Ideas, Insights and Arguments: A Non-fiction Collection
No. of pages 256
Published: 2008
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This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .
There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Cambridge University Press .
This book has the following chapters: 1. The world around us: A Roof of One's Own, Jeanette Winterson; My Bubble, My Rules, Lynne Truss; Society is Dead, Andrew Sullivan; Home Thoughts from Abroad, Jan Morris; The Demolition of Euston Arch, John Betjeman; For Compact, Sustainable Communities, Harley Sherlock; Worried? Us?, Bill McKibben; Activities; 2. The world of work: The Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson; Studying the Beach, Roberta Rosen; Work Expands so as to Fill the Time Available, Cyril Northcote Parkinson; Why I Write, George Orwell; Which Mother Knows Best? Po Bronson; Taking the Rap for Fashion 'Slaves', Gary Younge; Activities; 3. Science: The Last Word, Letters in the New Scientist; How to Build a Universe, Bill Bryson; The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming, Andre Maurois; The Natural Selection of Beauty, Charles Darwin; Activities; 4. Parents and children: That Certain Smile, Miles Kington; My Mother's Gift to Me, Sylvester Monroe; No Arms, No Legs . But I Think My Life's Perfect, Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds; Letter to Daniel, Fergal Keane; Enabling Children to Make Moral Decisions, Letters in The Times; Learning Right from Wrong, Anita Gurian; What Bullying Means to Children, Jean La Fontaine; The Parrot's Training, Rabindranath Tagore; Activities; 5. Human rights and wrongs: One Kid's Blast against Bigotry, Libby Purves; This Last Fight for Human Freedom, Emmeline Pankhurst; 'I Have a Dream', Martin Luther King; 306 Pardons, One Act of Sanity, Ben Macintyre; Dead Man Talking, Steve Boggan; The Tollund Men, Brian Keenan; Activities; Notes on authors.
