Unit 1 A Cross-Cultural Context: Americans, Germans,and English
Unit 2 Living near Traffic Pollution Tied to Heart Deaths
Unit 3 The Advent of Nuclear Weapons
Unit 4 The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Unit 5 Special Residents in White House
Unit 6 Counter-Violence Alone Can't Curb Terror
Unit 7 Attention Chinese Shoppers: No More Free
Plastic Bags
Unit 8 The Fringe Benefits of Failure
Review
Unit 9 Housing Market Faces Lost Decade as Upturn Runs
out of Steam
Unit 10 An Earlier Date for When Humans Began Acting
"Human"
Unit 11 In the House of Tom Bombadil
Unit 12 Retail Stores
Unit 13 Fifty Years of Musical Memories
Unit 14 The Great Gatsby
Unit 15 Sifting Through the Controversy: Reading
The Color Purple
Glossary
Phrases and Expressions
References
