The Fountainhead Press V Series is a new collection of single-topic readers that offer a comprehensive look at some of today’s most pressing issues. Designed to give writing students a more nuanced introduction to public discourse, the books feature invention, research, and writing prompts that can be adapted to nearly any kind of college writing class.

Features

Inexpensive - $22.50 net
Timely issues that students encounter on a daily basis
Multi-genre & multimodal readings
Assignments and projects that go beyond the page, including web site design, poster lay-outs, and video presentations
Thorough research assignments that require students to collect and synthesize primary and secondary material
Community involvement projects
Printed on Recycled paper

Books in the Series

Green

by Lee Bauknight and Brooke Rollins

Each of these selections stand on their own as a significant contribution to the public discourse about the environment, and taken together they create a narrative—a complicated story about America’s relationship to, appropriation of, and identification with nature.
978-1-59871-415-9
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Food

by Lee Bauknight and Brooke Rollins

Far more than providing sustenance, food defines us. It connects us with people and places. It sets us in relation to others. It calls up important questions of sustainability and production, of ethics and responsibility.
978-1-59871-431-9
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(E)dentity

by Stephanie Vie

Today, as we live more and more of our lives in online spaces, we carry with us an “(e)dentity,” an electronic identity composed of the digital traces left behind as we participate in virtual worlds. Every time we upload pictures to social networking sites, create avatars in online games, blog or tweet about our lives, or buy online products, we generate digital evidence that, when examined, form unique, individual (e)dentities.
978-1-59871-457-9
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Borders

by Isabel Baca

Borders examines the geographical, political, and cultural region of the Southwest. It focuses on “The Border,” a geographical demarcation separating the U.S. and Mexico. Beyond the physical line that separates both countries, it explores the “cultural borders” that individuals living in this region experience—conflicts over individual identity, literacy issues, social position, and a sense of belonging within one or both cultures.
978-1-59871-472-9
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Money

by Kenneth Gillam

These articles, excerpts, songs, and images will give students a wider perspective on money as an incredibly powerful entity—from the economic systems that make it work, to the social systems that can’t work without it, to the people on whom money works its influence.
978-1-59871-480-7
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