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This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable
conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the Korean Peninsula; the
Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and
India-Pakistan), and aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage
these conflicts. International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific brings
together in one volume four major international conflicts that have
shaped the region, and studies how they evolved and how best to
manage them. The book seeks to find a pattern common to the four
conflicts and their management as well as taking note of variations
among them, hereby aiming to establish what might be called the
'Asia-Pacific way of managing intractable conflicts'. This book
will of much interest to students of international conflict
management, Asian politics, security studies and IR in general.
Jacob Bercovitch is Professor of International Relations in the
Political Science Department at the University of Canterbury in New
Zealand. Widely regarded as one of the most influential scholars in
the field of international conflict resolution, he is author of
more than 15 books and numerous articles. Mikio Oishi is a Visiting
Fellow with the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
(NCPACS), University of Otago and a Research Fellow with Political
Science Programme of University of Canterbury.
Scenes for acting students to perform, based on high school experiences such as breaking up, peer pressure, dances, dating, cheating, telephones, and teenage pregnancy.
Forty-eight true-to-life scenes for guys, girls, and mixed casts of
two to four actors. Written as terens speak witht he drama and
emotions of adolescence. Themes include bullying, dating, driving,
clothes, sports, sibling rivalry, self-esteen, vanity, jobs, sex,
responsibility, drugs and many more. Some scenes are humorous,
others serious. Suitable for classroom or stage performance.
Excellent contest scripts. Includes five- and ten-minute scenes for
girls, guys and mixed casts.
Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question
the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and
his family--along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans--are packed
off to a concentration camp run by the US government. The harsh and
barren world of the Arizona desert where Hiroshi and his family
find themselves sets sibling against sibling, parent against child
and neighbor against neighbor in a complex grappling with duty and
disappointment that will reverberate through the ensuing decades.
Sexual initiation, kabuki tales, jazz clubs and alcoholism form the
backdrop against which Hiroshi, his siblings and his parents
struggle to define themselves. Whether describing Hiroshi's
tumultuous postwar coming of age or excavating generational
grievances exacerbated by internment, Gene Oishi gives
heartbreaking and at times humorous context to the life of a family
set adrift by its wartime experiences.
The drama of the teen years is played out in these thirty-four
scenes and monologs for young actors. Written as teens speak and
encompassing the myriad of emotions typical of the "growing up"
years, the scenes cover real life situations from teen experiences.
The script lengths vary from two to twelve minutes, making them
ideal for acting classes, stage performance, auditions or as
contest material. Themes include: Bulimia, Jealousy, Graduation,
Self-Esteem, Gossip, Chastity, Friendship, Gangs, Chauvinism,
Fitting in, Tests, Relationships--experiences to laugh about and
cry about. Scenes are included for boys, girls and mixed casts and
involve from one to five actors. Royalty-free performance with book
purchase.
This book analyses four major long-standing and intractable
conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region (the Korean Peninsula; the
Taiwan Strait; the South China Sea (Spratly Islands); and
India-Pakistan), and aims to identify the mechanisms used to manage
these conflicts. International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific brings
together in one volume four major international conflicts that have
shaped the region, and studies how they evolved and how best to
manage them. The book seeks to find a pattern common to the four
conflicts and their management as well as taking note of variations
among them, hereby aiming to establish what might be called the
'Asia-Pacific way of managing intractable conflicts'. This book
will of much interest to students of international conflict
management, Asian politics, security studies and IR in general.
Jacob Bercovitch is Professor of International Relations in the
Political Science Department at the University of Canterbury in New
Zealand. Widely regarded as one of the most influential scholars in
the field of international conflict resolution, he is author of
more than 15 books and numerous articles. Mikio Oishi is a Visiting
Fellow with the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
(NCPACS), University of Otago and a Research Fellow with Political
Science Programme of University of Canterbury.
Women make up about half of the world's migrants, so it is little
surprise that the international migration of women has been
attracting significant attention in recent years. Most agree that
global restructuring increasingly forces a large number of women in
developing countries to emigrate to richer countries. But is
poverty the only motivating factor? In Women in Motion, Nana Oisbi
examines the cross-national patterns of international female
migration in Asia. Drawing on fieldwork in ten countries - both
migrant-sending and migrant-receiving - the author investigates the
differential impact of globalization, state policies, individual
autonomy, and various social factors. This is the first study of
its kind to provide an integrative approach to and a comparative
prespective on female migration flows from multiple countries.
The life story of Jeanne Simons, whose own autism informed her
pioneering work with autistic children. Jeanne Simons devoted her
career as a social worker and educator to the study, treatment, and
care of children with autism. In 1955, she established the Linwood
Children's Center in Ellicott City, Maryland, one of the first
schools dedicated to children with autism. Her Linwood Model,
developed there, was widely adopted and still forms the basis for a
variety of autism intervention techniques. Incredibly-although
unknown at the time-Jeanne was herself autistic. Behind the Mirror
reveals the remarkable tale of this trailblazer and how she
thought, felt, and experienced the world around her. With moving
immediacy, Jeanne tells her life story to developmental
psychologist, friend, and collaborator Sabine Oishi. Jeanne's
unique experience is supplemented by commentary from Dr. Oishi, who
explains the importance of key biographical details and fills in
additional information about the diagnosis and treatment of autism.
Enhanced with a photo gallery, a look at new approaches to the
education of children with autism, and a history of Linwood since
its founding, the book also contains a foreword, an afterword, and
an appendix by James C. Harris, MD, the past director of child
psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the
founder of its autism clinic. Demystifying the experience of
autism, Behind the Mirror is a groundbreaking account of
possibilities and hope.
MRI Atlas of Human White Matter remains the only atlas to
provide detailed anatomy of human brain white matter. Knowledge of
this anatomy via diffusion tensor imaging (DTI )greatly enhances
our understanding of brain function and neural connectivity. These
advances promise to be particularly helpful with neurological
diseases, such asAlzheimer's. The second edition offers an
introduction to and description of the methodology, the 3D anatomy
of individual tracts, and a series of color-coded orientation maps
to delineate white matter anatomy in a slice-by-slice manner.
Improvements over the 1st edition include: full segmentation of up
to 176 regions of the brain, added definitions of gray matter to
further understanding between white and gray matter structures,
andthe addition of standardized stereotaxic coordinates. The
atlasserves as avaluable resource for clinicians, researchers and
graduate students in neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery and
radiology.
Visualization of brain white matter anatomy via 3D diffusion tensor
imaging (DTI) contrasts and enhances relationship of anatomy to
functionFull segmentation of 170+ brain regions more clearly
defines structure boundaries than previous point-and-annotate
anatomical labeling, andconnectivity is mapped in a way not
provided by traditional atlasesElectronic files with viewing
software can be made available via CD and/or BrainNavigator,
allowing readers access to raw image files"
This book shows how neural networks are applied to computational
mechanics. Part I presents the fundamentals of neural networks and
other machine learning method in computational mechanics. Part II
highlights the applications of neural networks to a variety of
problems of computational mechanics. The final chapter gives
perspectives to the applications of the deep learning to
computational mechanics.
This book investigates the patterns of conflict management in
contemporary Southeast Asia. The region has long been characterized
by the twin process of state-formation and nation-building, which
has been responsible for most of the region's intrastate and
interstate conflicts. While this process is still ongoing, regional
conflicts and their management are increasingly affected by
globalisation, which not only serves as a new source of, or
exacerbating factor to, conflict, but also makes new instruments
available for conflict management. Employing the concepts of
incompatibility management and mediation regime, the book analyses
the management of seven conflicts in the region: the Rohingya
crisis and the Kachin conflict in Myanmar, the Khmer Krom conflict
in Vietnam, the West Papua conflict in Indonesia, the political
conflict in Thailand, the Mekong River conflicts involving five
Southeast Asian countries and China and the transboundary haze
problem emanating from Indonesia. The efforts to manage each of
them are imagined as constituting a mediation regime, and its
effectiveness is assessed in terms of good governance. Among the
findings of the book is that the measures of manoeuvring around
incompatibilities are employed predominantly in managing regional
conflicts. In intrastate conflicts, which mostly involve ethnic
minorities, the authorities first aim to eliminate, or impose its
own position on, ethnic parties. When this strategy proves
unsuccessful, they have no choice but manoeuvre around
incompatibilities, which may eventually open up a space for mutual
learning. In interstate conflicts, the manoeuvring around strategy
works in a more straightforward manner, contributing to regional
stability. However, the stability is achieved at the cost of local
communities and the natural environment, which absorb the
incompatibilities in conflict.
This book shows how neural networks are applied to computational
mechanics. Part I presents the fundamentals of neural networks and
other machine learning method in computational mechanics. Part II
highlights the applications of neural networks to a variety of
problems of computational mechanics. The final chapter gives
perspectives to the applications of the deep learning to
computational mechanics.
This book looks at major contemporary conflicts -intra and
interstate- in Southeast Asia from a conflict management
perspective. Starting with the view that the conventional ASEAN
conflict-management methods have ceased to be effective, it looks
for new conflict-management patterns and trends by investigating
seven contemporary cases of conflict in the region. Focusing on the
incompatibilities involved in each case and examining how they have
been managed-whether by integration, co-existence, elimination or
maneuvering around the conflict-the book sheds new light on the
significance of managing conflict in achieving and maintaining the
stability of the Southeast Asian region. It makes a significant
theoretical contribution to the field of peace and conflict studies
by proposing the concept of "mediation regime" as the key to
understanding current conflict management within ASEAN.
This collection provides a comparative analysis of care
arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational
migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.
Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work
through cross country comparisons, it examines how care work and
welfare arrangements have been shaped by national and global forces
against the backdrop of changing gender relationships, the rise of
female labour force participation, low fertility rates and
population aging in East Asia. It particularly addresses the
'feminization of migration' which is a salient feature of migration
in Asia today as more women from developing countries undertake
domestic work and care work in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong
Kong. Addressing the issue of care in relation to employment, care
and migration regimes in East Asia and the interaction among
welfare regimes, labour markets and work-care balance, this
collection provides an up-to-date assessment of gendered
transnational migration in the region and sheds light on local and
transnational policies and practices which aim to improve the
welfare of families and migrant workers.
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This collection provides a comparative analysis of care
arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational
migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.
Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work
through cross country comparisons, it examines how care work and
welfare arrangements have been shaped by national and global forces
against the backdrop of changing gender relationships, the rise of
female labour force participation, low fertility rates and
population aging in East Asia. It particularly addresses the
'feminization of migration' which is a salient feature of migration
in Asia today as more women from developing countries undertake
domestic work and care work in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong
Kong. Addressing the issue of care in relation to employment, care
and migration regimes in East Asia and the interaction among
welfare regimes, labour markets and work-care balance, this
collection provides an up-to-date assessment of gendered
transnational migration in the region and sheds light on local and
transnational policies and practices which aim to improve the
welfare of families and migrant workers.
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