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The Norton sampler : short essays for composition / Thomas Cooley.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 1993Edition: 4th edDescription: xxv, 427 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

039395739X

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DDC classification:

808/.0427 20 T4541

Contents:

1. Transfiguration / Annie Dillard 2. Crossing the bar on a fiberglas pole / David Dubber 3. Four generations / Joyce Maynard 4. The back of the bus / Mary E. Mebane 5. None of this is fair / Richard Rodriguez 6. Ducks vs. hard rocks / Deairich Hunter 7. Cinematypes / Susan Allen Toth 8. What do you call a platypus? / Isaac Asimov 9. Mother tongue / Amy Tan 10. Garbage / Katie Kelley 11. The spider and the wasp / Alexander Petrunkevitch 12. How to set a world record / William Allen 13. How to write a letter / Garrison Keillor 14. The potato: how it shaped the world / Mary Talbot 15. A lesson for Mom / Patricia Raybon 16. I forgot the words to the National anthem / James Seilsopour 17. A giant step / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 18. Barrier signals / Desmond Morris 19. Deconstruction in Columbus / Thomas Cooley 20. The Maidenform woman administers shock treatment / Ellen Goodman 21. Anosmia / Diane Ackerman 22. Body imperfect / Debi Davis 23. Grant and Lee: a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton 24. A nice place to visit / Russell Baker 25. Like Mexicans / Gary Soto 26. On societies as organisms / Lewis Thomas 27. My horse / Barry Lopez 28. More room / Judith Ortiz Cofer 29. Shouting "Fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz 30. A view from the bridge / Cherokee Paul Mcdonald 31. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner 32. No rainbows, no roses / Beverly Dipo 33. No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman 34. The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson 35. The island of plenty / Johnson C. Montgomery 36. The other difference between boys and girls / Richard M. Restak 37. The sexes are not born with different brains / Martha Mednick and Nancy Felipe Russo 38. The price of power: living in the nuclear age / Kori Quintana 39. Being prepared in suburbia / Roger Verhulst 40. Good AIDS, bad AIDS / Randy Shilts 41. The war on drinks / Anna Quindlen 42. Reply to the U.S. government / Chief Seattle 43. A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift 44. Politics and the English language / George Orwell 45. Once more to the lake / E.B. White 46. The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf 47. The angry winter / Loren Eisely 48. On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	UE-Central Library	808.0427 T4541 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		T8575

1. Transfiguration / Annie Dillard
2. Crossing the bar on a fiberglas pole / David Dubber
3. Four generations / Joyce Maynard
4. The back of the bus / Mary E. Mebane
5. None of this is fair / Richard Rodriguez
6. Ducks vs. hard rocks / Deairich Hunter
7. Cinematypes / Susan Allen Toth
8. What do you call a platypus? / Isaac Asimov
9. Mother tongue / Amy Tan
10. Garbage / Katie Kelley
11. The spider and the wasp / Alexander Petrunkevitch
12. How to set a world record / William Allen
13. How to write a letter / Garrison Keillor
14. The potato: how it shaped the world / Mary Talbot
15. A lesson for Mom / Patricia Raybon
16. I forgot the words to the National anthem / James Seilsopour
17. A giant step / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
18. Barrier signals / Desmond Morris
19. Deconstruction in Columbus / Thomas Cooley
20. The Maidenform woman administers shock treatment / Ellen Goodman
21. Anosmia / Diane Ackerman
22. Body imperfect / Debi Davis
23. Grant and Lee: a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton
24. A nice place to visit / Russell Baker
25. Like Mexicans / Gary Soto
26. On societies as organisms / Lewis Thomas
27. My horse / Barry Lopez
28. More room / Judith Ortiz Cofer
29. Shouting "Fire!" / Alan M. Dershowitz
30. A view from the bridge / Cherokee Paul Mcdonald
31. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner
32. No rainbows, no roses / Beverly Dipo
33. No wonder they call me a bitch / Ann Hodgman
34. The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson
35. The island of plenty / Johnson C. Montgomery
36. The other difference between boys and girls / Richard M. Restak
37. The sexes are not born with different brains / Martha Mednick and Nancy Felipe Russo
38. The price of power: living in the nuclear age / Kori Quintana
39. Being prepared in suburbia / Roger Verhulst
40. Good AIDS, bad AIDS / Randy Shilts
41. The war on drinks / Anna Quindlen
42. Reply to the U.S. government / Chief Seattle
43. A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
44. Politics and the English language / George Orwell
45. Once more to the lake / E.B. White
46. The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf
47. The angry winter / Loren Eisely
48. On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion.

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