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The iDeal Reader

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The iDeal Reader Table of Contents by Genre*

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All selections are available with or without apparatus. Selections with eBook Option can be used in an eBook. All selections are available in 8.5x11 and 6x9 trim size.

DRAMA Ed Bullins, “A Son, Come Home” Christopher Durang, “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You” Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” eBook Option! Jane Martin, “Twirler” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” eBook Option! J. M. Synge, “Riders to the Sea” eBook Option! Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” eBook Option!

ESSAY/NON-FICTION Edward Abbey, “The Right to Arms” Michael Abernethy, “Male Bashing on TV” eBook Option! Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa” from Hopes and Impediments Diane Ackerman, “The Winter Palace of Monarchs/Psychopharmacology of Chocolate” Mortimer J. Adler, “How to Mark a Book” eBook Option! Alfred Alvarez, “Sylvia Plath: A Memoir” Maya Angelou, “Graduation Day” Gloria Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Hannah Arendt, “Total Domination” from The Origins of Totalitarianism eBook Option! Mary Arguelles, “Money for Morality” Aristotle, “On the Soul” eBook Option! Aristotle, “Politics, Book One” eBook Option! Aristotle, “Politics, Book Two” eBook Option! James Atlas, “The Battle of the Books” Margaret Atwood, “The Female Body” Francis Bacon, “Of Studies” eBook Option! Francis Bacon, “Of Truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Envy, and Of Love” eBook Option! Russell Baker, “The Price of Liberty” Russell Baker, “Learning to Write” Russell Baker, from “Growing Up” Russell Baker, “Work in Corporate America” James Baldwin, “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son” Benjamin Barber, “America Skips School” eBook Option! Lincoln Barnett, “Einstein’s Relativity” Dennis Baron, “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies” eBook Option! Dennis Baron, “The New Technologies of the Word” eBook Option! Dave Barry, “Red, White, and Beer” Luigi Barzini, “The Americans: Why We Baffle the Europeans” Scott Bass, “Collision Course” eBook Option!

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Simone de Beauvoir, “The Making of a Woman” Simone de Beauvoir, from The Married Woman eBook Option!

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Robert Bellah, et al., “Community, Commitment, and Individuality” Robert Bellah, et al., “Love and Marriage” from Habits of the Heart Ruth Benedict, “The Pueblos of New Mexico”

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John Berger, “Manhattan” John Berger, “On Visibility/Painting and Time” Ingmar Bergman, “What Is ‘Film-Making’?” Wendell Berry, “Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems” Wendell Berry, “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” Bruno Bettelheim, “The Child’s Need for Magic” Bruno Bettelheim, “Cinderella” Bruno Bettelheim, “The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank” Bruno Bettelheim, “The Importance of Play” Ambrose Bierce, excerpts from The Devil’s Dictionary eBook Option! Caroline Bird, “Where College Fails Us” Laura Bohannan, “Shakespeare in the Bush” Sissela Bok, “Gossip” Sissela Bok, “White Lies” Daniel J. Boorstin, “Overcommunication: Are We Talking Too Much?” Daniel J. Boorstin, “Technology and Democracy: Getting There Is All the Fun” Kenneth E. Boulding, “After Civilization, What?” Joel K. Bourne, “The End of Plenty” eBook Option! Harry C. Boyte, “Turning On Youth to Politics” Anthony Brandt, “Rite of Passage” Robert G. Bringle & Julie A. Hatcher, “Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education” eBook Option! Suzanne Britt, “That Lean and Hungry Look” Suzanne Britt, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” Jacob Bronowski, “The Nature of Scientific Reasoning” Jacob Bronowski, “The Reach of Imagination” David Brooks, “The Organization Kid” eBook Option! Susan Brownmiller, “On Pornography” Holly Brubach, “Rock-and-Roll Vaudeville” J. Alison Bryant, Ashley Sanders-Jackson, & Amber M. K. Smallwood, “IMing, Text Messaging, and Adolescent Social Networks” eBook Option! NEW! Jim Buie, “The Case for Legal Late-Term Abortions” eBook Option! Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” Albert Camus, “The Rebel” Rachel Carson, “The Obligation to Endure” Jimmy Carter, “Nobel Lecture” eBook Option! Ernst Cassirer, “Human Culture” Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” Linda Chavez, “The Real Aim of the Promoters of Cultural Diversity” Wayson Choy, “I’m a Banana and Proud of It” eBook Option! Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood” Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman” K. C. Cole, “A Theory of Everything” Colette, from “Earthly Paradise”

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Spring 2012 Patricia Hill Collins, “Black Women and Motherhood” Henry Steele Commager, “The Nineteenth-Century American” eBook Option! Humanities Commission, “The Humanities in America” Confucius, “Perfect Virtue” eBook Option!

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Aaron Copland, “How We Listen to Music” Sara Corbett, “The Lost Boys” eBook Option! Norman Cousins, “The Right to Die” Harvey Cox, “Understanding Islam” Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, “What Is An American?” eBook Option! Robert Crichton, “Across the River and Into the Prose” Mario Cuomo, “Religious Belief and Public Morality” Edwidge Danticat, “We Are Ugly, But We Are Here” eBook Option! John M. Darley & Bibb Latane, “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis” Clarence Darrow, “Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail” eBook Option! Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection” eBook Option! Meghan Daum, “Virtual Love” eBook Option! Paul Davies, “The End of the Universe” Edwin Denby, “Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets” Alan Dershowitz, “Shouting ‘Fire!’” eBook Option! René Descartes, “Meditation I: Of the Things of Which We May Doubt” eBook Option! John Dewey, “My Pedagogic Creed” Joan Didion, “In Bed,” from The White Album Joan Didion, “Marrying Absurd” Joan Didion, “On Going Home” Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” Joan Didion, from Salvador Joan Didion, “Why I Write” eBook Option! Annie Dillard, from An American Childhood Annie Dillard, “Death of a Moth” eBook Option! Frederick Douglass, “Escape from Slavery” from The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave eBook Option! Frederick Douglass, “How I Learned to Read and Write” from The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave eBook Option! Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” eBook Option! W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” eBook Option! The Economist, “What September 11th Really Wrought” Thomas Byrne Edsall, “The Return of Inequality” Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, “The Advantages of Sociability” Barbara Ehrenreich, “Class Struggle 101” eBook Option! Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Naked Truth about Fitness” Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” Barbara Ehrenreich, “What I’ve Learned from Men” Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, “Life on the Global Assembly Line” Gretel Ehrlich, “About Men” Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving” Loren Eiseley, “The Brown Wasps” Loren Eiseley, “How Flowers Changed the World” Loren Eiseley, “The Judgment of the Birds”

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Spring 2012 Nawal El Sadaawi, “Circumcision of Girls” Nawal El Saadawi, “Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab” Peter Elbow, “Freewriting” Black Elk, “High Horse’s Courting”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature Nora Ephron, “A Few Words about Breasts: Shaping Up Absurd” Susan Faludi, from Backlash: The Undeclared War on Women William Faulkner, “Nobel Prize Award Speech” Joel Feinberg, from “Abortion” Robert Finch, “What the Stones Said” M. F. K. Fisher, “I Was Really Very Hungry” George Fitzhugh, “The Universal Trade” from Cannibals All! eBook Option! E. M. Forster, “What I Believe” Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth” eBook Option! Benjamin Franklin, “A Witch Trial at Mount Holly” eBook Option! Sir James George Frazer, “The Myth and Ritual of Adonis” Richard M. Freeland, “The Third Way” eBook Option! Paulo Freire, Chapter 2 from Pedagogy of the Oppressed eBook Option! Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed Sigmund Freud, “Relation of Dream to the Waking State and Material of Dreams” Carlos Fuentes, “The Mirror of the Other” Ernesto Galarza, from “Barrio Boy” Eduardo Galeano, “Language, Lies, and Latin Democracy” Tess Gallagher, “Reading the Waterfall” John Gardner, “What Writers Do” Bob Garfield, “YouTube vs. Boob Tube” eBook Option! William Lloyd Garrison, “Address to the American Colonization Society” eBook Option! Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Whose Canon Is it Anyway?” Jennifer L. Geddes, “Blueberries, Accordions, and Auschwitz” eBook Option! James Paul Gee, “Conclusion: Duped or Not?” eBook Option! Clifford Geertz, “Being Here: Whose Life Is It Anyway?” Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” Martha Gellhorn, “White into Black” Reuel Marc Gerecht, “The Gospel According to Osama Bin Laden” eBook Option! A. Bartlett Giamatti, “A Meditation on Power” Keith Gilyard, “First Lessons” eBook Option! Keith Gilyard, “Rapping, Reading, and Role-playing” eBook Option! Todd Gitlin, “Television and American Culture” Ira Glasser, “Cigarette Ads and the Press” Gail Godwin, “The Watcher at the Gates” Oliver Goldsmith, “National Prejudices” eBook Option! Janet Mendell Goldstein, “The Quick-Fix Society” eBook Option! Ellen Goodman, “The Company Man” Ellen Goodman, “The Tapestry of Friendships” Sherry Gorelick, “The Gender Trap” Kathleen Gough, “The Origin of the Family”

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Spring 2012 Steven Jay Gould, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” Steven Jay Gould, “The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS” eBook Option! Doris A. Graber, “Magical Words and Plain Campaigns” John C.H. Grabill, “U.S. School for Indians at Pine Ridge, S.D.” Stephen R. Graubard, “Western Civ and Its Children”

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Germaine Greer, “Backlash Myth” Dick Gregory, “If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog” John Grisham, “Somewhere for Everyone” eBook Option! Ingrid Groller, “Should TV Be Censored?” Michael Harrington, “A Definition of Poverty” Paul Harrison, “The Westernization of the World” Vaclav Havel, “The End of the Modern Era” Stephen Hawking, “Unified Theory of the Universe Would Be the Ultimate Triumph” William Least Heat-Moon, “South by Southeast” William Least Heat-Moon, “Sylvan Street” Robert L. Heilbroner, “Advertising as Agitprop” Nat Hentoff, “Colleges Suffer from Lack of Diversity of Ideas” eBook Option! Nat Hentoff, “Free Speech on Campus” John Hersey, “A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima” Gilbert Highet, “The Gettysburg Address” Gilbert Highet, “The Mystery of Zen” Etty Hillesum, “Letter from a Nazi Concentration Camp” L. Rust Hills, “How to Eat an Ice Cream Cone” Thomas Hine, “The Teenage Mystique” eBook Option! Arlene Hirschfelder, “It’s Time to Stop Playing Indians” Linda Hirshman, “Homeward Bound” eBook Option! Christopher Hitchens, “Of Sin, the Left & Islamic Fascism” eBook Option! Edward Hoagland, “The Courage of Turtles” Thomas Hobbes, “The Social Contract” from Leviathan eBook Option! David Hoekema, “Capital Punishment: The Question of Justification” Garrett Hongo, “Kubota” bell hooks, “Dreaming Ourselves Dark and Deep: Black Beauty” Langston Hughes, “Salvation” Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” eBook Option! Stephen Hutcheon, “Ogle at Street Level: Free Speech or Invasion of Privacy?” eBook Option! Kay S. Hymowitz, “The End of Herstory” eBook Option! Michael Ignatieff, “Love’s Progress” Jesse Jackson, “Who Makes the Clothes We Wear?” Harriet Ann Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl eBook Option! Jane Jabobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” eBook Option! William James, “What Makes a Life Significant” Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” James Jeans, “Why the Sky Is Blue” Thomas Jefferson, “First Inaugural Address” eBook Option! Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence” eBook Option! Barbara Jordan, “Statement on the Articles of Impeachment” eBook Option! Barbara Jordan, “1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address” eBook Option! Carl Gustav Jung, “The Personal and the Collective Unconscious”

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Spring 2012 Franz Kafka, “Letter To His Father” Wendy Kaminer, “Let’s Talk about Gender, Baby” eBook Option! Wendy Kaminer, “Virtual Rape” eBook Option! Immanuel Kant, “The Right of Punishing” from The Metaphysics of Morals Immanuel Kant, “Of the Impossibility of Ontological Proof of Existence of God” eBook Option!

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Ryszard Kapuscinski, “Fire on the Road” D.G. Kehl and Donald Heidt, “The Rhetoric of Cow and the Rhetoric of Bull” Helen Keller, “Three Days to See” Edward M. Kennedy, “The Need for Handgun Control” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” eBook Option! Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Barbara Kingsolver, “And Our Flag Was Still There” eBook Option! Barbara Kingsolver, “Jabberwocky” eBook Option! Barbara Kingsolver, “Stone Soup” eBook Option! Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman” Perry Klass, “Macho” eBook Option! Daniel Kolak and David Goloff, ‘The Incredible Shrinking Zeno” eBook Option! Elizabeth Kolbert, “XXXL: Why Are We So Fat?” eBook Option! Melvin Konner, “Rage” Charles Krauthammer, “Legalize? No. Deglamorize.” Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, “The Fear of Dying” Natalie Kusz, “Vital Signs” from Road Song eBook Option! Robin Lakoff, “You Are What You Say” Charles Lamb, “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People” eBook Option! Charles Lamb, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig” eBook Option! Lewis H. Lapham, “Notebook: The New Patriotism” Christopher Lasch, “The Degradation of Work and the Apotheosis of Art” Barbara Lawrence, “Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You” John D. Lawry, “The First Year’s the Hardest” eBook Option! John D. Lawry, “What No One Ever Told Them about College” (A Survey) eBook Option! Ursula K. Le Guin, “Is Gender Necessary Redux” Richard B. Lee, “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari” Joseph Lelyveld, “All Suicide Bombers Are Not Alike” Primo Levi, “Hydrogen” from The Periodic Table Claude Levi-Strauss, “’Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind” Bernard Lewis, “The Roots of Muslim Rage” NEW! Abraham Lincoln, “Meditation on the Divine Will” eBook Option! Abraham Lincoln, “Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery” eBook Option! John Locke, “Of Judgment” eBook Option! NEW! Phillip Longman, “The Return of Patriarchy” eBook Option! Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex” Audre Lorde, “The Fourth of July” Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” Alison Lurie, “Sex and Fashion” William Lutz, “Double-Talk” Niccolò Machiavelli, “Circle of Governments” eBook Option! Niccolò Machiavelli, “On Political Expediency” eBook Option!

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Spring 2012 Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple” eBook Option! eBook Option! Katherine Mangu-Ward, “Electronic Eyes Abound: Is It So Bad?” Peter Marin, “Toward Something American”

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Judith Martin, “On Etiquette as Language, Weapon, Custom, and Craft” Donald McAndrew, “That Isn’t What We Did in High School: Big Changes in the Teaching of Writing” eBook Option! Daniel McGinn, “The Big Score” eBook Option! Bill McKibben, “A Modest Proposal to Destroy Western Civilization as We Know It: The $100 Christmas” Louis Menand, “Thumbspeak” eBook Option! H. L. Mencken, “The Penalty of Death” eBook Option! Philip Meyer, “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?” eBook Option! Stanley Milgram, “The Perils of Obedience” John Stuart Mill, “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion” eBook Option! Alice Miller, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” Don Ethan Miller, “Bureaucratese” from The Book of Jargon Kate Miller and Casey Swift, “Who’s in Charge of the English Language?” eBook Option! Mark Crispin Miller, “Hollywood the Ad” Mark Crispin Miller, from “Deride and Conquer” Nicolaus Mills, “The Endless Autumn” eBook Option! Czeslaw Milosz, “American Ignorance of War” Horace Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” eBook Option! N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain Susan Moon, “Sons and Mothers” eBook Option! Thomas Gale Moore, “Happiness Is a Warm Planet” eBook Option! Sir Thomas More, from Utopia eBook Option! Desmond Morris, “Territorial Behaviour” Toni Morrison, “Nobel Lecture” eBook Option! Bill Moyers, “Defining Creativity for Everyone to See Wasn’t Exactly Easy” Lewis Mumford, “The Origins of the American Mind” Cullen Murphy, “Common Stock” eBook Option! Donald M. Murray, “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” Michele Tolela Myers, “A Student Is Not an Input” eBook Option! Vladimir Nabokov, “The Beginning of Consciousness” Shiva Naipaul, “The Pursuit of Wholiness” Vicente Navarro, “The Middle Class—A Useful Myth” Dorothy Nelkin, “The Mystique of Science in the Press” Judith P. Nembhard, “A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English” eBook Option! Jeffrey Nesteruk, “Contributing to Our Students’ Moral Lives” eBook Option! Naomi Shihab Nye, “To Any Would-Be Terrorists” eBook Option! Joyce Carol Oates, “On Boxing” Barack Obama, “2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address” eBook Option! Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” eBook Option! Robert Oliphant, “Letter to a B Student” eBook Option! The Onion, “Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men Faulted in 747 Crash” J. Robert Oppenheimer, “On Science and Culture” George Orwell, “A Hanging” George Orwell, “Marrakech”

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Spring 2012 George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell, “The Principles of Newspeak” George Packer, “How Susie Bayer’s T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusef Mama’s Back” eBook Option! Camille Paglia, “Rape and Modern Sex War”

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Thomas Paine, “The Origin and Design of Government in General,” from Common Sense eBook Option! Robert Palmer, “What Pop Lyrics Say to Us Today” eBook Option! Noel Perrin, “The Androgynous Man” Noel Perrin, “Country Codes” Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave” eBook Option! Plato, “The Crito” eBook Option! Plato, “The Symposium” eBook Option! Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns” Katha Pollitt, “’Fetal Rights’: A New Assault on Feminism” Stephen Prothero, “A Nation of Religious Illiterates” eBook Option! Anna Quindlen, “Men at Work” Anna Quindlen, “Evan’s Two Moms” James Rachels, from “Euthanasia” James Rachels, “What Would a Satisfactory Moral Theory Be Like?” Diane Ravitch, “Back to Basics: Test Scores Don’t Lie” Diane Ravitch, “Multiculturalism Yes, Particularism No” Ishmael Reed, “America: The Multinational Society” Howard Rheingold, “The Virtual Community” eBook Option! Amanda Ripley, “What Is a Life Worth?” eBook Option! Gregory Rochlin, from “The Masculine Dilemma” Richard Rodriguez, “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” Richard Rodriguez, “The Fear of Losing a Culture” eBook Option! Richard Rodriguez, “The Lonely, Good Company of Books” eBook Option! Richard Rodriguez, “The Workers” eBook Option! Richard Rodriguez, “On Becoming a Chicano” Betty Rollin, “The Motherhood Myth” Kate Ronald, “The Hidden Agenda in Composition Classes; or, One Reader’s Confession” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “First Inaugural Address” eBook Option! Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation” eBook Option! Mike Rose, “A Vocabulary of Carpentry” Phyllis Rose, “Mothers and Fathers” Hephzibah Roskelly, “The Cupped Hand and the Open Palm” Jay Rosen, “The Whole World Is Watching CNN” Roger Rosenblatt, “How to End the Abortion War” Theodore Roszak, “In Search of the Miraculous” Jean Jacques Rousseau, “Origin of Civil Society” from The Social Contract Mary Rowlandson, from The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson eBook Option! Bertrand Russell, “Appearance and Reality” and “The Existence of Matter” Claire Safran, “Hidden Lessons: Do Boys Get a Better Education than Girls?” Carl Sagan, “The Cosmic Calendar” Mark Sagoff, “Zuckerman's Dilemma: A Plea for Environmental Ethics” eBook Option! Scott Russell Sanders, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” Margaret Sanger, “The Cause of War” eBook Option!

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Spring 2012 May Sarton, “The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life” Jean-Paul Sartre, “The Passion of the Anti-Semite” Maggie Scarf, “The Five Ways in Which Couples Relate” Jonathan Schell, from The Fate of the Earth Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., “Politics and the American Language”

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., “The Opening of the American Mind” Gershom G. Scholem, “Religious Authority and Mysticism” Jeffrey Schrank, “Sport and the American Dream” Michael Schudson, “Why the News Is the Way It Is” NEW! Sam Schulman, “The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage: It Isn't Going to Work” eBook Option! Neala S. Schwartzberg, “What TV Does to Kids” Sylvia Scribner, “Literacy in Three Metaphors” eBook Option! Chief Seattle, Letter to President Pierce, 1855 eBook Option! Chief Seattle, Address, 1854 eBook Option! Richard Selzer, “Letter to a Young Surgeon III” Indries Shah, “Seeker After Knowledge” from The Sufis Jack Shaheen, “The Media’s Image of Arabs” Earl Shorris, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education as a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor” eBook Option! Leslie Marmon Silko, “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination” Craig Silverman, “Smile, Big Brother’s Watching” eBook Option! Theodore Sizer, “Horace’s Compromise” eBook Option! Adam Smith, “Zen and the Cross-Court Backhand” Vivian Sobchack, “‘Susie Scribbles:’ Technology, Technë, and Writing Incarnate” eBook Option! Susan Sontag, “AIDS and Its Metaphors” Susan Sontag, “The Image-World” William Stafford, “A Way of Writing” Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” eBook Option! Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “You Should Have Been a Boy!” eBook Option! Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space” Shelby Steele, “The Recoloring of Campus Life” NEW! Gloria Steinem, “Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher” eBook Option! Gloria Steinem, “The Importance of Work” Gloria Steinem, “Sex, Lies, and Advertising” Gloria Steinem, “Erotica and Pornography” eBook Option! Jessica Stern, “Trojan Horses of the Body” Marita Sturken, “The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial” Andrew Sullivan, “This Is a Religious War” eBook Option! Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” eBook Option! Judy Syfers, “Why I Want a Wife” Margaret Talbot, “Brain Gain” eBook Option! Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” Deborah Tannen, “But What Do You Mean?” Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” eBook Option! Studs Terkel, “Miss U.S.A.” Studs Terkel, from Working Paul Theroux, “Being a Man” eBook Option! Lewis Thomas, “Notes on Punctuation”

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Spring 2012 Henry David Thoreau, “The Battle of the Ants” eBook Option! Henry David Thoreau, “Economy” eBook Option! Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” eBook Option! Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” from Walden eBook Option! Henry David Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” eBook Option!

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James Thurber, “Courtship through the Ages” James Thurber, “University Days” Paul Tillich, “The Lost Dimension in Religion” Sallie Tisdale, “We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story” Alexis de Tocqueville, “Public Associations and Civil Life” A. R. Torres, “The Reluctant Icon” eBook Option! Brian Trent, “Technology and Tomorrow: A Challenge to Liberty” eBook Option! Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” eBook Option! Barbara Tuchman, “‘This is the End of the World’: The Black Death” Mark Twain, “Advice to Youth” eBook Option! Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi eBook Option! Mark Twain, “The Lowest Animal” eBook Option! United Nations, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” eBook Option! The United States Constitution eBook Option! Gore Vidal, “Notes On Our Patriarchal State” Kurt Vonnegut, “How To Write With Style” Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” Alice Walker, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” Ethan Watters, “Claude Steele Has Scores to Settle” eBook Option! Rick Weiss, “Free to Be Me: Would-Be Cloners Pushing the Debate” Victor Weisskopf, “The Origin of the Universe” Barry Wellman, “Computer Networks as Social Networks” Eudora Welty, “One Writer’s Beginnings” E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” Alfred North Whitehead, “The Origins of Modern Science” Barbara Whitehead, “Where Have All the Parents Gone?” eBook Option! John W. Whitehead, “Schools Are Destroying Freedom of Speech” eBook Option! Walt Whitman, Preface to “Leaves of Grass” eBook Option! Terry Tempest Williams, “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women” eBook Option! Marie Winn, “The End of Play” Marie Winn, “Television: The Plug-In Drug” Tom Wolfe, “Pornoviolence” Tom Wolfe, “The White Gods” Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” eBook Option! Elizabeth Wong, “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” eBook Option! Virginia Woolf, Chapter 1 from A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” Fareed Zakaria, “The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?” eBook Option! Wei Zhu, “Faculty Views on the Importance of Writing, the Nature of Academic Writing, and Teaching and Responding to Writing” eBook Option! Howard Zinn, “Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress from A People’s History of the United States eBook Option! Dave Zirin, “Barry Bonds Gonna Git Your Mama: When Steriods Attack!” eBook Option! Gary Zukav, “Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle”

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Spring 2012 POETRY Maya Angelou, “Africa” NEW! Anonymous, “Bonnie Barbara Allan” eBook Option!

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Anonymous, “Sir Patrick Spence” eBook Option! Anonymous, “Western Wind” eBook Option! Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” eBook Option! W. H. Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts” W. H. Auden, “O What Is that Sound” W. H. Auden, “The Shield of Achilles” W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” John Berryman, “The Ball Poem” John Berryman, “Winter Landscape” Elizabeth Bishop, “Filling Station” Elizabeth Bishop, “First Death in Nova Scotia” Elizabeth Bishop, “The Fish” Elizabeth Bishop, “The Man-Moth” Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina” Elizabeth Bishop, “Some Dreams They Forgot” William Blake, “The Divine Image” eBook Option! William Blake, both versions of “Holy Thursday” eBook Option! William Blake, “London” eBook Option! NEW! William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” eBook Option! NEW! William Blake, “The Lamb” eBook Option! William Blake, “The Sick Rose” eBook Option! William Blake, “The Tyger” eBook Option! Louise Bogan, “Cassandra” Louise Bogan, “Women” Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” eBook Option! Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” eBook Option! Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Lovers of the Poor” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How Do I Love Thee” eBook Option! Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” eBook Option! NEW! Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose” eBook Option! Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” eBook Option! Lord George Byron, “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” eBook Option! Lord George Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” eBook Option! Lord George Byron, “So We’ll Go No More A-Roving” eBook Option! Lord George Byron, “When We Two Parted” eBook Option! Thomas Campion, “There Is a Garden In Her Face” eBook Option! NEW! Lewis Carroll “Jabberwocky” eBook Option! Raymond Carver, “Photograph of My Father” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” eBook Option! James Dickey, “Power and Light” NEW! John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” eBook Option! NEW! John Donne, “Holy Sonnet XIV” eBook Option!

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Spring 2012 John Donne, “Meditation XVII: For Whom the Bell Tolls” eBook Option! John Donne, “The Ecstasy” eBook Option! John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” eBook Option! John Donne, “Song” eBook Option! Michael Drayton, “Since There’s No Help” eBook Option!

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Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” eBook Option! T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” eBook Option! Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” NEW! Thomas Hardy, “The Convergence of the Twain” eBook Option! Thomas Hardy, “The Man He Killed” eBook Option! Thomas Hardy, “Neutral Tones” eBook Option! Tony Harrison, “A Cold Coming” eBook Option! Seamus Heaney, “Death of a Naturalist” Seamus Heaney, “Digging” and “Mid-Term Break” Seamus Heaney, “Oysters” Anthony Hecht, “The Dover Bitch” George Herbert, “Easter Wings” eBook Option! Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins” eBook Option! John Hollander, “Movie-Going” NEW! Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur” eBook Option! Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” eBook Option! Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover” eBook Option! A. E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young” eBook Option! A. E. Housman, “Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now” eBook Option! Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” David Ignatow, “Rescue the Dead” David Ignatow, “Sunday at the State Hospital” Ben Jonson, “On My First Son” eBook Option! Ben Jonson, “To Celia” eBook Option! NEW! John Keats, “Bright Star” eBook Option! NEW! John Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” eBook Option! John Keats, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” eBook Option! John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” eBook Option! John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” eBook Option! John Keats, “Ode on Melancholy” eBook Option! John Keats, “To Autumn” eBook Option! John Keats, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” eBook Option! Weldon Kees, “Travels in North America” X. J. Kennedy, “First Confession” X. J. Kennedy, “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day” Galway Kinnell, “How Many Nights” Galway Kinnell, “Saint Francis and the Sow” Galway Kinnell, “To Christ Our Lord” W.P. Kinsella, “The Thrill of the Grass” Kenneth Koch, “Permanently” Kenneth Koch, “Variations on a Theme” Kenneth Koch, “You Were Wearing” Philip Larkin, “The Card-Players”

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Spring 2012 Denise Levertov, “Wedding-Ring” Vachel Lindsay, “Euclid” Richard Lovelace, “To Lucasta” eBook Option! Amy Lowell, “A Decade” eBook Option! Amy Lowell, “Opal” eBook Option!

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Amy Lowell, “Patterns” eBook Option! Amy Lowell, “The Taxi” eBook Option! Archibald MacLeish, “Ars Poetica” Archibald MacLeish, “The End of the World” Archibald MacLeish, “Memorial Rain” Archibald MacLeish, “Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments” Archibald MacLeish, “You, Andrew Marvell” Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” eBook Option! Don Marquis, “Lesson of the Moth” Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” eBook Option! Claude McKay, “America” eBook Option! Claude McKay, “Baptism” eBook Option! Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” eBook Option! Claude McKay, “Outcast” eBook Option! Claude McKay, “The Tropics in New York” eBook Option! Claude McKay, “The White House” eBook Option! Edna St. Vincent Millay, “First Fig” eBook Option! John Milton, “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” eBook Option! Marianne Moore, “Poetry” Ogden Nash, “Very Like a Whale” Howard Nemerov, “Brainstorm” Howard Nemerov, “The Goose Fish” Howard Nemerov, “Storm Windows” Howard Nemerov, “The View from an Attic Window” Pablo Neruda, “The Word” NEW! Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” eBook Option! Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est” eBook Option! Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use” Marge Piercy, “To the Pay Toilet” Marge Piercy, “A Work of Artifice” Sylvia Plath, “Mushrooms” Sylvia Plath, “Point Shirley” Edgar Allan Poe, “To Helen” eBook Option! Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” eBook Option! Alexander Pope, “Epigram” eBook Option! Alexander Pope, from “An Essay on Criticism” eBook Option! Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply” eBook Option! John Crowe Ransom, “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” John Crowe Ransom, “Blue Girls” John Crowe Ransom, “Captain Carpenter” John Crowe Ransom, “Piazza Piece” Henry Reed, “Lessons of the War” Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Miniver Cheevy” eBook Option!

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Spring 2012 Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Mr. Flood’s Party” eBook Option! Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory” eBook Option! Christina Rossetti, “Uphill” eBook Option! Muriel Rukeyser, “Breaking Open” Muriel Rukeyser, “Then”

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Anne Sexton, “The Abortion” Anne Sexton, “The Black Art” Anne Sexton, “The Fury of Flowers and Worms” Anne Sexton, “Her Kind” Anne Sexton, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” Anne Sexton, “The Starry Night” Anne Sexton, “Two Hands” William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’” eBook Option! William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes’” eBook Option! William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 73: ‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold’” eBook Option! William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116: ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’” eBook Option! William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 130: ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun’” eBook Option! Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” eBook Option! Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias” eBook Option! Leslie Marmon Silko, “Deer Song” Gary Snyder, “The Bath” Gary Snyder, “Prayer for the Great Family” Stephen Spender, “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum” Stephen Spender, “My Parents” Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice Cream” Wallace Stevens, “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” Wallace Stevens, “Idea of Order at Key West” Wallace Stevens, “The Motive for Metaphor” Wallace Stevens, “Of Modern Poetry” Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” Jonathan Swift, “Description of the Morning” eBook Option! NEW! Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Eagle” eBook Option! Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Tears, Idle Tears” eBook Option! Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” eBook Option! Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” eBook Option! John Updike, “Mosquito” Constance Urdang, “Safe Places” David Wagoner, “A Valedictory to Standard Oil” Diane Wakoski, “You, Letting the Trees Stand” Edmund Waller, “Song: Go Lovely Rose” eBook Option! Robert Penn Warren, “Bearded Oaks” Robert Penn Warren, “True Love” Phillis Wheatley, “Liberty and Peace” eBook Option! Phillis Wheatley, “To the University of Cambridge” eBook Option! Walt Whitman, “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” eBook Option! Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” eBook Option! Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” from Leaves of Grass eBook Option!

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Spring 2012 Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” eBook Option! William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say” NEW! William Wordsworth, “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” eBook Option! NEW! William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps” eBook Option!

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NEW! William Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper” eBook Option! William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” eBook Option! William Wordsworth, “Intimations of Immortality, Recollections of Childhood” eBook Option! William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” eBook Option! William Wordsworth, “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” eBook Option! William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” eBook Option! James Wright, “A Blessing” James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm” James Wright, “Mutterings Over the Crib of a Deaf Child” James Wright, “To a Blossoming Pear Tree” Elinor Wylie, “The Puritan’s Ballad” Elinor Wylie, “Wild Peaches” William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer for My Daughter” eBook Option! William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” eBook Option! William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” eBook Option! William Butler Yeats, “When You Are Old” eBook Option!

SHORT STORY/FICTION Sherman Alexie, “A Good Story” NEW! Sherwood Anderson, “The Egg” eBook Option! Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings” Margaret Atwood, “Rape Fantasies” Jane Austen, Chapter 1 from Pride and Prejudice eBook Option! James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” Toni Cade Bambara, “Gorilla, My Love” Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson” Donald Barthelme, “A Shower of Gold” Ann Beattie, “The Burning House” Aphra Behn, “Oroonoko” eBook Option! NEW! Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” eBook Option! Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga” Clark Blaise, “I’m Dreaming of Rocket Richard” Kay Boyle, “Winter Night” Ray Bradbury, “The Pedestrian” Beth Brant, “Native Origin” from Mohawk Trail Brule Sioux Myth, “Sun Creation” Albert Camus, “The Guest” Nash Candelaria, “The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne” Truman Capote, “A Diamond Guitar” Lewis Carroll, “A Mad Tea Party” from Alice in Wonderland eBook Option! Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

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Spring 2012 Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” eBook Option! Denise Chavez, “The Last of the Menu Girls” John Cheever, “The Wrysons” Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” eBook Option! Julio Cortazar, “Blow Up”

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Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” eBook Option! Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” eBook Option! Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat” eBook Option! Harlan Ellison, “’Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” eBook Option! Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Politics” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams” eBook Option! Gustave Flaubert, “The Legend of St. Julian Hospitaler” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” eBook Option! Bernard Gotfryd, “Anton the Dove Fancier” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” eBook Option! Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” eBook Option! Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat” eBook Option! Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” eBook Option! Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” James Joyce, “Araby” eBook Option! Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist” Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” Rudyard Kipling, “The Gardener” eBook Option! Ring Lardner, “Haircut” Margaret Laurence, “The Loons” Ursula K. Le Guin, “It Was a Dark and Stormy Night; or, Why Are We Huddling about the Campfire?” Bernard Malamud, “The Magic Barrel” Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice” Thomas Mann, “Mario and the Magician” NEW! Katherine Mansfield, “Miss Brill” eBook Option! Katherine Mansfield, “Bliss” eBook Option! Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden-Party” eBook Option! Yukio Mishima, “Swaddling Clothes” Bharati Mukherjee, “A Wife’s Story” Alice Munro, “Circle of Prayer” Alice Munro, from Dance of the Happy Shades: Boys and Girls Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” Joyce Carol Oates, “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again” Ann Petry, “Like a Winding Sheet” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” eBook Option! Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” eBook Option! Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter” eBook Option! Tiwa Myth, “The Faithful Wife and the Woman Warrior” Mark Twain, “War Prayer” eBook Option! John Updike, “A & P”

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Spring 2012 Kurt Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron” eBook Option! Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path” Edith Wharton, “The Other Two” eBook Option!

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Ethel Wilson, “From Flores” Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince” eBook Option!

VISUAL ABC, “Marry Rich” eBook Option! Ansel Adams, “Manzanar Relocation Center from Guard Tower” eBook Option! American Heritage Dictionary, “Don’t Ambulate” eBook Option! AmFAR, “Cured” eBook Option! American School Counselor Association, “Sex. Math. Violence.” eBook Option! CITY/UIC, “Fabulous People” eBook Option! Confederate Soldier Killed in the Trenches eBook Option! EarthJustice, “In the Fight to Save Endangered Species” eBook Option! The Execution of William Johnson eBook Option! Land Rover, “Curios” eBook Option! Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Agricultural Worker’s Family” eBook Option! League of Women Voters, “See. You do have an opinion” eBook Option! Liberty Loan Committee, “For the Safety of Womanhood” eBook Option! Los Angeles Dance Invitational, “Demolition Derby” eBook Option! National Crime Prevention Council, “Drug Dealers, Gang Members, Rapists, Arsonists” eBook Option! National Crime Prevention Council, “Kalie” eBook Option! National Crime Prevention Council, “Mentor” eBook Option! Planned Parenthood of New York City, “We Use 2” eBook Option! Prevent Child Abuse America, “For Some, This Is a Place to Cook” eBook Option! Flip Schulke, “Martin Luther King Delivering ‘I Have a Dream’ in Washington, D.C.” eBook Option! Timberland, “Graph” eBook Option! U.S. Department of State, “All That Remains” eBook Option! U.S. Department of State, “In Memory of United Flights 175 and 93” eBook Option! Women Only, “Just because you’re 100 lbs. doesn’t mean you look great in a bikini” eBook Option!

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