Ultimate Speed Reader

Table of Contents

Business

1. Becoming an Entrepreneur
2. Corporate Referee
3. Decline and Fall of the Edsel
4. Disney's Success
5. Lousy First Half
6. Road Show
7. Sabbaticals

Entertainment

1. Hollywood's Everyman
2. Insights of a Cartoonist
3. John Wayne: An American Image
4. Powerful Second Wind of the Force
5. Steven Speilberg, Movie Maker Extraordinaire
6. Twisters, Monkeys, and Melting, Oh My!

Psychology

1. Creativity
2. Daydreaming
3. Getting a Good Night's Sleep
4. Making the Most of Your Time
5. Workaholics
6. Your Attention Please

Technology

1. Christmas in July
2. Computer-Age Orange
3. Electric Vehicles
4. High-Tech Dentistry
5. The Hubble Space Telescope
6. Hurricanes
7. The Internet and Your Television
8. Lasers
9. Moon Mission
10. Prints
11. Technology in Education

Sports

1. Babe
2. Blue Blazers
3. Everest
4. Extreme Skiing
5. Fast Four
6. For Kicks
7. The Frozen Game
8. Good Body, Big Head
9. Ice Princess
10. Mary Lou Retton--Gymnast Extraordinaire
11. Polar Bears
12. Susan Butcher--Champion of the Iditarod
13. Too Good to be True

Reading Techniques

1. Average Reading Rate
2. Avoiding Inner Speech
3. Avoiding Regression
4. Critical Reading
5. The Efficient Reader
6. Eye Movements
7. Flow of Meaning
8. The Inefficient Reader
9. Peripheral Vision
10. Reading Flexibility
11. Reading Speeds
12. Skimming

Innovators

1. Barnum's Ballyhoo
2. Dr. Dorsey, Medicine Woman
3. George Washington Carver
4. Milk for the Masses
5. One Woman
6. Power by Parachute
7. The Real McCoy
8. A Real Rebel
9. Role Models from the Past
10. An Uncommon Inventor

Human Interest

1. Acupuncture
2. Bells Are Ringing
3. The Bermuda Triangle
4. Conquistador
5. Master Spy
6. Mata Hari
7. Oreo Run
8. A Running People
9. Romantic Russian
10. St. Bernards
11. Voyage of Tradition

Literature (by author and title)

• Alden, W. L.                                Mr. Simpkin's Downfall           
• Andersen, Hans Christian         A Question of Imagination      
• Anderson, Sherwood                The Egg
• Austen, Jane                              Pride and Prejudice
•                                                     Sense and Sensibility
• Barrie, J. M.                              Peter Pan
• Baum, L. Frank                        The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Carroll, Lewis                           Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Defoe, Daniel                           The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• Dickens, Charles                     A Christmas Carol
•                                                    Great Expectations
• Franklin, Benjamin                   The Whistle
• Gilbert, Henry                            Robin Hood
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel              The House of Seven Gables
•                                                    The Scarlet Letter
• Irving, Washington                   The Legend of Sleep Hollow
• Mott, Frank L.                           The Good Face
• Kipling, Rudyard                      The Jungle Book
• London, Jack                           The Call of the Wild
• Melville, Herman                       Moby Dick
• Shelley, Mary                            Frankenstein
• Stevenson, R. L.                       Treasure Island
•                                                    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Stoker, Bram                            Dracula
• Swift, Jonathan                        Gulliver's Travels
• Twain, Mark                             Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
•                                                   Adventures of Tom Sawyer
•                                                   A Complaint about Correspondents
•                                                   Concerning Chambermaids
•                                                   The First Writing-Machine
•                                                   Genuine Mexican Plug
•                                                   Information Wanted
•                                                   A Mysterious Visit
•                                                  My First Literary Venture
•                                                  Restless Night
•                                                  Reverend Henry Ward Beecher's Farm
•                                                 A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood
• Warner, Charles Dudley        Boy the Destroyer
•                                                 Plumbers
• Wells, H. G.                             The Invisible Man
• Wharton, Edith                        Age of Innocence
• Unknown                                The Divided Blanket (a traditional folk tale)

Speeches (by speaker)

Anthony, Susan B.                    On Woman's Right to Suffrage

Lady Astor                                 Women in Politics

King Edward VIII                      Edward VIII Gives All for Love

Kennedy, John F.                    Address to the United Nations General Assembly

                                                 Inaugural Address

King, Martin Luther                 I Have a Dream

Henry, Patrick                        Liberty or Death

Lincoln, Abraham                  Second Inaugural Speech

Roosevelt, Franklin D.          Roosevelt's First Fireside Chat

Twain, Mark                              Advice to Youth

                                                   After-Dinner Speech

                                                  Seventieth Birthday

Vest, George Graham           Tribute to the Dog

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