1.The Open Window 1
2.The winged Magician: The First Aerial Flight in Australia 12
3.Politics: Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary 24
4.Drowning 36
5.Less Time for House Chores 46
6.Mark Twain s Speechmaking Strategy 64
7.My Way to Success 75
8.Why Smart People Fail 89
9.I Never Had It Made 102
10.The City 113
11.My Cousin, The Gambler 124
12.Waiting-Room 132
13.The Kindness of Strangers 140
14.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn t Come Till4:30 149
15.The Pace of Life 160
16.The Importance of Being Interested 172
17.Why Graduates Won t Wear Science 184
18.Sold on the Super Mall 196
19.Mr.Know-All 207
20.They created the Jet Age 217
21.The Hungry World 227
22.Carnegie, an American Industrialist 236
23. No Horse, No Wife, No Moustache 245
24.Adolf Hitler s Mein Kampf 253
25.Family Ties 260
26.Improving the Quality of Life 271
27.The Nobel Prizes 282
28.University Days 294
29.Space-30 Years into the future 304
30. A Troublesome Boy 314