Portland House

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PrefaceMINNIE AODLA FREEMANOVER THE YEARS (and not because I am married to one), I have come to respect scientists a great deal. Some remind me of my grandmother, who was a sciendst in her own right, through her traditional way of learning and through experience. I can still hear her today:...

INTRODUCTIONA great, sparkling ocean spreads out to the horizon, as it has done for millions of years. Sunlight catches the tips of the waves, reflecting in the same way that dazzled the earliest European settlers four centuries ago. But a thin ribbon of white spray on this vast sea betrays the...

INTRODUCTION LL the stories—told and re-told in many versions, familiar in their outline to everyone—which our great-grandparents told to their children are the stories in which our little ones delight. They have come to be known as nursery tales, because it is while children are still in...