New Leaf
The Law of Private Security in Australia
Professor Rick Sarre and Dr Tim Prenzler
Thomson Lawbook Company, 2005
The
Law of Private Security in Australia is the first Australian guide to the
legal rights of private security companies and personnel. It is written in
plain English specifically for the private security industry along with
those who are researching private sector policing trends.
It was co-authoured by Dr Rick Sarre, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice in the School of Commerce, University of South Australia. He has lectured in criminal justice, policing and security and commercial law, among others and has published more than 140 articles in the fields of law, criminology, private security, socio-legal issues and restorative justice.
If you are unsure about the extent of your legal rights and duties, or those of your students and your employees, this book is essential reading. It introduces some general legal concepts and covers each of the key legal areas affecting the security industry today.
The book is unique in that it is the only Australian work explaining law for the Australian private security industry. Legal concepts are also clearly explained by authors with years of experience teaching law to non-lawyers while using plain examples used to show practical legal consequences of everyday industry activities.
For more information visit www.thomson.com.au
Chance & Commitment: Memoirs of a Medical Scientist
Dr Basil Hetzel
Wakefield Press, 2005
Some
discoveries have changed forever the fight against disease or the treatment
of a medical condition: penicillin, a polio vaccine, the bionic ear, and …
iodized salt.
Dr Basil Hetzel’s work as a research scientist and public health advocate has prevented millions worldwide from being born intellectually disabled. Hetzel and his team discovered in the 1960s that a single dose of iodized oil given to pregnant women could forestall many potential birth defects.
Later he began his crusade to persuade the governments of Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, India, the People’s Republic of China and many other affected countries to add iodine to salt in order to eliminate this centuries-old scourge of mankind.
Chance and Commitment: Memoirs of a Medical Scientist traces the life and work behind Dr Hetzel’s iodine crusade and his many other endeavours in the cause of public health.
It tells the story of a medical student who wanted no more than to be a good physician like his father and became a renowned research scientist.
For more information visit www.wakefieldpress.com.au
Beyond Words: Lessons on translation, trust and meaning
Associate Professor Nicholas Procter
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, under the National Mental Health Strategy, 2005
This
book is a valuable resource that provides a model of delivery on promoting
mental health issues and learning from culturally diverse communities.
The resource is based on the successful “No More Mualagh” project which worked with Afghani people living in rural Australia to help them learn more about depression, how it is treated and how to safely use the medicine their doctors give them.
Associate Professor Nicholas Procter from the School of Nursing and Midwifery conducted the project in partnership with Multicultural Mental Health Australia and the National Ethnic Disability Alliance with funding from the National Prescribing Service under the Community Quality Use of Medicines Rural Project Scheme.
For information visit www.mmha.org.au