Academic Encounters: Life in Society. Reading, Study Skills, Writing. SB
Academic Encounters: Life in Society is a reading, study skills, and writing book that uses authentic readings from college textbooks to introduce students to stimulating topics in sociology. High-interest topics include: alternative lifestyles, gender roles, cults and propaganda. Exercises that accompany the readings teach important reading and study skills, such as skimming, reading critically, and test takings.
Academic Encounters: Human Behavior. Reading, Study Skills, Writing. SBAcademic Encounters: Human Behavior is a reading, study skills, and writing book that uses authentic readings from college textbooks to introduce students to stimulating topics in psychology and communications. High-interest topics include: intelligence, body language, and love. Exercises that accompany the readings leach important reading and study skills, such as speed reading, guessing meaning from context, and examining graphs and figures.
Isaiah Berlin’s response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of political freedom and his studies of pre-Soviet Russian thinkers.
