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Part 1 Instructions:How to do things 2

1 How to shine at a job interview 2

Contents 6

Acknowledgments 6

2 How to protect yourself 6

To the student 7

To the teacher 8

3 How to save a life 10

4 How to win at marriage 14

Part 2 Descriptions:What things are like5 Athens is dying 18

6 Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance 22

7 Vacationing in Mexico 26

8 Men of the Pine Barrens 30

Part 3 Processes:How things happen 33

9 Power 33

10 Smoke signals 36

11 Lions at work and play 40

12 Burnout 44

Part 4 Narrative:What happened 48

13 The diamond 48

14 A gentleman thief 52

15 Great operatic disasters 56

16 Poison 60

Part 5 Persuasion:Why you should do it 64

17 The family room 64

18 Better left unsaid 66

19 Save the children 68

20 Two letters 70

Part 6 Categories:How things are classified21 Men and women:Some differences 72

22 Getting to the airport 76

23 How personality affects your health 79

24 Wonder wander 82

Credits 84