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Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education, Second Edition, helps students to understand the nature of oral language, reading and writing, providing the essential knowledge needed to guide the language development and learning needs of young children.

Teaching Literacies: Pedagogies and Diversity, Second Edition addresses the teaching of literacy in relation to the middle years of schooling. It provides the foundations for understanding some of the issues and challenges in working with middle years' students in the current Australian context. All chapters are theoretically grounded in a socio-cultural perspective of literacy.

Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in the Primary School, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of how to teach in the humanities and social sciences areas of the curriculum, with practical strategies and contemporary teaching techniques to take into the classroom.

A guide to Australian courts of law, this publication traces the development of the legal system from its English colonial roots, as well provides an account of modern legislation and jurisdiction. It is useful for law students and high school legal studies students.

Australian Criminal Justice provides a complete overview of the criminal justice process. It analyses the influences that shape criminal justice and critically examines the institutional and administrative features of its operation in all jurisdictions.

Social Work: Field of Practice Third edition introduces students to a variety of fields of social work practice which includes Cultural Diversity, Indigenous Australians, Child Protection and Mental Health. It examines emerging fields in order to acknowledge the rich diversity and possibilities of the profession.

Mental Health Nursing: Dimensions of Praxis 3rd Edition prepares student nurses by equipping them with innovative skills and essential knowledge for their mental health careers. It shows how to apply assessment processes to treatment practice, work with clients with a range of disorders, and apply nursing intervention strategies in order to achieve best practice outcomes.

Foundations of Taxation Law 2018 provides a clear and concise introduction to the policy, principles and practice underpinning the complex Australian federal taxation system.

Core Tax Legislation & Study Guide 2018 makes it easy for students to stay across the tax changes by providing all the key tax provisions they need in one handy volume.

Written by three leading corporate law experts, Commercial Applications of Company Law focuses on the ordinary events and issues faced by companies and their advisers, explaining and applying the law in a manner that is understandable and relevant.

A new casebook for contract law - specifically designed to accompany Contract Law, Fifth Edition to provide students with ready access to key contract law cases.

Grounded in theory and research, with links to teaching practice, Education in the Arts helps students apply what they are learning to new contexts, and encourages them to become reflective and mindful practitioners. Students can continue to use this book as they become practising teachers, drawing on how to implement the various arts practices in a school setting.

Marketing: Theory, Evidence, Practice tells the story of marketing, its theories, concepts and real life applications, while providing a realistic overview of the marketing world. It demonstrates the practical application of marketing skills, illustrated by case studies and practitioner profiles, and gives students industry insight that will support them in their careers.

Written by leading experts, Drug Use in Australian Society, Second Edition brings together all the relevant concepts, theories and practices pertinent to understanding alcohol and other drug use in Australian society

Working with People explores the place and challenges of communication, interviewing and counselling skills within the context of social work and human service practice. In so doing it encourages the reader to reflect upon their own communication style and to develop good communication skills in order to work constructively with others about their needs and rights.

The Australian Tax Casebook covers the most important cases in Australian taxation law, presented in over 630 easy- to-read summaries.

Many administrative law principles are abstract and difficult to apply. The readings in this collection are longer than extracts in a typical cases and material volume. This will help students develop legal reasoning skills and gain a better understanding of how the principles of administrative law are applied and elaborated in specific and factual contexts.

Written by leading academic labour lawyers, The Law of Work, now in its second edition, presents a principled approach to its subject matter and offers a re-evaluation of the nature, scope, and importance of employment and labour law. It continues to be the most insightful, critical and up-to-date text in this area.

More and more Maori words are moving into general use in New Zealand English. This handy dictionary brings together many hundreds of Maori words that have entered NZ English and provides a lively commentary on changing NZ society through the accompanying citations.

Human Resource Management in Australia provides a clear and accessible introduction to the contexts within which human resource management operates. This book covers all of the key functions of attraction, maintaining, and developing human resources including recruitment and selection, training, development and career management and human resources information systems and HR metrics.

With insightful commentary and specially selected cases, statutes and materials, Contract Law 3e explains and illustrates the fundamental principles and rules of Australian contract law.

Case Management: Inclusive Community Practice is a consumer-directed social work text that provides health and human services workers with the theory, knowledge and skills to help the vulnerable.

Strategic Communication (Second Edition) deals with the principles behind strategic communication planning. It covers the professional practice steps involved in researching, planning, writing and implementing a communication strategy. This book links strategic communication campaign planning to business activities around short, medium and long-term needs and to how organisations deal with issues.

Understanding Development and Learning assists future teachers in developing their understanding of the process of learning. It seeks to enhance their craft as educators by explaining the principles of educational psychology through contemporary research and ideas drawn from a range of sources, including neuroeducation or neuroscience as it applies to education.

Crisis Proofing introduces readers to the concept of crisis proofing the corporation to help business executives and communication professionals recognise that a crisis is one of the greatest financial and reputational risks to an organisation. It provides practical steps on what can be done to reduce the chances of a crisis and how to minimise the damage if a crisis should occur.

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.