Preface for Instructors Introduction for the Student UNIT 1 bull;Introduction bull;Orsquo;Brien: From Biology to Biography: A Brief History of the Self bull;Restak: My Brain and I Are One bull;Adams: The Skin Wersquo;re In bull;Chaparian: Am I Free or Determined? bull;Skinner: Can Science Help? UNIT 2
1. Introduction
2. Postman: Judgment of Thamus
3. Bragues: The Economics of Social Change
4. Hochschild: Exploring the Managed Heart
5. Ignatieff: Rights, Intimacy, and Family Life
6. Kipnis: Marriage is Made in Hell
7. Narbey: Can We All Just Get Along?
8. Parekh: excerpt from Diversity vs. Solidarity UNIT 3
1. Introduction
2. Bragues: A Game We Call Politics: A Primer
3. Ritts: Politics in the Life of the Individual
4. Ritts: Soul Force vs. Physical Force
5. X: By Any Means Necessary
6. Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance
7. Ackerman & Fishkin: Righting the Ship of Democracy
8. Posner: Smooth Sailing
9. Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld
10. Lerner: On Inhumanity UNIT 4
1. Introduction
2. Senay: Making Sense of the Universe
3. Sagan: Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Sand
3. Dyson: Can Science Be Ethical?
4. Lomborg: The Truth about the Environment
5. E.O.Wilson: Is Humanity Suicidal?
6. Gawande: When Doctors Make Mistakes
7. Davies: The Tale of the Ancient Molecule
8. Miller: Finding Darwinrsquo;s God UNIT 5
1. Introduction
2. (epigraph: Milton: excerpt from Areopagitica)
3. Steckley: A Canadian Lament
4. Baird: One More Time: Our Ongoing Dialogue with Popular Music
5. Cockerton: Serious Pleasure
6. Cockerton: Objectivity and Subjectivity
7. Cockerton: The Story: An Introduction
8. McEwan: Us or Me - excerpt from Enduring Love
9. Byrnes: Poems: An Introduction
10. Larkin: This Be the Verse
11. Olds: I Go Back to 1937
12. Lux: The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently
13. Whitman: A Noiseless Patient Spider Appendix: StudyDesk
