All seven extant species of sea turtles are considered endangered or threatened with extinction. Because of their commercial value for food (particularly the green turtle) and for craft materials (bekko or tortoiseshell from the hawksbill turtle) they have been heavily exploited around the world. Sea turtles are also charismatic animals to view in large aquaria and three species have proven eas...

In 1998, having just published the second volume of her autobiography, ‘Walking in Shade,’ Doris Lessing appeared at University East Anglia's Literary Festival for third time a decade. At end interview while still on mic, following audience questions and during rapturous applause, interviewer friend, Professor Christopher Bigsby, asked if he could announce what they had been discussing regardin...

Graphic displays, such as maps, that portray visible things are ancient whereas graphic displays, such as graphs and diagrams, that portray things that are inherently not visible, are relatively modern inventions. They serve a variety of functions, such as providing models, attracting attention, supporting memory, facilitating inference and discovery. Graphic displays use space to convey meanin...

Classifications, typologies, labels, and other organizational tools help us wade through complex cultural contexts specificities. They may be a point of departure that suggests clarity, providing veil reassurance. Yet, if not subject to renewal in terms temporal spatial considerations, they can become static mechanisms constrain obscure the wealth changing seemingly anomalous factors are essent...

Southeast Asia, long known as an intermediate zone between the ancient civilisations of China and India, is also an area that scholars have long portrayed as historically subject to influences coming from its west, beginning with Indianisation, then islamisation and finally westernisation. However, this article argues that it would be far more insightful, and historically more accurate for the ...

150-200 Mental spaces are not unitary. Rather, people conceive of different spaces differently, depending on the functions they serve. Four such spaces are considered here. The space of the body subserves proprioception and action; it is divided by body parts, with perceptually salient and functionally significant parts more accessible than others. The space around the body subserves immediate ...