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  • Comic books, graphic novels and manga for fun, and (if you must) higher education curriculum: a panel discussion of visual storytelling at and around the university
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    Comic books, strips, etc. - Study and teaching (Higher); Comic books, strips, etc. - Japan; Graphic novels; Storytelling
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    Comics, like art, are extremely difficult to define and yet, like obscenity, everyone has their own internal definition that they instantly recognize. For better or worse, graphic novels have come of age and have been legitimized not just by the...
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    2012-03-01
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  • Bridging worlds: Zulu poet Mazisi Kunene, from epic authenticity to modern science
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    Kunene, Mazisi; Africa; South Africa; Zulu poetry; Literature and science;
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    Mazisi Kunene, the revolutionary colleague of Nelson Mandela, was a major academic voice about the literature of Africa. A professor at UCLA, he was Poet Laureate of both South Africa and Africa and perhaps that continent's greatest poet. He...
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    2012-04-11
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  • Cues for snacks and soft drinks: a study of adolescent eating behaviors
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    Diet; Behaviour and health; Teenagers;
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    Memory can be said to deeply connected to our tastes in food -- what we've liked or disliked in the past creates associations that help trigger our current eating behaviors. In what might be seen as a scientific version of the beginning of...
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    2013-04-10
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  • The Constitution and the American family
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    United States. Constitution; Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (U.S.); Families; Marriage; Same-sex marriage; Reproductive technology
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    The Constitution aims to guarantee individual rights, yet is remarkably silent on the matter of what defines a family and which family members are entitled to particular constitutional protections. Debates over such topics as marriage, parental...
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    2012-09-19
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  • Public lands - public debates: a century of controversy
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    Public lands; United States. National Park Service; United States. Forest Service.
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    The U. S. manages a vast system of national forests, grasslands, parks, and refuges, landscapes that contain some of the most beautiful and resource-rich terrain in the country. Since their establishment beginning in the late 19th-century, these...
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    2012-10-31
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  • Pineros: Latino labour and the changing face of forestry in the Pacific northwest
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    Oregon; Forests and forestry; Illegal aliens; United States Politics and government; Racism; Logging
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    While the exploitation of Latino workers in many industries is well known, "pineros," Latino forest workers, toil largely in obscurity. In her book Pineros: Latino Labor and the Changing Face of Forestry (published in 2012 by the University of...
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    2012-10-10

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