Mission 85

Mission 85

Author: Ivo de Jong

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 081171201X

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"Drawing on vivid firsthand accounts from American and German pilots and crews, this minute-by-minute chronicle reconstructs the fierce combat in the skies over Holland, describing the mistakes and misfortunes that left targets undestroyed and soured the anticipated 'milk run'"--Page 4 of cover.


On His Majesty's Service

On His Majesty's Service

Author: Jacqueline D'Arcy

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-07-05

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1838599304

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George Augustus Robinson's voice, both in the past and in the contemporary world, is an important one. He has been used and sometimes abused by historians and others in debates about colonisation and Aboriginality.


Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index


Stolen Motherhood

Stolen Motherhood

Author: Anne Maree Payne

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1793618631

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The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families gained national attention in Australia following the Bringing Them Home Report in 1997. However, the voices of Indigenous parents were largely missing from the Report. The Inquiry attributed their lack of testimony to the impact of trauma and the silencing impact of parents’ overwhelming sense of guilt and despair; a submission by Link-Up NSW commented on Aboriginal mothers being “unwilling and unable to speak about the immense pain, grief and anguish that losing their children had caused them.” This book explores what happened to Aboriginal mothers who had children removed and why they have overwhelmingly remained silent about their experiences. Identifying the structural barriers to Aboriginal mothering in the Stolen Generations era, the author examines how contemporary laws, policies and practices increased the likelihood of Aboriginal child removal and argues that negative perceptions of Aboriginal mothering underpinned removal processes, with tragic consequences. This book makes an important contribution to understanding the history of the Stolen Generations and highlights the importance of designing inclusive truth-telling processes that enable a diversity of perspectives to be shared.


Establishing the Rules of the Game

Establishing the Rules of the Game

Author: Louis Massicotte

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780802085641

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There are an astonishing variety of election laws across contemporary democratic societies. In Establishing the Rules of the Game, Louis Massicotte, André Blais, and Antoine Yoshinaka provide the first thorough examination of these laws. The study incorporates original data collected from more than sixty democracies around the world, and touches on oft-ignored, yet extremely important, aspects of election laws. The countries covered by the study include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Romania, and the United Kingdom. The authors focus on six dimensions of election laws: the right to vote, the right to be a candidate, the electoral register, the agency in charge of the election, the procedure for casting votes, and the procedure to sort out the winners and losers. Massicotte, Blais, and Yoshinaka uncover underlying patterns, explaining why certain types of country tend to adopt a given sets of rules. In general, former colonies adopt the same laws as their former mother country. There is also a tendency for established democracies to be more inclusive than non-established ones. The authors point out sociological patterns and review normative and practical arguments for and against each set of rules, providing invaluable information for students of elections and democratic theory as well as election practicioners.