriers. It allows for the inclusion of new extended readings, streaming music, and artwork, which deepens our understanding of the connection between world cultures and the creative legacy of humankind.

LANDMARKS FIFTH EDITION is unique in several ways:

• It is interdisciplinary: it explores how different forms of expression – art, music, literature – work together to create, define, and reflect the unique culture of a given time and place.
• It is selective: some landmarks are chosen for their universality, some for their unique beauty, and some for their iconic or symbolic value. Some landmarks – the Statue of Liberty, the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare’s sonnets – fit more than one of these criteria. The author’s choice of landmarks might differ from others, and readers may want to add their own landmarks to the list.
• It is thematic: each chapter focuses on a key idea, presented in the chapter title and explained in the introductory paragraph. This key idea provides context for individual landmarks as they unfold chronologically. For instance, Chapter 1 (“Origins: The First Civilizations”) explores our earliest cultures, emphasizing human strategies for survival and communal life; Chapter 14 (“Modernism: The Assault on Tradition”) examines the radical rejection of conventional values and styles that revolutionized early twentieth-century culture.

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