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Study examining challenges educators face due to globalisation and new information technologies. Due to increasing multilingual environment new ways are needed to deploy information technology so that it can harness all communication modes effectively. Contains essays from educators and academics discussing the nature of education, technology and diversity. Contributors are lecturers in various Australian universities. Published in both paperback and downloadable PDF format. Editor is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at RMIT University Melbourne and has served on Ethnic Affairs Advisory Committee in Queensland.
Enhanced with timeline, photos, sidebars, and index, this informative book offers young readers an in-depth look at the role women played during the Vietnam War in their various capacities and the courageous sacrifices they made to help others and boost morale.
Eccentric Aunt Nana, shunned and scorned by her family, is the favorite aunt of cousins Norma and Emmy. But to their deep shock and grief, their fascinating aunt died. But Aunt Nana has left to her two beloved nieces the bulk of her fortune and her house in Denver, Colorado. A house shrouded in mystery and harbors more secrets than the cousins ever thought: ghost hauntings, mysterious lights, and other paranormal activities. There seems to be more to Nana’s legacy than they thought because Nana is a witch and so are they! Suddenly, the cousins are propelled into an adventure into the paranormal that will change their lives as they follow the trail of Nana’s past, which ultimately leads them to the wild and remote village in the vast steppes of Russia.
Soldier Talk is a collection of essays about the Vietnam combat veteran and his representation of his experience. The Vietnam War created a vast archive of recorded accounts of the war, permitting an unprecedented opportunity to confront its brutal secrets. This book is about how to read and how to hear the historical, psychological, and narrative truths of soldiers' talk. The ten chapters explore the phenomenon of soldier talk; the oral narrative form of so much of the Vietnam War literature; the collection of veteran interviews published under the title Nam; Vietnam War poetry; the strange tale of Bobby Garwood, the private who disappeared 10 days before he was to return home and surfaced 13 years later in Hanoi; Vietnam oral history and revolutionary socialism; the historiography of the Vietnam War; "queering Vietnam"; the African American experience of Vietnam; and women and the war. Along the way the authors touch on most of the best-known and most important writing to come out of the war.
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Convinced there is a connection between Middle East narcotics, and gun smuggling in Northern Ireland, US Treasury Agent Frank Donovan is instructed to meet police officials in Belfast and Dublin. He subsequently returns to Washington, only to find his car and apartment bombed and destroyed. Believing these murderous attempts will not stop, Donovan is pressed into early retirement and is given a new identity. Settling in Ireland Frank unexpectedly finds himself again in great danger.
Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a monumental work by one of Ireland’s leading psychiatrists, encompassing every psychiatric development from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining the far-reaching social and political effects of Ireland’s troubled relationship with mental illness. From the “Glen of Lunatics”, said to cure the mentally ill, to the overcrowded asylums of later centuries – with more beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the world – Ireland has a complex, unsettled history in the practice of psychiatry. Kelly’s definitive work examines Ireland’s unique relationship with conceptions of mental ill health throughout t...