Author: Dr Ian Broinowski
Publisher: Mouse & Mind
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE POWER OF THE PRESS TO SWAY OPINION. The voice is W.C., a hapless war correspondent, posted to Tasmania to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of Lutruwita and the British, from 1814 to 1856. In old age, comforted by malt and his scruffy dog Bent, W.C. shares his press clippings of graphic accounts of the events that unfolded in the early days of the colony. He reveals his impassioned love for Lowana, a Pakana woman who haunts his dreams forever. W.C.’s perspective on these events is not without its biases. He tries to temper his feelings as he shares with us letters, articles and opinion pieces from his collection. He includes of his own postings, The Pakana Voice, in which he encourages his readers to see what is not being reported in the press. Despite technology little has changed in two centuries of media and its influence over the minds of people, W.C.’s words still ring true: ‘I fear the old adage that we learn from history is indeed a misnomer’.
The Pakana Voice
Author: Dr Ian Broinowski
Publisher: Mouse & Mind
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE POWER OF THE PRESS TO SWAY OPINION. The voice is W.C., a hapless war correspondent, posted to Tasmania to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of Lutruwita and the British, from 1814 to 1856. In old age, comforted by malt and his scruffy dog Bent, W.C. shares his press clippings of graphic accounts of the events that unfolded in the early days of the colony. He reveals his impassioned love for Lowana, a Pakana woman who haunts his dreams forever. W.C.’s perspective on these events is not without its biases. He tries to temper his feelings as he shares with us letters, articles and opinion pieces from his collection. He includes of his own postings, The Pakana Voice, in which he encourages his readers to see what is not being reported in the press. Despite technology little has changed in two centuries of media and its influence over the minds of people, W.C.’s words still ring true: ‘I fear the old adage that we learn from history is indeed a misnomer’.
Publisher: Mouse & Mind
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE POWER OF THE PRESS TO SWAY OPINION. The voice is W.C., a hapless war correspondent, posted to Tasmania to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of Lutruwita and the British, from 1814 to 1856. In old age, comforted by malt and his scruffy dog Bent, W.C. shares his press clippings of graphic accounts of the events that unfolded in the early days of the colony. He reveals his impassioned love for Lowana, a Pakana woman who haunts his dreams forever. W.C.’s perspective on these events is not without its biases. He tries to temper his feelings as he shares with us letters, articles and opinion pieces from his collection. He includes of his own postings, The Pakana Voice, in which he encourages his readers to see what is not being reported in the press. Despite technology little has changed in two centuries of media and its influence over the minds of people, W.C.’s words still ring true: ‘I fear the old adage that we learn from history is indeed a misnomer’.
Tales of a War Correspondent from Lutruwita (Tasmania) 1814-1856
Author: Ian Broinowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992373573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This book is about newspapers and the power of the press to sway opinion.The main narrative voice is that of W.C., a somewhat hapless war correspondent, posted to Van Diemen's Land to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of litruwita and the British colonisers, in the period between 1814 and 1856 when the Island officially became known as Tasmania.In old age, his only comforts being malt whiskey and his scruffy dog, Bent, W.C. looks back on his long career, and shares with us his myriad of press clippings which contain graphic accounts of the events that unfolded in the early days of the colony.He also tells us his account of living with an Aboriginal clan. In the hope of learning more about the indigenous people of litruwita he unwittingly befriended Rialim, a man of the Moomairremener clan of the Paredarerme (Oyster Bay) Nation and moved into their camp. There he met lowana, a strong, intelligent and captivating woman with whom he fell deeply in love with. Later she was to become a formidable warrior, ready and willing to fight and to kill to protect her family and culture and to defend her clan's country from the British.Lowana was to be forever W.C.'s one and only love. The intensity of their mutual passion and his time spent with the clan affected his whole life, irretrievably, both personally and professionally. He eventually left the clan and resumed his profession, but his contact with the Moomairremener led him to break the cardinal rule of war journalism: he took sides.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992373573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This book is about newspapers and the power of the press to sway opinion.The main narrative voice is that of W.C., a somewhat hapless war correspondent, posted to Van Diemen's Land to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of litruwita and the British colonisers, in the period between 1814 and 1856 when the Island officially became known as Tasmania.In old age, his only comforts being malt whiskey and his scruffy dog, Bent, W.C. looks back on his long career, and shares with us his myriad of press clippings which contain graphic accounts of the events that unfolded in the early days of the colony.He also tells us his account of living with an Aboriginal clan. In the hope of learning more about the indigenous people of litruwita he unwittingly befriended Rialim, a man of the Moomairremener clan of the Paredarerme (Oyster Bay) Nation and moved into their camp. There he met lowana, a strong, intelligent and captivating woman with whom he fell deeply in love with. Later she was to become a formidable warrior, ready and willing to fight and to kill to protect her family and culture and to defend her clan's country from the British.Lowana was to be forever W.C.'s one and only love. The intensity of their mutual passion and his time spent with the clan affected his whole life, irretrievably, both personally and professionally. He eventually left the clan and resumed his profession, but his contact with the Moomairremener led him to break the cardinal rule of war journalism: he took sides.
Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Kim Beasy
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819938023
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people’s lives. Readers will find examples of thinking and practice across the spectrum of education and training sectors, both formal and informal. The book adds to the increasing body of literature that recognises that education is, and must be, in its praxis, at the heart of all the SDGs. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we have a clear understanding of the wicked and complex crises regarding the health of life on our planet, and we cannot ignore the high levels of anxiety our young people are experiencing about their future. Continuing in the direction of unsustainable exploitation of people and nature is no longer an option if life is to have a flourishing future. The book illustrates how SDGs are supported in and by education and training, showcasing the conditions necessary to ensure SDGs are fore fronted in policy reform. It includes real-world examples of SDGs in education and training contexts, as well as novel critiques of the SDGs in regard to their privileging of anthropocentrism and neoliberalism. This book is beneficial to academics, researchers, post graduate and tertiary students from all fields relating to education and training. It is also of interest to policy developers from across disciplines and government agencies who are interested in how the SDGs relate to education.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819938023
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people’s lives. Readers will find examples of thinking and practice across the spectrum of education and training sectors, both formal and informal. The book adds to the increasing body of literature that recognises that education is, and must be, in its praxis, at the heart of all the SDGs. As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we have a clear understanding of the wicked and complex crises regarding the health of life on our planet, and we cannot ignore the high levels of anxiety our young people are experiencing about their future. Continuing in the direction of unsustainable exploitation of people and nature is no longer an option if life is to have a flourishing future. The book illustrates how SDGs are supported in and by education and training, showcasing the conditions necessary to ensure SDGs are fore fronted in policy reform. It includes real-world examples of SDGs in education and training contexts, as well as novel critiques of the SDGs in regard to their privileging of anthropocentrism and neoliberalism. This book is beneficial to academics, researchers, post graduate and tertiary students from all fields relating to education and training. It is also of interest to policy developers from across disciplines and government agencies who are interested in how the SDGs relate to education.
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
Author: Holly Ringland
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
ISBN: 1915643570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss.
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
ISBN: 1915643570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss.
Born Into This
Author: Adam Thompson
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
ISBN: 1953387055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
* The Story Prize Spotlight Award, Winner * Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist * Queensland Literary Awards – University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection, Shortlist * Age Book of the Year award, Finalist * An ABA Indie Next pick for “Great New Reads” for August. * "A Best Native Book of 2021" —The Tribal College Journal * "A Best Book of the Year" —Independent Book Review The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp, and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instill some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism. With humor, pathos, and the occasional sly twist, Thompson’s characters confront discrimination, untimely funerals, classroom politics, the ongoing legacy of cultural destruction, and — overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both black and white Australia — the inexorable disappearance of the remnant natural world. "A legacy of cultural destruction in Australia and the disappearance of the natural world loom over stories of Aboriginal rangers, untimely funerals and angry bees in this sharp fiction debut." —New York Times Book Review "With its wit, intelligence and restless exploration of the parameters of race and place, Thompson’s debut collection is a welcome addition to the canon of Indigenous Australian writers." —Thuy On, The Guardian
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
ISBN: 1953387055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
* The Story Prize Spotlight Award, Winner * Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist * Queensland Literary Awards – University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection, Shortlist * Age Book of the Year award, Finalist * An ABA Indie Next pick for “Great New Reads” for August. * "A Best Native Book of 2021" —The Tribal College Journal * "A Best Book of the Year" —Independent Book Review The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp, and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instill some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism. With humor, pathos, and the occasional sly twist, Thompson’s characters confront discrimination, untimely funerals, classroom politics, the ongoing legacy of cultural destruction, and — overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both black and white Australia — the inexorable disappearance of the remnant natural world. "A legacy of cultural destruction in Australia and the disappearance of the natural world loom over stories of Aboriginal rangers, untimely funerals and angry bees in this sharp fiction debut." —New York Times Book Review "With its wit, intelligence and restless exploration of the parameters of race and place, Thompson’s debut collection is a welcome addition to the canon of Indigenous Australian writers." —Thuy On, The Guardian
Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon
Author: Leonard Bloomfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Twentieth-Century Countertenor Repertoire
Author: Steven L. Rickards
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810861039
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This significant reference of over 600 entries compiles and catalogues information about repertoire composed specifically for the countertenor from 1950 to 2000. Representing more than 350 composers, it provides a resource for countertenors and voice teachers to identify and become more familiar with contemporary works for countertenor.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810861039
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This significant reference of over 600 entries compiles and catalogues information about repertoire composed specifically for the countertenor from 1950 to 2000. Representing more than 350 composers, it provides a resource for countertenors and voice teachers to identify and become more familiar with contemporary works for countertenor.
Shapeshifting
Author: Ellen van Neerven
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702269476
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Shapeshifting, co-edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, is a wide-ranging collection of nonfiction by First Nations writers that breaks new ground. These lyric essays push the boundaries of nonfiction beyond the biographical or the academic, with pieces that experiment with form and embark on carefully crafting and re-crafting interventions that both challenge and expand existing genre structures. Shapeshifting brings to the fore a whole new genre waiting to take shape, to be formed, informed and re-formed by First Nations Australian writers. Contributors include Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jim Everett, Jenni Martiniello, Natalie Harkin, Mykaela Saunders, Daniel Browning, Evelyn Araluen, Alison Whittaker, Rhianna Patrick, Melanie Saward, Timmah Ball and Hugo Comisari.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702269476
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Shapeshifting, co-edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, is a wide-ranging collection of nonfiction by First Nations writers that breaks new ground. These lyric essays push the boundaries of nonfiction beyond the biographical or the academic, with pieces that experiment with form and embark on carefully crafting and re-crafting interventions that both challenge and expand existing genre structures. Shapeshifting brings to the fore a whole new genre waiting to take shape, to be formed, informed and re-formed by First Nations Australian writers. Contributors include Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jim Everett, Jenni Martiniello, Natalie Harkin, Mykaela Saunders, Daniel Browning, Evelyn Araluen, Alison Whittaker, Rhianna Patrick, Melanie Saward, Timmah Ball and Hugo Comisari.
Extinction and Memorial Culture
Author: Hannah Stark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000900045
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural institutions, through monuments, in literature and art, through public acts of ritual and protest, and in everyday practices. In an era in which species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, we must find new ways to engage critically, creatively, and courageously with species loss. Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene develops the conceptual tools to think in complex ways about extinctions and their aftermath, along with providing new insights into commemorating and mourning more-than-human lives. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, extinction studies, memorial culture, and the Anthropocene.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000900045
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural institutions, through monuments, in literature and art, through public acts of ritual and protest, and in everyday practices. In an era in which species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, we must find new ways to engage critically, creatively, and courageously with species loss. Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene develops the conceptual tools to think in complex ways about extinctions and their aftermath, along with providing new insights into commemorating and mourning more-than-human lives. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, extinction studies, memorial culture, and the Anthropocene.