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From A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman, ©1995. Reprinted by permission of Prentice Hall, Inc.
“Introduction” from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown ©1970 by Dee Brown. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
From Black Boy by Richard Wright. Copyright 1937, 1942, 1944, 1945 by Richard Wright; renewed © 1973 by Ellen Wright. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Z. Lorenz. Copyright ©1952 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Reprinted with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
From “Let’s Say You Wrote Badly This Morning” in The Writing Habit by David Huddle, ©1989, 1994 University Press of New England, Lebanon, NH. Reprinted with permission.
From “My Two One-Eyed Coaches” by George Garrett. © Copyright George Garrett. Originally published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1987, Vol. 63, No. 2.
Excerpt from Summer of ’49 by David Halberstam. Copyright ©1989 by David Halberstam. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, William Morrow.
From Take Time For Paradise ©1989 by the Estate of A. Bartlett Giamatti. Reprinted by permission of Estate of A. Bartlett Giamatti.
From Sculpture/Inuit, ©1971. Reprinted with permission of the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council and James Houston.
From “Renaissance to Modern Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1987, by Edith Appleton Standen, copyright ©1987 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reprinted courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From “African Sculpture Speaks,” by Ladislas Segy, ©1958 by permission of Dover Publications.
From “Yonder Peasant, Who Is He?” in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, ©1948 and renewed 1975 by Mary McCarthy. Reprinted with permission by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
From Reinventing Womanhood by Caroline G. Heilbrun. Copyright ©1979 by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.
Excerpts from Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard. Copyright ©1982 by Annie Dillard. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
From The Waning of the Middle Ages by J. Huizinga. Reprinted with permission of Edward Arnold.
From Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez. Reprinted by permission of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. Copyright ©1982 by Richard Rodriguez.
From “The Guilty Vicarage,” copyright 1948 by W.H. Auden, from The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays by W.H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
From Modus Operandi: An Excursion into Detective Fiction by Robin W. Winks, ©1982. Reprinted by permission of Robin W. Winks.
From Athabasca by Alistair MacLean. Copyright ©1980 by Alistair MacLean. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. From The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim. Copyright ©1975, 1976 by Bruno Bettelheim. Reprinted with permission of Alfred A. Knopf.
From Native Stranger: A Black American’s Journey into the Heart of Africa by Eddy L. Harris, ©1992. Reprinted by permission of SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Copyright by Eddy L. Harris.
From Turning Japanese by David Mura, ©1991 by David Mura. Reprinted by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
From The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor. Copyright ©1993 by Juliet Schor. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
From The Soul of the Night by Chet Raymo, ©1985. Reprinted by permission of Chet Raymo.
Excerpts from The Art of Mickey Mouse by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe, published by Hyperion, © 1991 The Walt Disney Company, are used by permission from Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Excerpts from The Indian in America (New American Nation Series) by Wilcomb E. Washburn. Copyright ©1975 by Wilcomb E. Washburn. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
From The Greenpeace Book of Dolphins by John May, ©1990. Reprinted with permission of Greenpeace © Greenpeace.
Excerpt from Civilization by Kenneth Clark. Copyright ©1969 by Kenneth C. Clark. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
From Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery by Richard Selzer. Copyright © 1974, 1975, 1976, 1987 by Richard Selzer. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author.
From “Tradition and Practice” in George Santayana’s America: Essays on Literature and Culture, James C. Ballowe, editor, copyright © James C. Ballowe. Originally published 1904 by Oberlin Alumni Magazine.
From “Postscript: The Almighty Dollar,” copyright 1948, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962 by W.H. Auden, from The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays by W.H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.