Books published by Oxford University Press Australia

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.