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Author: Jennifer Prior Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 1087688892 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Explore the beautiful and diverse islands of Oceania! This social studies book covers the islands of the South Pacific, including Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. The South Pacific Ocean is home to thousands of islands, and each one is unique. This teacher-approved book provides students with the chance to understand the lives of people from Oceania, including the history of indigenous peoples in the region. The book incorporates the geography, history, economics, and civics of Oceania in an easy-to-use way. With a glossary and index, essential discussion questions, and other key features, this book brings the blue waters and lush islands of Oceania to life for students.
Author: Jennifer Prior Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 1087688892 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
Book Description
Explore the beautiful and diverse islands of Oceania! This social studies book covers the islands of the South Pacific, including Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. The South Pacific Ocean is home to thousands of islands, and each one is unique. This teacher-approved book provides students with the chance to understand the lives of people from Oceania, including the history of indigenous peoples in the region. The book incorporates the geography, history, economics, and civics of Oceania in an easy-to-use way. With a glossary and index, essential discussion questions, and other key features, this book brings the blue waters and lush islands of Oceania to life for students.
Author: Mel Friedman Publisher: Children's Press ISBN: 9780531218280 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Discover the history, people, animals, food, culture and future of Australia, the smallest of the seven continents, and the islands known as Oceania.
Author: Paul Theroux Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547525184 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 731
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The author of The Great Railway Bazaar explores the South Pacific by kayak: “This exhilarating epic ranks with [his] best travel books” (Publishers Weekly). In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand's rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines. Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
Author: Robert York Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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The authors examine the history of Oceania and the Americas to unveil the significant role slings and slingstones played in developing societies.
Author: Maile Renee Arvin Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 1478005653 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 206
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From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition.
Author: Matthew Hayward Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000576612 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 421
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For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century, driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation, Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics, forms, and techniques with a range of other influences — realist novels, avant-garde poetry, anti-colonial discourse, biblical verse, Indian mythology, American television, Bollywood film — Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region’s transnational modernities. New Oceania presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period, while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground, it brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars, and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars.
Author: Uwem Akpan Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316032522 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly
Author: George Orwell Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
Author: Jennifer Prior
Author: Jennifer Prior
Author: Mel Friedman
Author: Paul Theroux
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Author: Maile Renee Arvin
Author: Matthew Hayward
Author: Uwem Akpan
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