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You nest here with me
With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
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Science Fiction and the Future of Criticism
Science fiction, ranging from films to industrial design to world's fairs, is a cultural system no more confined to literature than love is to love letters. From its self-recognition in 1926, science fiction has involved commercial and social realities most obviously visible in fandom and the hundreds of annual science fiction conventions. This system includes many types of consumers and producers, even collaboratively self-correcting volunteer bibliographers. Collectively, science fiction fandom, the first organized fandom, has created vast informational resources that allow not only reference but also statistical inquiry. The Genre Evolution Project (http://www.umich.edu/~genreevo/) shows that these social structures and resources potentiate, in an age of widespread computer networking, the transformation of criticism from acts of isolated scholars working with narrowly defined subjects to collaborative projects drawing on human and informational resources across disciplinary boundaries. Science fiction points to a future in which criticism will be more systematic, collaborative, and quantitative.
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The nesting quilt
Maya's family is preparing for a new baby and she wants to help, so she draws on her interest in birds' nests to create a very special quilt. Includes information about quilt making and instructions for making a small quilt.
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Shock Therapy
Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by a longstanding negative public image, not least due to films such as the classicOne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest,where the inmate of a psychiatric clinic (played by Jack Nicholson) is subjected to electro-shock to curb his rebellious behavior. Beyond its vilification in popular culture, the stereotype of convulsive therapy as a dangerous and inhumane practice is fuelled by professional posturing and public misinformation. Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, has in the last thirty years been considered a method of last resort in the treatment of debilitating depression, suicidal ideation, and other forms of mental illness. Yet, ironically, its effectiveness in treating these patients would suggest it as a frontline therapy, bringing relief from acute symptoms and saving lives.In this book, Edward Shorter and David Healy trace the controversial history of ECT and other \"shock\" therapies. Drawing on case studies, public debates, extensive interviews, and archival research, the authors expose the myths about ECT that have proliferated over the years. By showing ECT's often life-saving results, Shorter and Healy endorse a point of view that is hotly contested in professional circles and in public debates, but for the nearly half of all clinically depressed patients who do not respond to drugs, this book brings much needed hope.
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Amelia Bedelia is for the birds
Amelia Bedelia's after-school routine includes playing on her swing set every day, but when she discovers that robins are building a nest atop her slide, she watches them raise a family, instead.
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“As Beautiful as a Butterfly”?
A key center scene in Guillermo del Toro’s 1993 horror debut,Cronos, introduces conflicting views of insects like those inThe Hellstrom ChronicleandBeetle Queen Conquers Tokyofrom a fictional film perspective. According to a dying industrialist, De la Guardia (Claudio Brook), a coveted device prolongs life because a cockroach trapped inside it is working like a “living filter” attesting to the power of insects. As De la Guardia asks the film’s hero, Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi), who has activated the device, “Who says insects aren’t God’s favorite creatures?” They have survived from almost Earth’s beginnings, even when other
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Annie and Snowball and the cozy nest : the fifth book of their adventures
Annie and her bunny watch and wait as a nest is built above the porch swing, and eventually they get to see the mother bird feeding her babies.
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THE MONSTER’S PLACE
Set just after the Spanish Civil War, Victor Erice’sThe Spirit of the Beehive(1973) is one of the essential films about childhood. The film’s small town is visited by a travelling pictureshow man, who sets up his projector in a school house and presents the originalFrankensteinto the enthralled locals.Spirit’scentral character, seven-year-old Ana (played by the uncanny Ana Torrent), is deeply affected by the movie, which haunts her through the rest of the film – there is even a sequence that echoes the Monster-with-the-little-girl scene fromFrankenstein, as Ana’s imagination conjures this scary/comforting figure.
Erice’s film was
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This is the nest that Robin built : with a little help from her friends
A cumulative rhyme about the animals who help Robin build her nest.
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Literature and Film as Modern Mythology
Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths of Judeo-Christian, Greek, Celtic, and Eastern origin. Following a detailed description and explanation of both literary and film devices, stories that inform to a mythic tradition are analyzed to identify what they reveal about modern culture. This work explores such diverse subjects as heroism, coming of age, and morality. This approach to literature and film explores how contemporary fiction and film fulfill a continuum in our never-ending search to understand how life ought to be lived. Encompassing a broad spectrum of modern film and fiction, a variety of authors and directors are represented. Included are novels from such writers as Stephen King, Alice Walker, Ken Kesey, Jerzy Kosinski, Robert Penn Warren, and Michael Ondaatje. Film directors include Stephen Spielberg, Hal Ashby, Phil Alden Robinson, George Stevens, Robert Rossen, and Milos Forman. As a valuable resource for film and literature classes alike, this work also provides suggestions for student projects.
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