How To Tame A Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldua -- Of Studies / Francis Bacon -- If Black English Isn't A Language, Then Tell Me What Is / James Baldwin -- Road Warrior / Dave Barry -- Toys / Roland Barthes -- On Sacramental Things / Hilaire Belloc -- Into The Electronic Millennium / Sven Birkerts -- I Want A Life / Judy Brady -- The Nature Of Scientific Reasoning / Jacob Bronowski -- Influeza / Jane Brox -- The Wound In The Face / Angela Carter -- The Fallacy Of Success / G.k. Chesterton -- Casa : A Partial Remembrance Of A Puerto Rican Childhood / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Uncertainty / K.c. Cole -- Labyrinthine / Bernard Cooper -- On Self-respect / Joan Didion -- Living Like Weasels / Annie Dillard -- No Man Is An Island / John Donne -- Souls On Ice / Mark Doty -- Learning To Read And Write / Frederick Douglass -- Joyas Voladoras / Brian Doyle -- Lights Of The Long Night / Andre Dubus -- Family Values / Barbara Ehrenreich -- About Men / Gretel Ehrlich -- The Flow Of The River / Loren Eiseley -- Living With Music / Ralph Ellison -- Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Value Of Science / Richard Feynman -- Arriving At Perfection / Benjamin Franklin -- Uniforms / Paul Fussell -- The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell -- The Company Man / Ellen Goodman -- More Than Just A Shrine : Ellis Island / Mary Gordon -- Sex, Drugs, Disasters, And The Extinction Of Dinosaurs / Stephen Jay Gould -- The Black Widow / Gordon Grice -- On Being The Right Size / J.b.s. Haldane -- On The Pleasure Of Hating / William Hazlitt -- Lost In Translation / Eva Hoffman -- The Colonel / Michael Hogan -- Naps / Barbara Holland -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- How It Feels To Be Colored Me / Zora Neale Hurston -- Nowhere Man / Pico Iyer -- The Declaration Of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- The Decay Of Friendship / Samuel Johnson -- Uncertainty / Yoshida Kenko -- On Seeing England For The First Time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Why We Crave Horror Movies / Stephen King -- Stone Soup / Barbara Kingsolver -- On Discovery / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Dog, The Family : A Household Tale / August Kleinzahler -- You Are What You Say / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- A Bachelor's Complaint / Charles Lamb -- On Ben Franklin's Virtues / D.h. Lawrence -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Morals Of The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels -- Silk Parachute / John Mcphee The Advocate / Herman Melville -- Portrait Of An Ideal World / H.l. Mencken -- Cat People Vs. Dog People / Laura Miller -- Body Ritual Among The Nacirema / Horace Miner -- The Way To Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Of Smells / Michel De Montaigne -- Are You Somebody? / Nuala O'faolain -- Some Thoughts On The Common Toad / George Orwell -- The Seam Of The Snail / Cynthia Ozick -- The Allegory Of The Cave / Plato -- The Necessary Enemy / Katherine Anne Porter -- On Various Kinds Of Thinking / James Harvey Robinson -- Heading Into Darkness Once Again / Richard Rodriguez -- The Men We Carry In Our Minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- What Secrets Tell / Luc Sante -- Look At Your Fish / Samuel Scudder -- Me Talk Pretty One Day / David Sedaris -- The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold / Richard Selzer -- The Gospel Of Andrew Undershaft / G.b. Shaw -- Nonverbal/verbal / Leonard Shlain -- The World Is All That Is The Case / Lee Siegel -- Landscape, History, And The Pueblo Imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- A Woman's Beauty : Put-down Or Power Source? / Susan Sontag -- Declaration Of Sentiments And Resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Just Walk On By : Black Men And Public Space / Brent Staples -- A Modest Proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Being A Man / Paul Theroux -- Crickets, Cats, Bats, & Chaos / Lewis Thomas -- Why I Went To The Woods / Henry David Thoreau -- And Ain't I A Woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Reading The River / Mark Twain -- Beauty : When The Other Dancer Is The Self / Alice Walker -- Consider The Lobster / David Foster Wallace -- Clamorous To Learn / Eudora Welty -- Once More To The Lake / E.b. White -- A Shark In The Mind Of One Contemplating Wilderness / Terry Tempest Williams -- The Bird Of Paradise : The Hunter And The Poet / E.o. Wilson -- The Right Stuff / Tom Wolfe -- The Duke Of Deception / Geoffrey Wolfe -- A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft -- The Death Of The Moth / Virginia Woolf -- The Rise Of The Rest / Fareed Zakaria. Edited By Robert Diyanni. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 611-614) And Index.