Throughout the world there is a common belief that the dead may return to life. In Europe the most exotic form of this belief is the legend of the vampire. In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires—from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires. Analyzing these reports, Barber offers
for the first time a scientific explanation for the origin of the vampire legends. The accounts compiled here by Barber of exhumations of suspected vampires include descriptions of blood on the lips of the dead body,how the corpse cried out when a stake was driven into its heart, and how the corpse partly rose from the grave. These descriptions led to further assumptions about vampires; that after coming to life again, they would prey on the living, sucking their blood or killing them in other ways. Barber studies the descriptions of exhumed cadavers in light of what is now known about forensic pathology and shows that they are clinically possible. Barber thus argues that the lore about vampires is an elaborate folk-hypothesis that sought to make sense out of a wide variety of natural phenomena, including the events of decomposition.
His book will be fascinating reading for scientists and anthropologists as well as for everyone interested in folklore. Paul Barber, a former teacher of German language and folklore at Princeton University and Occidental College, is a writer.
A practical guide for stimulating a child's interest in science. Presents safe and simple activities suitable for children from preschool through the early elementary grades. Suggests activities with bubbles, bugs, plants, crystals, and television. Most activities cost little or nothing and require no special equipment. Explores opportunities for learning science in such places as zoos, museums, planetariums, aquariums, and farms. Presents definitions and descriptions of science and provides suggestions for helping children understand and learn scientific ideas. Appendices offer practical tips encouraging schools to develop good science programs, descriptions of nine scientific concepts, and a list of recommended science books and magazines. Originally available from the U.S. Department of Education.
Jurisprudence is often a daunting subject, particularly because of its links with a variety of other disciplines, such as philosophy, sociology and political science. The book explains the nature and significance of these links and seeks to unravel their complexity. Descriptions and definitions of jurisprudential terms are given throughout the book. Dedicated tolovely_boyw786
Each of the 80 alphabetically arranged chapters, from Addition to Zero-Sum Games, takes on a curriculum-centered topic. They open with a definition, close with a brief list of further sources, and in between quickly lay out fundamental terms and ideas, historical background, and descriptions of Real-life Applications. The latter often include word (rarely number) examples.
(Photocopiable ELT Games and Activities Series) A fantastic selection of pairwork, small group and whole class games and activities to help your students develop understanding and fluency in a real, communicative way. Practice in different types of writing including advertisements, letters., descriptions, articles, notes and poems, a wide variety of activity types such as matching, guessing, exchange and reply and descriptions, includes full teaching notes.
