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The Gnawer of Rocks by L. Flaherty
No full textFlaherty, Louise. The Gnawer of Rocks. Illustrated by Jim Nelson. Inhabit Media, 2017.
The Gnawer of Rocks, written by Louise Flaherty and illustrated by Jim Nelson, is based on the author\u27s memories of a story she heard as a child from an Inuk storyteller, Levi Iqalugjuaq, in Nunavut in the 1970s. The book, which feels like an incredible mix of picture book and graphic novel, focuses on a traditional story about a creature called Mangittatuarjuk and two young women who fall into her clutches.
Nelson\u27s artwork follows the layout of a comic book, using word balloons and panel captions, which makes for an immersive reading experience following two girls who discover a trail of beautiful rocks outside of camp which lead them from the bright and colourful world of home into the increasingly dark and frightening world of Mangittatuarjuk. The book mixes Inuktitut terms throughout, but does include a glossary at the end.
The story does get both gruesome and horrific in the cave of Mangittatuarjuk, but the story, which would be great for older school children, does include a warning in the author\u27s note. A really great introduction to traditional northern Canadian stories, the book includes an introduction for context and acknowledges the original storyteller as well as the reasons for this type of story and its likely role in the lives of children. An excellent read for children who are already comfortable with scary stories.
Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Kirk MacLeod
Kirk MacLeod is the Open Data Team Lead for the Government of Alberta’s Open Government Portal. A Life-Long reader, he moderates two book clubs and is constantly on the lookout for new great books!
 
The Survivors (Kirke, Bristow, Flaherty, Porter, Barr, Giles, Rose, Hewlett)
No full textPhotograph occurs in album immediately following those taken August 1900 and before others dated 1901.Photograph includes: C.C.A. Kirke, H. H. Bristow, A. J. Flaherty, H. Porter, L. H. R. Barr, Lancelot Giles, C. A. W. Rose, W. M. Hewlett; Flaherty, Bristow, Barr, Hewlett and Giles (at least) were Student Interpreters at the British Legation in Beijing. Lancelot Giles (1970), p. 186
Introduction: Learning locally
No full textIn the 1998 essay Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre, which inspires our title, New Zealand scholar Michael Neill argues that in postcolonial nations
the decentring of Shakespeare has generally been more rhetorical than real - [T]he long and complicated history of Shakespeare's entanglement with Empire has ensured that (for better or worse) his work has become deeply constitutive of all of us for whom the world is (to a greater or lesser degree) shaped by the English language - Through four hundred years of imperializing history our Anglophone cultures have become so saturated with Shakespeare that our ways of thinking about such basic issues as nationality, gender and racial difference are inescapably inflected by his writing. (Neill, 1998, 185)
Undoubtedly true as this observation still is, education in the excolonies has moved on, growing more complex and confident in its own locally-situated cultural authority. This applies equally to the teaching of Shakespeare (as Neill concludes his essay, the question is 'not whether but how he should be taught'). Binary approaches to understanding learning (active/passive, school/university, teaching/research) are no longer adequate to the realities of education in the modern world. The situation is ripe for engagement with the complexity theories that are increasingly being applied to the domain of human learning (see, for example, Barnett, 1999)
Man of No Importance program
No full textDaniel Rogers, director; lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; music by Stephen Flaherty; based on the book by Terrence McNally. Summary: A bus driver dreams of producing a play by his hero, Oscar Wilde, with his theatrical troupe of untalented amateurs. When a beautifu
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
Man of No Importance program cover
No full textDaniel Rogers, director; lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; music by Stephen Flaherty; based on the book by Terrence McNally. Summary: A bus driver dreams of producing a play by his hero, Oscar Wilde, with his theatrical troupe of untalented amateurs. When a beautifu
Man of No Importance poster
No full textDaniel Rogers, director; lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; music by Stephen Flaherty; based on the book by Terrence McNally. Summary: A bus driver dreams of producing a play by his hero, Oscar Wilde, with his theatrical troupe of untalented amateurs. When a beautifu
Man of No Importance (2009)
No full textDaniel Rogers, director; lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; music by Stephen Flaherty; based on the book by Terrence McNally. Summary: A bus driver dreams of producing a play by his hero, Oscar Wilde, with his theatrical troupe of untalented amateurs. When a beautiful young woman gets on his bus he forges ahead with his plan in spite of the opposition of his sister and his landlord
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
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