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This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher education faces a need for recalibration. In light of increased concerns from universities in cultivating globalisation, this volume brings together a multi-ethnic and multilingual team of researchers who argue that the continued development of internationalized education now requires new research and practices. As university leaders seek to build the best programs to help students t...

Flying Upside Down means, literally, flying a plane upside down aerobatically. It also means turning fear upside down by engaging and controlling it rather than succumbing to it and letting it control your life. As a kid, the author wanted to fly. But a terrible accident made him deathly afraid of heights, so much so that he couldn't even ride in an elevator, let alone fly in a plane. Later in life, he overcame this dysfunctional mindset by tu...

On 19 February 1942 the Japanese air force bombed Darwin. Whilst this fact is well known, very few people know exactly what happened. Timothy Hall was the first writer to be given acess to all the official reports of the time and as a result he has been able to reveal exactly what happened on that dreadful day ¿ a day which Sir Paul Hasluck (17th Governor-General of Australia) later described as `a day of national shame¿.

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Excerpt from Days in DerbyshireIT is due to the publisher of this book and the public, as well as myself, to explain that it was commenced above three years ago, and partly printed with a prospect of its being out in the course of a few months. By domestic sorrow, imperative duties, and difficulties that for the time robbed the mind of that elasticity and cheeriness by which any work intended to gladden others should be character ised, all pro...

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This book argues that the neoliberal globalisation of higher education faces a need for recalibration. In light of increased concerns from universities in cultivating globalisation, this volume brings together a multi-ethnic and multilingual team of researchers who argue that the continued development of internationalized education now requires new research and practices. As university leaders seek to build the best programs to help students t...

For courses in Music Theory, Musical Skills, or Sight Singing.A thorough, practical introduction to rhythmStudying Rhythm introduces students to the basic processes and complexities of musical rhythm and helps them develop the ability to perform all kinds of rhythmic patterns accurately at sight. Authors Anne Hall and Timothy Urban provide students over 300 one- and two-part rhythmic studies, each with short preliminary exercises, that are int...

Hall (tourism, U. of Otago, New Zealand) introduces 16 chapters addressing how post-9/11 security concerns have effected tourism in both psychological and practical terms. Contributors discuss their research on risk perception and such crisis response models as the Australian government's Tourism Di

Drawing on material that had only just been released when this book was originally published in 1981, this book provides a graphic account of the war which, to all intents and purposes, was fought on Australian soil against Australian people ¿ a war which came to the very door of Australia itself.

Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 September 1942, but in 1941 Europeans on the island felt still untouched by war, lulled into security by the belief that Singapore was impregnable from the sea. However, the Planning Chief of Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo had realised a successful invasion could come from the north, down the Malay peninsula... Requests from less naive members of the allied forces for more men, arms and equipment were ...

LEAN Healthcare Innovation The American healthcare system is under siege. For a high quality, open access system that emphasizes patient freedom of choice to survive, it must change. This book presents the argument for why a variant of the Toyota Production System, LEAN Healthcare Innovation, may be the answer to save US healthcare. This is a modification of LEAN that provides a better opportunity for success through a focus on system managem...

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF VIETNAM: THE FEW, THE PROUD &hellip, THE TRUCKERS This is the story of Zeke Hammond, a baby boomer, who joined the Marine Corps and drove a 26-wheeler in the DaNang area and on convoys into "Indian Country" where danger lurked around every corner. Truck drivers in Vietnam, regardless of their branch of service, were the unsung heroes of the war. They risked life and limb in support of American and allied operations again...

This manual reviews the definitions and typical approach to quality assurance in healthcare and includes a review of the most prominent quality studies. A program for quality management in surgery is presented with chapters reviewing patient safety and external reporting requirements. An introduction to medical malpractice and risk management is also provided and followed by a chapter on how to implement the necessary behavioral changes to imp...

This manual reviews the important critical functions of a department of surgery which are synthesized into specific departmental roles. A departmental organizational structure and the required personnel is presented along with the appropriate job descriptions and the role of hospital committees for a department of surgery. To help with process management, a listing of policies, protocols and communications are provided. To ease the access to e...

Vitally fresh . . . an impressive book. The sophistication of the theoretical and historiographical introduction promises the reader that historical inquiry and interpretation of the first order await. It is a thrilling study."--Samuel S. Hill, University of Florida

Roger Williams, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, is famous as an apostle of religious tolerance and a foe of religious establishments. In Separating Church and State, Timothy Hall combines impressive historical and legal scholarship to explore Williams's theory of religious liberty and relate it to current debate. Williams's fierce religious dogmatism, Hall argues, is precisely what led to his religious tolerance, making him one of the m...

A fascinating description of the theory and practice of mesmerism by an early Victorian practitioner, first published in 1845.