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...In light of International Women’s Day on March 8th, we celebrate all rebellious women throughout literature, not simply because they rebelled, but because their rebellion helped pave the way for all women of today (not to mention the voices of all other diversely oppressed people). Sculpting an identity amid a cul...

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...In This Issue: 1 International Women’s Day 3 Executive Director’s Message 4 Charge Your Style with Life 5 Children’s Literature Collection 7 Read 2Together with Wally Amos 8 Leading the Way: American Novelist Edith Wharton 8 Racial Inequality 9 A Look Back: Black History Month 10 The Freedom to Read: Banned Books 11 Yearning for Yoga ...

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...Savage Traditions and Their Detectives 6 William Shakespeare: Forever and a Day 7 The Flower Symbol 8 Best of the Best: Newbery Medal Books 9 The Literature of Vermin 10 The Importance of Being Honest 11 Stuck in the Middle 12 Driving the Future: On Autopilot 13 Threadbare: Lace in Literature 14 Rage Against the Machine 15 Food for Celebration 16 In Bloom: Seaso...

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...esthetic 9 Dystopian Horizons 11 Goddess to Green Cheese: The Moon 12 In the Buff: On Nudity 13 The Pleasures of Picnicking 14 What’s Cooking in Literature? 15 La Fête Nationale: Revolution 101 17 Zoom Zoom: The Automobile in Literature 18 Songs Inspired by Literature 20 Author Spotlight...

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...ening Horizons: History of the U.S. Peace Corps 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Metaphysical Hot Air Balloons: Baroque Poets 5 Literature for Adolescents 6 Arts & Crafts Movement 7 October: Start of the Modern Age 8 Pumpkins Sweet & Savory: The Quintessential Fall Flavor 9 Ballads: Parallels in Old and Contemporary Narratives 10 Swimming: Recrea...

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...In This Issue: 1 Manners & Civility: From Wisdom Literature to Novels of Manners 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Speak, Memory: The Orality of Epic Poetry 5 Hoist the Jolly Roger!: Pirates in Literature 6 Taj Mahal: A Tribute to Love 7 Cuban Missile...

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...In This Issue: 1 Dancing through Literature 3 Executive Director’s Message 4 The Limerick and Its Failure to Kick the Bucket 5 A Brief History of Science Fiction 6 Anti-intellectualism: A Non-comprehensive Compilation of Facts of Feelings 7 Mother Goose...

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...only” is a conspiracy hatched by Selfish scholars and lazy uneducated persons. Seshendra who has democratic ideology and conviction on science and literature informs the public about the secrets of Ramayana expounded by Valmiki. He explains that Valmiki dedicated ambrosia (The Greatest Medicine) named “Kundalini Yoga” to the mankind. The poetry in the metre of Anushtup ...

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...ation 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Concrete Poetry: Opening Language Borders 5 Beyond Speech: Talking Animals in Children’s Literature 6 Body Beauty: How Body Types Evolved Throughout History 7 José Rizal and the Filipino Struggle for Independence 8 Bear Claws, Crullers & Holes 9 Folk Music: Traversing Histories through Sound 10 Tennis: A Roy...

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...In This Issue: 1 World Press Day 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Poetry Corner 5 Children’s Literature Collection 6 History by Design 7 This Month in History 8 Cuisine & Travel 9 Take a (Musical) Note 10 A Good Sport 11 Cultural Traditions Pick A Topic 13 May Faith Traditions 15 Was Lao Tzu an Antiintelle...

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...ssue: 1 Fixing Language: An Early History of Dictionaries 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Poetry Corner 5 Children’s Literature Collection 6 History by Design 7 This Month in History 8 Cuisine & Travel 9 Take a (Musical) Note 10 A Good Sport 11 Cultural Traditions Pick A Topic 13 Speed and Thunder 15 A Buddhist w...

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...In This Issue: 1 A Contemporary Look at Primitive Art 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Poetry Corner 5 Children’s Literature Collection 6 History by Design 7 This Month in History 8 Cuisine & Travel 9 Take a (Musical) Note 10 A Good Sport 11 Cultural Traditions Pick A Topic 12 Porcelain: The Most Enduring Chinese Export 13 Th...

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...In This Issue: 1 Blue Zones: Longevity 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Poetry Corner 5 Children’s Literature Collection 6 History by Design 7 This Month in History 8 Cuisine & Travel 9 Take a (Musical) Note 11 A Good Sport Pick A Topic 13 A Snapshot of Korea 14 Color Blindness: Ways of Seeing & Why Context Matters ...

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...e Noguchi 5 ‘Underdog’ Is Another Word for ‘Phoenix’ 7 Monoliths in Wood: Famous Literary Illustrators 8 Temptation, Sin & Knowledge: The Apple in Literature 9 ‘Tis the Season: Christmas Carols and the Caroling Tradition 10 Henry Miller: The Art of Appreciation 11 Peek into the Future 13 Speechless: Vanishing Languages 14 Don’t Open the Closet: The Myth of Bluebear...

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...infant on formula might also be drinking a significant and harmful amount of fluoride. There’s simply no way to know. Unfortunately the peer reviewed literature you’ll be reading herein makes a clear case that any amount of fluoride is dangerous and damaging to the neurological development of children—while they’re still in the womb and until they’ve reached 21 years of a...

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...ions. Soon after the publication of the booklet, the question came up why the developments as described happened as they did? Most research/academic literature describe how EcoDesign should be introduced in industrial organizations in a way quite different from what happened at PCE. Is PCE a special case, or is a different approach required for the implementation of EcoDe...

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...mon laevissimus: Tettigoniidae, the Greek bush cricket, which values virginity more than body size when it comes to choosing a mate. There is a large literature on exactly why societies value virginity at particular points in their evolution. I’m not going to recapitulate it here: if you’re interested there’s scholarship out there on the practice and meaning of the state i...