Table of Contents
Preface
Table of Contents by Subject
Table of Contents by Rhetorical Category
Michel de Montaigne
Of Democritus and Heraclitus
from Of Experience
from Of the Education of Children
Francis Bacon
Of Studies
John Donne
from For Whom this Bell Tolls (Meditation XVII)
Margaret Cavendish
On Social Class & Happiness
On Hearing the Ship Was Drowned
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
Samuel Johnson
On Becoming Acquainted with Our Real Characters
To Reign Once More in Our Native Country
Mary Wollstonecraft
To M. Tallyrand-Perigord
Charles Lyell
from The Principles of Geology
Harriet Martineau
Niagara
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
George Copway
Ball-Playing
Charles Darwin
from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
George Eliot
from Only Temper
Mark Twain
A River Pilot Looks at the Mississippi
Oscar Wilde
The New Aesthetic
Jane Addams
On Halsted Street
W.E.B. DuBois
A Mild Suggestion
Stephen Leacock
Roughing It in the Bush
Virginia Woolf
Professions for Women
The Death of the Moth
E.B. White
Once More to the Lake
George Orwell
Politics of the English Language Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool
Lewis Mumford
from The Highway and the City
Stanley Milgram
from Behavioral Study of Obedience
Raymond Williams
Correctness and the English Language
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Groucho Marx
Dinner with My Celebrated Pen Pal T.S. Eliot
Joan Didion
On Going Home
J. Tuzo Wilson
Did the Atlantic Close and Re- Open?
N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Margaret Laurence
Where the World Began
Roland Barthes
The World of Wrestling
Alden Nowlan
Ladies and Gentlemen, Stompin’ Tom Connors!
Janet Flanner
Pablo Picasso
Mme. Marie Curie
Marvin Harris
Pig Lovers and Pig Haters
Fran Lebowitz
Children: Pro or Con?
Pete Singer
Speciesism and the Equality of Animals
Adrienne Rich
Invisibility in Academe Taking Women Students Seriously
Susan Wolf
Moral Saints
Mike Royko
Another Accolade for Charter Arms Corp
Alice Munro
What Is Real?
Robert Darnton
Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin
Elaine Showalter
Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism
Stephen Jay Gould
Entropic Homogeneity Isn’t Why No One Hits .400 Any More
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
from Decolonising the Mind
Annie Dillard
Terwilliger Bunts One
W.H. Graham
Four Farms in the Tenth of Reach
Stevie Cameron
Our Daughters, Ourselves
Anatole Broyard
Intoxicated by My Illness
Bharati Mukherjee
A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman
Emily Martin
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
Dionne Brand
On Poetry
Ursula Franklin
Silence and the Notion of the Commons
Lucy Grealy
Fear Itself
Robert D. Putnam
Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital
Alice Beck Kehoe
Transcribing Insima, A Blackfoot “Old Lady”
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Passing of Anatole Broyard
Malcolm Gladwell
The Sports Taboo
Thomas Hurka
Philosophy, Morality and The English Patient
Judith Rich Harris
Where is the Child’s Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development
Adam Gopnik
Saving the Balzar
Philip Gourevitch
from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Gwynne Dyer
How People Power Topples the Tyrant
Larissa Lai
Political Animals and the Body of History
Witold Rybcyznski
One Good Turn: Why the Robertson Screwdriver Is the Biggest Little Invention of the Twentieth Century
Tim Devlin
Does Working for Welfare Work?
Naomi Klein
The Swoosh
Margaret Atwood
First Job
Biographical Notes
Acknowledgements
Index