Semester two is fast approaching, and it’s time to get prepared!
Let us take away your exam stress with our guide to the top textbooks and study guides to help your ace your semester.
Check out the ultimate study guide below.
Education
Teaching Make A Difference
Teaching: Making a Difference, 5th Edition is a practical text that brings the classroom to life for your students. It contains all the theoretical foundations and is supported by digital resources to demonstrate real-world applications.
This market-leading text equips your students with all the tools, activities and teaching plans they need. With videos of real classes in action, as well as interviews with graduates, this resource prepares students for what to expect at the start of their teaching career.
The new fifth edition also addresses the changes in digital technology that the world has recently experienced and arms your students with the ICT competencies they’ll soon need to use in the classroom.
Inclusive Education for the 21st Century
Inclusive Education for the 21st Century provides a rigorous overview of the foundational principles of inclusive education and the barriers to access and participation. It explores evidence-based strategies to support diverse learners, including specific changes in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices, and the use of data. It addresses the needs of children with physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities, as well as those with complex learning profiles, including mental health issues.
With chapters from leading experts from Australia and the UK, Inclusive Education for the 21st Century addresses common issues in both primary and secondary schools. Underpinned throughout by research evidence, it is designed to assist educators to develop the deep knowledge required to make inclusive education a reality in all schools.
Language, Literacy And Early Childhood Education
A comprehensive textbook on language and literacy development in early childhood Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education, third edition, focuses on language and literacy development in children from birth to age eight, with a particular emphasis on four to eight-year-olds.
It describes pedagogical practices that will allow pre-service teachers to plan for play-based learning while also employing other approaches such as explicit teaching, collaborative learning and learning through exploration and discovery. Making explicit links to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum, this book is based on current research and theoretical perspectives and includes practical strategies and activities to equip pre-service teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support young children’s learning of language and literacy.
Law
Principles of Taxation Law
Taxation law can be an incredibly complex subject to absorb, particularly when time is limited. Written specifically for students, Principles of Taxation Law 2023 brings much-needed clarity to this area of law.
Every major aspect of the Australian tax system is covered. Students completing courses to satisfy the Tax Practitioners Board will find all the material they need, with chapters on topics such as goods and services tax, superannuation, offsets, partnerships, capital gains tax, trusts, company tax, tax administration and state taxes. All chapters have been thoroughly updated to ensure contemporary issues are covered.
Crime and Justice
Fully revised and updated, this sixth edition offers an exhaustive guide to criminal justice and criminology that can be readily adapted to any University course. It covers a wide array of topics including: different forms of crime – from hyper-visible street-level offences to less visible ‘corporate’ crimes perpetrated in lofty office towers; who commits crimes (and why); who are the victims of crime; and how society seeks to combat and reduce crime.
Connecting With Law
Connecting With Law will challenge your assumptions and develop your critical thinking skills while sharing the essential practical knowledge for you to succeed in law. It examines both the specialised frameworks within the law and the law industry itself, looking into the many career pathways you can pursue, new ways of working post-COVID and consideration of your wellbeing in the workplace throughout your studies and legal career.
Fully revised to incorporate the latest legal developments in Australia, the fifth edition introduces the foundations of law and the Australian legal system, providing a comprehensive introduction to skills and content to form the basis for legal analysis and knowledge development across their law degree. The text will engage you, using contemporary examples and case studies to help you connect with the law. Discussions on new topics including strategic litigation, the intersectionality of the law and innovation in practice allows us to understand how the law is evolving and how this may impact our roles in the industry.
Nursing
Understanding Pathophysiology
As Australia and New Zealand’s pre-eminent textbook on the subject, Understanding Pathophysiology has supported thousands of nursing students to understand the basis of disease and how this applies to clinical practice. Pathophysiology refers to the study of disease processes, and builds on students’ understanding of anatomy and physiology. This textbook makes complex subject matter easy to learn, recall and apply to clinical practice.
Editors Dr Judy Craft and Dr Christopher Gordon are senior academics with extensive teaching experience in educating nurses. They have structured and written the book in a way that makes it easy to follow and prepares students with a comprehensive understanding of pathophysiology for clinical practice.
Harvard’s Nursing Guide to Drugs
Trusted by nursing and midwifery students and clinicians in Australia since 1983, the 11th edition of Havard’s Nursing Guide to Drugs is an indispensable tool for reliable, accurate and up-to-date drug information.
The guide is easy to access and user-friendly. It provides all the medication information you need to know, with drugs classified by both therapeutic class and body system, and referred to by both trade and generic name. The book includes best practice in drug administration as well as patient teaching information to improve care.
This edition has been comprehensively reviewed and updated to ensure that usage, dose, side effects, contraindications and precautions are consistent with current Australian pharmaceutical guidelines.
Yatdjuligin 3rd Edition
Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians, encompassing the perspectives of both the client and the health practitioner.
Written for all nurses and midwives, this book addresses the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and mainstream health services and introduces readers to practice and research in a variety of healthcare contexts.
This new edition has been fully updated to reflect current research and documentation, with an emphasis on cultural safety. Three new chapters cover Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing, social and emotional wellbeing in mainstream mental health services and quantitative research. Chapter content is complemented by case study scenarios, author reflections and reflection questions.
Psychology
Basic Personal Counselling
This ninth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on self-care and the use of technology in counselling, as well as examples of counselling skills in practice. It encourages you to find ways of testing out your assumptions and discover if there is more that you could do or learn to improve and develop in your chosen career. Journaling, video recording with playback and reflecting team supervision are explained as opportunities to process and monitor your practice, along with easy-to-use templates to record your progress.
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association,
Known for its authoritative, easy-to-use reference and citation system, the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, language, and tone that will result in powerful, concise, and elegant scholarly communication. It guides users through the scholarly writing process – from the ethics of authorship to reporting research through publication. The seventh edition is an indispensable resource for students and professionals to achieve excellence in writing and make an impact with their work.
Wow, so much knowledge to be had with these textbooks, we hope you will be fuelled for the semester.
eTextbooks
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