Studying the system. The deep river a story of ancient tribal migration / Bessie Head --
Men, women, and chiefs / Claude Lévi-Strauss --
Pericles reminds the Athenians who they are / Thucydides --
Dux femina facti: Dido builds Carthage --
Poetry reading / Rosanna Warren --
On authority / Friedrich Engels --
The monkey-rope / Herman Melville --
Understanding the city / Jane Jacobs --
Shooting an elephant / George Orwell --
Remaining awake through a great revolution / Martin Luther King. Emulating heroes. Nathan and Mithridanes / Giovanni Boccaccio --
Tilting at windmills / Miguel De Cervantes --
The hero of Solferino / Joseph Roth --
Once upon a time / Carolyn G. Heilbrun --
The dead man / Jorge Luis Borges --
Isadora / Janet Fletcher. Album. On noise / Seneca --
Ambrose reading / Augustine --
Ulysses S. Gratn at work / Horace Porter --
A cup of tea / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones --
The snow man / Wallace Stevens --
The method of Inspector Maigret / Georges Simenon. Risking revision. Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times / Niccoló Machiavelli --
An old and established name / Lao She --
Electrification / Mikhail Zoschenko --
Personal best / Atul Gawande --
Birth of a dynasty / Alexander Wolff --
Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin --
Daedalus and Icarus, Daedalus and Perdix / Ovid --
The oak and the reed / Jean de la Fountaine. Knowing the way. from Tao Te Ching / Lao Tzu --
from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius --
The ruler and the general / Sun Tzu --
About the good sense and cleverness of Queen Dido / Christine de Pizan --
Of studies / Francis Bacon --
Gone fishing / Mark Singer --
A woman's place is running the kitchen / Marnie Hanel --
On military genius / Carl Von Clauswitz --
Time and patience / Leo Tolstoy --
Omar Bradley / A.J. Liebling --
The taste of Banzo's sword / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones --
The oven bird / Robert Frost. Album: artists of delay. When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton --
Fabius Maxiumus, two sayings of Augustus Caesar --
Replies to parliamentary petitions / Elizabeth I --
The Cretonnes of Penelope / Joseph Harrison --
Penelope's despair / Yannis Ritsos. Cultivating trust. The monkey's heroic self-sacrifice --
The tale of King Yunan and the sage Duban --
from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius --
How to build a ship / Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca --
Interview with Jean Renoir / George Stevens Jr. --
Mission command / Martin E. Dempsey --
Open secrets / Malcolm Gladwell. Album: Con artists. The Crane and the cow --
In the hands of destiny / Zen Flesh, Zen Bones --
Out the lion's skin / Plutarch --
The way princes should keep their word / Niccoló Machiavelli --
Romance of the three kingdoms / The Justice of General Ts'ao --
Cecil B. DeMille on the set / Mervyn LeRoy --
Hercules, Deianira, Nessus / C.K. Williams. Negotiating world and self. Of cannibals / Michel de Montaigne --
Speaking the truth / Baldassare Castiglione --
Sekandar visits the Emperor of China --
Speech at St. Nicholas Hotel, Speech at Cooper Union / Red Cloud --
Speaking in tongues / Zadie Smith --
Of negotiating / Francis Bacon --
Latin rebuke to the Polish ambassador / Elizabeth I --
Suppose you and I have an argument / Chang Tzu. Taking responsibility. Hector returns to Troy / Homer --
from Meditations / Marcus Aurelius --
The governor of P'ing Lu, Tyrant Chieh / Mencius --
Paragle of the Talents --
A little touch of Harry in the night / William Shakespeare --
The deliberation of Brutus / William Shakespeare --
A valor-ruined man / Herman Melville --
If they hang you / Dashiell Hammett --
Silent spring / Rachel Carson. Album: artists of persuasion. Professions for women / Virginia Woolf --
First fireside chat on bankig Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The four freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The defence of freedom and peace / Winston Churchill --
Henry V at Agincourt / William Shakespeare --
We will stand and fight here / Bernard Montgomery --
Speech to the third army / George Patton. Learning from failure. The arctic hedonist / Anne Fadiman --
The story of Croesus / Herodotus --
The trek to Kabul / Babur --
A valuable lesson / Ulysses S. Grant --
Orpheus and Eurydice / Czeslaw Milosz. Resisting the system. The story of Moses --
The peasants' revolt / Barbara W. Tuchman --
The tyranny of the system / Mary Wollstonecraft --
Taking the ell / Frederick Douglass --
Statement to the court / Eugene V. Debs --
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mohandas Gandhi --
I am prepared to die / Nelson Mandela Songs of resistance. Been in the storm so long --
Sinking of the Titanic --
De Ballit of de boll weevil --
Do re mi / Woody Guthrie --
St. Louis Blues / W.C. Handy --
Blues on yellow / Marilyn Chin. Poetry of exile. Poem no. 286 (on Stalin) / Osip Mandelstam --
A prayer for the end of the century / Heberto Padilla. Album: Abraham Lincoln, Artist of judgement. Letter to David Hunter --
Letters to George B. McClellan--
Letter to Joseph Hooker --
Letter to John M. Schofield --
Letters to Ulysses S. Grant --
Correspondence with the war department --
Second inaugural address. Disciplining desire. Macbeth / William Shakespeare. Album: Art of the story. We tell ourselves stories / Joan Didion --
Of the inconsistency of our actions / Michel de Montaigne --
American everyman: portrait of Warren Buffett. Coda: letting go. In reply to vice-magistrate Chang / Wang Wei --
Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg --
Inevitably, she declined / Lucie Brock-Broido.
