Unit 1 University Life 1
Reading 1 You can be President of the United States 1
Reading 2 Goodbye and Good Luck! 10
Unit 2 Humor in Life 14
Reading 1 Bathing in a Borrowed Suit 14
Reading 2 How to Borrow Money 24
Unit 3 Social Problems 30
Reading 1 A Plan to Make Homelessness History 30
Reading 2 Save the Children? 41
Unit 4 Creative Thinking 46
Reading 1 Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving 46
Reading 2 A Real Science of Mind 56
Unit 5 Liberal Education 64
Reading 1 A Liberal Education 64
Reading 2 Education is supposed to make you rich,not wealthy 75
Unit 6 Marriage 80
Reading 1 The Story of an Hour 80
Reading 2 How to Love and to be Loved 90
Unit 7 Mental Health 95
Reading 1 My Life in Therapy 95
Reading 2 When is Depression Guilt? 105
Unit 8 Virtue and Morality 111
Reading 1 The Vice of Punctuality 111
Reading 2 Fairy Tales 124
Unit 9 Self-esteem 129
Reading 1 The Future Mrs.Rochester 129
Reading 2 My Declaration of Self-esteem 140
Unit 10 National Prejudices 143
Reading 1 On National Prejudices 143
Reading 2 A Multicultural Cocktail!Is Australia On the Rocks? 155
Unit 11 Youth and Love 161
Reading 1 The Old Woman 161
Reading 2 My Lost Youth 172
Unit 12 Dream and Dreamer 178
Reading 1 The Dreamer 178
Reading 2 Confidence to Pursue the Dream 190
Unit 13 Nature and Life 194
Reading 1 The Marginal World 194
Reading 2 Strange Encounter with a Wolf 204
Unit 14 Past Memories 209
Reading 1 Crossing the Threshold 209
Reading 2 Making a Writer 219