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    The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill. Ed. Carol Poston. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher. From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine\u27s Journey through Myth and Legend. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West (Popular Culture and Philosophy, Vol. 37). Ed. Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng. Reviewed by Ruth Berman. C.S. Lewis\u27s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile. Edited with an Introduction by A.T. Reyes. Reviewed by Richard C. West. The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings. Edited by Paul E. Kerry. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims. Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern. 1.2 (2010). Ed. Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Journal of Inklings Studies. 1.1 (March 2011). Ed. Judith Wolfe. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. 27 (2010). Ed. Marjorie Lamp Mead. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. 7 (2010). Ed. Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays. Edited by Jason Fisher. Reviewed by Mike Foster

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    A Sword between the Sexes?: C.S. Lewis and the Gender Debates. Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher. The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. Edited by Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward. Reviewed by Gregory Bassham. The Law and Harry Potter. Jeffrey E. Thomas and Franklin G. Snyder, eds. Reviewed by Douglas C. Kane. Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages. Stephen Knight. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims. Tolkien\u27s The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration. Ed. by Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger. Reviewed by Charles A. Huttar. One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L\u27Engle and Orson Scott Card. By Marek Oziewicz. Reviewed by Donna R. White. War of the Fantasy Worlds: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien on Art and Imagination. Martha C. Sammons. Reviewed by David Bratman

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    Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits. Dimitra Fimi. Reviewed by Jason Fisher. Charles Williams and his Contemporaries. Suzanne Bray and Richard Sturch, eds. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher. In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers who Tried to Build a Perfect Language. Arika Okrent. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims. Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games. John Perlich & David Whitt, eds. Reviewed by Priscilla Hobbs Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien. Bradford Lee Eden, ed. Reviewed by Emily A. Moniz. Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds. Travis Prinzi. Reviewed by David D. Oberhelman. Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern: Immortals and the Undead. Eds. Thomas Honneger and Fanfan Chen. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Theodor Seuss Geisel [sic]. Donald E. Pease. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher

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    The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald. Bonnie Gaarden. Reviewed by Scott McLaren. Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson\u27s The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny, eds. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger. Good Dragons are Rare: An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West. Fanfan Chen and Thomas Honegger, eds. Reviewed by David D. Oberhelman. Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman\u27s His Dark Materials: Essays on the Novels, the Film and the Stage Productions. Steven Barfield and Katharine Cox, eds. Reviewed by Amy S. Rodgers. From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages. Michael Adams, ed. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims. Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of Narnia. Salwa Khoddam. Reviewed by Holly Ordway. Abiding in the Sanctuary: The Waite-Trinick Tarot: A Christian Mystical Tarot (1917-1923). Tali Goodwin and Marcus Katz. Preface by Mary K. Greer. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger. Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature, and Identity. Carl Phelpstead. Reviewed by Sara Brown. North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. #29 (2010). Edited by Fernando Soto and John Pennington. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. #28 (2011). Edited by Marjorie Lamp Mead et al. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. #8 (2011). Edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft

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    C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918. John Bremer. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher. Collected Poems. Hope Mirrlees. Ed. and intro. Sandeep Parmar. Reviewed by Nicholas Birns. Fantasy, Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers. William Gray. Reviewed by Scott McLaren. C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages. Robert Boenig. Reviewed by Holly Ordway. Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations. Edited by Lynnette Porter. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Dancing the Tao: Le Guin and Moral Development. Sandra J. Lindow. Reviewed by Carl Badgley. Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion Through the Shire. Rainer Nagel. Reviewed by Troels Forchhammer. The Broken Scythe: Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Roberto Arduini and Claudio A. Testi. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims. The Hobbit Tarot. Terry Donaldson (author of guide pamphlet) and Peter Pracownik (artist). Reviewed by Emily A Auger. The Lord of the Rings Tarot Deck and Card Game. Terry Donaldson (author of guidebook), Peter Pracownik (artist), and Mike Fitzgerald (game rules). Reviewed by Emily A Auger. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter. Edited by Cynthia J. Hallett and Peggy J. Huey. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft

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    Peter Pan\u27s Shadows in the Literary Imagination. Kirsten Stirling. Reviewed by Kayla McKinney Wiggins. C.S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper. Ed. Judith Wolfe and B.N. Wolfe. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher. Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination. Paul A. Trout. Reviewed by Lizzy Walker. The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman. Anthony S. Burdge, Jessica Burke, and Kristine Larsen, eds. Reviewed by Nicholas Birns. Animals and Humans: Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion. Kristina Jennbert. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger. Tolkien in Translation. Edited by Thomas Honegger. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film. Ed. Thomas Honegger. Reviewed by Sara Brown. Critical Discourses on the Fantastic, 1712-1831. David Sandner. Reviewed by Joe Young. Arthurian Figures of History and Legend: A Biographical Dictionary. Frank D. Reno. Reviewed by Donald T. Williams. The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.RR. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Margaret Hiley. Reviewed by Holly Ordway. Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. #30 (2011). Edited by Fernando Soto and John Pennington. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society. #53 (Spring 2012). Ed. Henry Gee. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. #9 (2012). Ed. Verlyn Flieger and Michael D.C. Drout. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft. Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern. #2.1&2 (2011). Ed. Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft

    Compressional and extensional tectonics in low-medium pressure granulites from the Larsemann Hills, east Antarctica

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    AbstractMeta-sediments in the Larsemann Hills that preserve a coherent stratigraphy, form a cover sequence deposited upon basement of mafic–felsic granulite. Their outcrop pattern defines a 10 kilometre wide east–west trending synclinal trough structure in which basement–cover contacts differ in the north and the south, suggesting tectonic interleaving during a prograde, D1 thickening event. Subsequent conditions reached low-medium pressure granulite grade, and structures can be divided into two groups, D2 and D3, each defined by a unique lineation direction and shear sense. D2 structures which are associated with the dominant gneissic foliation in much of the Larsemann Hills, contain a moderately east-plunging lineation indicative of west-directed thrusting. D2 comprises a colinear fold sequence that evolved from early intrafolial folds to late upright folds. D3 structures are associated with a high-strain zone, to the south of the Larsemann Hills, where S3 is the dominant gneissic layering and folds sequences resemble D2 folding. Outside the D3 high-strain zone occurs a low-strain D3 window, preserving low-strain D3 structures (minor shear bands and upright folds) that partly re-orient D2 structures. All structures are truncated by a series of planar pegmatites and parallel D4 mylonite zones, recording extensional dextral displacements.D2 assemblages include coexisting garnet–orthopyroxene pairs recording peak conditions of ∼ 7 kbar and ∼ 780°C. Subsequent retrograde decompression textures partly evolved during both D2 and D3 when conditions of ∼ 4–5 kbar and ∼ 750°C were attained. This is followed by D4 shear zones which formed around 3 kbar and ∼ 550°C.It is tempting to combine D2–4 structures in one tectonic cycle involving prograde thrusting and thickening followed by retrograde extension and uplift. The available geochronological data, however, present a number of interpretations. For example, D2 was possibly associated with a clockwise P–T path at medium pressures around ∼ 1000 Ma, by correlation with similar structures developed in the Rauer Group, whilst D3 and D4 events occurred in response to extension and heating at low pressures at ∼ 550 Ma, associated with the emplacement of numerous granitoid bodies. Thus, decompression textures typical for the Larsemann Hills granulites maybe the combined effect of two separate events.C. J. Carson, P. G. H. M. Dirks, M. Hand, J. P. Sims & C. J. L. Wilso

    Thermal stratification drives movement of a coastal apex predator

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    A characterization of the thermal ecology of fishes is needed to better understand changes in ecosystems and species distributions arising from global warming. The movement of wild animals during changing environmental conditions provides essential information to help predict the future thermal response of large marine predators. We used acoustic telemetry to monitor the vertical movement activity of the common dentex (Dentex dentex), a Mediterranean coastal predator, in relation to the oscillations of the seasonal thermocline during two summer periods in the Medes Islands marine reserve (NW Mediterranean Sea). During the summer stratification period, the common dentex presented a clear preference for the warm suprathermoclinal layer, and adjusted their vertical movements following the depth changes of the thermocline. The same preference was also observed during the night, when fish were less active. Due to this behaviour, we hypothesize that inter-annual thermal oscillations and the predicted lengthening of summer conditions will have a significant positive impact on the metabolic efficiency, activity levels, and population dynamics of this species, particularly in its northern limit of distribution. These changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem’s keystone predator might cascade down to lower trophic levels, potentially re-defining the coastal fish communities of the futureVersión del editor2,92

    Reproductive Schedules in Southern Bluefin Tuna: Are Current Assumptions Appropriate?

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    Southern bluefin tuna (SBT) appear to comprise a single stock that is assumed to be both mixed across its distribution and having reproductive adults that are obligate, annual spawners. The putative annual migration cycle of mature SBT consists of dispersed foraging at temperate latitudes with migration to a single spawning ground in the tropical eastern Indian Ocean. Spawning migrations have been assumed to target two peaks in spawning activity; one in September-October and a second in February-March. SBT of sizes comparable to that of individuals observed on the spawning ground were satellite tagged in the Tasman Sea region (2003–2008) and demonstrated both migrations to the spawning grounds and residency in the Tasman Sea region throughout the whole year. All individuals undertaking apparent spawning migrations timed their movements to coincide with the second recognised spawning peak or even later. These observations suggest that SBT may demonstrate substantial flexibility in the scheduling of reproductive events and may even not spawn annually as currently assumed. Further, the population on the spawning grounds may be temporally structured in association with foraging regions. These findings provide new perspectives on bluefin population and spatial dynamics and warrant further investigation and consideration of reproductive schedules in this species
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