What I Saw on the Hibiscus Airship

C. L. Heng

$43. 95

A girl on a great journey to find her destiny (命运), realizes the power of wrong doings, unsung heroes, and most of all, love. What I Saw on the Hibiscus Airship is a story of adventure and family.

The Tiger and the Leopardess

Ho Khong Ming

$23. 05

An old hungry tiger is on the hunt for a meal and meets an unhappy leopardess (雌豹). Can enemies trust each other? In this story, The Tiger and the Leopardess, will hate or love influence their relationship?

Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals

Hong Poh Fan

$40. 65

Hong Poh Fan explores the changes public hospitals have undertaken (着手) to improve services in Malaysia. He shares lessons learned over a fifteen-year period of hospital privatization in this detailed examination of how to improve health care.

Escape to America

Tetsuo Fukuyama

$38. 45

Fukuyama decided to leave his homeland and experiment with a completely different lifestyle: living in New York City. This story of how the author's courage and determination helped him survive in difficult conditions will encourage readers to find their own happiness.

David Unaipon was an inventor and writer. He was the first Aboriginal (土著的) Australian to write published (出版的) books. He also worked hard to make life better for Aboriginal people.

David Unaipon was born in South Australia, in 1872. As a young man, he loved to read and was interested in science and music. He thought a lot about new ways to fix engineering problems. Between the years 1909 and 1944, Unaipon made nine important inventions. He also made drawings for a helicopter (直升机) design. He got the idea from the Australian boomerang (回飞镖) and the way it moved through the air. This happened in 1914, before we had helicopters.

Unaipon lived most of his life in Adelaide and worked for the Aborigines' Friends' Association. He worked and travelled around southeastern Australia for fifty years. Sometimes, while travelling from town to town, he was told he couldn't stay in a hotel because he was black, so he understood the problems of racism (种族主义).

In 1925, Unaipon became the first Aboriginal writer to be published. His first published writing was an article in Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper. The article had the title: "Aboriginals: Their Traditions and Customs". He wrote many other articles for newspapers and magazines, getting publicity about the rights of Aboriginal people. He also wrote about the need for white and black people to work together and the need for equal rights for both black and white Australians. He was well educated in both cultures, and in 1929 he helped with a government survey of Aboriginal health and interests.

David Unaipon died in 1967 at the age of 95, in the same year that Aboriginal people were first counted as part of Australia's population. In 1995, David Unaipon's picture was put on the Australian fifty-dollar note, with a drawing of one of his inventions.

Social networks are a big part of nearly every teenager's life in this day and age. Many teens have QQ, WeChat, or Weibo but little do a lot of teens know that they can be held responsible for everything they post for the rest of their lives. Everything you post online is part of a digital footprint that can always be traced (追踪) back to you. That includes every post, even every like, comment, favorite and forward that you have ever committed. All pictures you've posted or will post have been stored in a digital database, and it is the companies' right to keep all of these documents that you believe to have been deleted or hidden.

With every post comes a consequence; whether it is good or bad, what you post could be seen by anyone. That is why you have to be very careful of what you decide to post or comment.

If you think you are safe from Servite finding out about one funny comment you made six months ago on a meaningless picture, you are probably wrong. Recently, a senior, Aaron, at Servite learned this lesson the hard way this year. He wrote a series of ugly comments towards Connelly girls on a web page, ignoring potential consequences.

This student, however, did have to face consequences from Servite as he was removed from all of his leadership roles in the school. Surprisingly enough, he fully agreed with his punishment handed down by the administration and fully understood why he was given such severe discipline (处罚). "When you agree to come to Servite, you are agreeing to defend what Servite stands for," the young man said. "That continues from 8 am to 2 pm. It's at all times."

So, next time you're about to post something you think could be received as offensive or inappropriate, think twice, or don't press the "Send".