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In the case of subject headings, the subhead \"stories\" refers to books for the readaloud audience; \"fiction,\" to those books intended for independent reading. Starks Alligators—stories: Mahoney Animals—stories: Falatko Apples—stories: Liu Art and artists: Schneiderhan Death: Brunelle Demons—fiction: Morris Deserts—stories: Frawley Divorce—fiction: Marr Dogs—fiction: Daywalt Ducks—stories: Colón Eid—fiction: Àbíké-Íyímídé Emotions—stories: Crespo; Lukoff Environmentalism—stories: Blackwood Ethics and values:

Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate student and a computer scientist this book probes an experimentally supported hypothesis of backwards time travel – and in so doing addresses key metaphysical issues, such as causation, identity over time and free will. The setting is the Jefferson National Laboratory during a period of five days in 2010. Dr. Rufus’s experimental search for the psi-lepton and the resulting intractable data spurs the discussion on time travel. She and her two colleagues are pushed by their observations to address the grandfather paradox and other puzzles about backwards causation, with attention also given to causal loops, multi-dimensional time, and the prospect that only the present exists. Sensible solutions to the main puzzles emerge, ultimately advancing the case for time travel really being possible. A Time Travel Dialogue addresses the possibility of time travel, approaching familiar paradoxes in a rigorous, engaging, and fun manner. It follows in the long philosophical tradition of using dialogue to present philosophical ideas and arguments, but is ground breaking in its use of the dialogue format to introduce readers to the metaphysics of time travel, and is also distinctive in its use of lab results to drive philosophical analysis. The discussion of data that might decide whether time is one-dimensional (one timeline) or multi-dimensional (branching time) is especially novel.

A bilingual collection of poetry by the Belfast poet, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn including a CD (print version only) featuring the poet reading from the collection to music adapted by the blues musician, Mark Braidner, for this recording.

The Sydney Taylor Book Award, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries since 1968, is the only book award for children’s literature that represents the Jewish experience. The award’s fiftieth anniversary, celebrated in 2018, provided an opportunity to conduct a content analysis study of 102 books and summarize thematic and publishing trends across award categories and time periods. The data points collected were based on bibliographic records and, to smaller extent, on coded Holocaust-related themes. Conclusions refer to Jewish education in the United States and concepts of gender, identity, history, and Holocaust studies that have shaped it through children’s literature for over fifty years.

In histories of infant welfare, public assistance, child labour legislation, education, juvenile delinquency, adolescence, and youth movements, adults figured as major protagonists, the young themselves relegated to background roles. (Autobiographical novels are included because Heywood accepts the arguments of literary scholar Richard N. Coe that authors felt freer to explore the \"truth\" about childhood in fiction than in autobiography.) Analyzing these \"ego documents\" from historical, literary, and theoretical perspectives, he surveys the multiple reasons why such sources should not be taken as \"a straightforward 'window on reality.'\" Diaries were associated with young women and often invested with religious purposes in the nineteenth century, while the extensive correspondence produced contemporaneously in many middle- and upper-class families omitted discussion of taboo subjects.