Multiple, interrelated narrative methods were employed in a doctoral study purposed to investigate the student identity development of seven first-year participants. This approach provided them with multiple opportunities convey their unique experiences and revealed rich understandings how they constructed identities at private higher education provider Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose t...

VIKING-AGE ICONOGRAPHY is mostly studied through stone sculpture and carvings metal dress accessories, which are often poorly contextualised finds. Here we present a new approach by studying an assemblage of casting moulds for figurative accessories from early 9th-century workshop context in Ribe (Jutland, Denmark). We provide digital reconstructions the fragmented moulds, including ‘Valkyrie’ ...

Francisco Josè de goya y lucientes (Fig. 1) was a painter endowed with a great expressive capacity. his work, which was carried out between the end of the Seventeenth and the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, covered a period of more than 60 years, with a massive production, a wide range of subjects and numerous techniques, clearly eclectic. oil paintings, etchings, drawings, lithographs wer...

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

Women, the minority population in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic, are fast becoming one of the highest subgroups to be infected and affected by the disease. In the United States, most of these women are black or Hispanic, poor and urban dwellers, and addicted to drugs. This paper discusses the physical, psychological, and social manifestations of HIV disease in women, such as d...

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

While this volume has been structured around three key themes, reflecting key research interests of Colin’s over the years, what has clearly emerged is the enormous influence Colin has had, at a range of levels and degrees of pervasiveness, on the thinking of many people. Our title, Taxonomic Tapestries, evokes Colin’s legacy in a number of ways with Kelley and Sussman’s (2007) paper on academi...