Author: Mere Whaanga-Schollum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869430221
Category : Bilingual books
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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A story of how the paua got it's beautiful shell.

Author: Nicola Daly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040185479
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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This book presents a range of perspectives on the way language, diversity, and identity are reflected in New Zealand children’s literature, based on the published research of Nicola Daly, an associate professor in the Division of Education of the University of Waikato, and her colleagues. The book is organised into two sections. The first section examines the use of Te Reo Māori and English in the text of New Zealand picturebooks, exploring the linguistic landscape of Māori-English bilingual picturebooks. The second section, The Pedagogical Potential of Picturebooks, explores how picturebooks featuring Māori, English, New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL), and Pacific languages reflect identity and support diversity in society. Research from several educational contexts, ranging from kindergarten to university, where picturebooks are used to support learning language and learning about language is also discussed. Themes of language, identity, and diversity are explored throughout the two sections and brought together in the concluding chapter’s discussion of the power of picturebooks. This book will be of interest to scholars in children’s literature and education; it may also be relevant to scholars in linguistics library and information studies, cultural studies, and media and communication studies.

Author: Morgan Schatz Blackrose
Publisher: Morgan Schatz Blackrose
ISBN: 0980536200
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Ali Intezari
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042961926X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Despite the growing attention towards the importance of practical wisdom in business today, little research has been done about the concept of practical wisdom in the Indigenous, Asian and Middle-Eastern traditions. Contemporary studies of wisdom are dominated by the philosophical traditions of Western thought, which is based on the ancient Greek concepts of wisdom. Much less is known about how practical wisdom, as illuminated by these other traditions, can be implemented in today’s organizational settings. This book thus fills an important gap in understanding wisdom and how it is applied in a poly-cultural world. Wisdom is culturally bound. Wisdom is poly-cultural and interweaves individuality and communality. Practical wisdom is inextricably connected to many needs of contemporary personal and professional life. Moreover, the increasingly growing poly-culturality around the world requires a better understanding of how practical wisdom is understood in different cultures and traditions. Accordingly, there is a need for a) poly-cultural understanding of the concept of wisdom and b) the role of practical wisdom in a world crying out for wisdom. This book underlines the importance of developing a poly-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of practical wisdom in today’s complex environment. The book offers significant insight into the implications of the non-Western traditions of wisdom and how such an understanding of the non-Western traditions can help us better and more critically understand and appropriately address new multi-faceted complex emerging phenomena. While the Western traditions offer valuable insight into the implication of wisdom in modern life, an integrated view that brings together the Western and non-Western traditions can provide a more critical and practical insight into how to apply practical wisdom in a contemporary poly-cultural environment.

Author: Annie Villiers
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398499099
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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The fundamental themes of landscape, love and loss are all celebrated in this collection. Some of the poems have a political quality, reflecting the challenges and uncertainties of life in the 21st century; others simply honour the joy, the struggles, and the hopefulness of daily life. The poems encompass a wide genre, but all reflect a connection between people and place. Many celebrate the poet’s ‘home paddock’ while others look to the wider world. Though the inspiration is landscapes familiar to the author, the themes are universal and resonant.

Author: Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600591686
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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The lathe used to be a utilitarian tool only, but in the hands of today's artists woodturning has undergone a transformation. This international collection showcases the work of 40 pioneering woodturners who have expanded the possibilities of the medium.

Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1829

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e-artnow presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas._x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ The Bounty Trilogy:_x000D_ Mutiny on the Bounty_x000D_ Men Against the Sea_x000D_ Pitcairn's Island_x000D_ Other Sea Adventures:_x000D_ The Hurricane_x000D_ The Dark River_x000D_ Botany Bay_x000D_ Lost Island_x000D_ The High Barbaree_x000D_ The Far Lands_x000D_ Faery Lands of the South Seas_x000D_ The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas:_x000D_ The Forgotten One_x000D_ Captain Handy's Memoirs_x000D_ Sing: A Song of Sixpence_x000D_ A Happy Hedonist_x000D_ Rivnac_x000D_ Frisbie of Danger Island_x000D_ James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.

Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The High Barbaree" by James Norman Hall, Charles Bernard Nordhoff. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590395007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Rafe Martin and David Shannon reunite in this folktale interpretation of a dramatic flood myth set amidst the unmatched beauty of the Hawaiian Islands. In a country whose ruler is cruel and whose people are hardened, two children remain warm-hearted and exuberant. One day after freeing a shark trapped in the shallows, the children are so excited that they touch the King's forbidden drum. They are thrown into prison, and no one will listen to their parents' pleas for mercy. So, at great risk, they go to the Shark God himself, and he takes retribution, causing a great flood that leaves only the good family behind, and clears the way for a better, kinder future.

Author: Albert Wendt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This startling new novel by Albert Wendt takes the form of a fast-moving allegorical thriller. Who are the all-powerful Tribunal and President? Who are the Hunters and the Hunted, and the allies from the depths of the city? Set in a future New Zealand where only the Citizen who asks no questions can achieve happiness, a renegade hero seeks to rescue his family in the State-sponsored Game of Life.