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Peter Kell, Sue Shore and Michael Singh (editors); Peter Lang Publishing; ISBN 0-8204-61105; $29.95 (US); 328 pages; to order email info@peterlang.com

Edited by UniSA's Sue Shore (along with Peter Kell and Michael Singh), this book tackles some tough questions concerning transnational education markets and multicultural diversity in a global environment typified by disorienting changes and continuities.

Researchers from around the world demonstrate various ways in which the teachers of adults mediate and mitigate the consequences of the transition to globalisation and the resentment and alienation to which it gives rise.

From Germany and Norway to Malaysia, Australia and Canada, the book's contributors are engaging in transformative projects that are informed by globally oriented thinking and actions aimed at enhancing local viability. They argue that teachers and policy makers involved in adult education are significant agents of innovation.

For your chance to win a copy of this book, email your name and address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au marked attention: Adult Education.
 

Sonja Dechian, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis (editors); published by Wakefield Press; ISBN 1-86254-629-0; $19.95; 213 pages; available at all good bookshops.

With a cover image by UniSA visual communication graduate, Fontaine Anderson, Dark Dreams is an anthology of essays, interviews and short stories about refugees written by young people aged 11- 20.

The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition, devised by writer Eva Sallis and run by Australians Against Racism Inc.

The essays and stories represent many different countries. They are shocking, moving, and at times funny. Some are written with the quirky humour of children, others are gut-churning stories from young children just starting to rebuild lives in Australia.

Across the collection there emerges the recurrent theme of friendship: friendships lost, broken, remembered and found.

For your chance to win a copy of the book, email your name and postal address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au, marked attention: Dark Dreams.
 

Scott Carslake , Anthony De Leo, Gavin Oliver and Todd Davey; published by Voice, Adelaide; ISBN 0-9750552-0-8; 40 pages; $12.95; order online at www.voicedesign.net

Aimed at everyone from journalists to teachers and small business owners, Type it Write is a booklet designed as a quick reference guide to punctuation.

It was conceived by UniSA graduates Scott Carslake and Anthony De Leo (directors of Adelaide-based Voice Design), who found that when they needed a reference for punctuation they had to refer to large textbooks – often coming away no clearer about the topic.

With attention given to everything from commas and apostrophes to dashes, hyphen and slashes, Type it Write is an ideal guide for anyone who writes (or types) copy for books, magazines or newsletters – or those who find themselves wondering how and where to use a colon.

The booklet will be part of the Annual of New York's renowned Type Directors Club (TDC), after it was awarded a Certificate of Typographic Excellence by the TDC earlier this year.

For your chance to win a copy email your name and postal address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au, marked attention: Type it Write.
 

Robert Hattam; published by Post Pressed; ISBN 1-876682-57-4; $45 ; 337 pages; to order email pam.carden@unisa.edu.au

Written by Robert Hattam from UniSA's Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures, Awakening-Struggle is described as the first extensive comparison of critical theory with socially-engaged Buddhism.

As Professor Loy of Bunkyo University in Japan puts it, "Both traditions are concerned with the same thing – liberating/awakening society – but their contexts are so different that the relationship between them has not received the attention it deserves ... Against the tendency of so much social critique to lose sight of personal agency, Hattam shows us how to think more deeply about the dialectic of self and social delusion."

The book argues that our ego and society condition each other and hence social transformation and psychological liberation are radically interdependent.

For your chance to win this book, email your name and postal address to thegraduate@unisa.edu.au marked attention: Awakening-Struggle.