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Book The Pakana Voice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr Ian Broinowski
  • Publisher : Mouse & Mind
  • Release : 2019-08-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The Pakana Voice written by Dr Ian Broinowski and published by Mouse & Mind. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’.

Book Tales of a War Correspondent from Lutruwita  Tasmania  1814 1856

Download or read book Tales of a War Correspondent from Lutruwita Tasmania 1814 1856 written by Ian Broinowski and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Pakana Voice Tales of a War Correspondent from Lutruwita  Tasmania  1814 1856

Download or read book The Pakana Voice Tales of a War Correspondent from Lutruwita Tasmania 1814 1856 written by Ian Broinowski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.

Book Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Download or read book Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals written by Kim Beasy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

Download or read book The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding written by Holly Ringland and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Born Into This

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Thompson
  • Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 1953387055
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Born Into This written by Adam Thompson and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * 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

Book Leonard Bloomfield s Fox Lexicon

Download or read book Leonard Bloomfield s Fox Lexicon written by Leonard Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twentieth Century Countertenor Repertoire

Download or read book Twentieth Century Countertenor Repertoire written by Steven L. Rickards and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Extinction and Memorial Culture

Download or read book Extinction and Memorial Culture written by Hannah Stark and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Ancient Song Recovered

Download or read book Ancient Song Recovered written by Mimi S. Daitz and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for over thirty years in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the music of Estonian composer Veljo Tormis (born 1930) was not heard in the West until the 1990s. Tormis has written more than 200 choral works, an opera, a ballet/cantata, thirty film scores, vocal and instrumental chamber music, solo songs, and several orchestral pieces. Educated at the Tallinn and Moscow Conservatories, Tormis has integrated the techniques of 20th-century art music with the melodies of the regilaul or ancient Estonian folksong.Ancient Song Recovered: The Life and Music of Veljo Tormis is the first book in a Western language about a master of 20th-century choral music. The book includes chapters on Estonian history (Tormis's music helped inspire the national independence movement), the regilaul, and the Estonian choral tradition, followed by the biography and discussion of major works. Also included ia an article by a leading Estonian scholar as well as an article by and an interview with Tormis, all of which appear for the first time in English. A works list, CD discography, glossary of names, and CD of sound examples conclude this volume by musicologist and choral conductor Mimi S. Daitz. It will interest scholars of contemporary music, the general music public, and persons concerned with Soviet cultural history

Book A handbook of the Swahili language  as spoken at Zanzibar

Download or read book A handbook of the Swahili language as spoken at Zanzibar written by Edward Steere and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Year of Devil

Download or read book In the Year of Devil written by Areseril Kunjunni Bhasura Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Word list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages

Download or read book A Word list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages written by Norman James Brian Plomley and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irina the Wolf Queen

Download or read book Irina the Wolf Queen written by Leah Swann and published by Xou Pty Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped at birth, raised by a she-wolf, then taken in by a kind farmer and his wife, Irina is no ordinary foundling. She is a princess, the long-lost daughter of King Harmon and Queen Chloe of Ragnor, and in the coming days of battle, could it be that a princess with the courage of a warrior and the instincts of a wolf is exactly what is needed?

Book Journey to the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall
  • Publisher : Civilization of the American Indian Series
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Journey to the West written by Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall and published by Civilization of the American Indian Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cross fire. Two such peoples, the Alabamas and Coushattas, made the difficult decision to migrate from their ancestral lands and thereby preserve their world on their own terms. In this book, Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and revealing how their shared experience affected their identity. The first book to examine these peoples over such an extensive period, Journey to the West tells how they built and maintained their sovereignty despite five hundred years of trauma and change. Blending oral tradition, archaeological data, and archival sources, Shuck-Hall shows how they joined forces in the seventeenth century after their first contact with Europeans, then used trade and diplomatic relations to ally themselves with these newcomers and with larger Indian groups-including the Creeks, Caddos, and Western Cherokees-to ensure their continuing independence. In relating how the Alabamas and Coushattas determined their own future through careful reflection and forceful action, this book provides much-needed information on these overlooked peoples and places southeastern Indians within the larger narratives of southern and American history. It shows how diaspora and migration shaped their worldview and identity, reflecting similar stories of survival in other times and places.

Book Beans  Bullets  and Black Oil

Download or read book Beans Bullets and Black Oil written by Worrall Reed Carter and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: