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The Book of Life

The Book of Life

by Upton SINCLAIR (1878 - 1968)

Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice both provokes and enlightens page by page. (Summary by Rom Maczka)

00 - Introductory

01 - Nature of Life & Nature of Faith

02 - Use of Reason & Origin of Morality

03 - Nature and Man & Man the Rebel

04 - Making Our Morals & Virtues of Moderation

05 - The Choosing of Life & Myself and My Neighbor

06 - The Mind and the Body & The Mind of the Body

07 - Exploring the Subconscious & The Problem of Immortality

08 - The Evidence for Survival

09 - The Powers of the Mind & The Conduct of the Mind

10 - The Unity of the Body

11 - Experiments in Diet

12 - Errors in Diet

13 - Diet Standards

14 - Foods and Poisons

15 - More About Health & Work and Play

16 - The Fasting Cure & Breaking the Fast

17 - Diseases and Cures

18 - The Reality of Marriage & The Development of Marriage

19 - Sex and Young America & Sex and the Smart Set

20 - Sex & the Poor, Sex & Nature, and Love & Economics

21 - Marriage & Money, Love Versus Lust, Celibacy Versus Chastity

22 - The Defense of Love, Birth Control

23 - Early Marriage, The Marriage Club, Education for Marriage

24 - The Money Side of Marriage, The Defense of Monogamy, The Problem of Jealousy

25 - The Problem of Divorce, The Restriction of Divorce

26 - The Ego and the World, Competition and Co-operation

27 - Aristocracy & Democracy, Ruling Classes, The Process of Social Evolution

28 - Industrial Evolution, The Class Struggle, The Capitalist System

29 - The Capitalist Process, Hard Times, The Iron Ring

30 - Foreign Markets, Capitalist War, The Possibilities of Production

31 - The Cost of Competition, Socialism and Syndicalism, Communism and Anarchism

32 - Social Revolution, Confiscation or Compensation, Expropriating the Expropriators

33 - The Problem of the Land, The Control of Credit

34 - The Control of Industry, The New World, Agricultural Production

35 - Intellectual Production, Mankind Remade