Book Reviews
Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care (5th Edn)
Margaret M Andrews and Joyceen S Boyle
As the world becomes increasingly multicultural, the fifth edition of Andrew’s and Boyle’s well-known transcultural nursing text continues to synthesise transcultural theories, models, and research to facilitate culturally congruent ... read more »
Reviewed by Sandra J Mixer
The Blackwell Companion to Social Work (3rd Edition)
Martin Davies (ed)
I found the first edition of the Blackwell Companion to Social Work a useful resource for the social work students I was teaching at the time, so I was interested to see how this third edition compared. What's valuable about what Martin Davies ... read more »
Reviewed by Fiona Gardner
Children, Families and Communities: Context and Consequences
J M Bowles (Ed)
Reviewed by Louise Porter
In our own right: Black Australian nurses stories
Sally Goold and Kerrynne Liddle (eds)
This was supposed to be a simple task: a book review for a journal. I was asked, I believe, because I share a small part of these stories. I was a nurse and a contemporary of some of these authors in the 1960s and early 70s. However, reading the ... read more »
Reviewed by Lesley Barclay
Going it alone? Lone motherhood in late modernity
Martina Klett-Davies
Klett-Davies provides a scholarly examination of the ways lone mothers receiving state benefits create an identity and a life, despite their troubled relationships with the state, their discomfort about ongoing financial dependency and their ... read more »
Reviewed by Helen L Cameron
Concept mapping for planning and evaluation
Mary Kane and W Michael K Trochim
The term concept mapping is typically associated with techniques used to identify relationships between concepts and ideas. Students in particular are encouraged to adopt this approach as a useful way to learn (and hopefully understand) their ... read more »
Reviewed by Glen Murphy
What is this thing called leadership? Prominent Australians tell their stories
Neil C Cranston and Lisa Catherine Ehrlich
This book tells the leadership stories of ten prominent Australians - Tim Costello - CEO of World Vision Australia, Baptist Minister and practising lawyer Christine Nixon - the first female Commissioner of Police in Australia Michael ... read more »
Reviewed by Ken Parry
People, Processes, Projects: Harnessing complex socio-technical systems
Errol Lawson (ed)
Errol Lawson is an adjunct Associate Professor with the Systems Engineering & Evaluation Centre (SEEC) at the University of South Australia. He comes from an illustrious career consulting in systems methodologies, principally with the defence ... read more »
Reviewed by Ken Parry
Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization
Jennifer Summer
Can we successfully challenge corporate globalisation and move toward a sustainable world society? In Sustainability and the Civil Commons Jennifer Sumner argues that we can do so - and do so now, because there is a world-wide ‘crisis of ... read more »
Reviewed by Elizabeth Beaton
What is this thing called leadership? Prominent Australians tell their stories
Neil C Cranston and Lisa Catherine Ehrlich
This book tells the leadership stories of ten prominent Australians - Tim Costello - CEO of World Vision Australia, Baptist Minister and practising lawyer Christine Nixon - the first female Commissioner of Police in ... read more »
Reviewed by Ken Parry
Leadership for the disillusioned: Moving beyond myths and heroes to leading that liberates
Amanda Sinclair
What a great read! Amanda Sinclair, Foundation Professor of Management Diversity and Change at Melbourne Business School, is a well known Australian author, and this book is the latest in her excellent stable of management books. The ... read more »
Reviewed by Ken Parry
People, processes, projects: Harnessing complex socio-technical systems
Errol Lawson (Ed)
Errol Lawson is an adjunct Associate Professor with the Systems Engineering & Evaluation Centre (SEEC) at the University of South Australia. He comes from an illustrious career consulting in systems methodologies, principally with the defence ... read more »
Reviewed by Ken Parry
