CHAPTER 1 The Global Melting Pot 1
ACADEMIC FOCUS:SOCIOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIESReading Assignment 1:Buicks,Starbucks and Fried Chicken:Still China? 2
Reading Assignment 2:The Muslim World of Colas 22
Reading Assignment 3:The Roots of Old and New World Foods 33
CHAPTER 2 What Makes You You? 45
ACADEMIC FOCUS:GENETICS AND PSYCHOLOGYReading Assignment 1:The Nature versus Nurture Debate 46
Reading Assignment 2:The Wild Boy of Aveyron 60
Reading Assignment 3:Linking Psychology and Genetics 69
CHAPTER 3 To Sleep,To Dream 80
ACADEMIC FOCUS:PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGYReading Assignment 1:While You Are Sleeping 81
Reading Assignment 2:What Is Dreaming 96
Reading Assignment 3:The ABC's of Dreams 107
CHAPTER 4 Women Speak Out 123
ACADEMIC FOCUS:LITERATURE AND WOMEN'S STUDIESReading Assignment 1:Lessons for Women 124
Reading Assignment 2:At Last Free 139
Reading Assignment 3:A Domestic Dilemma 144
CHAPTER 5 Cracking the Ice Age 178
ACADEMIC FOCUS:GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGYReading Assignment 1:The Story behind the Ice Age 179
Reading Assignment 2:The Iceman Cometh 191
Reading Assignment 3:Kill,Chill,or Ill? What Happened to Ice Age Mammals 201
CHAPTER 6 Up from Slavery 218
ACADEMIC FOCUS:HISTORYReading Assignment1:Slavery in America 220
Reading Assignment 2:A Slave's Journey in Sudan 231
Reading Assignment 3:From Restavec:From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American 238
Keys 254