New Releases by Scott Stewart

Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.

Covers topics in the year 11 (form 5) history curriculum. Provides an overview of women and health in New Zealand from 1915 to 1985, and looks at race relations in the United States from 1954 to 1970. Suggested level: senior secondary.

YEARS 7 - 12 Media: new ways and meanings is a comprehensive guide to the trade secrets and formulae used in creating the major media genres. It uses an analytical approach and gives students the understanding to develop critical responses to a wide variety of media texts. For English and specialist Media Studies courses, it provides extensive coverage of media theory and practice. Media: new ways and meanings enables students to develop a diversified, critical literacy in traditional and new media which will carry them into the twenty-first century. The text contains sections covering: computer-based media, including the Internet film television radio newspapers and magazines. Features include: Flexible activities which can be adapted for any year level Major assignments which allow students to apply concepts learned from the text. Content and an approach which support student outcomes in a range of English and Media Studies courses nationally

This second edition of introductory Australian politics text first published in 1992 has been updated, revised and expanded. Provides new chapters on administrative federalism, the Australian Democrats and minor parties, and Aboriginal policy after the Mabo court ruling, as well as additional discussion on republicanism and Aboriginal land rights. Includes case studies, questions and checklists of terms and concepts, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and an index. Stewart is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney. Ward is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Queensland.