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Index
PROLOGUE THE
ELECTIVE AFFINITIES
DOG YEARS
A SORT OF LIFE
A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
THE MANDARINS
KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS
IN THE PENAL COLONY
STOP-TIME
TRANSFORMER
EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS
FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE
A SEVERED HEAD
CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK
THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR
THE GREAT PRETENDER
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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Rapid, practical problem solving as well as memorization were heavily emphasized. Everything was don
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In September 1974 I returned to dreary Philadelphia, where I could no longer avoid pondering whether
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particle accelerator in Geneva. Mann's experiment was very similar to the deep inelastic electron-
new particle. The first hypothesis was that the incoming neutrino had turned into a new neutral heav
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explained that this was necessary in order to avoid the tension that might otherwise occurs when an
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