WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD 2025WINNER OF THE KATHLEEN MITCHELL AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING 2025'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean togethe...

How do you feel when you bite into a pear… wear a feather boa… stand in a noisy auditorium… or look for a friend in a crowd?Living Sensationally explains how people's individual sensory patterns affect the way we react to everything that happens to us throughout the day. Some people will adore the grainy texture of a pear, while others will shudder at the idea of this texture in their mouths. Touching a feather boa will be fun and luxurious to some, and others will bristle at the i...

As the occupational therapy profession concerns itself with how people occupy their time during daily life, it is critical for occupational therapists who serve children to understand how to apply their knowledge and skills within the complex and varied environments of the community.A core text for over 10 years, Best Practice Occupational Therapy for Children and Families in Community Settings, Second Edition by Dr. Winnie Dunn provides a clear insight in...

WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD 2025WINNER OF THE KATHLEEN MITCHELL AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING 2025'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean togethe...

Bringing Evidence Into Everyday Practice: Practical Strategies for Health Care Professionals, Second Edition provides a step-by-step process for learning how to use literature to inform quality practices in an accessible workbook format.Bringing Evidence Into Everyday Practice simplifies analyzing research through repetition of core strategies and the systematic introduction of increasingly complex techniques for interpreting lite...

As the profession of occupational therapy continues to mature and expand its practice, the measurement of occupational performance is one of the key avenues that all practicing clinicians will need to explore and master. Measuring Occupational Performance: Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy, Third Edition summarizes the measurement tools needed to assess client occupational performance, to provide the best intervention, and to document the effectiven...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together over 30 leading thinkers from diverse disciplines - from autism specialists and social workers through to trans rights activists and complementary therapists.Contributors ...

A small collection of remarkable short sentences described by acclaimed book reviewer @sixminutesforme as 'impactful'.In Sweatshop's first-ever collection of poetry, vignettes and flash fiction, you are invited to take a remarkable journey across the globe in just a few short sentences. Edited by this Leb named Michael Mohammed Ahmad and this Fob named Winnie Dunn, this little red thing features over thirty new writers from the heartland of multicultural suburbia.

A series of prose and poetry by emerging and established writers from Indigenous, migrant & refugee backgrounds that has been praised by award-winning author Jamie Marina Lau as 'stories that need to be told louder'.The Big Black Thing: Chapter. 1 is the first issue in a series of prose and poetry by emerging and established writers from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. Featuring Peter Polites, Winnie Dunn, Stephen Pham, Shirley Le, Jason Gray, Maryam Azam, Lou...

Every teacher knows them - the students who are continuously balancing on their chair legs or who prefer to hide in their hoodies all day long. These students are using all kinds of tricks to be able to stay focused, as they are under- or overresponsive to sensory input and trying to restore their balance.Children who struggle with processing sensory input can experience a wide range of symptoms, including hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, poor fine motor skills and easy ...

By weaving vignettes and case studies throughout, this fascinating and original textbook provides an accessible primer not only on the key principles of neuroscience but, crucially, how they may manifest in the everyday lives of people with neurological conditions.Each chapter begins with the story of a person or family, including a description of what they want to do in their everyday life, before presenting the neuroscientific principles that underlie this person’s situation. Rat...

A collection of award-winning and highly commended short stories and poems from the Canterbury-Bankstown region.Place, Race, Space: Bent Not Broken is a ten year showcase of award-winning stories by young people from the backyards of South Western Sydney. Featuring prose and poetry by Donna Wilson, Christine Wu, Anneliese Joy, Seini Fuko, Mohamad Al-Abdallah, Frances An, Rebecca Nguyen, Sarah Hoang, Peviula Taotua, Duc Luu, Tiana Munro, Angeliki Georgakopoulou, Indiana Din...