Reading Across The Pacific

Author : Robert Dixon,Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920899660

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Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia. In the 21st century, both American and Australian literatures are experiencing new challenges to the very different paradigms of literary history and criticism each inherited from the 20th century. In response to these challenges, scholars of both literatures are seizing the opportunity to reassess and reconfigure the conceptual geography of national literary spaces as they are reformed by vectors that evade or exceed them, including the transnational, the local and the global. The essays in Reading Across the Pacific are divided into five sections: 'National literatures and transnationalism', 'Poetry and poetics', 'Literature and popular culture', 'The Cold War', and 'Publishing history and transpacific print cultures'.

Author : Hugh Ambrose
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101185841

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The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose Pdf

The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries. Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home. In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of five men who put their lives on the line for our country. To deepen the story revealed in the HBO® miniseries and go beyond it, the book dares to chart a great ocean of enmity known as the Pacific and the brave men who fought.

Author : Professor Robert Dixon,Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743320938

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Reading Across the Pacific by Professor Robert Dixon,Nicholas Birns Pdf

Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia.

Author : Tod Olson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545928120

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Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) by Tod Olson Pdf

LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds of miles from civilization. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?

Author : Louise Borden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618339221

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Across the Blue Pacific by Louise Borden Pdf

A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.

Author : Kenichi Horie
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462913343

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Kodoku by Kenichi Horie Pdf

Kodoku is the true story of a young Japanese sailor whose fascination with the art of sailing led him on a solo trans-Pacific journey. First described in a best-selling Japanese book, then an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Kodoku is the full record of the background, conception, preparation, and execution of this daring, yet carefully planned adventure. It includes not only the full text of his original log, but also his supplementary comments, adding detail and highlight to the day-to-day experiences recorded in the log. Also included are charts, plans, and a diagram comparing some of the more noteworthy craft that sailed the open seas in the past. The 61 photographs, including 43 taken by Horie himself during the trip, add a vivid touch to this fascinating story of courage, tenacity, adventure, and humor.

Author : Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 156639824X

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Across the Pacific by Evelyn Hu-DeHart Pdf

Across the Pacific explores in descriptive and critical ways how transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international context of the Pacific Rim. In eight ground-breaking essays, contributors address new meanings and practices of Asian Americans in the global transformation of the post-Civil Rights, post-cold War, postmodern and postcolonial era.

Author : Angela Murphy,Helen Farley,Laurel Evelyn Dyson,Hazel Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811049446

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Mobile Learning in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region by Angela Murphy,Helen Farley,Laurel Evelyn Dyson,Hazel Jones Pdf

If mobile technologies are to be effectively used in education, how do we best implement sustainable mobile solutions for teaching and learning? The aim of this handbook is to support educators and policy makers who are investing in innovations in digital education to develop effective and sustainable mobile learning solutions for higher education environments. Authors from sixteen countries across the Asia-Pacific region have collaborated to share their experiences with developing and implementing mobile learning initiatives. These projects focus on a variety of aspects of mobile learning innovation, from the trial adoption of existing social media platforms on mobile devices and the development of specialised applications or mobile learning systems, to the large-scale, interuniversity implementation of technologies and pedagogies to support mobile learning. Each chapter addresses challenges and solutions at one or more levels of mobile learning innovation within the education system, encompassing the student perspective, the educator perspective, technical processes, policies and organisational strategy, and leadership. The book also offers a unique perspective on the integration of mobile learning innovations within the educational, political and cultural environments of Asia-Pacific countries.

Author : Toshi Yoshihara,James R. Holmes
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1591149797

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Red Star Over the Pacific by Toshi Yoshihara,James R. Holmes Pdf

Original publication and copyright date: 2010.

Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393083170

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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) by Ian W. Toll Pdf

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.

Author : Unesco. Pacific States Office
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9820201551

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Book Provision in the Pacific Islands by Unesco. Pacific States Office Pdf

Author : Harry Gailey
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307802040

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War in the Pacific by Harry Gailey Pdf

Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief combatants' military doctrine, training, war plans, and equipment. The book then chronicles all significant actions - from the early Allied defeats in the Philippines, the East Indies, and New Guinea; through the gradual improvement of the Allied position in the Central and Southwest Pacific regions; to the final agonies of the Japanese people, whose leaders refused to admit defeat until the very end. Gailey gives detailed treatment to much that has been neglected or given only cursory mention in previous surveys. The reader thus gains an unparalleled overview of operations, as well as many fresh insights into the behind-the-scenes bickering between the Allies and the interservice squabbles that dogged MacArthur and Nimitz throughout the war. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.

Author : Webb Chiles
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Pacific Ocean
ISBN : 039303268X

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The Open Boat by Webb Chiles Pdf

Author : Larry D. Yore,Eileen Van der Flier-Keller,David W. Blades,Timothy W. Pelton,David B. Zandvliet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789460915062

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Pacific CRYSTAL Centre for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Literacy: Lessons Learned by Larry D. Yore,Eileen Van der Flier-Keller,David W. Blades,Timothy W. Pelton,David B. Zandvliet Pdf

The University of Victoria Pacific Centre for Scientific and Technological Literacy is one of five Centres for Research into Youth, Science Teaching and Learning (CRYSTAL) funded for 5 years (2005–2010) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC). Pacific CRYSTAL intended to promote scientific, mathematical, and technological literacy for responsible citizenship through research partnerships with university and educational communities. Pacific CRYSTAL’s functional structure consisted of 3 research and development nodes connected to a leadership and administrative node, which was charged with facilitating the activities of 19 projects and 42 principal investigators, partners, and research associates. Node 1, an incubation centre, involved extracurricular authentic science, mathematics, and technology experiences; Node 2, a classroom testing environment, field-tested instructional ideas and strategies to develop evidence-based practices; and Node 3, lighthouse schools, involved systemic change and leadership opportunities that adapted, demonstrated, and disseminated tested ideas, resources, and strategies to a much broader education community and attempted to influence public policy. This book provides descriptions of the target goals, research and development projects, and lessons learned.

Author : J.P. Keeves,Ryo Watanabe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402010079

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The International Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region by J.P. Keeves,Ryo Watanabe Pdf

The aim of the Handbook is to present readily accessible, but scholarly sources of information about educational research in the Asia-Pacific region. The scale and scope of the Handbook is such that the articles included in it provide substantive contributions to knowledge and understanding of education in the Asia region. In so doing, the articles present the problems and issues facing education in the region and the findings of research conducted within the region that contribute to the resolution of these problems and issues. Moreover, since new problems and issues are constantly arising, the articles in the Handbook also indicate the likely directions of future developments. The different articles within the Handbook seek to conceptualize the problems in each specific content area under review, provide an integration of the research conducted within that area, the theoretical basis of the research the practical implications of the research and the contribution of the research towards the resolution of the problems identified. Thus, the articles do not involve the reporting of newly conducted research, but rather require a synthesis of the research undertaken in a particular area, with reference to the research methods employed and the theoretical frameworks on which the research is based. In general, the articles do not advocate a single point of view, but rather, present alternative points of view and comment on the debate and disagreements associated with the conduct and findings of the research. Furthermore, it should be noted, that the Handbook is not concerned with research methodology, and only considers the methods employed in inquiry in so far as the particular methods of research contribute to the effective investigation of problems and issues that have arisen in the conduct and provision of education at different levels within the region.