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Develops reading skills through games and a fictional story about a group of students who plant and tend a garden, with the help of their teacher, and finally have a big feast with all the food they have grown.

Sky Is My Father is a historical novel by Easterine Kire who writes about the life of Naga indigenous people living amidst naturally rich mountain scape and forced recruitment of Naga tribesmen as bonded labourers by the British which tribal warriors of the Angami tribe try to resist against. Their fight is the collective fight of their community to save the land which they are deeply connected to from British invasion and subjugation. Britain’s colonization of the third world countries have always brought with it deforestation and disruption of habitat of indigenous people and native plant species. Similarly, Bibhutibhushan’s Aranyak is a novel on Satyacharan’s predicament in the pristine jungles of Bhagalpur where he is posted. His guilt comes from the job he is sent there to do which is to cut down the forest that is not only important to the native community there but to him as well. Capitalocene and Plantationocene as Donna Haraway defines is a contemporary epoch which has its roots in European Imperialism. This imperial legacy of rampant exploitation and destruction of environment which is singlehandedly a contribution of Britain’s colonial rule includes subjugation of indigenous people into forced labour along with destruction of forest spaces for resource extraction. What entails as a result is postcolonial trauma within native psyche. Post colonial literatures coming out of South Asia like Sky Is My Father and Aranyak essentially discusses Britain’s expansion, coercive policies and their after effect on the native people of India in relation to the ecological disruption around them.

\"Sprout, Seed, Sprout! is the story of a young boy who, like many children, has decided to plant a seed--in this case, an avocado seed. And as with so many things in life, the process takes a good while longer than anticipated ... A meditation on patience and perseverance, combined with humour (and an utterly charming cat), this title has lots of patterning and repetition and will make a great choice for storytime.\"-- Provided by publisher.

One of the proudest achievements of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the post World War II era, the video telephone system Picturephone ended its brief life as the Labs' biggest flop. Accounts have attempted to explain this \"failure\" in a variety of ways. This article proposes a new approach that questions the usefulness of the categories success and failure, and instead considers Picturephone as part of a technological narrative that directed both innovators and users along a certain path or trajectory of information technology. In the end, Picturephone may have actually reinforced this path, even though the device disappeared from use. Understanding these resonate meanings and effects requires extending the time frame of innovation and problematizing notions of consumer autonomy.

Americans often think of New Jersey as an environmental nightmare. As seen from its infamous turnpike, which is how many travelers experience the Garden State, it is difficult not to be troubled by the wealth of industrial plants, belching smokestacks, and hills upon hills of landfills. Yet those living and working in New Jersey often experience a very different environment. Despite its dense population and urban growth, two-thirds of the state remains covered in farmland and forest, and New Jersey has a larger percentage of land dedicated to state parks and forestland than the average for all states. It is this ecological paradox that makes New Jersey important for understanding the relationship between Americans and their natural world. InNew Jersey's Environments, historians, policy-makers, and earth scientists use a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, resources, and conservation. Nine essays consider topics ranging from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness. The state is astonishingly diverse and faces more than the usual competing interests from environmentalists, citizens, and businesses. This book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, all of which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world.

Annual Meeting Sessions Opening Plenary: Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives on Fukushima from the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology (co-sponsored by SHOT, HSS, and 4S) Chair: Yuko Fujigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Panelists: Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics (HSS); Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan (SHOT); Hugh Gusterson, George Mason University (4S) Science, Technology and Development Roundtable (sponsored by the international outreach committee) Organizers: Harro Maat,Wageningen University, Netherlands; Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Chair: Rob Hagendijk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Commentators:Wiebe Bijker, University of Maastricht, Netherlands; Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University Participants: Annapurna Mamidipudi, University of Maastricht, Netherlands; Matthew Harsh, Arizona State University; Ivan da Costa Marques, Federal University of Rio di Janeiro, Brazil Beyond the Science-Technology Relationship (co-sponsored by HSS) Organizer: Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair and Commentator: W. Patrick McCray, University of California, Santa Barbara Papers: \"German Roots of the Science-Technology Debate,\" Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison; \"The Natural History of Industry: Revisiting the Question of Chemical 'Science' and Industry during the Second Half of the Long Eighteenth Century,\" Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands; \"The Origins of Pure and Applied Science in Gilded Age America,\" Paul Lucier, University of Rhode Island Mobilizing Media Chair and Commentator: Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University Papers: \"The Revolution Will Be Televised: The IRT Antú and the Chilean Road to Socialism,\" Michael Lemon, Indiana University; \"Cultural Stereo- Types: The Rise and Fall of the Ghetto Blaster, 1975-2000,\" Richard L. Perry, Elon University; \"Dissident Visions through Technological Use: Radio and Television Solidarity in Poland, 1982-1989,\" Carmen V. Krol, Cornell University Constructions of Gender Chair and Commentator: Amy Bix, Iowa State University Papers: \"Phrenology as Technology: Mapping the Gendered Mind in Nineteenth- Century America,\" Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University; \"Air Fashions of U.S.Women Aviators between the World Wars,\" Barbara Ganson, Florida Atlantic University and International Women's Air and Space Museum; \"'Masculinity in a Spray Can': Deodorant and the Cure for Effeminacy in the US,\" Cari Casteel, Auburn University Mapping the Earth: From Underground Geographies to Orbital Landscapes Chair and Commentator: Margaret Weitekamp, National Air and Space Museum Papers: \"Underground Geographies: Mine Mapping in the Late 19th Century,\" Eric Nystrom, Rochester Institute of Technology; \"Who Gets to Draw the Map? Mail, Telegraph and Telephone as Tools of Governing in the USSR (1922-1964),\" Larissa Zakharova, EHESS, Paris, France Cold War Control Culture Chair and Commentator: Sonja Schmid, Virginia Tech University Papers: \"Troubling Signals: Radio Transmissions, Radioactive Emissions, and Cold War Emergency Culture,\" Greg Siegel, University of California, Santa Barbara; \"Rockets and the Red Scare: Frank Malina and American Rocketry,\" James Johnson, Case Western Reserve University; \"Purity and Danger in ColdWar Italy: Nuclear Power and Fears of Pollution around the US Navy Base of La Maddalena,\" Davide Orsini, University of Michigan Mobility Networks Chair and Commentator: Alex Roland, Duke University Papers: \"Getting Accustomed to Take Time into Account: Transport Network, Travel Regime, and Linking Imperial Russia to Europe, 1820-1850s,\" Alexandra Bekasova, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia; \"The Power and the Tragedy of Old Technologies: Shipping in the North Sea in the Second Half of the 19th Century,\" Håkon With Andersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; \"Shifting Geographies: China's High-Speed Rail Venture Along the Beijing-Tianjin and Wuhan-Guangzhou Corridors,\" Har Ye Kan, Harvard University; \"Benefit Inversions in Modern Transit Technologies,\" Peter Zelchenko, University of Chicago Sight, Sound, and Surveillance Chair and Commentator: Stefan Kaufmann, University of Freiburg, Germany Papers: \"Private Pictures: Photography and Privacy in Turn of the Century United States,\" Lynn Berger, Columbia University; \"Technology and Surveillance- of Wildlife,\" Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech University; \"Early Telephony and Surveillance in the United States,\" Colin Agur, Columbia University; \"Closed-Circuit Television, Surveillance, and the Hostile Environment,\" Caroline Nappo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Centennial of Mme Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011, 1911) and Its Social Significance (on the HSS program, co-sponsored by SHOT) Chair: Alan Rocke, CaseWestern Reserve University Commentator: Maria Rentetzi, Technical University, Athens Papers: \"Curie and Einstein: 'Those tinsel-filled accounts that so often mask the lives of great creators,'\" John Stachel, Boston University; \"Globalizing the Public Memory of Mme Curie: Changing Commemorative Practices in the 20th Century,\" Pnina G. Abir-Am, Brandeis University; \"From Discovery to Production: The Curies and Artificial Radioactivity,\" Robert W. Seidel, University of Minnesota Science and Regulation in a Contaminated World: Part I (on the HSS Program, co-sponsored by SHOT) Chair and Commentator: Soraya Boudia, University of Strasbourg, France Papers: \"Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Developing a 'Science'-Based Approach to Chemical Regulation in a Risk Society,\" Jody Roberts, Chemical Heritage Foundation; \"The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test,\"Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University; \"The Crisis of Regulatory Scientists in Mutagenesis Testing (West Germany, 1970s),\" Alexander Schwerin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany Sidney Edelstein Book Prize Roundtable, 2011 Winner: Joy Parr for Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Vancouver: UBC Press / Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010) Chair:William Storey,Millsaps College Participants: Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Howard Segal, University of Maine; H. V. Nelles,McMaster University, Canada Respondent: Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario, Canada Making People Like Their Inescapable Social Destiny: Technologies of Power and Control in Natural Resource Development Organizer: MauritsW. Propagating Low-Power FM Radio in the 1990s,\" Christina Dunbar-Hester, Rutgers University Plenary Session: da Vinci Prize Lecture Introduction: Arne Kaisjer, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Lecture: John M. Staudenmaier, S.J., University of Detroit Mercy Science and Regulation in a Contaminated World: Part II (on the HSS program, co-sponsored by SHOT) Chair and Commentator: Nathalie Jas, University of Paris-Sud/INRA, France Papers: \"Toxic Bodies: Endocrine Disruptors,Uncertainty, and Precaution,\" Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin-Madison; \"On the Limits of Limit Values,\" Carsten Reinhardt, Bielefeld University, Germany; \"Toward an Anatomy of Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment,\" Scott Frickel, Washington State University Infrastructure(s) and the Fukushima Earthquake: A Roundtable on Emergencies, Nuclear and Otherwise Organizers: Paul N. Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan Chair: Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University Participants: Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan; Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan; Peter Redfield,University of North Carolina; Gregory Clancey, National University of Singapore Degrees of Control: Introducing Regulating Technologies in the Field Organizer: Margaret Schotte, Princeton University Chair and Commentator: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina Papers: \"Learning to Log: The Introduction of Mandatory Shipboard Journals,\" Margaret Schotte, Princeton University; \"Mapping Time: Mechanical Clocks in 19th-Century Japanese Cartography,\" Yulia Frumer, Princeton University; \"The Measure and Molding of a Dominion: Surveying in 19th- Century Upper Canada,\" Sarah-Jane Patterson, University of Toronto, Canada Coded Narratives: Memory, Practice, and Community in the History of Software (sponsored by the SIG on Computers, Information, and Society) Organizer and Commentator: Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Chair: David Hemmendinger, Union College Papers: \"ACM and Turing Prize Scientists: Defining the Art and Science of Computing, 1947-2008,\" Irina Nikiforova, Georgia Institute of Technology; \"NeXT History and Cocoa Community Memory,\" Hansen Hsu, Cornell University; \"Complexity, Verification, and the Rise of Object-Oriented Programming,\" Joline Zepcevski, University of Minnesota Organization, Technology, and Policy: Central Themes of the Defense Acquisition Process Organizers: Glen R. Asner, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Thomas C. Lassman, National Air and Space Museum Chair and Commentator: Glen R. Asner, Office of the Secretary of Defense Papers: \"The Organization of Weapons Research, Development, and Production in the United States, 1945-1960,\" Elliott V. Converse III, Independent Historian; \"Managing Technological Innovation in Weapon Systems Acquisition: The Case of the U.S. Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter, 1964-1985,\" Thomas C. Lassman, National Air and Space Museum; \"Civil- Military (Dis)Integration: The Failure of the National Flat Panel Display Initiative,\" Philip L. Shiman, Defense Acquisition History Project (Wo)Man-Machine Chair and Commentator: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania Papers: \"'The regularity of clockwork': 'Feminization' and the Rhetoric of Frank L. Pope's Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph (1877),\" Kristin E. Kondrlik, Case Western Reserve University; \"From Functional to Experiential: The Development of User Interface in Consumer Electronics Devices, 1930-1975,\" Nick Muntean, University of Texas at Aust