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Not just another princess story
After the king declares it's time for Princess Candi to get married, the math-loving princess decides to carry out a husband search on her own. Not knowing how to find such a creature, she turns to fairytales for inspiration and ends up using every method in the books, from kissing frogs to slaying monsters. But will she find her Prince Charming? Or just a bunch of duds who cheat, cry and make armpit noises?
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Unmarriages
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. Social norms militated against the marriage of master to slave or between individuals of very different classes, or when the couple was so poor that they could not establish an independent household. Such unions, where the protections that medieval law furnished to wives (and their children) were absent, were fraught with danger for women in particular, but they also provided a degree of flexibility and demonstrate the adaptability of social customs in the face of slowly changing religious doctrine.Unmarriagesdraws on a wide range of sources from across Europe and the entire medieval millennium in order to investigate structures and relations that medieval authors and record keepers did not address directly, either in order to minimize them or because they were so common as not to be worth mentioning. Author Ruth Mazo Karras pays particular attention to the ways women and men experienced forms of opposite-sex union differently and to the implications for power relations between the genders. She treats legal and theological discussions that applied to all of Europe and presents a vivid series of case studies of how unions operated in specific circumstances to illustrate concretely what we can conclude, how far we can speculate, and what we can never know.
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The Return of the Native
The great Victorian novel of love, ambition, and shattered illusions set in Hardy's beloved, fictional English village of Egdon Heath.Eustacia Vye is as wild and beautiful as the landscape that surrounds her grandfather's house on Egdon Heath.
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Quiz queens
\"In this high interest novel for middle readers, boy-crazy Kiara convinces studious Jane to create a questionnaire to help find her soulmate.
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Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries
Considerable research has examined human mate preferences across cultures, finding universal sex differences in preferences for attractiveness and resources as well as sources of systematic cultural variation. Two competing perspectives—an evolutionary psychological perspective and a biosocial role perspective—offer alternative explanations for these findings. However, the original data on which each perspective relies are decades old, and the literature is fraught with conflicting methods, analyses, results, and conclusions. Using a new 45-country sample (N = 14,399), we attempted to replicate classic studies and test both the evolutionary and biosocial role perspectives. Support for universal sex differences in preferences remains robust: Men, more than women, prefer attractive, young mates, and women, more than men, prefer older mates with financial prospects. Cross-culturally, both sexes have mates closer to their own ages as gender equality increases. Beyond age of partner, neither pathogen prevalence nor gender equality robustly predicted sex differences or preferences across countries.
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The truest heart
Cory Feathering has abandoned the tooth fairy guild she was born into in favor of choosing her own path as a matchmaker, and now decides to fight for what she believes in by helping Mary Lambkin find true love.
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Cultural flies: Conformist social learning in fruitflies predicts long-lasting mate-choice traditions
Though once believed to be confined to humans, culture has now been demonstrated in many different animal species, from whales to parrots. Most such animals have high levels of cognition, but the basics of transmission and copying could easily occur in less cognitively advanced species. Danchin et al. show that mating culture can be passed on in Drosophila and model the process by which this occurs (see the Perspective by Whiten). Their results suggest that culture and copying may be much more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously believed. Science , this issue p. 1025 ; see also p. 998 Fruitflies establish a culture of preferred mates. Despite theoretical justification for the evolution of animal culture, empirical evidence for it beyond mammals and birds remains scant, and we still know little about the process of cultural inheritance. In this study, we propose a mechanism-driven definition of animal culture and test it in the fruitfly. We found that fruitflies have five cognitive capacities that enable them to transmit mating preferences culturally across generations, potentially fostering persistent traditions (the main marker of culture) in mating preference. A transmission chain experiment validates a model of the emergence of local traditions, indicating that such social transmission may lead initially neutral traits to become adaptive, hence strongly selecting for copying and conformity. Although this situation was suggested decades ago, it previously had little empirical support.
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Elemental composition and physicochemical properties postharvest of the yerba mate produced in different cultivation systems and environments
The compounds present in yerba mate are related to the climatic, cultivation, and production factors. The study aimed to analyze the effects of production factors, environmental, and cropping systems on the elementary composition and physicochemical properties of yerba mate postharvest in the different regions of Southern Brazil. Among the factors evaluated are the age of the yerba mate plantation, shading, type of pruning, soil characteristics, use of fertilizers, and cleaning practices of the yerba mate plantation. The results indicated that the different cultivation and management conditions of yerba mate interconnected influenced its physical-chemical and elemental composition. The interactions between minerals such as Mg, Ca, Mn, Co, and V were predominantly positive. Yerba mate plantations over 21 years old presented the highest Aluminum and Arsenic contents. The color of yerba mate was mainly influenced by the green and yellow tones, varying according to the age of the yerba mate, the type of pruning, the use of fertilizers, and the cleanliness of the cultivation area. However, the caffeine and saponin content stood out, presenting variations in all conditions analyzed. The postharvest quality of yerba mate was closely related to agricultural practices and specific environmental conditions, mainly the age of the yerba mate and the type of pruning.
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