The Thurber carnival

Math : facing an American phobia

Talking turkey about arithmetic -- Pizza problem -- Who needs tip tables? -- Cupful of fractions -- Math uinder pressure -- Calculators: crutch or tool? -- Making math make sense -- School math then, school math now -- Teaching addition and subtraction -- Teaching fractions -- Teaching percents -- Message to parents -- Solving the phobia problem.

Writings and drawings

Works. Selections. 1996

Library of America ;

The Titan's curse

Percy Jackson & the Olympians ;

American born Chinese

The future is female! : 25 classic science fiction stories by women, from pulp pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin

Introduction / The conquest of Gola / Space episode / That only a mother / In hiding / Contagion / The inhabited men / Ararat / All cats are gray / Created he them / Mr. Sakrison’s halt / All the colors of the rainbow / Pelt / Car pool / For sale, reasonable / Birth of a gardener / The tunnel ahead / The new you / Another rib / When I was Miss Dow / Baby, you were great / The barbarian / The last flight of Dr. Ain / Nine lives / Biographical notes.

Picked-up pieces

Views: The literary life. On meeting writers ; Voznesensky met ; Bech meets me ; Farewell to the middle class -- Four speeches. Accuracy ; The future of the novel ; From Humor in fiction ; Why write? -- London life. Notes of a temporary resident ; Notes to a poem -- Amor vincit omni ad nauseam -- Cemeteries -- Letter from Anguilla. P.S. -- Four introductions. To Pens and needles ; To the Czech edition of Of the farm ; To The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration ; To Soundings in Satanism -- Golf. The first lunar invitational ; Tips on a trip ; Is there life after golf?

Reviews: The fork -- Religious notes -- Dostoevsky. A raw something ; Polina and Aleksei and Anna and Losnitsky -- Knut Hamsun. "My mind was without a shadow" ; Half-mad and maddening ; Love as a standoff -- Joyce and Proust. Questions concerning Giacomo ; Remembrance of things past remembered -- Borges. The author as librarian ; Three translations -- Nabokov. Mnemosyne chastened ; Mary unrevamped ; The crunch of happiness ; Van loves Ada, Ada loves Van ; The translucing of Hugh Person ; Motley but true ; A tribute -- English lives. A short life ; Ayrton fecit ; The mastery of Miss Warner ; A sere life, or, Sprigge's ivy ; Milton adapts Genesis, Collier adapts Milton ; Auden fecit ; A messed-up life -- French deaths. Death's heads ; Albertine disparue ; Saganland and the back of beyond ; In praise of the blind, black god -- Europe. Two points on a descending curve ; The view from the dental chair ; Snail on the stump ; Witold who? ; Inward and onward -- Africa. Out of the glum continent ; Shades of black ; Addendum : excerpts from a symposium ; Through a continent, darkly -- The avant garde. Grove is my press, and avant my garde ; Infante terrible ; Satire without serifs ; Bombs made out of leftovers ; Mortal games -- Young Americans. If at first you do succeed, try, try again ; From Dyna Domes to turkey-pressing ; Jong love -- Older Americans. Indifference ; Papa's sad testament ; And yet again wonderful ; Talk of a tired town ; His own horn ; Remarks ; A citation ; An unpublished book note ; An interesting emendation ; Phantom life -- Non-fiction. Black suicide ; Fool's gold ; Sons of slaves ; Coffee-table books for high coffee tables ; Before the sky collapses ; A new meliorism ; Alive and free from employment.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association : the official guide to APA style.

Official guide to APA style

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