Unit One On Reading 1
Francis Bacon,Of Studies 1
Virginia Wooif,How Should One Read a Book? 3
Sven Birkerts,The Woman in the Garden 14
Harold Brodkey,Reading,the Most Dangerous Game 23
Unit Two Nature 29
Ralph Waldo Emerson,Nature(excerpts) 29
Charles Darwin,The Action of Natural Selection 42
Elizabeth Gleick,Life in the Abyss 47
Donald Hall,Winter 52
Unit Three Man ＆ His Identity 59
B.F.Skinner,What Is Man 59
James E.Miller,Jr.,Discovering the Self 78
Sir James G.Frazer,The Savage in the Human 85
Joseph Conrad,The Secret Sharer（Part Ⅰ） 91
Joseph Conrad,The Secret Sharer（Part Ⅱ） 105
Unit Four Individual ＆ Society 122
Plato,On Love(from"Symposium") 122
S？ren Kierkegaard,The Individual and the Crowd 127
Edward Albee,The Zoo Story 131
T.S.Eliot,The Waste Land 150
Unit Five Philosophy 154
R.J.Hollingdale,The Nature ofPhilosophy 154
Anonymous,Book of Changes(I Ching)(excerpts) 161
Bertrand Russell,Appearance and Reality 164
Jean-Paul Sartre,Existence Precedes Essence 171
Unit Six Culture 174
Edward T. Hall,Context and Meaning 174
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,Beyond Manzanar:A PersonalView of Asian American Womanhood 184
Laura Bohannan,Shakespeare in the Bush 194
Robert Levine,＆ Ellen Wolff,Social Time:The Heartbeat of Culture 203
Unit Seven Arts 210
Waiter Pater,["La Gioconda"] 210
Sara McAulay,The Liar's Craft 212
E.M.Forster,Not Listening to Music 221
Wallace Stevens,The Man with the Blue Guitar 226
Marianne Moore,Poetry 226
Louis Simpson,American Poetry 228
Unit Eight Psychology 229
J.A.C.Brown,The Theories of Freud:A General Survey 229
Judith Viorst,The Truth about Lying 241
Stephen King,Why We Crave Horror Movies 246
Ellen Goodman,Putting in a Good Word for Guilt 250
Unit Nine Science ＆ Technology 255
Stephen W.Hawking,Our Picture ofthe Universe 255
Stephen W.Hawking,A BriefHistory ofRelativity 264
Leon Jaroff,Keys to the Kingdom 270
James Geary,In the Realm ofthe Senses 278
Unit Ten Economy ＆ Economics 285
Campbell R.McConnell ＆ Stanley L.Brue,The Nature and Method of Economics 285
Karl E.Case ＆ Ray C.Fair,The Costs of Unemployment 299
Alvin Toffler,The Invisible Economy 305
Karl Marx ＆ Friedrich Engels,The Economic Sources of Consciousness 323
Keys to Exercises 328