Frontiers have always attracted the Other - where they find that the Other is always already there. These 22 stories explore what happens when queer characters encounter weirdness on the edge of the worlds they know.Authors include: Julie Bozza, J.A. Bryson, Dannye Chase, S.E. Denton, Miguel Flores, Adele Gardner, Roy Gray, KC Grifant, Peter Hackney, Bryn Hammond, Narrelle M Harris, Justin Warren Jackson, Toshiya Kamei, Catherine Lundoff, Bunny McFadden, Angus McIntyre, Atlin Merri...

Despite a vast amount of effort and expertise devoted to them, many environmental conflicts have remained mired in controversy, stubbornly defying resolution. Why can some environmental problems be resolved in one locale but remain contentious in another, often carrying on for decades? What is it about certain issues or the people involved that make a conflict seemingly insoluble.Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts addresses those and related questions, exa...

The Printing and Graphics Science (PGS) Group of The Institute of Physics promotes the application of physics in current and emerging printing and display technologies bridging graphics arts sectors to emerging printed electronics, plastic electronics, bioprinting and 3D printing technologies. It publishes its newsletter yearly in print, online and as an E Book. This is the 2018 Newsletter, #12.Exciting new developments are taking place in graphic arts technology and printing applic...

A newly-updated edition of the definitive textbook on Aboriginal Health issues Binan Goonj, 3rd Edition: Bridging cultures in Aboriginal health is a comprehensive Indigenous health text which addresses key topics in a clear and accessible manner. Thoroughly updated and revised, the latest edition of Binan Goonj sheds light upon the many multidisciplinary topics within the complex field of Indigenous health. With chapter titles including Empowerment in Aboriginal Health and Aboriginal Commu...

Exciting new developments are taking place in graphic arts technology and printing applications. This issue includes 2 reports (Advances in Printing Technologies & Advances in Security Printing) from the IS&T Printing for Fabrication conference held in Dresden in September 2018 and on the 15th International Conference on Web Handling held at Oklahoma State University in June 2019. There us also a report from the PGS Student Conference held in January 2019 at FFEI Ltd in Hemel Hempstead, UK...

Nga Tini Whetu - Navigating Maori Futures brings together twenty-five papers Mason Durie has presented at national and international conferences between 2004 and 2010. It discusses Maori moving towards a future involving new technologies, alliances, economies and levels of achievement and being equipped to respond to the changes in a way that enables Maori to prosper and live in a changing world as Maori. This book builds on and extends Mason Durie's thinking in Nga Kahui Pou - Launching M...

by 2051 the ethnic Maori population will almost double in size to close to a million, or twenty-two percent of the total New Zealand population. Even more dramatically, by 2051 thirty-three percent of all children in the country will be Maori ...' This substantial change in our society will have major implications for Maori and wider society. Professor Durie discusses traditions and customs and addresses contemporary needs in order to build development strategies for the launch of the Maor...

'This book lays out the way modern Australia can right the wrongs that have occurred in the intervening years, and decades, and centuries that have passed since that first dramatic encounter.' - From the foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG'An excellent diagnosis of Australia's mind-set.' - Jeff McMullen journalist, author, film makerDeep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was built on land that does not belong to us. Some of us now asser...

This book moves the discussion forward so that Australia will have a woman Prime Minister sooner rather than later. Underlined with a reflective, interpretive and explorative stance of Julia Gillard’s Prime Ministership, it presents an analysis on issues to do with gender and leadership culminating in key considerations for the nation and for the next woman Prime Minister. “This book is a readable and useful contribution to the still raw and open ...

In 2007 the Australian Government recognised that the health, safety and education of the nation's remote Aboriginal citizens were in a state of crisis. Its response was what became known as the Northern Territory Intervention, which sparked a heated national debate about Indigenous disadvantage and autonomy. Moreover, it caused Australian anthropologists to question the contribution of their own discipline. Anthropology has always informed and provoked policy change, and has a tradition o...

A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation bringstogether key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts acrossthe globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theoryand practice around children’s participation.Promoting the participation of children and young people - indecision-making and policy development, and as active contributorsto everyday family and community life - has become a central part ofpolicy...

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.•A user-friendly introduction to a subject which students often find strange and new•Relates sociology to health...