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Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, 2e, comprehensively covers contemporary practice skills used in social work and other human service professions across a variety of contexts.

Thorough coverage of the major legal issues affecting Australian business involved in international trade, enabling students to understand both the law itself and its applications. Leon Trakman, University of NSW; Bruno Zeller, Victoria University, Australia.

Drama Teaching in English examines the relationship between drama and English in the contemporary secondary classroom and covers the major developments within drama, theatre and English education.

This series (released in a new edition every 5 years) captures the key characteristics, policy decisions and activities of the Australian government and its diplomatic staff during the preceeding 5 year period. It examines Australia's major bilateral relationships and central questions in policy-making and execution, as well as emerging or developing issues: in this volume, these chapters cover relations with Africa and with India, and innovations in the managementof policy-making.

Principles of Planning Law discusses the principles that underlie planning law in Australia. Rather than focusing entirely on the statutory regime of planning in each State/Territory, it considers the decisions of courts and statutes and relates the principles to the particular Australian planning systems by way of example.

Becoming a Nurse 2nd Edition is a clear and concise introduction to the contexts of the contemporary nursing environment. The second edition takes an evidence-based approach to equip student nurses with the core knowledge and skills necessary for their undergraduate program and clinical placement and to take into their careers. Written with every day, accessible language and a systematic structure, Becoming a Nurse covers key topics in nursingincluding the Australian healthcare system, communication technologies, leadership and evidence-based practice. Each chapter is rich with features to support student learning and competency development, and has been updated throughout to include the latest references and research in nursing.

Social Policy in Australia 3rd edition guides students in understanding the meaning and operation of social policy in Australia. Taking a critical approach, and placing their analysis of social policy in an international context, the authors provide a framework for understanding the roles and relationships of the key players and institutions that influence the decision-making process.

Australian Family Law Teaching Materials, Second Edition, includes carefully selected primary and secondary materials to assist with teaching and learning family law.

Families, Relationships and Intimate Life, Second Edition is a thorough exploration of the controversies, contradictions and broad patterns that characterise contemporary relationships and families. Beginning with the conceptual scaffolding of families in their historical and cultural context this text includes the key cultural differences of ethnicity, class and sexuality.

The New Law of Torts third edition continues to question whether foundational principles and policies of torts law, reflect the social and moral values of modern Australian society. Living up to its name as The New Law of Torts, this book has been up-dated with the latest legislative and judicial development as well as the recent major cases, reflecting the changing nature of tort law.

The New Law of Torts third edition continues to question whether foundational principles and policies of torts law, reflect the social and moral values of modern Australian society. Living up to its name as The New Law of Torts, this book has been up-dated with the latest legislative and judicial development as well as the recent major cases, reflecting the changing nature of tort law.

Language and Learning provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the nature and function of language, language learning, and its implications for teaching. Written specifically for pre-service teachers it covers a range of language theories and uses relevant examples for applying them in the classroom.

Social Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand explains and analyses the development of contemporary social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Policing in Context introduces students to the diverse roles, duties, powers and problems of policing in Australia.

Contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of the case and statute law on unjust enrichment in Australia. J Edelman, University Western Australia.

Government and Democracy in Australia, second edition takes the opposition between politics (understood as government) and democracy as its underlying theme. It examines a variety of factors that affect politics in Australia such as globalisation, the media and the internet as well as the basic aspects of Australian politics that must be addressed in a first year text.

Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials provides a comprehensive and detailed study of this fast moving field of law. It has been fully updates to reflect recent changes in legislation and includes new chapters on Internet Taxation, Univited Material and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS).

Energising Leadership is based on a key idea: that professional leadership is a process of deliberately and transparently influencing the human energy that is available to get things done, how that energy is used, and how it is maintained and replenished. It focuses on the practice of leadership, on leadership-in-action: what people actually do to engage the energy of others in roles and contexts in which leadership work is located.

This fourth edition of Fran Baum's The New Public Health is the most comprehensive book available on the new public health. It offers readers the opportunity to gain a sense of the scope of the new public health visions, and combines theoretical and practical material to assist with understanding the social and economic determinants of health.

This book explores the language of the Australian convict era, taking the form of a dictionary with supporting quotations from contemporary texts, including newspapers, government reports and document, comtemporary observations, and novels.

Based on the author's and thirteen other patients' experience of hip replacement, All About Hip Replacement equips those thinking about having the operation with the appropriate information, and will help patients to make a full recovery.