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Acknowledgements
Unit 1
Text A Your College Years
Text B Predictable Crises of Early Adulthood
Unit 2
Text A Why Fiction Is Good for You
Text B The Magic Thread
Unit 3
Text A A Dill Pickle
Text B The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
Unit 4
Text A Diogenes and Alexander
Text B Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Unit 5
Text A The Change Within
Text B Silent Spring
Unit 6
Text A In My Day
Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady
Unit 7
Text A Globalization's Dual Power
Text B The International Language of Gestures
Unit 8
Text A The Most Dangerous Game (I)
Text B The Most Dangerous Game (II)
Unit 9
Text A Why Historians Disagree
Text B The Third Man
Unit 10
Text A The Needs That Drive Us All
Text B Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Unit 11
Text A A Drink in the Passage
Text B The Bench
Unit 12
Text A Twelve Angry Men
Text B Harry Hoffman