1.How to Miss a Train 1
2.Everything Included 15
3.The Arab and the Camel 28
4.Our Village 42
5.Paper and Its Uses 72
6.The Open University 87
7.Food 101
8.If Only 116
9.The First Men on Venus 131
10.Evolution 146
11.Modern Examinations 162
12.A Question of Exercise 176
13.A Sense of Direction 191
14.An English Christmas 205
15.The Wizard of Menlo Park 221