In 1952, Bill and Dulcie Johnson joined the burgeoning masses migrating to Australia, a subsidised exodus seeking refuge from the rigours and privations of post war England. They were 'boat people' of their time, trying to find their bearings in a traumatised world, ten pound POMEs who could only guess at what was in store for them, simply hoped for the best. Theirs was the age-old parental quest for a better life for their offspring, a safe h...
Lake is a publication of Laguna Writers Workshops, weekly on-going writing groups in San Francisco, CA, led by Chris DeLorenzo. All of the pieces in this publication were generated in one form or another from spontaneous writing in the groups. The publication of Lake revolves around a public reading, and all of the writers come together with friends and family to share their work.
Presents lectures by M. C. Lopes concerning the boundary layers of incompressible fluid flow, by C. J. Xu on the micro-local analysis and its applications to the regularities of kinetic equations, by Y. X. Zheng on the weak solutions of variational wave equation from liquid crystals, and by P. Zhang and Z. F. Zhang on the free boundary problem of Euler equations. In addition, also included are lectures by F. Nier on the hypoellipticity of Fokk...
In 1836-1837 Sturm and Liouville published a series of papers on second order linear ordinary differential operators, which started the subject now known as the Sturm-Liouville problem. This provides a modern survey of some of the basic properties of Sturm-Liouville theory, and brings the reader to the forefront of knowledge about some aspects of this theory. An extensive list of references and examples is provided and numerous open problems a...
The inspiration for this book was a crucial observation: that if the school turnaround movement is to have widespread and lasting consequences, it will need to incorporate meaningful district involvement in its efforts.
An examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life at a global level, this volume connects two fields of research, showing how 'war' & 'security' tend to exchange targets & forms of action as well as personnel in modern society.
Explaining the origins & key institutions, this book provides an assessment of the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics, with case studies on Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, businesses & environmental NGOs.
In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of U.S. nationalism, democracy and citizenship.
This book brings together contributions from scientists and educators at the forefront of interdisciplinary research efforts involving neuroscience and education.
This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into worlds of Asian theatre languages, considering stagings in Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.
This book provides a new interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives of their members.
Using oral history interviews with forty-four former teachers from the Jim Crow era, local and state archival materials, and secondary historical sources, Hilton Kelly examines the surprising counter-memories of students, teachers, and community members who recall these schools not as being inferior, but as being of sufficient quality.
