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Along with Deb Hobz-Wyatt, James alsoco-edited Café Lit. Each story in this littlevolume is the right length and quality forenjoying as you sip the assigned drink in yourfavourite creative café. You need never feelalone again in a café. Also available as ane-book from Kindle.Family Interventions in Mental Health byNeil Withnell and Neil Murphy, lecturers inthe School <strong>of</strong> Nursing Midwifery and SocialWork, addresses the importance <strong>of</strong> workingwith families and staging effective familyinterventions as an important and logical aspect<strong>of</strong> promoting recovery in mental health nursing.and based on fieldwork conducted by theauthor and material in Sima it provides one <strong>of</strong>the first studies <strong>of</strong> any non-state language toinclude data from new technology.Photography & the Artist’s Book wasedited by Theresa Wilkie, JonathanCarson & Rosie Miller, all <strong>of</strong> the School<strong>of</strong> Arts & Media, to highlight the renewedinterest in the relationship <strong>of</strong> photographyand the artist’s book, both as a work <strong>of</strong> artand as an alternative means <strong>of</strong> exhibitionand dissemination. The theorising <strong>of</strong> thephotographic essay, and notions <strong>of</strong> “conceptualdocumentary”, have become important areas<strong>of</strong> discourse for practitioners and theoristsalike who are interested in working with thephotograph in book form.Safeguarding children from abroad:refugee, asylum-seeking and traffickedchildren in the UK, co-edited by Emma Kelly,Lecturer in Social Work, examines the issues andproblems faced by ‘separated’ children, thatis children from abroad who are alone in theUK. With contributions from practitioners andacademics, the book considers the safeguardingneeds <strong>of</strong> separated children and how theseneeds should be met.Communication skills for Children’s Nurses,edited by Veronica Lambert, Pr<strong>of</strong>essorTony Long and Deirdre Kelleher, willhelp children’s nurses to communicate withconfidence, sensitivity and effectiveness; tomeet the individual needs <strong>of</strong> children and theirfamilies. The book emphasises the importance<strong>of</strong> listening to and respecting children’s viewsand rights, in addition to respecting parentresponsibility, rights and duty to act in the child’sbest interests.The results <strong>of</strong> a painstaking 15-year study intoone <strong>of</strong> Tameside’s most historic sites have beenpublished in a new book by <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Salford</strong>archaeologist Dr Michael Nevell. BucktonCastle, which overlooks Stalybridge, was builtin the 12th Century by the Earls <strong>of</strong> Chester toconsolidate their lands and protect them fromthe threat <strong>of</strong> incursion by the Scots. It wasoccupied for around a hundred years, but untilnow little has been known <strong>of</strong> it.The Structure <strong>of</strong> Mehri, by Pr<strong>of</strong>essorJanet Watson, is a comprehensive linguisticdescription <strong>of</strong> two major Mehri dialect groups:Mahriyōt, the eastern Yemeni dialect <strong>of</strong> Mehrispoken in Ḥawf, and Mehreyyet, the Mehri<strong>of</strong> the Omani Najd. Mehri is the most widelyspoken <strong>of</strong> the six Modern South Arabianlanguages, with populations in eastern Yemen,western Oman, the southern fringes <strong>of</strong> SaudiArabia, and parts <strong>of</strong> the Gulf. The Structure <strong>of</strong>Mehri provides the first description <strong>of</strong> Mahriyōt,Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Igor Shabalin published Ultra-High Temperature Materials as part <strong>of</strong> theSpringer Series in Material Science.The work is a thorough treatment <strong>of</strong> ultra-hightemperature materials with melting pointsover 2,500°C. The reader is provided with thefull qualitative and quantitative assessmentfor the materials, which could be applied invarious engineering devices and environmentalconditions at ultra-high temperatures, on thebasis <strong>of</strong> the latest updates in the field <strong>of</strong> physics,chemistry, materials science and engineering.Note: Only books published in the past 12months have been included. For an up-todatelist <strong>of</strong> all publication activities, includingconference proceedings, book chapters andreports, as well access to many peer-reviewedjournal articles, visit our open access onlinerepository at www.salford.ac.uk/usirMay 2013 | 29

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