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