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Preface | |
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Table of Contents by Subject | |
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Table of Contents by Rhetorical Category | |
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Of Democritus and Heraclitus | |
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from Of Experience | |
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from Of the Education of Children | |
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Of Studies | |
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from For Whom This Bell Tolls (Meditation XVII) | |
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On Social Class and Happiness | |
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On Hearing the Ship Was Drowned | |
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A Modest Proposal | |
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On Becoming Acquainted with Our Real Characters | |
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To Reign Once More in Our Native Country | |
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To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop of Autun | |
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from The Principles of Geology | |
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Niagara | |
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Civil Disobedience | |
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Ball-Playing | |
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from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | |
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from Only Temper | |
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A River Pilot Looks at the Mississippi | |
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The New Aesthetic | |
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On Halsted Street | |
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A Mild Suggestion | |
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Roughing It in the Bush | |
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Professions for Women | |
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The Death of the Moth | |
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Once More to the Lake | |
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Politics and the English Language | |
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Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool | |
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from The Highway and the City | |
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from Behavioral Study of Obedience | |
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Correctness and the English Language | |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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Dinner with my Celebrated Pen Pal T. S. Eliot | |
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On Going Home | |
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Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open? | |
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The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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Where the World Began | |
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The World of Wrestling | |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Stompin' Tom Connors! | |
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Pablo Picasso | |
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Mme. Marie Curie (1866-1934) | |
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Pig Lovers and Pig Haters | |
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The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | |
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Children: Pro or Con? | |
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Speciesism and the Equality of Animals | |
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Taking Women Students Seriously | |
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Invisibility in Academe | |
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Moral Saints | |
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Another Accolade for Charter Arms Corp | |
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What is Real? | |
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Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin | |
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Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism | |
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Entropic Homogeneity Isn't Why No One Hits 400 Any More | |
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from Decolonising the Mind | |
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Terwilliger Bunts One | |
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Four Farms in the Tenth of Reach | |
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Our Daughters, Ourselves | |
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Intoxicated by My Illness | |
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A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman | |
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The Egg and the Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles | |
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On Poetry | |
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Silence and the Notion of the Commons | |
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Fear Itself | |
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Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital | |
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Transcribing Insima, a Blackfoot "Old Lady" | |
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The Passing of Anatole Broyard | |
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The Sports Taboo | |
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Philosophy, Morality, and The English Patient | |
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Where is the Child's Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development | |
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Saving the Balzar | |
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from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families | |
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How People Power Topples the Tyrant | |
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Political Animals and the Body of History | |
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One Good Turn Why the Robertson Screwdriver is the Biggest Little Invention of the Twentieth Century | |
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Does Working for Welfare Work? | |
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The Swoosh | |
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First Job | |
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Biographical Notes | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Index | |