Unit 1 Travel Broadens the Mind
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
Notes from a Small
Island
Part Three
Text II
The Threshold of
Sustainability for
Protected Areas
Part Four
Text III
The Great Escape
Part Five
Study Skills: Adjectives Formed from
Nouns Plus -ed
Writing Skills: Using a Comparison
Matrix as an Outline
Case Study: The Economic and
Cultural Benefits of Sports Tourism
Video: Traveling in Italy
Unit 2 Home! Sweet Home!
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
Please Marry Me
Part Three
Text II
Work-life Balance
Part Four
Text III
Immigration's Effect on
Families
Part Five
Study Skills: Hyphenation
Writing Skills: Narrative Argument
Case Study: Having It All. a Little at a Time
Video: My Big Eat Greek Wedding
Unit 3 Welfare Is the Better Part of Well-being
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
Job Insecurity and
the Welfare State in
a Globalized World
Part Three
Text II
Traveling for Medical
Care
Part Four
Text III
America's Golden Years: Ensuring Prosperity in an
Aging Society
Part Five
Study Skills: Full Stop Used in
Abbreviations
Writing Skills: Text Organization
Case Study: Research on Healthcan Systems
Video: Can I Get Time and a Half?
Unit 4 You Can Make Your Life a Bed of Rose
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
The Hidden Side of
Happiness
Part Three
Text II
Getting Over the Job-loss
Blues
Part Four
Text III
The Joy of Capitalism
Part Five
Study Skills: Compound Words: n.+v.+-er
Writing Skills: Topic Sentence
Case Study: Psychological Intervention for Wenchuan Earthquake
Video: Interview with the "Superman"
Unit 5 From the Sublime to the Popular
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
A Century of Cinema
Part Three
Text II
Elvis — 30 Years Ago
and Now
Part Four
Text III
The Asia Factor in Global
Hollywood
Part Five
Study Skills: Newspaper Headlines
Writing Skills: Chronological
Narration
Case Study: Film Distribution
Video: Steve Binder Talks about the
King
Unit 6 Can Art Be Commercialized?
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
Introduction of
Concerning the
Spiritual in Art
Part Three
Text II
Commerce and the
Arts
Part Four
Text III
Another Time, Another
Place
Part Five
Study Skills: Use of Electronic Databases
Writing Skills: Formal Academic Writing
Case Study: Commercial and Artistic Appeals of Products
Video: Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the Twentieth Century
Unit 7 When Literature Meets Business
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
The Literature of
Knowledge and the
Literature of Power
Part Three
Text II
Babbitt (excerpt)
Part Four
Text III
The Century of the Cyclops
Part Five
Study Skills: Foreign Words and
Loanwords
Writing Skills: Metaphor
Case Study: Representation of Business
in Literature
Video: Possession
Unit 8 You Reap What You Peddle
Part One
Activation
Part Two
Text I
The PR Industry
Part Three
Text II
The Paradoxes of
Businesses as
Do-Gooders
Part Four
Text III
The Road to Riches Is
Called K Street
Part Five
Study Skills: Paradox
Writing Skills: Opening Paragraph
Case Study: Public Relations
Video: How to Brainwash a Nation?