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Three complete chapters
Not samples. Whole chapters, formatted the way the book reads them (Chapter 17 lightly adapted to stand on its own as an essay) — the war story at the top and, in the two numbered chapters, the honest counterargument near the end. If you don't like these, you won't like the other twenty-nine, and that is a useful thing to find out for free.
The full table of contents — all thirty-one chapters, with the closing thread of each — is on the contents page. It is the fastest way to see whether the book has anything you need.
And one essay: Scrum Won a War and Then Became an Occupation, adapted from Chapter 17 — the opening of the case against the ceremonies, the one Chapter 18 continues.