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Big Anthony : his story
Big Anthony, well-meaning but inattentive, journeys around Italy causing one problem after another, before meeting Strega Nona.
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Gothic Grotesque and the Huguenot Inheritance
This chapter contains sections titled:
Comic Grotesque in Le Fanu's Irish Poetry and Fiction
The Metaphysical Grotesque: In a Glass Darkly
Feminist Grotesque
References and Further Reading
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Baxter turns down his buzz : a story for little kids about ADHD
\"A high-energy rabbit that must learn to control his activity level and impulsiveness. Baxter's uncle Barnaby guides Baxter through the steps necessary to 'turn down his buzz.' Techniques such as mindfulness, progressive relaxation, and visualization are employed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Contemporary Fictions of Attention
With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct ‘fictions of attention’ that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.
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A paintbrush for Paco
Paco cannot seem to concentrate during class, but when his teacher takes him to the art room he revels in the colors and the opportunity to paint. Includes author's note and glossary of Spanish words.
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Partners of Humans: A Realistic Assessment of the Role of Robots in the Foreseeable Future
As robots are generally thought to perform human-like tasks, they depend on the successes of information technology in the area of artificial intelligence to succeed in such pursuits. But robots, through their anthropomorphic character and their weighty presence in science fiction, attract the attention of the press and the media in a way that, at times, blurs the distinction between the actual state of the art and exaggerated claims. This makes it hard to assess the true functional positioning of robots, how this is likely to move forward and whether the outcome of progress could be detrimental to human society. The aim of this paper is to review the actual level of competence that is being achieved in robotics research laboratories and a plausible impact that this is likely to have on human control over life and jobs. The key thesis here is that cognition in machines and even an artificial form of consciousness lead to operations in a set of tasks (the ‘algorithmic’ category) which is different from that available to truly cognitive and conscious human beings (the ‘life-need’ category): that is, in the paper it is argued that a major category error (Ryle in The concept of mind, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1949) looms in predictions of serious threats to humanity. As far as a threat to jobs goes, it is argued that early attention to education and re-skilling of humans in the workplace can lead to an effective symbiosis between people and robots.
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I am not Joey Pigza
Irrepressible Joey must draw upon all of his emotional reserves to face his latest challenge. His good-for-nothing dad shows up, having won the lottery and acquired a new identity. Carter Pigza is now Charles Heinz; he's won back Joey's mother, Fran (renamed Maria); and Joey is expected to forgive him his past sins and reinvent himself as Freddy Heinz. Dad has big plans for the family. He's bought a run-down diner and will use his son to drum up business by standing by the roadside in a bee costume. Mom is on a spending spree and pressures Joey to forgive his father and do as he says. But Joey senses how wrong this is, and his struggle is palpable. By the time he concedes, his father has given up on the diner idea and has spent all of his money on losing lottery tickets. As usual, when the chips are down, Carter takes off, just as Fran is about to have a baby. Gantos tells the tale with unfailing humor, delicious wordplay, and many hilarious scenes, but this is the darkest Joey book to date. Carter's unreliability is a given, but Fran Pigza's willingness to buy into the surreal scene is unsettling and underscores the fact that Joey is really on his own. Nevertheless, readers will cheer as his indomitable spirit prevails; he neither rescinds nor regrets his forgiveness, and he is thrilled to have a baby brother. The appearance of Junior Pigza promises a new purpose in Joey's life, the possibility of a future ally in his crazy world, and, perhaps, adventures to come.
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Wait
\"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Future-War Literature of the Reagan Era-Winning World War III in Fiction
Starting in the late 1970s and continuing on until the early 1990s, a number of American, British, and Canadian writers produced a series of novels--twentyone in total--about a fictional World War III set in the context of the Cold War. Some of these authors--Sir John Hackett, Tom Clancy, Larry Bond, Clive Cussler--are well-known; others are less so. Their books depict a direct military confrontation between the United States and the former Soviet Union or its proxies, and they were immensely popular at the time--many of them were best sellers. These books were profoundly influential because they focused attention on specific issues and forced discussion among those in power. This article is different in that it makes distinctions in the genre that these earlier scholars did not address, and it examines not just one author but the entire future-war field of literature of the late Cold War period.
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