What causes someone to just snap and reach their breaking point? How far will someone go until they just don't care anymore? Most of us will never encounter this or give it a second thought, but you should. For some like Jon Pabst and countless others, lines become blurred and reality takes a backseat. We forget that the mind and human drive are extremely powerful tools capable of sick and twisted outcomes. Follow the pursuit of one man as he falls deeply into darkness and destroys his American Dream.
ShatteredCare is a story of a normal American family; a family you may know or a family just like yours. You hope you never need medical care but, when called upon, you expect prudent and competent care. This family expected no less, but what they got in return changed the lives of all around them. Follow a family who traveled through hell and placed a life into the hands of doctors with hopes of bringing their loved one safely back home. ShatteredCare is a story of my wife, Jeanette.
Intends to stimulate debate about the roles of religion and other ideologies in the suppression of rational thought in the modern world. This book brings to the fore issues such as indoctrination of children and adults into religious and other irrational ideas, which can lead to gross intolerance of other viewpoints.
The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused passions at many universities across the nation over fears for the academic enterprise and Australia's system of free, public university education. With much at stake, the Dawkins reforms became a hot topic of discussion across university campuses, and even between Vice-Chancellors and state education ministers. Vice-Chancellors were threatened with motions of no-confidence, staff argued furiously against change and students protested against fees, yet mostly to no avail. The reforms were introduced and universities became subject to new ways of funding by the Commonwealth that changed the way higher education was organised in Australia. This volume tells the story of the Dawkins reforms at Australia's oldest university, the University of Sydney, and the unlikely alliance between the University's Vice-Chancellor and the New South Wales government in the scramble for more students. Between 1988 and 1996, the University grew exponentially. At the same time it strove to preserve its honoured past despite profound change. Did this desire to preserve an older tradition compromise its effort to master the future?
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