And most of all, I wanted to see Bill Laws’s reality because he’s African American and a Ph.D. student in physics. Black characters were rare in 1950s science fiction. And it would have been interesting to see David Pritchett’s reality since he was a young teen. The reason why ...
He knows exactly where to go—and when to go—to make the most of your time and money, and takes great pleasure in introducing travelers to the lesser-known corners of the continent, such as the wilds of the Congo rainforest (“The Jungle Book come to life,” as he calls it). Read...
Chabot BF, Mooney HA (1985) Physiological ecology of North American plant communities. Chapman and Hall, New York, 351 pp BookGoogle Scholar Chapin FS III et al. (1986) Seasonal changes in carbon fractions in Alaskan tundra plants of differing growth form: implications for herbivory. J Ecol 7...
Adams, C. E., Aitken, F. C., and Worden, A. N. (1967) The rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus L.)The UP AW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals. (W. Lane-Petter, A. N. Worden, B. F. Hill, J. S. Paterson, and H. G. Vevers, editors), 3rd Edition. William...
Jack Hollander has written a lucid and path-breaking book. He is completely convincing in his thesis that it is poverty we should be addressing, both for the environment and for moral reasons, and that science, technology, markets, and affluence are the friends of the environment and poverty ...
Reversal of roles: Subversion and reaffirmation of racial stereotypes in Dumbo and The Jungle Book The history of the American motion picture has seen a progression of African-American stereotypes offered for entertainment that, more often than not, has ... A Wainer - 《Sync》 被引量: 3发表:...
The main transformations in American literature over the last thirty years have had a strong effect on poetry as well: the consolidation of African-American writers, the emergence of Native-American, Asian-American and Chicano writers, as well as gay writers, to name but a few.… continue read...
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West African tribesmen, 1912 Soon his partner became ill and had to return to base camp, then James succumbed to black water fever. He expected to die. Afterward James wrote about the vision God gave him on his sickbed—a panoramic view of the tribes of West Central Africa. God said, ...
"Out of all the countries in South America, Brazil has the biggest population of Africans, and that is something we wanted to convey on Roots," Iggor says. "Bringing in someone like Carlinhos Brown, who represented the whole African side of Brazil, was very important for us in order to ...