Most Popular Books by Peter Willis

In the early 1970s Australia elected a populist left-wing government (the ''Whitlam government''). Official attitudes and policies were overturned. One sweeping change sought to reverse some of the terrible harm inflicted on Australia''s indigenous people. Equal pay for indigenous people and the first ''land rights'' policies were granted. Government funding was introduced for local Aboriginal self-development schemes. And at the top end of Western Australia, a young Catholic priest named Peter Willis found himself a new role as a would-be ''patron'' of the local Aboriginal people. Along with other white do-gooders in the town, Peter encouraged the Miriwoong Aboriginal people to apply for a federal grant to fund gardens and orchards and a general purpose truck at the Mirima Reserve. But while going along for the ''ride'', the Miriwoong people had their own, often unspoken, priorities. The ensuing debacle was both hilarious and painful for all concerned. Looking back (on what went wrong), Peter utilises ''exchange theory'' to demonstrate how the Aboriginal strategy of selective collaboration (''riding'' with their white patrons was also a method of resistance. This had ensured their survival during times of white brutality. But the strategy also facilitated growth under more humane regimes, allowing them eventually to re-claim and re-settle parts of their traditional lands.

In 1848, the year before he died, Chopin visited England, and gave a concert in Manchester. This text studies his time in Manchester and his friends there.

5G is facing serious challenges in its roadmap to massive machine type communications, ultra-reliable low latency and enhanced mobile broadband. This book discusses the 5G challenges and whether 6G will be an evolution or a revolution to fully support the age of machines, mmWave communications, and the new uses of the iPhone.

The differences between on- and off-job learning environments continue to be the subject of much debate, and the notion of complementarity between them is a perennial issue for most forms of training and development. This paper grapples with this issue in relation to apprentices in the building industry in Australia. It analyses the different perceptions of complementarity held by apprentices, host employers and college teachers. It strives to understand the diverse meanings of complementarity within the context of communities of practice in which apprentices acquire not only vocational knowledge and skills, but also a sense of identity through internalising sometimes complementary but often contradictory messages from their different learning environments. Their development towards the status of ''competent tradespersons'' heavily depends on their individual abilities to integrate and synthesise these messages.

"Loop avoidance is essential in switched networks to avoid broadcast storms. Logical Spanning Trees are constructed on the physical meshed topologies to overcome this issue and preserve the stability of the network. However, during topology changes as the result of a failure, frame forwarding latency or frame loss is introduced when re-converging and identifying new spanning tree paths. The Meshed Tree algorithm (MTA) offers a new approach. Meshed Trees support multiple tree branches from a single root to cut down on re-convergence latency on link failures. A Meshed Tree Protocol (MTP) based on MTA is currently under development as an IEEE standard. MTP is evaluated for convergence delay and frame loss in comparison with Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) on the GENI testbed."--Abstract.

Catholic priest views Aboriginal conversion as alliance with missionaries based on religious exchange and not patronage and dependence; history of Miriwung catholics at Kununurra.