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Lesson 1 Andrew H.Malcolm:Dad

Lesson 2 Sherwood Anderson:Discovery of a Father

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Lesson 3 Steve Tesich:Focusing on Friends

Lesson 4 Judith Viorst:Friends,Good Friends—and Such Good Friends

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Lesson 5 Carolyn B.Raphael:Three Unforgettable Professors

Lesson 6 James Thurber:University Days

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Lesson 7 Mark Twain:Advice to Youth

Lesson 8 Neil Postman:My Graduation Speech

Lesson 9 E.M.Forster:My Wood

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Lesson 10 Barbara Ehrenreich:The Cult of Busyness

Lesson 11 Sydney J.Harris:Climbing the Mountain of Success

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Lesson 12 J.H.Plumb:The Dying Family

Lesson 13 Lewis Coser:The Family

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Lesson 14 Scott Smallwood:Divorce and a Haircut

Lesson 15 Andrew Sullivan:Here Comes the Groom:A(Conservative)Case for Gay Marriage

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Lesson 16 Yi-Fu Tuan:American Space,Chinese Place

Lesson 17 Edward T.Hall:The Arab World

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Lesson 18 Annie Dillard:The Chase

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Lesson 19 Michael Korda:How to Obtain Power

Lesson 20 Bertrand Russell:Work

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Lesson 21 George Orwell:Shooting an Elephant

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Lesson 22 Abraham Lincoln:The Gettysburg Address

Lesson 23 Martin Luther King,Jr.:I Have a Dream

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Lesson 24 Kate Chopin:The Story of an Hour

Lesson 25 Deborah Tannen:Report-talk in Private

Lesson 26 K.C.Cole:Women and Physics

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Lesson 27 Harold Krents:Darkness at Noon

Lesson 28 Leonard Kriegel:Taking It

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Lesson 29 E.B.White:The Ring of Time

Lesson 30 Malcolm Cowley:Vices and Pleasures:The View from 80

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Lesson 31 Virginia Woolf:The Death of the Moth

Lesson 32 Lewis Thomas:On Natural Death

Major Reference Books