Book Reviews: Learning and Teaching in Distance Education: Analysis and Interpretations from an International Perspective, the Theory and Practice of Teaching, Wise-up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning (Bloomsbury, New York), An Education for the People? A History of HMI and Lifelong Learning 1944–1992

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-127
Author(s):  
Pete Cannell ◽  
Raymond A Thomson ◽  
Andrew Marks ◽  
Chris Duke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practice Of Teaching

Translating New York

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Galasso
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
The City

The cultural production of Spanish-speaking New York is closely linked to the Caribbean and to Latin America at large, but the city also plays a pivotal role in the work of a host of authors from the Iberian Peninsula, writing in Spanish, Catalan, and English. In many cases, their New York City texts have marked their careers and the history of their national literatures. Drawing from a variety of genres, Translating New York recovers cultural narratives occluded by single linguistic or national literary histories, and proposes that reading these texts through the lens of translation unveils new pathways of cultural circulation and influence. Looking beyond representations of the city's physical space, Translating New York suggests that travel to the city and contact with New York's multilingual setting ignited a heightened sensitivity towards both the verbal and non-verbal languages of the city, garnering literary achievement and aesthetic innovation. Analyzing the novels, poetry, and travel narratives of Felipe Alfau, José Moreno Villa, Julio Camba, and Josep Pla, this book uncovers an international perspective of Iberian literatures. Translating New York aims to rethink Iberian literatures through the transatlantic travels of influential writers.

The Finnish Compass Card

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-254
Author(s):  
W. E. May
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Magnetic Compass ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

During the last half-century authors who have had occasion to write about the history of the magnetic compass have quoted extensively from The Intellectual Rise in Electricity, by Park Benjamin (New York, 1895). The wealth of references given by this writer to substantiate his statements promises a reliability which is at times sadly lacking. In one part of this book the statement is made that: ‘A single Finnish Compass has been discovered for which the people claim great antiquity, the card or scale of which is marked for a latitude where the sunrise and sunset at the summer and winter solstices differ by sixty degrees.’ For this the author gives as authority Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, Vol. xvii, page 414 (Paris, 1823), but in fact this reference contains no suggestion of the discovery of an ancient Finnish compass. All there is, is a brief reference to the ancient Finnish method of dividing the compass card which, instead of four cardinal points, had six, spaced sixty degrees apart. This information was said to be based on an article in a monthly miscellany, published in Finland under the name of Mnemosyne. Captain D. Daragan of Helsinki has been kind enough to obtain for me a copy of the original article, which was printed in Swedish, and Rektor S. Nydell has been so good as to translate it into English.

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