Unit One Secrets of A Students 1
Unit Two Conversational Ballgames 28
Unit Three Stevie Wonder:Sunshine in the Shadow 54
Unit Four The Washwoman 80
Unit Five The Language of Compromise 107
Unit Six Nerds and Geeks 137
Unit Seven I Became Her Target 179
Unit Eight Foreword 212
Unit Nine Hothouse Earth 241
Unit Ten Cloning:Good Science or Bad Idea 287
Unit One Winston Churchill—His Other Life 321
Unit Two Why They Excel 349
Unit Three The Tale of a Cultural Translator 378
Unit Four Turning Failure into Success 408
Unit Five Holding onto a Dream 443
Unit Six A Brief History of Stephen Hawking 471
Unit Seven Thinking:A Neglected Art 502
Unit Eight Unwritten Rules 539
Unit Nine Get Ready for Some Wild Weather 566
Unit Ten The Next 30 Years 595
Unit One How I Got Smart 641
Unit Two The Titanic Puzzles 674
Unit Three The Sense of Wonder 710
Unit Four College Pressures 738
Unit Five The ABCs of the U.S.A.:America Seen with European Eyes 772
Unit Six Every 23 Minutes 804
Unit Seven So What's So Bad About Being So-so? 830
Unit Eight The Highs of Low Technology 865
Unit Nine Space Politics 895
Unit Ten A Plain Talk About Handling Stress 933
Unit One Who Is Great? 961
Unit Two The Gratitude We Need 991
Unit Three How to Change Your Point of View 1025
Unit Four How to Become Gifted 1052
Unit Five Prison Studies 1084
Unit Six The EQ Factor 1124
Unit Seven Running a Successful Company: Ten Rules that Worked for Me 1158
Unit Eight My Father's Son 1190
Unit Nine The West's Debt to China 1220
Unit Ten My Graduation Speech 1249