Mind matters : exploring the world of artificial intelligence

Futuristic Visions: Intelligent Machines in Fiction -- Medieval Mind -- Mechanical Mind -- Logical Mind -- Cybernetic Mind -- Calculator to Computer: Alan Turing's Universal Machine -- Computational Mind -- Computer to Symbol Processor: Early Visionaries and the Founding of AI -- Charting New Territory: The Computer as Problem Solver -- Occam's Chain Saw: Hacking Away at Game Trees -- Top Gun: Black Hat and White Hat: The Chess Fighters -- Adventures in Toyland: Distillations of Reality A World of Knowledge -- "Bottom-Up" AI: Computer Vision and Robotics -- Seeing What You Mean: Comprehending Natural Language -- Learning: The Indispensable Prerequisite.

Louise Erdrich's justice trilogy : cultural and critical contexts

American Indian studies series

American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)

The Aesthetics of Justice and Redress in The Plague of Doves / Murder She Wrote, and Rewrote, and Rewrote: A Trilogy of Justices / Trauma and Restitution in Louise Erdrich's LaRose / Family Trees: Land and Kinship in Louise Erdrich's Justice Trilogy / You Aren't a Regular Dog, Are You? Dog as Intermediary in Louise Erdrich's LaRose / We Can Wade Grief: Ethics, Politics, and Relationality in Louise Erdrich's LaRose / Narrative Design in the Justice Trilogy / Debwe, Onaakonige gaye Nanaandawi'iwe: Finding Justice in the Language of Louise Erdrich's Novels / Honoring Our Relatives / A Reader's Guide to the Novels of the Justice Trilogy / The Art of Fiction No. 208: Louise Erdrich, from the Paris Review, No. 195 (Winter 2010).

Barbara Kingsolver

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On Barbara Kingsolver / Biography of Barbara Kingsolver / The Paris review perspective / The political is personal: sociocultural realities and the writings of Barbara Kingsolver / Barbara Kingsolver and the critics / Cultivating our bioregional roots: an ecofeminist exploration of Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer / The gothic and the ethnic in Barbara Kingsolver's The bean trees / Gardens of auto parts: Kingsolver's merger of American western myth and Native American myth in The bean trees / The loner and the matriarchal community in Barbara Kingsolver's The bean trees and Pigs in heaven / Trauma and memory in Kingsolver's Animal dreams / Exploring the matrix of identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal dreams / Luna moths, coyotes, sugar skulls: the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver / The missionary position: Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / The neodomestic American novel: the politics of home in Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / The revelatory narrative circle in Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver and Keri Hulme: disability, family, and culture / The southern family farm as endangered species: possibilities for survival in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer

Collected poems

Poems. Selections

The North Ship -- 'All catches alight' -- 'This was your place of birth, this daytime palace' -- 'The moon is full tonight' -- Dawn -- Conscript -- 'Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose' -- 'The horns of the morning' -- Winter -- 'Climbing the hill within the deafening wind' -- 'Within the dream you said' -- Night-Music -- 'Like the train's beat' -- 'I put my mouth' -- Nursery Tale -- The Dancer -- 'The bottle is drunk out by one' -- 'To write one song, I said' -- 'If grief could burn out' -- Ugly Sister -- 'I see a girl dragged by the wrists' -- 'I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land' -- 'One man walking a deserted platform' -- 'If hands could free you, heart' -- 'Love, we must part now: do not let it be' -- 'Morning has spread again' -- 'This is the first thing' -- 'Heaviest of flowers, the head' -- 'Is it for now or for always' -- 'Pour away that youth' -- 'So through that unripe day you bore your head' -- The North Ship -- 'Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair' -- The Less Deceived -- Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album -- Wedding-Wind -- Places, Loved Ones -- Coming -- Reasons for Attendance -- Dry-Point -- Next, Please -- Going -- Wants -- Maiden Name -- Born Yesterday -- Whatever Happened? -- No Road -- Wires -- Church Going -- Age -- Myxomatosis -- Toads -- Poetry of Departures -- Triple Time -- Spring -- Deceptions -- I Remember, I Remember -- Absences -- Latest Face -- If, My Darling -- Skin -- Arrivals, Departures -- At Grass -- The Whitsun Weddings -- Here.

Mr Bleaney -- Nothing To Be Said -- Love Songs in Age -- Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses -- Broadcast -- Faith Healing -- For Sidney Bechet -- Home is so Sad -- Toads Revisited -- Water -- The Whitsun Weddings -- Self's the Man -- Take One Home for the Kiddies -- Days -- MCMXIV -- Talking in Bed -- The Large Cool Store -- A Study of Reading Habits -- As Bad as a Mile -- Ambulances -- The Importance of Elsewhere -- Sunny Prestatyn -- First Sight -- Dockery and Son -- Ignorance -- Reference Back -- Wild Oats -- Essential Beauty -- Send No Money -- Afternoons -- An Arundel Tomb -- High Windows -- To the Sea -- Sympathy in White Major -- The Trees -- Livings -- Forget What Did -- High Windows -- Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel -- The Old Fools -- Going, Going -- The Card-Players -- The Building -- Posterity -- Dublinesque -- Homage to a Government -- This Be The Verse -- How Distant -- Sad Steps -- Solar -- Annus Mirabilis -- Vers de Societe -- Show Saturday -- Money -- Cut Grass -- The Explosion -- Uncollected Poems 1940-1972 -- Ultimatum -- Story -- A Writer -- May Weather -- Observation -- Disintegration -- Mythological Introduction -- A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb -- Femmes Damnees -- Plymouth -- Portrait -- The Dedicated -- Modesties -- Fiction and the Reading Public -- Oils -- 'Who called love conquering' -- 'Since the majority of me' -- Arrival -- Tops -- Success Story -- Continuing to Live -- Pigeons -- Breadfruit -- Love.

'When the Russian tanks roll westward' -- How -- Heads in the Women's Ward -- Uncollected Poems 1974-1984 -- The Life with a Hole in it -- Bridge for the Living -- Aubade -- 1952-1977 -- 'New eyes each year' -- The Mower -- 'Dear CHARLES, My Muse, asleep or dead' -- 'By day, a lifted study-storehouse' -- Party Politics -- Composition Dates and Dates of First Appearance.

The giving tree : by Shel Silverstein.

Picture a tree

The birthday tree