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FLAGDAY09P1

Amerika Samoa Flag Day - Part 1

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Author: Unknown

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DoP 2009 USA

First of two DVD's covering the 2009 Flag Day celebrations in American Samoa.

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FLAGDAY09P2

Amerika Samoa Flag Day - Part 2

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Author: Various

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DoP 2009 USA

Second of two DVD's covering the 2009 Flag Day celebrations in American Samoa.

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9780670073962

Aphrodite's Island: The European discovery of Tahiti

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Author: Anne Salmond

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First published October 2009.

Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of 'savages'. In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the centre of these societies' shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti.

As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the island, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, and collections of Tahitian artifacts, and illustrated with sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Island provides a vivid account of the Europeans' Tahitian ... more

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COOK2009

Cook Islands Laws, The: A finding list as at January 2009

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Author: AH Angelo & Nicola Scott

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Dop 2009
softcover
168pp

Updated edition

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9789042025929

Corpora

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Author: Jucker, Schreier and Hundt (Eds)

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DoP June 2009, USA
516pp

(Pacific content: Carolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study)

This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.

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9415600112496

Diplomatic Immunity (Series 1) DVD

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Author: James Griffin (creator) Murray Keane (Director)

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Release Date - August 2009
DVD - TV Series

A comedy series about the goings on at the consulate of the Most Royal Kingdom of Fe'ausi (completely fictional), a scattering of islands and atolls in the South Pacific ocean. Sent in to straighten out the consulate staff is a fallen New Zealand Foreign Affairs high-flier. His attempts to teach the Fe'ausians right from wrong are more than countered by their efforts to get him to remove the stick from his butt and see the world in a more relaxed fashion.

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EDUIDEAS

Educational Ideas From Oceania (2nd edition)

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Author: Various

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DoP 2009, Suva
First published 2003
New content

The contents are essays written on Culture, teaching and learning in Oceania. The book explores the culture, languages and educational ideas and these were undertaken by the students of different nationality in the South Pacific region. This second edition has two new chapters: 'Hoava educational ideas' by Beloved K Hoava, and 'Educational ideas from Tokelau' by Seiuli Aleta.

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9781849290074

Exploring the Bias

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Author: Jyotsna Jha, Elspeth Page

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DoP July 2009, UK
240 mm x 165 mm / 272pp
Softcover

Achieving the Millennium Development Goal to promote gender equality and to empower women is a continuing aim for all developing countries. Education is key to achieving this goal, and it is imperative that gender equality is implemented from the classroom onwards. The challenge for schools is to ensure that they create an ethos that promotes gender equality in all aspects of the classroom and other school activities. Through seven case studies of secondary schools in India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Samoa, Seychelles, and Trinidad & Tobago, "Exploring the Bias" analyses whether schools perpetuate gender stereotypes and investigates how this can be prevented. By comparing classroom practices in such diverse countries, this book provides insights and recommendations that will be useful for policy-makers and educators worldwide.

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9780850928983

Eyes of Democracy

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Author: Manoah Esipisu

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DoP May 2009, UK
253 mm x 190 mm / 124pp
Softcover

The media plays a crucial role in ensuring that elections are conducted fairly, and are seen to be credible. Changing technologies are changing the speed and nature of reporting, but the key issue remains the same: media plays an essential part in ensuring freedom of expression and in guaranteeing democracy. In "Eyes of Democracy", two experienced media professionals offer fellow journalists an overview of the issues, testimonies from colleagues on the ground, and guidelines for good practice, along with reports from Commonwealth Observer Groups on election reporting in a select number of Commonwealth countries.

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9781849290043

Gender-responsive School, The

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Author: Catherine Atthill, Jyotsna Jah

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DoP June 2009, UK
297 mm x 210 mm / 272pp
Softcover

"The Gender-Responsive School" shows teachers, headteachers and school administrators how to spot the key spaces in school life where gender is important. It gives them tools to address gender biases by changing attitudes and ideas among staff and students. This Action Guide is full of activities that can be undertaken at either individual or group level. Based on trials with teachers in a wide range of countries with different cultures, educational systems and attitudes towards gender issues, it shows how important school is, especially at the post-primary stage, in forming expectations of girls and boys and ideas about gender roles. "The Gender-Responsive School" will be of practical value for all educational professionals who are concerned to promote gender equality. Includes case studies from seven selected Commonwealth countries including India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, ... more

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9780521740555

Geographies of Empire

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Author: Robin A. Butlin

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DoP October 2009, Australia
152x229mm / 680pp
Softcover

How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers - British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, German and Italian - and the reactions of indigenous peoples. He explores the complex processes and discourses of colonialism, conquest and resistance from the height of empire through to decolonisation and sets these within the dynamics of the globalisation of political and economic power systems. He sheds new light on variations in the timing, nature and locations of European colonisations and on key themes such as exploration and geographical knowledge; maps and mapping; demographics; land seizure and environmental modification; ... more

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9789820108561

Inclusive Education in the Pacific

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Author: Priscilla Puama & Frances Pene (eds)

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DoP 2009, Fiji
192pp
Softcover
the sixth publication in the PRIDE Project’s Pacific Education Series. It is an outcome of PRIDE’s eighth regional workshop held in Nadi, Fiji from 1st – 5th October, 2007. PRIDE worked in close partnership with five other development partners and the Fiji Ministry of Education in the planning, implementation and funding of this workshop on inclusive education. The workshop was attended by a total of 44 people: regional participants from 13 Forum countries and Tokelau, resource persons, representatives from the seven partners and three observers.

The book contains 14 chapters, written by the workshop resource people, participants and presenters. The topics range from the philosophical underpinnings of inclusive education to practical guidelines for inclusive practices in schools, with a special focus on the education of children with disabilities.

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9780521105439

Island Societies:Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation

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Author: Kirch, Patrick Vinton (ed.)

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Dop 2009, Uk
new ed -first publ'd 1986
108pp

Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and ethnohistorical materials. The fascinating results of this work, centring on the evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here.

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9781425176587

Island Sustainability

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Author: Hiroshi Kakazu

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Dop 2009, Canada
softcover
298pp

This book is devoted to island sustainability with a focus on the small island economies in the Pacific, especially islands of Okinawa located at the southwestern edge of Japan. It examines socio-economic characteristics, development issues, policies, networking of island societies, and the roles of culture, human resources, agriculture and tourism in a globalizing world. Okinawa, the birthplace of nissology (island studies in Greek), embraces all aspects of small, remote island characteristics, including geography, history, economy and culture. Okinawa hosted the third and fourth Pacific Leaders Meeting (PALM). PALM adopted “the Okinawa Initiative on Regional Development Strategies for a More Prosperous and Safer Pacific.” This initiative emphasized the important role of Okinawa in spearheading and coordinating development and educational relationships among the Pacific islands. Although the focus ... more

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9781845455996

Persons and Place: Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu. Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific No. 2.

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Author: Sabine C. Hess

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Dop August, 2009
272pp
hardcover

Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan's engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Strathern's claim that the Melanesian person is a dividual by and large holds for the Vanua Lavan person. But Vanua Lavans have also been exposed to, and creatively engaged with, what can be summarised under the term 'Western individualism.' The author draws together several themes, discourses and conversations which concern Vanuatu specifically, the Pacific as a wider geographic area but also theoretical fields in anthropology: the relevance and expressions of sociality through kinship, concepts of person, issues about land and cosmology, the kastom debate, and questions about continuity and change. In doing ... more

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9879290614272

Promoting Health and Equity: Evidence, Policy and Action - Cases from the Western Pacific Region

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Author: Various

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DoP 2009, Manila
168pp
(Papua New Guinea content)
Recent years have seen a growth in the evidence base on policies and actions to promote health equity. Despite efforts, however, the evidence shows that inequalities are increasing rather than decreasing in many countries. This may partly be due to faulty policy decisions. There is clearly need for a better evidence-based approach on health policies to achieve equity. At the same time, understanding is inadequate on how policy-makers can best make use of the growing evidence base on promoting equity in health. There is a need for stronger links between evidence and health policy-making and implementation. To respond in part to this need, the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office convened the High Level Meeting on Promoting Health Equity: Evidence, Policy and Action from 16-18 October 2007 in Phnom Penh, to exchange experiences and identify ways to promote the more systematic use of ... more

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9789820108578

Role of TVET in Pacific Secondary Schools: new visions, new pathways

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Author: Epeli Tokai & Jennie Teasdale (eds)

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DoP 2009, Fiji
177pp

The seventh publication in the PRIDE Project’s Pacific Education Series. This book is the outcome of an important and highly successful workshop held in the Republic of Palau and attended by educators from 15 Pacific Island countries. The focus of the workshop was the role of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the secondary school curriculum.The book captures the key themes and ideas of the workshop. It deserves to be widely studied within the Pacific, leading the way forward to a more integrated approach to secondary schooling and beyond. The book is intended primarily for planners, policy-makers, school principals and teachers involved in the delivery of secondary education throughout the Pacific. Its vision is a new style of Pacific secondary schooling with a holistic curriculum, incorporating both the vocational and the academic, and deeply grounded in local values and wisdom.

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9789290614012

Sanitation Hygiene and Drinking-water in the Pacific Island Countries

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Author: Who Regional Office for the Western Pacific

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DoP 2009, Manila
57pp

The new publication "Sanitation, hygiene and drinking-water in the Pacific island countries – converting commitment into action" reveals that the numbers of people in the Pacific island countries served with some form of improved sanitation rose from 2.9 million in 1990 to 4.0 million in 2006. Despite this impressive achievement, the proportion of people served in 2006 was still barely 48% of the overall population.These statistics, associated with a less than optimum management of water resources may aggravate the gloomy perspectives brought about by climate change, which appears to be exacerbated in the Pacific islands. Drinking-water and sanitation relies on water governance and water resources management and this is closely linked with climate change in the Pacific islands.

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9781845455613

Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

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Author: Michael Goddard

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Dop 2009. UK
312pp
hardcover

Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background to the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of village courts to deal with everyday disputes among grassroots Melanesians.

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9781845455392

Transgressive Sex: Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters. Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality No. 13

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Author: Donnan, Hastings & Fiona Magowan

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Dop 2009, USA
288pp
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Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to radically transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, ... more

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