New to this edition

• Critical thinking questions now accompany "Ideas and Issues" boxes throughout the text, prompting thought and classroom discussion. These boxes contain excerpts from notable works or commentary on key ideas discussed in the chapter and address such topics as Aristotle's defense of slavery, the battle over antiquities, translating the Qur'an, a Native American view of human creation, and the impact of computers on film.
  
• An outstanding, updated ancillary package provides a wealth of resources for both students and instructors. The interactive activities and study resources from the prior edition's Core Concepts DVD-ROM are now online and more accessible than ever on McGraw-Hill's new MyHumanitiesStudio (www.mhhe.com/HumanitiesStudio). A text-specific Online Learning Center offers additional materials keyed to the text. Instructor resources include an instructor's manual, test item file, and computerized test bank. Landmarks in Music audio CDs are also available for instructors or for optional student purchase, featuring 120 minutes of music discussed in the textbook, ranging from Gregorian chant to Louis Armstrong.
  
• An extensively revised Chapter 15, Globalism, explores impact of the digital revolution on the arts and adds new and expanded coverage of recent contributors and developments in global cultural history, including the Best Generation, Lessing, Pynchon, Heaney, Tan Dun, Green buildings, Calatrava, Yamaguchi, Viola, Yue Minjun, hip-hop and rap, Wikipedia, and computers and film.
  
• Selected images from the illustration program are available to adopting instructors in digital format in The Image Vault, McGraw-Hill's new web-based presentation manager. Instructors can incorporate images from The Image Vault in digital presentations that can be used in class (no Internet access required), burned to CD-ROM, or embedded in course Web pages. See www.mhhe.com/theimagevault for more details.
  

Features

• Brief yet comprehensive, Landmarks is designed to meet the needs of the one-semester humanities course. Broad coverage of literature, philosophy, the visual arts, music, and dance makes this text highly teachable. The brief, one volume format makes it easy to supplement, if desired, with other works.
  
• Each of the text's 15 chapters is centered on a key idea (e.g. Classicism, Romanticism, or Globalism), which serves as conceptual underpinning for the landmark works discussed.
  
• The text includes a timely chapter (4) on the three Western "religions of revelation": Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
  
• "Beyond the West" sections highlight areas of encounter and influence between European and non-European civilizations and show how similar phenomena occurred in various places over time.
  
• Literary and musical landmarks are highlighted within the text and connected to their cultural context, allowing individual works of literature or music to be discussed without assigning the full work.
  
• High quality maps place key events and works in a clear geographical context, while and chapter-ending timelines key landmarks in humanities to major historical events.
  
• "Parallels" throughout the book trace cultural connections and continuities across time, texts, and cultures, helping students to see how certain ideas persist and evolve over time.