Volume 38, Number 1 - February 1959

Volume 38, Number 1 - February 1959. 46 pages including covers and advertisements. Williams, John, The Alembic Sullivan, Richard, Rhesus\u27 Feast Sullivan, Richard, The Little Ones Soulak, J., A Warm Victory McGeough, Thaddeus, The Greatest Drama Sullivan, Brian, Obituary Holian, William A. McGeough, Thaddeus, The Christmas Gift Aubin, Robert R., A Place of Death Sullivan, Brian, Lines I Survived the H-Bomb McGeough, Thaddeus, When Holian, William A., Landlocked Holian, William A., The Retarded Child Sullivan, Brian, Misery Holian, William A., The Challenge Holian, William A., With What Praises to Extoll Thee I Know Not Holian, William A

The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The article focuses on the problem of the narrator’s and the author’s identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Charles Taylor’s philosophy of subjectivity in order to have an identity we have to know what kind of good we would like to fulfil in our life. Such an orientation to the good (an orientation in moral space) and an endeavour after realizing this main value defines us as ourselves. In the paper it is argued that the pursuit of trespassing boundaries is constitutive to the narrator’s identity in the novel as it is such kind of an aim without which they could not have been themselves. It is also the key to the author’s identity. Through the medium of the stories of her male story-tellers she confronts her own demons, explores the territories of the subconscious beyond the bounds of understanding and depicts her struggle with the limitations she overcame as a woman in a patriarchal society and as a person who invented a new literary genre – science-fiction literature

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 52 (10) 1999

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 53 (07) 2000

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Organic amendment increases arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in primary coastal dunes

Plastic pots were inserted beneath seedlings of a shallow-rooted C4 grass species, Ischaemum indicum, with and without a root-impenetrable nylon sachet filled with organic matter (OM) amendment, at seven stations along an interrupted belt transect in which plant community and soil chemistry had been previously surveyed. The transect was perpendicular to mean high-water mark (MH-WM) across a primary coastal dune system in Goa, India, where summer monsoon is the predominant weather feature. The Quadrat survey of plant frequency was made in stations when the above-ground biomass was estimated to be highest. Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungal (AMF) spore density and diversity were determined morphologically in amended and control pots soils, and in OM sachet residues, after host-plant desiccation when monsoon rains had ceased. Twenty-seven AM fungal spore morphotypes were isolated from the pots containing OM amended rhizosphere soils, 19 from controls and 14 from OM residues in the sachets. Gigaspora margarita proved to be the dominant spore in all treatments. Eight morphotypes recovered from amended pots were not recovered from the controls. There was an increasing trend in species diversity in amended pots away from MH-WM. Spore recovery from the three regimes showed variable distribution that indicated differing AMF species strategies

Acorn Alive

As summer turns into fall, oak trees share their bounty acorns. While the number varies with the age, size, species, and weather, a single tree can have as many as 15,000 acorns in a single year, but less than one percent of them will germinate. That's good for the parent oak because competition from all those offspring would create serious problems. The role of the acorn in the microhabitat around the tree is an excellent lesson for student investigators. Inside each acorn that fails to germinate is a complex community of animal and fungal organisms that demonstrate intricate biotic relationships. Even before the acorn hits the ground, it may fall victim to insects. Once on the ground, it becomes a potential home to many types of insects and other invertebrate larvae, snails, worms, and fungi. What better way to introduce students to habitats, communities, and ecosystem dynamics than to have them dissect their own acorns

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 43 (09) 1990

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 45 (06) 1992

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