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The first edition of Invertebrate Zoology offered undergraduates studying the biology and evolution of invertebrate animals a new approach to the subject. While the text of this second edition has been revised significantly, the origional format has been maintained and enhanced.

Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia (fifth edition) is about youth and crime in Australia, and the institutions and agencies associated with the administration of juvenile justice. It provides an accessible overview to the main concepts and issues of Juvenile Justice and critically analyses the associated principles, policies and practices.

The sixth edition of The Research Process is an easy-to-use introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods. The book emphasizes the process of research in an accessible and readable way, taking a non-statistical and non-mathematical approach for new students.

Epidemiology 2nd edition is a methodological and practical guide to conducting evidence-based quantitative research in all health sciences. With a multidisciplinary focus, it integrates a wealth of case studies and examples to demonstrate the application of theory to real-life research and draws from a broad spectrum of health disciplines.

Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life (Second Edition) uses stories to explain the journey from ''new media in communication'' to ''digital media is communication'' and provide a clear introduction to communication and media theory and practice. For Generations Y and Z, digital media is now embedded into most aspects of daily life and integrated into contemporary communication as much as speaking, reading and writing. This book encourages readers tounderstand how they use ''new'' media to do ''old'' things and explores how concepts of communication, digital media and everyday life intersect with one another. The first section part of the book introduces the building blocks of communication; its basic tools, devices and approaches. The second section part takes these ideas and concepts in the first part and applies them to ''new'' media: it considers including ideology in film and television; organisational communication; and values in the new digital world; and how identity, privacy, deception and truth have been redefined. The third part section part looks at communication today-including theredefinition of identity, privacy, deception and truth- and explores what it might be like to live in an increasingly digital world.

Australian Business Law 2016 discusses the main areas of the law affecting business and includes case examples, references to legislation, links to the main government (and other) websites and flow charts and diagrams to support explanations.

Organisations are growing in a complex technology- driven environment and chief executives have expressed the need for more creative employees to steer innovation. Be the Innovators provides readers with ideas for benchmarking best practices in innovation, empowering creative excellence, leveraging collective growth and connecting a spectrum of individual and team ideas. Based on the belief that innovations change peopleas lives, Peter Ling provides insights into innovative individuals, companies and countries. He illustrates how to empower employees to engage in corporate mission, values and vision.

The Property Law Guidebook 2nd Edition is for law students taking a property law course in any Australian jurisdiction. The text has a focus on learning the 'basics' of property law and on assessment preparation.

The Business Organisations Law Guidebook 2nd Edition (formally Company Law Guidebook) is for law students taking a business organisations/company law unit in an Australia jurisdiction.

Diversity in the Early Years focuses on issues of intercultural significance in early childhood education and early childhood teacher education.

Punishment and Sentencing uses a case study approach to bring to life our shifting attitudes to punishment, and its relationship to changing technologies and programs of control.

Writing Right with Text Types is a practical and accessible text for pre-service teachers to learn about teaching writing.

Contemporary Police Practice is an introduction to policing in the Australian context. It explores the history of Australian policing for the purpose of understanding contemporary police practice; reviews the core functions of police; and critically analyses the foundational research which has led to significant strategic, program, technology and administrative innovations.

This book illuminates Australian soldiers' voices, feelings and thoughts, through exploration of the words and language used during the Great War.

Evidence-based practice introduces nursing and midwifery students to the basic principles of research methods. This second edition begins with an introduction to the importance of research and how it relates to evidence-based practice. Students are then introduced to qualitative, quantitative and mixed research design methods, sampling techniques, data collection methods and analysis procedures, collection methods and analysis procedures.

Public Relations Campaigns is designed to guide current and aspiring Public Relations professionals through the campaign development and implementation process. It illustrates the application of planning theory to real life scenarios to provide a practical approach for planning a successful campaign.

The fourth edition of Terry Flew's New Media combines a comprehensive overview of theories of new media with contemporary cases studies.

Law and Justice in Australia takes a historical, critical and contextual approach to law and justice and offers students a mix of stories, cases, article extracts and explanatory commentary.

Australian Foreign Policy: Controversies and Debates provides an introduction to a range of debates, issues and problems in Australia's foreign policy and foreign relations. Readers will be introduced to a range of historical and contemporary debates that have shaped, and will continue to influence, Australian foreign policy.

Management and Practice in Health and Human Service Organisations is written for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are seeking to become managers in health and human service organisations, It identifies, explores and addresses key policy, planning and process issues, within the context of relevant and practice-based examples and case scenarios.

Becoming a Lawyer: Success at Law School 3rd edition edition provides practical, experience-based advice for students studying or considering studying law.

An Introduction to Public Relations and Communication Management, 2e brings together an international and local focus with research from academic researchers, case studies and firsthand accounts of public relations in practice. It includes tools for practice for students to help them put the theory into practice. It helps students to understand and appreciate the skills that will be required to work in Public Relations and gives students a strongerappreciation of the context and theory, to develop practitioners who are better prepared and capable of adding value to their organisations.

Written to assist pre-service teachers to understand how drama can be used in an integrated learning approach, Drama: Learning Connections in Primary Schools examines approaches for involving students in drama and presents strategies for using drama as a base for social learning.

Examines how communications practitioners deliver messages to the media, how the media receives the messages and how the media deals with the message prior to dissemination to the public. This text takes a comprehensive look at the different types of media in Australia and examines how to compose media material for specific types of media.

This book introduces the dynamics of the Australian political system. It sets out the key concepts and institutions of democratic politics and demonstrates how the actors and institutions of Australian politics interact and develop.

Society, Culture and Health, 2nd Edition introduces sociology to students studying nursing, providing framework from which to consider issues such as chronic illness and disability, health in the media, and changing illness patterns in Australian society.

Provides a systematic overview of Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of the English-speaking learner.

Ethics for Health Care, fourth edition, assists students to develop their skills in ethical reasoning, and to deal with contemporary ethical issues faced by professionals in the everyday health care setting.

Essential Academic Skills encourages and supports students to develop their skills to become the best learners they can be. It takes a step-by-step approach to the essential skills required to complete a university degree, and provides activities which give students the power to understand and improve how they learn.