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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 | |