Deborah Paauwe: Beautiful Games
 Written
by Wendy Walker, photography by Deborah Paauwe; Wakefield Press; ISBN
186254641X; $49.95; 102 pages; available from July 30 from the Art
Gallery of SA, bookshops and direct from Wakefield Press.
At only 31, UniSA visual arts graduate Deborah Paauwe is ranked among
the most collectable photo-media artists in Australia.
Produced as the latest in the South Australian Living Artists series
of monographs, Beautiful Games traces the evolution of her work.
Neither cropped nor digitally manipulated, Paauwe's luscious,
asymmetrically framed photographic images of girls and young women
revisit a covert, colour-saturated world of youthful memories.
Author Wendy Walker interweaves a subtext of fairy tale and cinematic
allusions into a consideration of Paauwe's major theme of the transition
from girlhood to adulthood, the transformation from innocence to
experience.
The release of Deborah Paauwe: Beautiful Games coincides with the
opening of the 2004 SALA Festival, which will include an exhibition of
Paauwe's work to be held at Greenaway Galleries in Adelaide from July 28
to August 22.
To win a copy of the book, email your name and postal address to
thegraduate@unisa.edu.au |
Speaking of Sadness and the Heart of Acceptance: Reciprocity in
Education
 Nicholas
G Procter; published by Multicultural Mental Health Australia; ISBN
0958173559; $35; 102 pages; order online at
www.mmha.org.au/MMHAPublications/Store
Written by Nicholas Procter, a mental health teacher and researcher
at UniSA’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, Reciprocity in Education
chronicles the application of a model of interactive learning between
refugees and mental health services.
The book was written alongside of Procter’s recent work in developing
mental health promotion and suicide prevention initiatives for Afghan
asylum seekers released from detention centres.
The model aims to meet two challenges: addressing the mental health
needs of the migrants themselves, but at the same time contributing to a
society which can promote better mental health for all by taking on both
the difficulties and the opportunities posed by diversity.
It focuses on cultural awareness in mental health at a community
level, concentrating on sadness, loss and isolation, rather then the
more Western notion of depression.
The book features a foreword by Leslie Swartz, a psychology professor
at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
For your chance to win a copy of the book, email your name and postal
address to
thegraduate@unisa.edu.au |
Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists
 Edited
by Mark A Jones and Darren A Rivett; published by Butterworth Heinemann;
ISBN 0750639067; $112.20; 445 pages; available from Unibooks and via
emailing
service@elsevier.com.au
Clinical Reasoning for Manual Therapists is essential reading for
clinicians, educators and students working or studying in the fields of
musculoskeletal or manual therapy, including physiotherapists, doctors
of physical medicine, osteopaths and chiropractors.
Edited by Mark A Jones, a UniSA senior lecturer in physiotherapy,
along with the University of Newcastle’s Darren Rivett, the book is
designed to help the reader on the path to clinical expertise in manual
therapy by promoting the development of their own clinical reasoning
skills.
Highlights include 23 real clinical cases by expert manual therapists
from around the world using various practice philosophies; a rundown on
the latest theory and research; a chapter on teaching and learning
strategies; and practical suggestions on activities to further develop
clinical reasoning and lifelong learning skills.
As Jones writes “this is not a textbook of quick-fix techniques, but
rather a self-help book for the motivated practitioner or student
seeking progress along the road to clinical expertise by improving their
skills in clinical reasoning.”
For your chance to win a copy of the book, email your name and postal
address to
thegraduate@unisa.edu.au |
Applying Total Quality Management to Systems Engineering
 Joe
Kasser; published by Artech House; ISBN 298 pages; ISBN 0890067678;
US$93; order via the internet at
www.artechhouse.com
UniSA’s Associate Professor Dr Joe Kasser wrote this book aiming to
change perceptions about systems engineering, systems engineers and
project management, and how they relate in a cost-effective environment.
As he says, “I wrote this book because it seems to me that while many
people call themselves systems engineers, few actually agree what a
systems engineer does.”
If anyone knows what a systems engineer does, it’s Kasser. He was
recruited to a NASA systems engineering group after training as a
electronic engineer in the 1960s, and went on to work on a series of
complex systems engineering projects, including the scientific
instruments the Apollo 13 astronauts set up on the surface of the moon,
later joining the LuZ group to develop the world’s first commercial
solar electrical generating station.
Drawing on his experience and the latest research, Kasser offers a
comprehensive book with chapters on motivating concepts, an overview of
systems engineering, methodologies and models, risks, costs and quality,
process improvement, testing, documentation, procurement and ethics
(amongst many other topics). It also contains tips for engineers on a
range of workplace issues from getting a promotion, to effective meeting
strategies. |
