Author: Bruce Henderson

About the Book: In order to put our domestic outlook into perspective, Thinking Globally presents factual information about selected issues as they play out in other countries around the world. So for example, in the section on energy and transportation, students learn how high-speed trains operate in China and France. In the section on food issues, articles offer perspective about the Italian Slow Foods movement and about cultural pressures for McDonalds operating in Israel. On advertising, students consider how the U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. The text includes four chapters on argument and logic to introduce students to the basics of critical reasoning. This text works well for stimulating critical inquiry and for encouraging students to consider views beyond what they would ordinarily encounter in our domestic media environment.

About the Author: Bruce Henderson is Professor of English at Fullerton College where he has taught for more than 25 years. He has also taught at Rollins College, SUNY Farmingdale, Fairleigh-Dickinson University, and UC Irvine. His education includes degrees from Oberlin College, the University of Washington (Seattle), and a doctorate from State University of New York at Albany. He regularly publishes poetry, academic articles and journalism. Materials for this text were developed over many semesters of teaching critical reasoning both in the classroom and online. He lives with his wife and twin daughters on the central coast of California.