This is a beautifully presented work, with hundreds of photos, maps and illustrations, and a deluge of fascinating essays on the period, linked by footnote to Bram Stoker's text: science, art, geography, morality, society … the late 19th century, and before, in wonderful depth.
But the book, and its wide variety of illustrations from classical texts, science fiction and other sources, describes not just the history of the celestial body but the ways it inspired the human imagination to take flight, fueled, as Proust put it, by "the ancient unalterable splendor of a Moon cruelly and mysteriously serene".
The assignment included reading sections covering DNA replication error correction in a molecular biology text (Biological Science, 4th ed., vol. 1, Scott Freeman) and completing a series of Web activities and tutorials from a commercial online package (Mastering Biology, Pearson Education).
Humor is as much a part of the whole as everything else, starting with the title, adapted from a George Bernard Shaw treatise, "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism," that Mr. Kushner found in his grandmother's library, and a Mary Baker Eddy text about Christian Science, "Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures".
There is a manga tradition of anime adaptations overtaking the source text, the science-fiction critic and blogger Abigail Nussbaum points out.
Unlike the other core subjects, where English can change recommended texts and science has new discoveries and updated theories, the core of school mathematics always remains largely unchanged.
These were the words of love and family, the law and commerce, private letters and texts on science, religion and literature.
The present study examined associations between individual differences and comprehension capabilities of secondary school children when reading texts about science topics of varying levels of cohesion (i.e. low versus high cohesion).
Scott portrays Freeman as a snarky, sociopathic character who makes frequent references to works and texts including science fiction, horror films, action movies, American history, and renowned novels such as Moby Dick.
The fabled "round city" of the eighth and ninth centuries -- the Islamic Abbasid empire's political and commercial capital -- was also one of history's great intellectual hubs: The caliph Al-Ma'mun amassed the largest repository of books in the world, and endowed a multigenerational translation movement to preserve seminal ancient texts of science, philosophy, mathematics, and many other fields.
Deriving GE biology and related science texts from majors texts designed to meet very different learning objectives may defeat the scientific literacy goals of most schools' GE curricula.
