Books written by Melissa Kennedy

  • Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes

    volunteers with funds raised by the local community, and descendants of local service personnel maintain a strong attachment to the trees (Spencer et al. 1991). A threat to the health of elms in Australia is the introduced elm leaf ...

  • Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance

    We can look to the studies that have examined the outcomes of meditation practices on stress, immunological function, heart disease, and reduction of anxiety (Dimidjian & Segal, 2015). These studies give support and evidence to the ...

  • Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance

    According to Gottman's (1999) research, there are four types of negative affect behavior that are damaging to relationships and highly predictive of relationship dissatisfaction: criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling, and contempt.

  • Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance

    Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance combines a student focus with state-of-the-art theory and research to help readers understand and adjust to life in a context of continuous change, challenge, and opportunity.

  • Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand’s Literary Traditions

    In their introduction to a collection of essays on culturalisms, Brydon, Williams, and James Meffan give two examples to query the role of politeness in unequivocal acceptance of cultural practices. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Sydney, ...

  • Net Texts: Exploring Electronic English

    The text: links to syllabuses, particularly the new NSW Stage 6 syllabus, focuses on Australian websites, evaluates websites, analyses the creator's purpose, the intended audience and the structure and design of websites, shows how to ...

  • Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes

    Peri-urban planning and the protection of productive land on the urban fringe, in Food Security in Australia, ... Governance in integrated coastal zone management: A social networks analysis of cross-scale collaboration, ...

  • Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics

    Modi's narrative control prepares the reader for speeches by British and American opium traders defending their trade that are shocking to the point of ludicrous, reinforcing through repetition Burnham's speech on free trade from the ...

  • Veterinary Microbiology

    KEY FEATURES Provides a broad overview of veterinary microbiology and infectious disease Now in full color with improved images throughout Fully updated to incorporate current research Offers a brief review of microbial cell structure and ...

  • Veterinary Microbiology

    The text is supported throughout by high-quality and full-color images to aid learning. A companion website offers chapter content, supplemental information, and figures from the book in PowerPoint format.

  • A Land in Between: The Orontes Valley in the Early Urban Age

    Archaeology in these regions is a vibrant and active eld of research, further stimulated by issues relating to the ... of Sydney. e ebb and ow of the Ghūrid empire David C. omas Game drives of the Aralo-Caspian region Vadim N. Yagodin, ...

  • Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction

    16 For example, as part of the larger study, provisionally titled Back to the Future: Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators, I have looked at the meanings attached to 'English' in a number of novels emanating from the ...

  • Step Aside StepMom

    My hope is that while reading this book you feel every emotion I felt as I was writing it and leave you wanting more. As my life goes on continued updates will be provided in my blog on my website www.stepasidestepmom.com.

  • How to Become an Actor: The Beginner's Guide to Becoming an Actor and Getting That First Role

    This book does not downplay or sugar-coat the difficulties and obstacles that you as a budding actor will face - it actually highlights them because it is vital that you form a realistic picture of what you are up against.