These are two admirable little books in this most useful series published by the University Press, Cambridge. Mr. Gr. H. Carpenter, of Dublin, writes the little book on the insect's life-story and in very clear and even simple language he explains the facts and meanings of insect transformations. The story of the larval and pupal stages is very interesting. In the little book on The Flea Mr. Ha...

The subject of this paper is the story of an ancient medical instrument. This instrument is a wooden vaginal speculum used in classical and Islamic medicine. Its drawings can be found in Abulcasis al-Zahrawi's and Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu's illustrated books of surgery.

The story-telling multimedia, Living Book, is one of the most common edutainment genres, in which children hear and play with interactive and animated stories, in a highly-engaging multimedia environment. Living Books are designed so that that every word of the story is projected as text on the computer monitor simultaneously with its narration. This enables listeners to synchronize between the...

Dual-language children’s books—books in which two languages cohabit—are currently gaining traction the field of language education. Though some studies have zeroed on benefits using them classrooms, less is known about how learners perceive this tool’s utility for reading and development. In paper, we thus aim to explore elementary students French immersion types dual-language books: translated...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the concept lattices and their applications fourth international conference cla 2006 tunis tunisia october 30 november 1 2006 selected papers lecture notes in artificial intelligence book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge ...

The Influence of Books and Movies addiction to microbiology came early in my boyhood through books and film. First there was the novel Arrowsmith by sinclair Lewis. in the movie adaptation, actor ronald coleman dealt with bubonic plague and quickly became my scientific hero. throughout the years, my paperback copy of this novel has been loaned to many students. next, i became fascinated by paul...

Storytelling is a pervasive part of our daily lives and culture that is being applied to computational systems for entertainment, education, and training. Because of the prevalence of story in non-interactive media such as books and movies, as well as interactive media such as computer games, automated generation of narrative content is an essential component of making computers creative. We de...

The present study was an attempt to find out whether there were any exclusive strategies regarding illustration in the rendition of children‟s illustrated books. Further, it investigated whether the existing intersemiotic models were sufficiently responsive to the demands of Iranian translators and children. Cases of  the study included three children‟s illustrated story books for age groups B ...