- 272 pages
- English
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The Way the World Works
About this book
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Also by Nicholson Baker
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Life
- String
- Coins
- How I Met My Wife
- La Mer
- Why I Like the Telephone
- What Happened on April 29, 1994
- Sunday at the Dump
- Writing Wearing Earplugs
- One Summer
- Reading
- Thorin Son of Thráin
- Narrow Ruled
- Inky Burden
- No Step
- I Said to Myself
- Defoe, Truthteller
- From A to Zyxt
- The Nod
- David Remnick
- Libraries and Newspapers
- Truckin’ for the Future
- If Libraries Don’t Do It, Who Will?
- Reading the Paper
- The Times in 1951
- Take a Look at This Airship!
- Sex and the City, Circa 1840
- Technology
- Grab Me a Gondola
- The Charms of Wikipedia
- Kindle 2
- Papermakers
- Google’s Earth
- Steve Jobs
- War
- Why I’m a Pacifist
- We Don’t Know the Language We Don’t Know
- Painkiller Deathstreak
- Last Essay
- Mowing
- Acknowledgements
- Author biography
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