This anthology offers a richly diverse and thought-provoking collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative - but they are also, by turns, entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: The world around us; The world of work; Science; Parents and children; and Human rights and wrongs. The collection includes texts by Fergal Keane, Brian Keenan, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Libby Purves and Lynne Truss.
Table of Contents
1. The world around us: A Roof of One's Own, Jeanette Winterson; My Bubble, My Rules, Lynne Truss; Society is Dead, Andrew Sullivan; Home Thoughts from Abroad, Jan Morris; The Demolition of Euston Arch, John Betjeman; For Compact, Sustainable Communities, Harley Sherlock; Worried? Us?, Bill McKibben; Activities; 2. The world of work: The Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson; Studying the Beach, Roberta Rosen; Work Expands so as to Fill the Time Available, Cyril Northcote Parkinson; Why I Write, George Orwell; Which Mother Knows Best? Po Bronson; Taking the Rap for Fashion 'Slaves', Gary Younge; Activities; 3. Science: The Last Word, Letters in the New Scientist; How to Build a Universe, Bill Bryson; The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming, Andre Maurois; The Natural Selection of Beauty, Charles Darwin; Activities; 4. Parents and children: That Certain Smile, Miles Kington; My Mother's Gift to Me, Sylvester Monroe; No Arms, No Legs ... But I Think My Life's Perfect, Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds; Letter to Daniel, Fergal Keane; Enabling Children to Make Moral Decisions, Letters in The Times; Learning Right from Wrong, Anita Gurian; What Bullying Means to Children, Jean La Fontaine; The Parrot's Training, Rabindranath Tagore; Activities; 5. Human rights and wrongs: One Kid's Blast against Bigotry, Libby Purves; This Last Fight for Human Freedom, Emmeline Pankhurst; 'I Have a Dream', Martin Luther King; 306 Pardons, One Act of Sanity, Ben Macintyre; Dead Man Talking, Steve Boggan; The Tollund Men, Brian Keenan; Activities; Notes on authors.
