The Way the World Works by Baker, Nicholson -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Foreword

Part 1:Life

String Coins How I Met My Wife La Mer Why I Like the Telephone What Happened on April 29, 1994 Sunday at the Dump Writing Wearing Earplugs One Summer

Part 2: Reading

Thorin Son of Thráin Narrow Ruled Inky Burden No Step I Said to Myself Defoe, Truthteller From A to Zyxt The Nod David Remnick

Part 3: Libraries and Newspapers

Truckin’ for the Future If Libraries Don’t Do It, Who Will? Reading the Paper The Times Chapter 23: in 1951 Take a Look at This Airship! Sex and the City, Circa 1840

Part 4: Technology

Grab Me a Gondola The Charms of Wikipedia Kindle 2 Papermakers Google’s Earth Steve Jobs

Part 5: War

Why I’m a Pacifist We Don’t Know the Language We Don’t Know Painkiller Deathstreak

Part 6: Last Essay

Mowing Acknowledgments About the Author

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