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A Nail the Evening Hangs On

By: Monica Sok

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In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.

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Copper Canyon Press

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1619322161

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Making Fields of Merit

Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

By: Monica Lindberg Falk

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Making Fields of Merit

Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

By: Monica Lindberg Falk

This anthropological study addresses religion and gender relations through the lens of the lives, actions and role in Thai society of an order of Buddhist nuns (mae chii). It presents a unique ethnography of these Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society. The study also deals with the nuns' agency in creating religious space and authority for women. In addition, it raises questions about how the position of Thai Buddhist nuns outside the Buddhist sanhga affects their religious legitimacy and describes recent moves to restore a Theravada order of female monks." -- BACK COVER.

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302

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NIAS Press

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8776940195

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9788776940195

Microsoft System Center Troubleshooting Configuration Manager

By: Rushi Faldu,Manoj Pal,Andre Monica,Kaushal Pandey

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Microsoft System Center Troubleshooting Configuration Manager

By: Rushi Faldu,Manoj Pal,Andre Monica,Kaushal Pandey

Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book focuses on troubleshooting Configuration Manager, which is used to manage a wide range of Microsoft client platforms, server platforms, and mobile devices. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key troubleshooting tasks and solutions.

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117

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Microsoft Press

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0735684820

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9780735684829

Education Lead(her)ship

Advancing Women in K–12 Administration

By: Monica C. Higgins,Jennie Weiner

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Education Lead(her)ship

Advancing Women in K–12 Administration

By: Monica C. Higgins,Jennie Weiner

An incisive account on the underrepresentation of women, especially women of color, in positions of leadership in K–12 schools and how to correct this bias. Education Lead(her)ship exposes the systemic obstacles that impede the professional advancement of women in K–12 education and offers readers the tools to recognize and combat these inequities. In this rousing work, educational leadership scholars Jennie Weiner and Monica Higgins investigate patterns of gender bias in the profession, prompted by the observation that, although the great majority of classroom educators are women, disproportionately few women inhabit leadership positions such as principal, superintendent, or school administrator. Through candid interviews with more than 200 women educational leaders, Weiner and Higgins pinpoint implicit and explicit means of repression and highlight the resources that these leaders have marshaled to punch through systemic barriers. The interviewees recount the many forms of sexism and racism they have confronted in the workplace, including microaggressions, stereotypes about women's work, and the expectation of uncompensated emotional labor. Taking aim at the widespread gender and racial discrimination in school systems, Weiner and Higgins identify paths to empowerment for women in education. They advocate solidarity, collective action, and leveraging networks of allies to push for the re-engineering of our educational organizations, environments, and cultures to sow a more balanced and equitable leadership landscape.

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Harvard Education Press

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168253832X

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9781682538326

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

By: Monica Sok

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By: Monica Sok

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Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand

Socio-cultural responses

By: Monica Lindberg Falk

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Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand

Socio-cultural responses

By: Monica Lindberg Falk

Of all the huge natural disasters that claimed the lives of thousands in Asia, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was the largest, estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people. The scope of damage brought about by this natural disaster urges focus on recovery and post-disaster reconstruction from several perspectives. Here we find an in-depth ethnography of Thailand and the role of culture and religion as an underpinning issue in post-disaster recovery. Following the post-tsunami recovery over five years, the book provides knowledge on socio-cultural responses from affected local communities after natural hazards, and is based on original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami. With a focus on how culture and religion interplay in the processes of building resilience and decreasing vulnerability, it gives a deeper understanding of how disasters are experienced and dealt with on a local level. It examines survivors’ experiences of rituals and ceremonies that became a part of the survivors’ lives in new ways after the tsunami, offering psychological reassurance and religious efficaciousness as well as communication links between themselves and the deceased. Using observations, narratives and material from in-depth interviews with survivors, relatives, relief workers, officials and Buddhist monks and nuns, this book contributes to the research on anthropology of disaster and to the development of research on cultural resilience and religion in post-disaster recovery. It will be of interest to scholars of Disaster Studies, Buddhist Studies and Asian Studies.

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Routledge

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1317690133

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9781317690139

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War

The Untold History

By: Monica Kim

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The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War

The Untold History

By: Monica Kim

Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The interrogation rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the U.S. wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their "free will" and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation's right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners -- Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators, and American POWs -- that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in U.S. popular memory of "brainwashing" during the Korean War.

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Princeton University Press

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0691166226

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9780691166223

Our International Education

By: Sherry Marx,Monica Housen,Christine Tapu

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Our International Education

By: Sherry Marx,Monica Housen,Christine Tapu

What makes a person pack up and move to another country? What does she or he hope to gain from the experience? How do children fit into the picture? Our International Education presents the stories of three American women, a university professor, a high school math teacher, and a high school English as a second language teacher, who move to Hungary for a year to teach. Each woman brings her young children and enrolls them in local Hungarian public schools though none of them speak Hungarian at the beginning of the experience. The autoethnographic stories that make up Our International Education weave together the personal and professional dimensions of life abroad, illuminating not only the realities of negotiating work, school, and family life in another country, but also the complexities of cultural adjustment and second language acquisition. First-person storytelling makes this book a compelling read for those considering a move abroad with their family, and an excellent supplemental narrative for those studying second language acquisition, acculturation, autoethnography, and international education. “These interconnected stories of three women and their children living in Hungary offer an alternately uplifting and heartrending look at what families face when overseas. The co-authors present a deeply personal and vivid account of their bold adventure, from the initial thrill to the gradual revelation that life abroad is not always the carefree romp that some might perceive. Our International Education masterfully demonstrates the unequivocal impact of cross-cultural understanding.” – Eleni Kounalakis, United States Ambassador to Hungary 2010-2013 and author of Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest.

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Springer

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9463002863

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9789463002868

Wats, Wadis and Waterfalls

A Canadian Woman's Travel and Teaching Experiences in the Middle East and Southeast Asia

By: Monica Murphy

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Wats, Wadis and Waterfalls

A Canadian Woman's Travel and Teaching Experiences in the Middle East and Southeast Asia

By: Monica Murphy

Independence, optimism, and resilience characterize my life’s journey and are the main themes of this book, which is for the over-fifty women out there who are retired or starting a new chapter in their lives. You may think, "It's too hard, "I’m too old", or "How do you teach if you don’t know their language?" First, there is excellent training available, and it has been proven that you can learn your whole life. Secondly, a lot of cultures respect their elders, and thirdly, most countries have a little English due to colonialism and speak a mixture of English and their own language, for example, Chinglish in China. A lot of schools have teaching assistants to help out in the classroom. Come with me and share the sights, sounds and aromas of the different countries and the unique culture and charm of each people group.

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FriesenPress

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103918331X

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Book's by Monica Sok

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

Making Fields of Merit

Making Fields of Merit

Microsoft System Center Troubleshooting Configuration Manager

Microsoft System Center Troubleshooting Configuration Manager

Education Lead(her)ship

Education Lead(her)ship

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand

Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War

Our International Education

Our International Education

Wats, Wadis and Waterfalls

Wats, Wadis and Waterfalls

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