Additional Texts, Group A, Gem40

An outpost of Progress

Joseph Conrad

Bilingualism

From The Biliungual Family - A Handbook for Parents,

E Harding and P Riley, Cambridge University Press, 1986

The Significance of Science

Essay by Victor F. Weisskopf, from

Physics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays, MIT Press, 1972

Book review: "The Scientific Lady"

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1992, vol 17, p385-6

Astronomizing at ST ScI

Anne Kinney, in "Women in Astronomy"

From "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!"

Teaching Physics in Brazil - on Physics and Cultural Clashes

Teaching Science

Victor F. Weisskopf, from "The Privilege of Being a Scientist"

Sustaining Life on the Earth

Robert W. Kates, Scientific American, Oct. 1994, p 92-98

Writing HTML

A tutorial for creating web pages, from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction in Arizona at

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

Chief Seattle 1854 Speech at

http://www.redshift.com/~hdt/chief.html

Alternative Statement of Chief Seattle at

http://magna.com.au/~prfbrown/thchief2.html

A Speech by Chief Seattle (Suquamish) in 1854 at

http://www.dimensional.com/~randl/linx.htm

"Heart of Darkness", Joseph Conrad

You may also like to take a look at e.g. "Heart of Darkness", which is available on-line at "http://www.en.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316ktexts/heart.html" (also quited extensively by Sven Lindqvist). It is discussed in a student project (http://www.en.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316kunit3/studentprojects/) within a course on British Literature at the University of Texas, Austin (http://www.en.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/)

Cultural Diversity and Early Education at http://www.nap.edu/nap/online/earlyed/contents.html

World Lecture Hall

"The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc. "