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Ask Any Vegetable
No full textThis is a book about making animal forms out of common vegetables. As the eBay title for it proclaims: Very WEIRD! As the author writes in the foreword, Look long at an ordinary gourd of any sort and it will suggest many things to you (vi). This book is in this collection because of Fox and Crane on 24-25, Hare and Tortoise on 60-61, and Fox and Crow on 68-69. For the former scene, normal gourds were used to create the crane and the vase. For the fox an immature gourd was used; some clay was added, into which ears and eyes were stuck. A bit of cotton was pasted over the body to resemble fur, and the bushy tail was bult up of strands of corn silk. The fox's ears are feather-shaft ends (25). Did Aesop ever think that he would be getting into scenes made up of vegetables? The second scene is set in a forest whose trees are carrots. The rabbit is formed from a peanut, and the tortoise from a horse chestnut. The third scene represents some confusion or syncretism between FG and FC. The crow, which might be difficult to create, is cleverly left out of the scene. Prizes in the book go to the camel and leader on 36 (also on the front cover of the dust jacket), the resting sea lions on 53, and the sleeping student on 114. I would say that R.E. Eshmeyer was as crazy as I am, and that probably fits. He was also a man of the cloth.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)R.E. Eshmeye
Letter from R.E. Tracy, Supervisor, Sacramento-San Joaquin Area, to George H. Nakamura, May 15, 1944
No full textCorrespondence from R.E. Tracy to George Hideo Nakamura regarding a Government Bill of Lading.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Indian biennale effect: the Kochi/Murziris Biennale 2012
No full textThe Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the most recent global art biennale, was launched in Kochi in the state of Kerala, India, in 2012. This essay considers the “biennale effect,” locating it within India's recent history of radical political modernization and in the context of the state's attempts to establish itself in terms of internationalism and contemporaneity via the arts. Pivotal to this discussion of the biennale effect is the recognition of a growing critical discourse about the biennale format by scholars, critics, and curators. The impact of the Indian biennale on the formerly Communist city of Kochi is also explored, including photographic documentation by the author, in the context of the contradictions and paradoxes raised by India's hosting of this global art event
R.E. Baker
No full textTitle from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbai
Pulex (Pulex) simulans Baker 1895
No full textPulex (Pulex) simulans Baker, 1895 Material examined— Hidalgo: Tlanchinol, C. familiaris, 5.VI. 1997, B. Salceda, 2 males, det. R.E. Lewis, 2000. Remarks—This is the most widely distributed flea in Mexico, so far found in 21 states. Because of the similarities between this species and Pulex irritans Linnaeus, some incorrect identifications may exist, therefore some records may be misleading. This species is mainly a parasite of carnivores, deer and larger rodents (Lewis, 1972). Its occurrence on a dog located in the cloud forest near human settlement is not surprising.Published as part of Beatriz, Salceda-Sánchez & Hastriter, Michael W., 2006, A list of the fleas (Siphonaptera) of Mexico with new host and distribution records, pp. 29-43 in Zootaxa 1296 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17354
Dasypsyllus (Dasypsyllus) gallinulae subsp. perpinnatus Baker 1904
No full textDasypsyllus (Dasypsyllus) gallinulae perpinnatus (Baker, 1904) Material examined— Chiapas: Sn. Cristobal de las Casas, “bird nest”, 19.VII. 1926, 13 males, 9 females col./det. A. Dampf. Remarks—This flea is found on passerine birds, distributed along the Pacific coast of North and Central America and northwestern South America. The identification of this specimen was confirmed by R.E. Lewis. Ponce & LlorenteBousquets (1996) also made mention of this species as an unconfirmed record in the state of Chiapas.Published as part of Beatriz, Salceda-Sánchez & Hastriter, Michael W., 2006, A list of the fleas (Siphonaptera) of Mexico with new host and distribution records, pp. 29-43 in Zootaxa 1296 on page 39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17354
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