After the Soviets occupied Estonia following the Second World War, the communist occupiers determined that certain elements of society, namely those with eduction, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills had to be eliminated. Thus in 1949 over 20,000 Estonian men, women, and children were deported in cattle cars to Siberia. Many of the children survived the ordeal, found ways to go to Russian schools, and returned to Estonia to professional careers. One such group was centered in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, and these now-retired men and women still get together annually to reminisce about their stolen childhoods. A few years ago they decided to write down their Siberian memories and collected these in a book, edited by Rita Metsis. Kristiina Paul was then asked to translate the book into English, and Peep Aarne Vesilind edited it for an English-speaking readership. This oral history is both of interest to historians as well as those who might not remember the suffering endured by the Estonian people during Stalinist times.

Stolen Childhoods: Stories of Estonian Children Deported to Siberia

Helle-Liis Help

Toomas Kodres

Olvi Kuusik

Kaljo Kaspre

Leo Lipre

Ants Lond

Mart Lond

Rita Metsis

Vello Ojaveski

Allan Onton

Karin Rummulus

Rein Saluvere

Hilmo Seppel

Aime Tootsi

Ivi Peekmann

Malle Vesilind

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The accreditation agency for engineering schools, ABET, requires all programs to show that engineering students have received practice and instruction in both public speaking and technical writing. This book as been widely used in engineering schools, primarily in the senior level castone courses, as a means of assisting student in preparing for their oral presentations and the written design documents.

Public Speaking and Technical Writing Skills for Engineering Students

Vesilind, P. Aarne

Business & Money

Engineers schools are required by ABET to offer instruction in professional ethics. This highly readable book is a short summary of engineering ethics, starting with the more familiar issues in academic integrity, and moving to ethics problems in professional engineering. An instructor's manual, with a DVD, is available upon adoption.

The Right Thing to Do: An Ethics Guide for Engineering Students

While engineering has historically provided tools necessary for defending our country and freedom throughout the world, is it also possible that engineers have a central role in the promotion of peace,a peace that might make such war unnecessary? That is, can engineers use their education and skills to proactively encourage peace in our world to practice peace engineering? Is the accumulation of technical skill enough for engineers to be effective in practicing peace engineering, or do they need social, political, communication, ethical, and legal skills as well? How can engineering educators respond to the challenges of preparing engineers to practice peace engineering? Finally, what opportunities are there for engineers wanting to work proactively in the promotion of peace? This book is a compilation of papers devoted to defining and promoting peace engineering, originating at a conference held at Bucknell University.

Peace Engineering: When Personal Values and Engineering Careers Converge

P. Aarne Vesilind

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The Right Thing to Do,an Ethics Guide for Engineering Students

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Hiding in the woods from the Soviet deporters and then escaping by sheer luck and pluck from the rapid takeover of their country, Estonia, Imbi and her mother traveled during the last days of the Second World War through Poland and Germany, finally ending up in the United States as displaced persons. Imbi's story, as told by Nancy Burke, is one of courage and perseverance that reminds us today that human spirit in the face of great odds can and will triumph.

If I Could Paint the Moon Black: Imbi Peebo's Wartime Journey from Estonia to America

Nancy Burke

This Second Edition of Public Speaking and Technical Writing Skills for Engineering Students has been significantly updated and revised in response to the needs of instructors who have used it in their classes. The most important changes are the inclusion of a major section on writing style and the use of PowerPoint software. Also new is a chapter on the skills necessary for conversing one-on-one with clients, reporters, lawyers, and prospective employers. The last chapter of this book is a discussion on the ethics of engineering communication. In using this book for instruction, the ethics of communication can be introduced separately, or, as is the case with most instructors, the ideas in the last chapter can be infused throughout the discussions on speaking and writing. When I taught this material I used three class periods for the writing and speaking topics and introduced ethical concerns throughout the course. An alternate method is to introduce ethics immediately following the chapters on speaking and writing. Either way, ABET emphasizes that ethics represents a major part of an engineering education and has made this a requirement for accreditation. Introducing professional ethics with technical communication skills affords a useful and efficient way of covering both topics. An instructor's manual for this book is available. Please contact Lakeshore Press, P. O. Box 92, Woodsville, NH 03785, telephone 603-747-8083.|This Second Edition of Public Speaking and Technical Writing Skills for Engineering Students has been significantly updated and revised in response to the needs of instructors who have used it in their classes. The most important changes are the inclusion of a major section on writing style and the use of PowerPoint software. Also new is a chapter on the skills necessary for conversing one-on-one with clients, reporters, lawyers, and prospective employers. The last chapter of this book is a discussion on the ethics of engineering communication. In using this book for instruction, the ethics of communication can be introduced separately, or, as is the case with most instructors, the ideas in the last chapter can be infused throughout the discussions on speaking and writing. When I taught this material I used three class periods for the writing and speaking topics and introduced ethical concerns throughout the course. An alternate method is to introduce ethics immediately following the chapters on speaking and writing. Either way, ABET emphasizes that ethics represents a major part of an engineering education and has made this a requirement for accreditation. Introducing professional ethics with technical communication skills affords a useful and efficient way of covering both topics. An instructor's manual for this book is available. Please contact Lakeshore Press, P. O. Box 92, Woodsville, NH 03785, telephone 603-747-8083.

Public Speaking and Technical Writing Skills for Engineering Students, Second Edition

Lea Nurske

The success of Estonian Jokes (Volume I) made Volume II inevitable. Estonians are funny people, and they have great jokes that are told on their neighbors the Finns, Latvians, Swedes, and of course the Russians. But most of the humor is still self-deprecating and thoughtful. This book, as is Volume I of Estonian Jokes, is a collection of Estonian jokes from three periods of Estonian history -- early Estonian, up to an including independence, the Soviet time, and finally modern Estonia.

Estonian Jokes: Volume II

Travel

Peep Aarne Vesilind

Europe

These are the stories of five Estonian officers who were classmates at the Estonian Military Technical Academy during the years of 1936 thru 1940. Their detailed memoirs start with the Soviet occupation of Estonia and the outbreak of World War II. All were commissioned 2nd lieutenants upon graduation from the Academy in 1940 and then were immediately incorporated into the Soviet Red Army. When Germany attacked the USSR, all five deserted and fought alongside the Germans on the Eastern Front with the sole purpose of keeping the Soviets out of Estonia. Fate allowed all of them to escape to the West, and Carl Orav, the son of one of the Estonian officers, has translated and edited their stories.

We Were Estonian Soldiers: World War II exploits of classmates from the Estonian Military Technical Academy

Carl Orav

It was September 1944 when seven-year-old Elin, her mother, and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet tanks and boarded a fishing boat full of refugees heading for Sweden. Instead of Sweden they ended up in war-torn Germany and from that day on their lives ceased to be normal in the civilized understanding of the word. In order to explain to the child why they were constantly on the move, grandmother told her they were like the Israelites, on the way to the Promised Land. Three generations of Baltic refugees fled to the West and when the war was over, due to the decisions made at Yalta, they lost their countries and became lifelong exiles. This is Elin s story of the horrors of war through the eyes of a small child, followed by an even more confusing peacetime in class-conscious post-war England, where highly educated professionals became servants and were discouraged from rising above their station, and teens, too old to take the 11+ examination, were denied further education for life. As the adult DP s struggled to regain their lost dignity, Elin struggled to find her own identity in the two worlds she inhabited, in which Estonia was rapidly becoming a myth. After the Soviet Union collapsed and mother and grandmother were dead, Elin, now an adult, returned to Estonia to seek out that myth. Instead she found reality and a brand new country that had been undergoing its own struggle for survival after fifty years of Communism.

Into Exile: A life story of war and peace

Elin Toona Gottschalk

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