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Tables of Contents for Mosaic I
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Third Edition
xi
5
Summary of Reading, Vocabulary, and Test-Taking Skills
xvi
CHAPTER one New Challenges
1
20
SELECTION ONE "Customs Vary with Culture"
2
8
Alison Raymond Lanier
SELECTION TWO "My Country" (excerpts)
10
7
Pierre Berton
SELECTION THREE "In Praise of New York City"
17
3
Andy Rooney
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Panhandling
20
1
CHAPTER two Looking at Learning
21
22
SELECTION ONE "How to Read Faster"
22
6
Bill Cosby
SELECTION TWO "Mark Twain," from Encyclopaedia Britannica
28
3
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Censorship
31
1
SELECTION THREE "How to Take Tests: Scoring What You're Worth"
32
11
Eric Jensen
CHAPTER three Relationships
43
22
SELECTION ONE "The Changing American Family"
44
7
M. Prijic
SELECTION TWO "70 Brides for 7 Foreigners"
51
6
S. Kuzina
SELECTION THREE "The Making of a Father"
57
7
Ellen Goodman
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Adoption
64
1
CHAPTER four Health
65
26
SELECTION ONE "Eat Like a Peasant, Feel Like a King"
66
10
Andrew Revkin
SELECTION TWO "Thou Shalt Not Smoke"
76
5
Barbara Rudolph
SELECTION THREE "The Cruel Winds"
81
9
Julius Fast
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Choosing Medical Care
90
1
CHAPTER five High Tech, Low Tech
91
24
SELECTION ONE "First-Time Tourists Need a Pocket Guide to Downtown Internet"
92
6
Peter H. Lewis
SELECTION TWO "Laser: Supertool of Our Time"
98
8
Jeff Hecht
Dick Teresi
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Taking the Chunnel
106
1
SELECTION THREE "Privacy Loses to Computer"
107
8
Larry Tye
CHAPTER six Money Matters
115
18
SELECTION ONE "Executive Takes Chance on Pizza, Transforms Spain"
116
6
Stephen Wade
SELECTION TWO "Who Owns What in America?"
122
3
Andy Rooney
SELECTION THREE "The Luncheon"
125
7
W. Somerset Maugham
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Using Credit Cards
132
1
CHAPTER seven Leisure Time
133
18
SELECTION ONE "Living with Television"
134
7
David Finkel
SELECTION TWO "For Casinos, `Six-Hour Visitors' Make a Full House"
141
5
Walter Brasch
SELECTION THREE "Soccer and American Football," from Rules of the Game
146
4
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Exercising
150
1
CHAPTER eight Creativity
151
20
SELECTION ONE "New York Botanist Wins Nobel Medical Prize," from American Medical News
152
4
SELECTION TWO "Guggenheim Museum U.S.A."
156
8
Flavio Conti
SELECTION THREE "We Can't Just Sit Back and Hope"
164
5
Dotson Rader
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Creativity in Men and Women
169
2
CHAPTER nine Human Behavior
171
22
SELECTION ONE "Ethnocentrism"
172
7
John Friedl
SELECTION TWO "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
179
7
Ernest Hemingway
SELECTION THREE "The Spell of the Yukon"
186
6
Robert Service
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Blaming Others
192
1
CHAPTER ten Crime and Punishment
193
32
SELECTION ONE "Soapy Smith"
194
5
Stan B. Cohen
SELECTION TWO "Anecdotes of Minister Maimaiti: A Uygur Man's Black Humor"
199
16
Wang Meng
Qingyun Wu
SELECTION THREE "Born Bad?"
215
9
Glenn Garelik
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Using the Death Penalty
224
1
CHAPTER eleven The Physical World
225
20
SELECTION ONE "Hothouse Earth"
226
7
Kevin McKean
SELECTION TWO "Migration and Homing," from Life on Earth
233
6
SELECTION THREE "Recycling: Getting the Most Out of Our Garbage"
239
5
Peter Tonge
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Littering
244
1
CHAPTER twelve Together on a Small Planet
245
SELECTION ONE "Books"
246
1
Jorge Luis Borges
SELECTION TWO "Three Days to See"
247
4
Helen Keller
SELECTION THREE "Good Friends...Dogs, Sons and Others"
251
4
Willie Morris
SELECTION FOUR
255
5
"People"
255
1
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Poem"
256
1
Ono no Komachi
"Poem"
256
1
Paavo Haavikko
"Caged Bird"
257
1
Maya Angelou
"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (Selections)
258
2
SELECTION FIVE Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy
260
3
SELECTION SIX "Susana and the Shepherd"
263
16
Margaret Craven
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Reading
279