Bücher von David Turner

In this poignant memoir, anthropologist and author David Turner tells of how he played the yiraga --- a musical instrument played by the aboriginal peoples of Australia --- for his friend and former partner Alexa, following her death in 2020. Turner describes the meaning of the yiraga within Australian aboriginal culture, and how he learned to play the instrument over the course of several decades living with and learning from indigenous peoples on Australia's Groote Eylandt archipelago. The result is a profound meditation on the meaning of life and death.FROM THE BOOK:"Grief might prove debilitating at first and serve to clear the mind of all thoughts and distractions in preparation, except that the act of playing the yiraga induces a becalming state of mind/being in which only the sense of breathing remains. This is effected by the repetitive rhythms of the mouth-sound tempos (which there is no need to sound to oneself once one becomes adept at playing), of which there are three: degul degul, quick; degul-degula-gula, medium; and degula degula, slow. It is in a becalmed but empty state of mind/being that one potentially enters a mediating zone between the "real" and the "transcendent" and is able to open a portal for the departed in their journey." Illustrated with more than 40 full-colour images

This book presents a model for involving school leaders in the research process and gives specific examples of how they are contributing to the generation of knowledge about their complex work. Its genesis is in the assertion that people who are undertaking such roles offer valuable insights and opportunities that should inform school leadership practice. Dr David Turner, with Professor David Lynch of Southern Cross University, brings together contributions from school leaders undertaking research into their profession, to present a collection of chapters and shine a light on School Leader Research.

The characters are not naturalistic portraits but rather caricatures of contemporary types. As in the older comedies their names suggest their identities (Midway, Makepiece, Freeman, etc). The model Midland householder, Fred Midway, sedulously climbing the business and social ladders, self-educated by correspondence courses, with his material yardstick, his oratory, self-knowledge and pathetic faith in himself, provides a brilliant centre to a highly entertaining and satiricial play.4 women, 5 men

The author is not the first to have offered single sheets to his friends long before seeking their eventual publication. Perhaps at the boundary of hesitation lay the writer's professional background which had no formal parallel to the unique voice of literature.David Turner was born in England and took degrees including a doctorate from University of London, followed by a Fellowship at The University of California at Berkeley and later an MBA from Columbia University, New York.He has lived for many years in the USA and longer still in Asia, both as a research scientist but latterly as a banker. But the fine arts and music - as a painter and on the piano - not to mention works of literature in several languages, have always been central to the author. He now resides in Singapore where he is married to a local Chinese and has one daughter. It is now in later life that he has chosen to stage the first of his offerings in The Collected Works, comprising his poetry written over the last seven years.