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Digital Sub-Editing and Design
This excellent book covers editing in the digital age, demonstrating the tools needed for effective text editing. You can learn how to write powerful headlines and captions, and how to edit body text quickly and cleanly. It also concentrates on design in the digital environment, introducing typography and the related issues of readability and legibility. The skills of picture editing are explored, including image selection, cropping, manipulation and the ethics involved. These core skills and methods are then applied to the World Wide Web. Recent research into how people navigate Web pages is considered, and recommends ways to write more effectively for the online medium. The first section concentrates on editing in the digital age, demonstrating the tools needed for effective text editing. Dr Quinn shows how to write powerful headlines and captions, and how to edit body text quickly and cleanly. The middle section concentrates on design in the digital environment. Chapter five introduces typography and the related issues of readability and legibility. Chapter six covers the principles of design and how they can be applied to print and electronic publications.
Chapter seven looks at the skills of picture editing, including image selection, cropping, manipulation and the ethics involved. Chapter eight investigates other forms of visual presentation such as diagrams, logos, maps and cartoons. In the final section, these core skills and methods are applied to the World Wide Web. Chapter nine considers recent research into how people navigate Web pages, and recommends ways to write more effectively for the online medium. Chapter ten examines how the principles of print design can (and cannot) be applied to Web pages. Learn the skills of subbing from a renowned expert. It covers everything you need to know to get professional results. It is an indispensable mentor full of practical tips and guidance.
Author:
Stephen Quinn
Publisher: Elsevier Publishers
ISBN: 9780240516394
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $110.95
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Sex Tips from a Dominatrix
Could your sex life use some new thrills? If so, here's your ticket to all those secret desires you've only confessed to your best friend: crops and corsets, nosebleed stilettos, leather, latex, and lambcuffs. Whether you would like to make dominance and submission (D/s) a permanent part of your relationship, are brushing up for a weekend submersion session of Lina Wertmuller films, or are simply looking for a one-spank stand, Patricia Payne-exacting dominatrix and luxurious bon vivant - will guide you through this brave new underworld. Here, she shares step-by-step instructions on how to set the mood, decorate your room, pick a proper outfit, buy the best bonds, tie the exact knot, and wield the perfect quirt.She also gives tips on avoiding disaster and embarrassment, such as preventing nasty wax stains on the Kashan, so you can keep the bon in bondage. "Sex Tips from a Dominatrix" contains such forbidden fruits as: Tips on Whips, BDSM Glamour Do's and Don'ts, Silencing Your Lamb, The Dope on Rope, How to Get Knotty, Aural Sex, Dungeon Decorum, and Advanced Activities. So add a new whine to your cellar and get all wrapped up in lovemaking - with strings attached.
Author:
Patricia Payne
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780061547331
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.99
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Us and Them
Since 9/11 the Australian media has been filled with bad news stories. Gang rapes in Sydney, asylum seekers, the Tampa federal election, the war in Afghanistan, the first year of the Palestinian intifada, the Cronulla riots - all hit the headlines on a regular basis. One factor ran through all of these: Arabs and Muslims. After the terrible anti-Muslim feeling after 9/11, Manning had the shocking realization that he hadn't fairly portrayed Muslims in the media, and had even used Australia's fear of Islam to sell stories. His reaction to the media firestorm about one ethnicity and one religion was to prepare a fully-refereed academic study on how both had been portrayed in two newspapers - Sydney's two major dailies - in the year before and the year after September 11, 2001. The results horrified him, and he set out to redress the balance any way he could. Now Professor of Media Studies at the University of Technology, he launched himself into an undergraduate degree in Arabic studies, and immersed himself in the Arab world. His subsequent trip to the Middle East was one of the best times of his life.U
S AND THEM is an attempt by a respected journalist and media commentator to address the public, government-led and media-driven hysteria about the group of Australians now known as 'people of Middle Eastern appearance'. A combination of memoir, travel, culture, history and religion, US AND THEM tells the story of one man's passionate quest to see justice done: to humanise rather than demonise the people our media - and us - tend to get so wrong.
Author:
Peter Manning
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 9780091836931
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $34.95
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How to Report on Surveys
'I liked the addition of computerized slide presentations and the description of best presentation styles' - Juanita M. Firestone, University of Texas, San Antonio. 'Fink does a good job discussing different presentation formats, and emphasizes the link between the type of audience and the type of results report. She also goes to some length discussing graphic 'illusions,' or ways different presentations can alter the appearance of the same data' - Patrick R. Powaser, Personnel Psychology. From making presentations to general versus technical/academic audiences to preparing computerized presentations, How to Report on Surveys, Second Edition shows you how to create more effective verbal and written survey reports.The volume includes guidelines for preparing and interpreting charts, tables, and figures, and a step-by-step account of how to present each part of the survey - from the survey's objectives, design and psychometric properties through to the conclusions. The features new to this edition include: how to identify characteristics of good Web reporting how to prepare computerized presentations and, how to explain what's on-screen.
This book will show you how to prepare and explain accurate and useful survey reports in a highly effective manner. 'Good tips on doing slides and describing the differences between oral and written report writing. I was glad that the difference between academic and general reports was stated at the beginning' - Carol J. Lancaster, Medical University of South Carolina.
Author:
Arlene G. Fink
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 9780761925750
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $77.95
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My Israel Question
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and international criticism over its military aggression, Israel asserts the right of the Jewish state to exist in Palestine. On the other, the Palestinian people struggle, some peacefully, some violently, for survival. Far beyond Israel's disputed borders, in New York and Washington, London and Paris, Sydney and Melbourne, the conflict is replayed in passionate public debate by Holocaust survivors, Zionist organisations, Arab advocates, the anti-war movement, newspaper columnists, presidents and prime ministers, and politicians and activists of all shades. In "My Israel Question", a young Australian Jew, Antony Loewenstein, asks how much Zionism - the ideology of Jewish nationalism - is to blame for this intractable conflict. He fearlessly investigates the ways in which the Jewish diaspora in Australia and elsewhere have campaigned on Israel's behalf, in the media and in political and business spheres.
He also considers the historical rationale for Zionism - including the centuries of virulent European antisemitism from which it grew - and asks how relevant and sustainable twentieth-century Zionism is today. This is a searching discussion from a significant new voice in one of the most important debates of our times.
Author:
Antony Loewenstein
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522854183
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
According to most relationship books, the key to a solid marriage is communication, communication and more communication. Phooey, says John Gottman, Ph.D., author of the much-praised Why Marriages Succeed or Fail and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute. Just as Masters and Johnson pioneered the study of human sexuality so Gottman has revolutionalized the study of marriage. Gottman has found, through questioning hundreds of couples in his 'love lab', that it only takes five minutes for him to predict - with 91 per cent accuracy - which couples will eventually divorce. He says marriages are threatened not by anger, as many popular therapies suggest, but by what he calls the real demons, 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'- Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness and Stonewalling. In THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING MARRIAGE WORK Gottman guides couples on the path towards a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. His principles teach partners new and sometimes startling strategies for making a marriage work. Concentrating on Work, Children, Money, Sex and Stress, Gottman first helps couples focus on each other, paying attention to the small day-to-day moments that strun
Author:
John Gottman & Nan Silver
Publisher: Orion Publishing
ISBN: 9780752837260
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.99
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Dragon Rising
In this deeply informed, clear-eyed portrait of China today, renowned Beijing-based journalist Jasper Becker looks at the world's most populous nation and where it's headed as it transforms itself into a global economic power. Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes in China that are already reshaping economic, diplomatic, and military strategies all over the globe. Intertwining in-depth analysis with revealing anecdotal evidence, he addresses every major question. What form will China's government take? How will communism's legacy affect modernisation? Can Shanghai's success with urban capitalism be replicated elsewhere? Will wholesale cultural and economic change be resisted by the millions facing sudden transition from an authoritarian state to a market-driven society? How will the new China cope with pollution, unemployment, and voracious demand for energy?Each chapter examines a specific region and such key local issues as poverty, minority unrest, and official corruption, then places them in the broader context of Chinese society as a whole.
Vividly illustrated with photographs that capture the paradox of an ancient culture remaking itself into a dynamic consumer society, Dragon Rising is a wonderfully written, well-rounded, wide-ranging depiction of China's problems and prospects.
Author:
Jasper Becker
Publisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 9781426201165
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $30.95
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The Book of Peoples of the World
The great revelation of anthropology is the realisation that there are other ways of being, Wade Davis writes in the introduction, a colourful, fascinating, and respectful panorama of ethnic diversity. From the Inuit of the Arctic to the Zulu of southern Africa, from the Ainu of Japan to the Fuegians of Patagonia, the world's most compelling ethnic groups are here - some as small as the Kallawaya of the Peruvian Andes, others as numerous as the Bengalis of India. Small or large, little known or thoroughly familiar, more than 200 ethnic groups from around the world fill the pages of this book with their beliefs and customs, traditions and challenges.Rare times of special celebration, ordinary times of work and play - both find their place in this book about the varieties, and the universality, of the human experience. Threaded through the book as well are the extraordinary findings of the National Geographic's Genographic Project, a research initiative to collect and catalog DNA from around the world, discovering the story of human migration embedded in our genetic material.
At once a celebration of glorious diversity, a comprehensive reference, and a thoughtful look at the universal human instinct to belong and identify.
Author:
Wade Davis
Publisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 9781426202384
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $59.95
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When I Knew
When I Knew is a collection of smart, uproarious, often poignant stories about that revelatory moment for all gay men and women: when they first knew. In this gorgeously illustrated, cleverly designed full-colour book, acclaimed fashion and celebrity photographer Robert Trachtenberg brings humour and style to the retelling of the unique stories of over 100 contributors, including B.D. Wong, Arthur Laurents, Simon Doonan, Stephen Fry, Marc Shaiman, Michael Musto, and more. Readers will fall in love with these endearing anecdotes, from the seven-year-old who sat at the bottom of the television trying to peek up Tarzan's tunic, to the nine-year-old who fainted when he learned that Judy Garland had died, to Will and Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick, who knew he was gay when he outgrew his mother's high heels. The contributors also share stories about when their families knew, and when everyone else knew. Filled with choice stock art, never-before-seen illustrations, and personal photographs from the contributors, When I Knew is a vibrant and witty celebration of that sometimes glorious, sometimes painful, but always captivating moment.
Author:
Robert Trachtenberg
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060571467
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $35.00
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Holding Yawulyu
Mapping inter-cultural relationships as they are played out in a remote Aboriginal settlement in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, this book challenges White Australians to reconsider their relationship with indigenous peoples. Unpacking white cultural practices, it explores the extraordinary difficulties which indigenous women face when they attempt to maintain and pass their cultural knowledge, customs, and skills on to their children and youth. From 1999 to 2001, Zohl de Ishtar lived and worked intimately with a group of thirteen women elders to establish a vibrant intergenerational cultural knowledge transmission program. Through this profound experience Zohl identifies 'Living Culture', the cultural energy which is created when individuals live their culture at its fullest expression enabling them to transform their worlds even when to do so seems impossible. Her profound radical feminist analysis of the socio-cultural context surrounding their indigenous women's initial challenges White attitudes and behaviours and offers a deeper comprehension to those who aspire to be involved in collaborative projects with indigenous peoples. This is a lyrical and passionate book.
Author:
Zohl De Ishtar
Publisher: Spinifex Press
ISBN: 9781876756574
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $32.95
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State of the Maori Nation
Dealing with a diverse range of issues that affect Maori living in modern-day New Zealand, State of the Maori Nation is a collection of 22 short and informative essays drawn from Maori commentators, historians, teachers, researchers and academics working across the country in all manner of industries. This is a book with something for everyone ? Maori and Pakeha, men and women, young and old - and gives a vision of a confident and capable people moving from strength to strength within every aspect of contemporary New Zealand society. The subjects covered in the book include: kapa haka, broadcasting and the media, language learning, music, crime and justice, bio-technology, the foreshore and seabed debate, sport, sexuality, resource management, literature, economic development, science and education, fine art, fisheries, youth affairs, land development and local government.
Malcolm Mulholland brings together the work from a broad range of writers such as: Prof Margaret Mutu, Prof Bob Jankhe, Prof Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, Mark Solomon, Te Rita Papesch, Sharlene Davis, Graham Harris, Percy Tipene, Reina Whaitiri-Kaitahu, Jessica Hutchings, Judge Ken Hingston, Hareruia Aperahama, Pauline Harris, Ocean Mercier, Hana O?Regan, Potaua Biasiny-Tule, Farah Palmer, Debra Rewiti, Matiu Dixon, Cherryl Smith, Maureen Waaka, Clive Aspin and Matanuku Mahuika.
Author:
Malcolm Mulholland
Publisher: Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd
ISBN: 9780790010427
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $33.95
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Choosing Eden
Our friends thought we had taken leave of our senses. Larry and I had traded Florsheim wingtips and Manolo Blahnik sandals for muddy steel-capped work boots. We had given up brioches and cappuccinos in favour of homemade bread and jam. In our fifties, we took on the heavy manual labour of farming that would have better suited us in our twenties, and our plan was to become as self-sufficient as possible. When global oil reserves run dry, the price of food, fuel and other everyday necessities will skyrocket out of the reach of ordinary people. An energy crisis is coming, and it will change the world we know forever. Adrienne and Larry are an average middle-aged couple who have left their children and grandchildren, their friends, their jobs and a comfortable home in Sydney and set themselves up on a twelve-acre block in Nana Glen in northern New South Wales. They aren't chasing a whimsical dream or planning an idyllic retirement. Their goal is to establish a fully self-sustaining food farm, as quickly as possible, that will provide for them and their family in the uncertain years ahead.C
HOOSING EDEN is Adrienne's inspiring first-hand account of their efforts to learn how to get back to basics and live off the land. It's a fascinating story told with warmth and humour, but it has an urgent message: we need to make changes in our lives, and the sooner we act the better. As seen on the Seven Network's The Real Seachange.
Author:
Adrienne Langman
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9781741665499
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $34.95
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Baby Sense
This title includes a book & DVD. Listen! Your baby is telling you something - after nine peaceful months in the womb, the world can be an overwhelming place for a new-born. Like a little sponge, your child will soak in every bit of sensory stimulation presented, whether he wants to or not - everything from the soft cotton of your shirt to the bright lights in the grocery store. Overload, when it happens, means a fussy baby - but in this revolutionary book, occupational therapist Megan Faure and nursing specialist Ann Richardson explain how you can help your new-born to cope with his new environment. This extraordinary guide to your baby's developing nervous system and sensory world explains in down-to-earth language how parents can: tune in to a baby's cries and other signals respond to a baby's needs prevent colicky late-day crying provide the right stimulation - at the right time. Offer positive sensory experiences early on Offering age-appropriate advice on sleeping, eating, and early learning, as well as the basic sensory principles, Baby Sense is the perfect tool for every parent who has every wondered why a baby is crying - and how to soothe him.
Author:
Megan Faure & Ann Richardson
Publisher: Metz Press,South Africa
ISBN: 9781875001804
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $19.95
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Late Babies
You'll laugh, you'll cry as a line-up of admired Australian women share their stories of having babies after the age of 35. They are the new face of Australian motherhood - women over 35 who are having their first baby. But what makes a woman defy the biological clock and wait until she is in her mid-thirties or early forties to have a baby? Career keeping her up at night? Can't find Mr Right? If only it was that simple. In LATE BABIES: HAVING A BABY AFTER 35 journalist Sandra McLean gets in the inside story on the trend to older motherhood that is changing the face of Australian society. With mothers over 35 the fastest growing group of mothers in the country, she asks a collection of women why they delayed motherhood and what happened after they gave birth. These are life-changing stories from women such as magazine editor Deborah Thomas, journalist Juanita Phillips, manager Marian Hudson and fashion columnist Maggie Alderson.
They share their experience of older motherhood, from the profound joy of a miracle natural pregnancy after miscarriages and failed fertility treatments, to the emotional roller coaster ride of IVF and the search for satisfaction once baby is born.Their stories take us beyond the media myth of the super woman who simply wants to have it all - career, partner and family. Their experiences show us that the reality is very different and the journey to having that much-loved late baby is a lot like life itself - full of unexpected pleasure and pain. But worth every minute.
Author:
Sandra McLean
Publisher: Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
ISBN: 9781863254465
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $34.95
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Shimmering Screens
How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge in the creation of documentary? Jennifer Deger addresses these questions in her compelling study of one Aboriginal community's relationship with media. Deger spent several years working with the Yolngu community in Gapuwiyak, a remote Aboriginal community in Australia, both as an ethnographic researcher and as a collaborator in the production of media. Shimmering Screens explores the place of technology in Gapuwiyak through discussions about the influence of mainstream television, the changing role of photography in mortuary ceremonies, and the making of local radio and video. A rich ethnographic study, this book examines the productive, and sometimes problematic, conjunctions of technology, culture, and imagination in contemporary Yolngu life. Deger offers a new perspective to ongoing debates regarding media imperialism. Reconsidering established assumptions about the links between representation, power, and the gaze, she proposes the possibility of a more culturally specific and, ultimately, a more mutual relationship between subject, image, and viewer. Jennifer Deger is a research fellow in anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia.
Author:
Jennifer Deger
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816649228
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $44.95
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So You're Going to be a Dad
So You're Going to be a Dad is a book that explodes the myths - a tough, uncompromising, no-holds-barred, no-beg-your-pardons look at fatherhood, from the sperm that started it all to the sleep deprivation you'll suffer as a consequence. In his wry and very funny style, Peter Downey tells all about the trials and joys of parenting, including advice about pregnancy, childbirth and baby care, and examines issues of vital importance such as: what to say - and what not to say - when you hear the news taking care of mums-to-be why embryos look like the monster in Alien names not to call your baby what childbirth feels like how many cameras you should take to the birth 'Who was the superior Batman: Michael Keaton or Adam West?' your baby's development baby-proofing your home how much this is all going to cost and lots of stuff about sex. But that's not all! Complete with a glossary full of handy words new dads will need to know and a lot more that they won't, plus the films to watch and the ones to avoid, and words of wisdom from real live fathers, So You're Going to be a Dad is without doubt one of the greatest parental education books ever written.
Author:
Peter Downey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780731812684
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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Social Intelligence
Presents a synthesis of the findings in biology and brain science, revealing a fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a 'neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us. This work explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions, the basis of charisma and emotional power, and more.
Author:
Daniel Goleman
Publisher: Arrow Books
ISBN: 9780099464921
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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Paris
Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs - Marivaux. In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and detractors, a source of attraction or repulsion even for those who have never been there, Paris has witnessed more extraordinary events than any other major city. No spot on earth has been more walked around, written about, discussed, painted and photographed. With an eye for the revealing, startling and (sometimes) horrible detail, Colin Jones takes the reader from Roman Paris to the present, recreating the ups and downs in the history of the city and its inhabitants. Attentive to both the urban environment and to the experience of those who lived within it, Paris: Biography of a City will be hugely enjoyed by habitual Paris obsessives, by first-time visitors, and by those who know the city only by repute.
Author:
Colin Jones
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140282924
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $26.95
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International Social Work Research
With the constant exchange of international information now a permanent condition in the world, social work scholars and students must be sensitive to the need for knowledge sharing between countries as well as to issues involved in obtaining and utilising international knowledge. Yet until now, no book has juxtaposed these two growing streams of emphasis. In this clearly written volume, Tony Tripodi and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi fill that gap, presenting readers with the many prospects and great potential for international social work research. The authors establish three discrete varieties of research supra-national, intra-national, and trans-national and explore a wealth of issues and examples within each. The easy-to-follow format helps readers learn how to define and distinguish each kind of research, then provides actual applications of all three. Examples draw on research from the world over, and range from microcredit programs in India to migrant aid in Nicaragua to adoptees in Romania.
These unique features make it an ideal sequel to basic research texts in social work and supplement to texts on international social work, but also an attractive addition to any faculty researchers bookshelf.
Author:
Tony Tripodi & Miriam Potocky-Tripodi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195187267
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $54.95
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The White Man's Burden
We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after 50 years and $2.3 trillion are there still children dying for lack of twelve cents medicine? Why are there so many people still living on less than $1 a day without clean water, food, sanitation, shelter, education or medicine? InThe White Man's Burden William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses these twin tragedies head on. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history he argues urgently and powerfully that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. Giving aid is not enough, we must ensure that it reaches the people who need it most and the only way to make this happens is through accountability and by learning from past experiences. Without claiming to have all the answers, William Easterly chastises the complacent and patronising attitude of the West that attempts to impose solutions from above.In this book, which is by turns angry, moving, irreverent but always rigorous, he calls on each and everyone of us to take responsibility, whether donors, aid workers or ordinary citizens, so that more aid reaches the people it is supposed to help, the mother who cannot feed her children, the little girl who has to collect firewood rather than go to school, the father who cannot work because he has been crippled by war.
Author:
William Russell Easterly
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199210824
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $59.95
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