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A book of babies
While baby animals are born--some with fur and some with scales, some with lots of brothers and sisters, some with none--a curious duck watches.
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You were the first
Reminds firstborn children that they will always special--even if another child or children follow--because they have been the first to do many things, including teaching their mother and father to be parents.
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Imagining technologies for disability futures
[...]the potential of future technologies in this area are found equally in engineering and product development laboratories or in care settings pioneering the use of assistive robotics, for example. The Perinatal Life Support project, coordinated by the Eindhoven University of Technology, is developing a perinatal life support system with the aim of potentially providing premature infants with a supply of oxygen and nutrients through the umbilical cord and an artificial placenta. [...]research aims to address premature infant death or the neurological or developmental complications that can be an outcome of extreme prematurity. In her view, “science fiction is the dress rehearsal for social change”.
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Novel Relations
Ruth Perry describes the transformation of the English family as a function of several major social changes taking place in the eighteenth century including the development of a market economy and waged labor, enclosure and the redistribution of land, urbanization, the 'rise' of the middle class, and the development of print culture. In particular, Perry traces the shift from a kinship orientation based on blood relations to a kinship axis constituted by conjugal ties as it is revealed in popular literature of the second half of the eighteenth century. Perry focuses particularly on the effect these changes had on women's position in families. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Henry MacKenzie, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and many others. This important study by a leading eighteenth-century scholar will be of interest to social and literary historians.
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Peep and Egg : I'm not hatching
\"Peep can't wait for Egg to hatch. They will have so much fun together! But Egg isn't quite ready ... yet.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Beyond Science Fiction: Magical Realism as an Approach to Literature in International Relations
The importance of works of science fiction to scholars of International Relations has already been established by discussions pertaining to its pedagogical value, its value as a study object and even its value as a constitutive aspect of world politics. In this article, we argue that it is equally important to give attention to works of magical realism in IR, especially because magical realism blurs the boundaries between literary and genre fiction, posing a constructive challenge to the different ways literature is either considered art or mere entertainment. By relaying the deep connection between magical realism and its birthplace, Latin America, we use One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende, to illustrate how magical realist pieces can serve as reflections of Latin American sensibilities and therefore provide relevant insights for the scholar of IR.
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And so it goes
Explores the way that some people leave the world and others come into it, and how those who come into it eventually leave it.
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Fact meets fiction
Relying on nearly 70 rare books drawn from 21 library collections, Fantastic Worlds chronicles the era of rapid scientific discovery and innovation that gave birth to the literary genre known as science fiction. Reviewer Rachel Gross revels in the exhibition's juxtaposition of science and fantasy: from Jules Verne's tales of unabashed wonder, to Mary Shelley's haunting story of a scientist who pushes the boundaries of nature and taboo. Fantastic Worlds Science and Fiction 1780-1910 Kirsten van der Veen and Doug Dunlop, curators National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, USA 1 July 2015-October 2016
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