Language and Development - Teachers in a Changing World comprises twenty-one case accounts contributed by language education professionals working in the context of international development. Frank and stimulating, the contributions explore the implementation of interactive educational approaches in ten Asian countries. The accounts draw on real-life experiences from countries which collectively have been under-represented in the literature to date: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. The issues discussed will be familiar to those working in similar situations throughout the world, as many questions are raised and answered in the lively depictions of classroom practice, project management and funding relationships. The editors' introductory and concluding sections provide a descriptive conceptual framework for the practice-based accounts, while allowing the reader the freedom to interpret the meanings and the theoretical implications of each account for themselves.

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Major Jake Thorpe is assigned to Quang Tin Province to investigate a murder. The investigation is tangled and thwarted by Lt. Colonel King, Jake's unscrupulous new boos; by Colonel Biet, the corrupt Province Chief; and by the perplexing problems of war and intercultural differences.Concurrently, Sgt. Mark Fellogese, a radio operator in the US tactical operations center, has a love affair with Co Li, who is torn between her love for Mark and her duty to her father. The climax is explosive and inevitable.This novel is not intended to be a "pro-Vietnam" book, or an "anti-Vietnam" book. The odds are high that that this book will not change the already held opinions of any reader. Counterparts is fictional and its purpose is to entertain! However, readers who were not over there during this most interesting time of our history may well find a different perspective than one they had held before, for the advisory war was indeed different, even unique!The author employs his own experiences in Vietnam and official Pentagon historical documents to ensure realism, credibility and the warmth of the Vietnamese people.

An ethnographic study of the Egyptian film industry The enormous influence of the Egyptian film industry on popular culture and collective imagination across the Arab world is widely acknowledged, but little is known about its concrete workings behind the scenes. Making Film in Egypt provides a fascinating glimpse into the lived reality of commercial film production in today’s Cairo, with an emphasis on labor hierarchies, production practices, and the recent transition to digital technologies. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation among production workers, on-set technicians, and artistic crew members, Chihab El Khachab sets out to answer a simple question: how do filmmakers deal with the unpredictable future of their films? The answer unfolds through a journey across the industry’s political economy, its labor processes, its technological infrastructure, its logistical and artistic work, and its imagined audiences. The result is a complex and nuanced portrait of the Arab world’s largest film industry, rich in ethnographic detail and theoretical innovations in media anthropology, media studies, and Middle East anthropology.