Photo Gallery Research Articles

ANALISIS DAN PENGEMBANGAN SITUS RESMI PARIWISATA INDONESIA DAN SISTEM INFORMASI PENDUKUNGNYA

There is a gap between the growth of internet utilization for tourism industry in Indonesia and unfortunate situation where showed from the rank of Indonesia in tourism and travel competitiveness index. In order to solve this problem, this research was conducted with three objectives as follows: to know the characteristics (strength and weakness) of current Indonesia tourism official website by a comparison with other official tourism website; to analyze the visitor’s opinions about the current Indonesian tourism official website; and to develop the new content of Indonesia tourism official website including its information system. By using a qualitative descriptive analysis, it is found that the Indonesia official tourism website still has several weaknesses particularly on its content including languages variances, visa information, currency conversion, and direction or transportation, and also has several strengths particularly to display the diversity about Indonesia, through excellent photo gallery.

IPads in the Cadaver Lab – A Complement to Dissection and Study

We developed an iBook‐based Human Anatomy lab manual with step‐by‐step dissection photos, self‐assessment quizzes, and written instructions in order to streamline the dissection procedures and provide an interactive study tool for students.Although other anatomy labs have used iBook‐based manuals, ours (entitled 'The Anatomist's Guide: A Complement to Dissection and Study') is composed primarily of photos taken during 4 cadaveric dissections (two males and two females) completed by our faculty. We generated a photo bank of over 3600 digital images and more than 900 of these were incorporated into the 27 chapters of this iBook‐based manual. The dissection assignments in each chapter have photo galleries showing initial skin cuts, muscle reflections, nerves or blood vessels that may be at risk during the exposure process, major organs, and landmarks. All photos have captions and markers indicating caudal/rostral orientation and prone vs. supine positioning. In addition to the photos, every chapter includes written dissection instructions, a list of structures to identify, and self‐assessment quizzes.The Anatomist's Guide iBook was successfully integrated into Gross Anatomy courses offered in our Colleges of Medicine and Health Professions. During each lab period there is one iPad provided per dissection table. There are also 4 iPads permanently secured in accessible locations throughout the lab, and 5 iPads on reserve in the library for study purposes.We found that the addition of iPads to the cadaver lab has proven to be a successful complement to the dissection experience and a study tool well utilized by the students.Funding was provided by our institution: Medical Alumni Association, Dean of the College of Medicine, and Educational Communications department.

Can Tablet Computers Enhance Faculty Teaching?

Learner benefits of tablet computer use have been demonstrated, yet there is little evidence regarding faculty tablet use for teaching. Our study sought to determine if supplying faculty with tablet computers and peer mentoring provided benefits to learners and faculty beyond that of non-tablet-based teaching modalities. We provided faculty with tablet computers and three 2-hour peer-mentoring workshops on tablet-based teaching. Faculty used tablets to teach, in addition to their current, non-tablet-based methods. Presurveys, postsurveys, and monthly faculty surveys assessed feasibility, utilization, and comparisons to current modalities. Learner surveys assessed perceived effectiveness and comparisons to current modalities. All feedback received from open-ended questions was reviewed by the authors and organized into categories. Of 15 eligible faculty, 14 participated. Each participant attended at least 2 of the 3 workshops, with 10 to 12 participants at each workshop. All participants found the workshops useful, and reported that the new tablet-based teaching modality added value beyond that of current teaching methods. Respondents developed the following tablet-based outputs: presentations, photo galleries, evaluation tools, and online modules. Of the outputs, 60% were used in the ambulatory clinics, 33% in intensive care unit bedside teaching rounds, and 7% in inpatient medical unit bedside teaching rounds. Learners reported that common benefits of tablet computers were: improved access/convenience (41%), improved interactive learning (38%), and improved bedside teaching and patient care (13%). A common barrier faculty identified was inconsistent wireless access (14%), while no barriers were identified by the majority of learners. Providing faculty with tablet computers and having peer-mentoring workshops to discuss their use was feasible and added value.

Analysis of websites of agricultural universities in Maharashtra : A web analytic study

The present study was undertaken to examine the content of SAU's websites in Maharashtra and compare with each other on the basis of ICAR guidelines and to appraise webometrics of the SAUs websites. The result of the study showed that general information such as about institute, how to reach, organizational setup, regional stations, AICRPs project were available on all SAU's websites. All SAU's websites have web objects about academic programme, admission, academic rules and regulation, student welfare. The study indicated that all the websites of SAU's have web objects about ongoing projects, research achievement and varieties developed. Agro advisory and help line available on every websites of SAU's. Information about books, periodicals, journals and online/offline literature database is provided in separate internal links of library webpage of all the SAUs. Web object about tenders and photo gallery and RTI act information were mentioned on the websites of all SAU's. Webometric analysis of SAUs websites showed that website of Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli and Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri occupies 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd positions, respectively whereas Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani holds 4 th place among the SAUs. Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli and Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola shares 1 st rank with 5 points out of 10 points whereas websites of Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, ranks 2 nd with 4 points out of 10 points. It is indicated that size of home page of websites of Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli and Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola are 15.14 kb, 22.58 kb and 50.94 kb, respectively. The study helps the webmaster and the respective university to improvise the usability of websites.

Perspectives: a better life for older people with high support needs?

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s 5-year programme, A Better Life, finished at the end of 2013. The 1.5 million programme posed the question ‘what needs to happen to make life better for older people who need a lot of support – now and in the future?’ It widened the debate beyond the question of what the state can afford and instead sought out and listened to the diverse voices of older people talking about what matters to them. Over 30 ‘products’ came out of the programme, ranging from qualitative and quantitative research reports and a good practice guide for people working in extra care housing to a photo gallery of centenarians. At the end of the programme, I was asked to work alongside an advisory group of older people, academics, journalists and consultants to write a book which distils and reflects on the key messages from this myriad body of work and considers what they mean for all of us, now.

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Website of any political party is considered as a main source to catch and impart the different types of information to the targeted audience. This study aims to analyse various contents, options, applications, search facilities, resources, and other information available on the selected political party websites by using a checklist. The results of this study revealed that the majority of political party websites are building on different patterns, options and designs and have diverse information regarding their respective party history, constitution, logo, manifesto, photo gallery, current events, speeches, contact, and web 2.0 applications. It is also discovered from results that some political party websites do not have essential contents such as date of updating, feedback/suggestion option, party membership information, option for disabled people, mobile applications, public forum, and so on. This study may be helpful in developing the quality and in-depth contents for the political party websites of India.

Implementation of Location Base Service on Tourism Places in West Nusa Tenggara by using Smartphone

The study is aimed to create an application that can assist users in finding information about tourism places in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. West Nusa Tenggara is one of the provinces in Indonesia and one of the second tourists’ destinations after Bali. It is a small Sunda Island which consists of two large islands located in the west of Lombok and Sumbawa that located in the east to the capital of Mataram on the island of Lombok. The area of West Nusa Tenggara province is 19,708.79 km2. The application provides information such as descriptions of sights, tourism spot address, photo galleries, and the available facilities and the closest track to where the tourism spot is by using Google maps. Google maps can display map locations and closest routes from the user's position to the tourism place. Determination of the position of the user and position of Tourism sites using GPS (Global Positioning System). This application is made by using the Java programming language for Android with Eclipse 4.2.1 IDE that can be used on the Smartphone device based on Android. The result of the research is the creation of location-based services applications to search a place of Tourism in West Nusa Tenggara province so as to help tourists visiting the West Nusa Tenggara. The benefit of this application is that to determine the path in finding the tourism places.

Table of Contents, Masthead, and Editor's Note

WorldLiteratureToday Essays 10 Olivier Schrauwen and the Physiognomy of Style by Bill Kartalopoulos 20 The Swan Song of a Departing People by Galsan Tschinag 26 Haitian Literature as a Model for World Literature by Michael W. Merriam 30 The Politics of Crime South Africa’s New Socially Conscious Genre by J. L. Powers Fiction 12 Bacon’s Chicken by George Zebrowski Crime & Mystery 16 A Mind for Murder The Passing of P. D. James by J. Madison Davis Poetry 17 What Would You Call It? by Linda Hogan 19 Three Poems by Lan Lan 29 Two Poems by Susan Rich Q&A 22 Haitian Is My Language” A Conversation with Frankétienne by Michael W. Merriam cover feature 34 Writing Beyond Iran Four Voices in Exile Featuring Mana Neyestani – Interview Mohsen Emadi – Poetry Omid Fallahazad – Fiction Moniro Ravanipour – Interview Guest-edited by Persis Karim about the cover This untitled image is part of a series entitled “Listen” by Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer Newsha Tavakolian. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibits . She is the current laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. Learn more at newshatavakolian.com. Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 53 Editor’s Pick | 54 World Literature in Review | 80 Outpost MARCH – APRIL 2015 17 30 48 “ flickr photos : ( top ) jen rickard blair ( bottom ) vanessa rudloff / shevaun williams photography worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday Visit worldliteraturetoday.org for exclusive content you won’t want to miss, including web exclusives, photo galleries, blog posts, and much more. Bilingual audio poems by Mohsen Emadi, plus his interview with Persis Karim @OnlineCrsLady THANKS again for sharing so much great stuff, perfect for my classes. @worldlittoday is best social I know at OU! @wwborders We love these videos of live Ethiopian poetry performances in Addis Ababa via @worldlittoday #Ethiopia @unpoetaloco Love @worldlittoday’s new look. Love even more being part of the first issue with the new design. @tweedsmag Love works in translation as much as we do? @worldlittoday has a list of the best 75 from 2014! #LUNCHLIT @PaulMMCooper Thanks to @wwborders, @worldlittoday and @asymptotejrnl for bringing brilliant world #literature updates to my feed in 2014! @riffle You can’t go wrong with these picks from @worldlittoday:“2014 Holiday Gift Guide: A Book for Every Bibliophile” @samarov Happy to have contributed a bit of art & writing about @Nelson_Algren for January’s @worldlittoday @bethbachmann Rd & you might not look at Twitter’s bird the same way again: @worldlittoday ”Protest, Poetry, & Twitter’s White Bird” @commapress Great interview with Jonathan Wright, translator of Hassan Blasim, to start the new year! Tweets Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found online at worldliteraturetoday.org. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Web Exclusive Find us on Flickr flickr.com/wltonline An excerpt from Fernando Morais’s The Last Soldiers of the Cold War, forthcoming from Verso Books A new translation of Forough Farrokhzad’s poem“Another Birth,” plus a bilingual recording “Transmutations of/by Language,”an essay by Iranian writer Raha Namy Web Exclusive Web Exclusive ‫دپت‬ ‫و‬ ‫تعاس‬ ‫یمن‬‫دپت‬. ‫یاش‬‫د‬ ‫نیمه‬ ‫سایق‬ ‫هداس‬ ‫گیم‬‫تف‬ ‫ارچ‬ ‫بود‬‫هرا‬ ‫هب‬ ‫تعاس‬ ‫هاگن‬ ‫یدرک‬. Have a comment, critique, or inspiration you’d like to share? Let us hear from you via the feedback link on the WLT website, Tweet us @worldlittoday, or email the editor in chief at dsimon@ou.edu. WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 3 editor’s note IN A RECENT OP-ED for Mother Jones, Ted Genoways laments the declining cultural influence of university -sponsored literary magazines, many of which have been faced with dwindling readerships—and forced budget cuts—since the recession (“The Death of Fiction?” Jan. 2010). Tracing the rise and fall of lit mags during the postwar era, Genoways lays part of the blame on universities for churning out writers in MFA mills but failing to cultivate a concomitant culture of reading. Most of his spleen, however, is directed at American writers themselves, who “seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues,” he contends, “as if giving two shits about the world has gotten...

Table of Contents, Masthead, and Editor's Note

Why Write Poetry About Art? A special section curated by Lauren Camp Political Voices from the Maghreb Orhan Pamuk’s Novelistic Eye Porochista Khakpour on neglected Iranian masterpieces World LiteratureToday Your passport to great reading REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS BY Amitav Ghosh, Minae Mizumura, & Tomas Tranströmer The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson “Waberi, the best-known contemporary writer from Djibouti, evokes‘an entire life in the echo of my tongue’ in his first collection of poems.”—Publishers Weekly Cloth $21.00 Distributed by the University of Chicago Press www.press.uchicago.edu LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION From 30 April 1945 The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany’s Integration with the West Began ALEXANDER KLUGE With additional text by Reinhard Jirgl, translated by Iain Galbraith “A compelling translation of a vertiginous descent into a world-shaping cataclysm.” —Booklist, starred review Cloth $27.50 Mr Adamson URS WIDMER Translated by Donal McLaughlin “Widmer’s writing, though serious and finely crafted, is full of tomfoolery, wry deadpan humor, and implausible plot twists.”—New Criterion Cloth $25.00 www.upress.virginia.edu ginia .edu VIRGINIA Memory at Bay Évelyne Trouillot Translated by Paul Curtis Daw $24.50 | PAPER | CARAF BOOKS: CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURE TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH “One of the first things I was told in Haiti is that all families have at least one member in the army, at least one member in the Macoutes, and at least one member killed by the army or the Macoutes. Memory at Bay is a distressingly beautiful evocation of this eerie symbiosis between oppressor and victim, by one of the best writers in the Caribbean basin today. As one of Évelyne Trouillot’s characters says to another, My only inheritance from you was your torment.” —Madison Smartt Bell The Leopard Boy Daniel Picouly Translated by Jeanne Garane $29.50 | PAPER | CARAF BOOKS: CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURE TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH “Daniel Picouly is an award-winning author who explores contemporary issues through historical fiction. In The Leopard Boy, the slave trade and its legacies link Africa, Europe, and the Americas during the French Revolution. Jeanne Garane has done an excellent job of interpreting Picouly’s words and worlds.” —Chantal Kalisa, University of Nebraska WorldLiteratureToday Q&A 10 A Conversation with Orhan Pamuk by Erkut Tokman Fiction 14 Gray by Dung Kai-cheung 19 Boy out of Time by Lois Taylor Crime & Mystery 16 The Evaporation of the Extraordinary Gentleman by J. Madison Davis special section 24 Political Voices from the Maghreb Curated and introduced by André Naffis-Sahely Featuring Rashid Boudjedra, Ahmed Bouanani, and Christopher Schaefer on Matoub Lounès about the cover Fiona Hall, Wrong Way Time, 2012–15 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia.© The artist. Image credit: Clayton Glen. You can see more of Fiona Hall’s work in our special section about Art Poetry, which starts on page 35. cover feature 35 Art Poetry Curated and introduced by Lauren Camp Featuring Circe Maia Hedy Habra Ravi Shankar Lola Créïs Rita Malikonyte Mockus Lauren Camp Wafaa S. Jdeed Tatiana Oroño Ramón Gaya Eduardo Mitre Andrés Sánchez Robayna Mario Arteca José Mateos Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 15 World Music | 23 Editor’s Pick | 58 Reviews | 80 Outpost NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2015 19 40 28 tali : renaud camus lang illustration : marla johnson mukherjee : bobo lin worldliteraturetoday.org Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday YouTube @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday Visit worldliteraturetoday.org for exclusive content you won’t want to miss, including web exclusives, photo galleries, blog posts, and much more. Marjorie Agosín on artist Raquel Rabinovich’s “Rivers of Letters, Rivers of Mud” Join our community of readers and writers on Twitter. Use the hashtag #IReadWLT and tell us about your favorite features from this issue! @andothertweets After Coetzee recommends Ivan Vladislavić & his 101 Detectives in @worldlittoday, now Jacky Kay does in the Observer! @NicholeLReber My heart soared when I opened the mailbox today and...

Identifying Circles of Relations from Smartphone Photo Gallery

Geotagged photos carry hidden data about the surrounding area, and the owner of the photo. Moreover; Geotagged photos have background information about the user, where the alternative resources of Geo-spatial data lack background information. In this study, we propose identification for the circles of relations of the smartphone user from Geotagged photos. The proposed solution mainly depends on a framework, which is based on smartphone photo gallery. The framework extracts a degree of relation between smartphone user and circles of relations entities. Circles of relations incorporate closest people, places, where the participant visits, and interests. The circles of relations are represented in a social graph, which shows the clusters of social relations and interests of smartphone user. The social graph clarifies the nature and the degree of the relations for the participants. The results of framework introduced the relation between the level of variety of participant social relations, and the degree of relations.

Content Based Image Retrieval Using Colour Strings Comparison

Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a technique that enables a user to extract an image based on a query, from a database containing a large amount of images. A very fundamental issue in designing a content based image retrieval system is to select the image features that best represent the image contents in a database. In this paper, our proposed method mainly concentrated on database classification and efficient image representation. We present a method for content based image retrieval based on support vector machine classifier. In this method the feature extraction was done based on the colour string coding and string comparison. We succeed in transferring the images retrieval problem to strings comparison. Thus the computational complexity is decreases obviously. The image database used in our experiment contains 1800 colour images from Corel photo galleries. This CBIR approach has significantly increased the accuracy in obtaining results for image retrieval.

Using technology to promote social inclusion in residential care

Introduction: Lack of social contact is a known risk factor for poor health outcomes, especially when an individual lives alone, is older and possibly in poor health since isolation can create the conditions for problems with older people’s physical and mental health (Loneliness amongst older people and the impact of family connections WRVS 2012). As more and more services are being delivered online, it is more important than ever that users have the skills and confidence to use technology. People living in communal environments may find it particularly problematic to access essential services and remain part of their communities. Tunstall’s myworld is a range of applications accessed via an easy-to-use touchscreen tablet, designed to promote independence, inclusion and wellbeing by providing a safe, simple means of connecting people with their care providers, friends, family and other services. Aims: myworld has been designed to provide people who are unfamiliar with technology with a secure environment for communication, giving users with control over important aspects of their day-to-day lives. The system has been created to support older people with long-term health and care needs in particular, especially those residing in communal housing and assisted living settings. Methods: The myworld solution has been developed as the result of a number of research initiatives and trial projects; Virtex & Sheffield University and DALLAS Technology Strategy Board project. Tunstall conducted product trials within a number of sheltered housing schemes to identify key user needs, using 12 individual applications pre-installed on a Toshiba AT400 touch screen tablet device. With myworld, residents can: • Manage appointments, such as care visits or property repairs • Control meal orders and other services • Get involved in social events and develop skills • Send/receive messages/emails to keep in touch with family and friends International Journal of Integrated Care – Volume 14, 01 November – URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1-116529– http://www.ijic.org/ International Digital Health and Care Congress, The King’s Fund, London, September 10-12 2014. • Access a photo gallery and information, such as a calendar and news The research that was conducted during the field trial found that residents had three main requirements: never feeling alone, richer communications and extended independence. Results: The device’s simplified user interface enabled residents with no prior technical experience to have easier access to their housing services and the wider community, reducing the feeling of being socially isolated and promoting independence. myworld’s address book ensures only messages from known contacts are received, giving users the reassurance they will only receive genuine messages from people known to them. The device also empowers users to easily organise and manage activities and appointments, helping to ensure attendance at planned events. myworld’s CarePortal is accessible via any web browser and gives site managers with a means of interacting and communicating with all residents on a one to one basis or broadcasting to all, saving time, providing a better residential experience and streamlining staff’s work flow. Staff can make residents aware of forthcoming events, supporting engagement in social activities and greater inclusion. Initial results from the pilot survey found that: • 100% of residents envisaged using myworld every day • 71% of residents feel more included and up to date as a result of having myworld

ASM News for November and December 2014

Abstract News about ASM members, chapters, events, awards, conferences, affiliates, and other society activities. Topics include: ASM Affiliate Societies announce officers and board members for 2014; photo gallery of conference highlights from MS&T 2014 in Pittsburgh; high temperature corrosion data added to the ASM Alloy Center Database; volunteer profile for Manish Mehta.

Haunted: The Strange and Profound Art of Wright Morris, a Biography and a Photo Gallery by Jackson J. Benson (review)

Haunted: The Strange and Profound Art of Wright Morris, a Biography and a Photo Gallery by Jackson J. Benson (review)

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Abstract Make Your Opening Grand Annual Events Five Ways to Pump Up Annual Founders' Day Events Time‐Saver Tips Event Logistics Tips for Planning an All‐Day Telethon Event Decor Seek Some Professional Advice Open House Events New Facility? Celebrate! Art Exhibitions Respect Your Contributing Artists Donor Events School Holds ‘Break‐Through’ Ceremony Conducting Workshops New Slant to Roundtable Discussions Event Technology Invest in a Mobile‐First Website for Your Event Social Media Event Photo Gallery Can Lead To Greater Donor Engagement Event Auctions ‘Tricky Tray’ Raffles Democratize Auctions Targeting Tips Targeted Involvement Focus Recruitment on Sought‐After Personalities Recreational Events Why Not Plan a Gran Fondo? Community Service Events What It Takes to Organize a 5,000‐Volunteer Event Beat‐the‐Clock Raffle Time Management Tip Sit‐Down Event Idea Increase Attendance At Your Open House Manage 5,000 Volunteers Easily With Hierarchy Welcoming Events Accommodate Guests With Special Needs Broaden Your Open House Guest Lists High‐Profile Events How to Host a High‐Yielding Regatta

Review: Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes, by Iain Borden; Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990, by Wim de Wit and Christopher James Alexander, eds.; and Car Country: An Environmental History, by Christopher W. Wells

Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes London: Reaktion Books, 2013, 280 pp., 40 color and 40 b/w illus. $28, ISBN 9781780230269, by Iain Borden. Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013, 320 pp., 112 color and 102 b/w illus. $59.95, ISBN 9781606061282, by Wim de Wit and Christopher James Alexander, eds.. Car Country: An Environmental History Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012, 464 pp., 7 maps and 44 b/w illus. $40, ISBN 9780295992150, by Christopher W. Wells. In July 2013, a New York Times headline proclaimed “the end of car culture.” Though the summer driving season offered plenty of evidence to the contrary, recent data indicate that fewer Americans are driving fewer miles in fewer cars, and even forgoing the adolescent ritual of getting a driver’s license upon turning sixteen. Thus, the Times felt confident in declaring that the country’s century-old love affair with the automobile was finally, inevitably, running out of gas. But if the romance with the car is cooling down, studying its fraught legacy is still plenty hot, as a spate of recent publications makes clear. In fact, in the hundred years since the first Model Ts rolled off the assembly line at Highland Park, Michigan, the car and its social, spatial, and economic impact have been under almost continual scrutiny, producing triumphant Fordist narratives and muckraking antisprawl screeds in almost equal measure. More nuanced, scholarly studies emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century with The Automobile and American Culture (1980; David L. Lewis and Laurence Goldstein, eds.), a notable early example that attempted a comprehensive analysis of what its editors called the “auto-consciousness” of the United States. The continued evolution of that consciousness is fully evident in the three books under review here, each of which tackles a distinct aspect of the culture of automobility. In Car Country , Christopher W. Wells tracks its environmental evolution; in Drive , Iain Borden scrutinizes its experiential representation; in Overdrive , seventeen contributors examine its urban and architectural influence in Los Angeles, the world’s original autopia. Unsurprisingly, all three books deal principally with twentieth-century developments in the United States, though each pushes these parameters in important ways. Car Country begins with the infrastructural consequences of streetcars and railways in the 1880s. Overdrive , which …

Because Neglect Isn't Cute: Tuxedo Stan's Campaign for a Humane World

Because Neglect Isn't Cute: Tuxedo Stan's Campaign for a Humane World

DC Photo Gallery

DC Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery Late Spring in the Botanical Gardens

Photo Gallery Late Spring in the Botanical Gardens

How the Beatles Changed the World by Martin W. Sandler (review)

Reviewed by: How the Beatles Changed the World by Martin W. Sandler Elizabeth Bush Sandler, Martin W. How the Beatles Changed the World. Bloomsbury, 2014. [192p] illus. with photographs Library ed. ISBN 978-0-8027-3566-9 $21.89 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-8027-3565-2 $20.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 5-9. Yes, it really has been half a century since the opening salvo of the British Invasion, the Beatles’ February 9, 1964 debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. In this adulatory volume Sandler attempts to recapture the frenzy of Beatlemania and to consider the broader influence of the band on aspects of American culture from fashion to religion, studio recording to movies. There’s something here for every Beatle interest—band history, mob scenes, album-burning backlash, facial-hair evolutions, Iron Curtain censorship, record-breaking musical triumphs, and alas, break-up and deaths. Organizational switches between chronological narration and subject themes, however, require nimbleness on the reader’s part to keep milestones in alignment, and not every picture in Sandler’s extensive photo gallery matches neatly with text. Readers who truly want to understand social and musical forces behind the hoopla will find the context a bit thin, with only a couple of lines addressing the dynamics of, for example, the Vietnam War and the Rolling Stones. For kids who simply want to know why Grandma still swoons over Sir Paul, however, and why Grandpa speaks of “the white album” with reverence, this is just the breezy, image-rich source to consult. The bound book will include a discography, bibliography, and index. [End Page 331] Copyright © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois