Experience Humanities, Complete

by Roy T. Matthews, DeWitt Platt, Thomas Noble

The humanities are alive. We see the great pyramids in contemporary design; we hear Bach in hip-hop and pop music; and we feel ancient religious themes and philosophies in our impassioned contemporary dialogues.

Experience Humanities invites students to take note of the continual evolution of ideas and cross-cultural influences, to better understand their cultural heritage and to think critically about what their legacy will be for future generations. Together with Connect™ Humanities, students not only experience their cultural heritage, but develop crucial critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, preparing them to succeed in their humanities course and beyond.

752 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Rubi · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first few chapters were very interesting. But then it got....dull. It would focus simply on art and literature and talk about the artists critiques of the times. Things I'm personally not interested in. The bit about the actual happenings of the era and the few paragraphs about politics and such were still interesting, but then once again it went into excruciating detail about what angles were used in art, what lines or colors were used or what they did or did not copy, bla bla bla
It just got redundant after awhile and focused solely on Western culture, mentioning a few others now and then. Their point being the West had the more global influence. I personally would like to see read more about other cultures such as African and Asian cultures. I think Asia has a wider influence than the West likes to admit. So, if it based on the first like 4 chapters it would've gotten five stars, but it's a two overall. They really only mentioned Egyptian culture because they felt it influence Greek art.