Michael R. Wade's Books

Concepts and Categories

Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis

By: Michael T. Hannan,Gaël Le Mens,Greta Hsu,Balázs Kovács,Giacomo Negro,László Pólos,Elizabeth Pontikes,Amanda J. Sharkey

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Concepts and Categories

Foundations for Sociological and Cultural Analysis

By: Michael T. Hannan,Gaël Le Mens,Greta Hsu,Balázs Kovács,Giacomo Negro,László Pólos,Elizabeth Pontikes,Amanda J. Sharkey

Why do people like books, music, or movies that adhere consistently to genre conventions? Why is it hard for politicians to take positions that cross ideological boundaries? Why do we have dramatically different expectations of companies that are categorized as social media platforms as opposed to news media sites? The answers to these questions require an understanding of how people use basic concepts in their everyday lives to give meaning to objects, other people, and social situations and actions. In this book, a team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Drawing on research in various fields, including cognitive science, computational linguistics, and psychology, the book develops an innovative view of concepts. It argues that concepts have meanings that are probabilistic rather than sharp, occupying fuzzy, overlapping positions in a “conceptual space.” Measurements of distances in this space reveal our mental representations of categories. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as our routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts. Concepts and Categories provides an essential set of formal theoretical tools and illustrates their application using an eclectic set of methodologies, from micro-level controlled experiments to macro-level language processing. It illuminates how explicit attention to concepts and categories can give us a new understanding of everyday situations and interactions.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549938

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9780231549936

Imaging in Stroke

By: Michael Hennerici

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Imaging in Stroke

By: Michael Hennerici

Neuroimaging techniques are crucial in the management of stroke patients. This book is an important resource in the quest to better understand stroke and its heterogeneity. After a first chapter on the classification of stroke, it outlines that neuroimaging techniques are not only useful to diagnose stroke, its mechanisms, and its causes, but are also an important tool to improve our knowledge on the pathophysiology of stroke and of its recovery. This book has involved prestigious contributors who have a great knowledge on this topic, and are skilled at describing the current state of knowledge, and also at projecting developments that are likely to occur in the future. This book is useful for all those who have to manage stroke patients at the acute stage, or later, and for those who are in search of a focused, authoritative review on this subject. It will assume a prominent place as a reference.

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Remedica

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1901346250

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9781901346251

Advanced Introduction to Law and Development

By: Mariana M. Prado,Michael J. Trebilcock

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Advanced Introduction to Law and Development

By: Mariana M. Prado,Michael J. Trebilcock

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Mariana Mota Prado and Michael J. Trebilcock offer a succinct and readable introduction to the main concepts and debates in the field of law and development. They examine the role of legal systems and institutions, investigate perceptions around what laws and legal arrangements encourage and facilitate development, and probe the issues arising in both private law and public law as well as in international economic relations. Written with the insight of two top experts in the field, this Advanced Introduction covers the most recent trends in law and development research and highlights areas that remain underexplored.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788970896

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9781788970891

Argentina's Economic Growth and Recovery

The Economy in a Time of Default

By: Michael Cohen

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Argentina's Economic Growth and Recovery

The Economy in a Time of Default

By: Michael Cohen

This book examines the causes of the economic and political crisis in Argentina in 2001 and the process of strong economic recovery. It poses the question of how a country which defaulted on its external loans and was widely criticized by international observers could have succeeded in its growth and development despite this decision in 2002. It examines this process in terms of the impact of neo-liberal policies on the economy and the role of development strategy and the state in recovering from the crisis

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Routledge

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1136503471

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9781136503474

Free to Judge

The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections

By: Michael Kang,Joanna Shepherd

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Free to Judge

The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections

By: Michael Kang,Joanna Shepherd

The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people. However, as Michael S. Kang and Joanna Shepherd argue in this readable and rich study of the state judiciary, the effect of money on judicial outcomes should disturb and anger everyone. In the current system that elects state judges, the rich and powerful can spend money to elect and re-elect judges who decide cases the way they want. Free to Judge is about how and why money increasingly affects the dispensation of justice in our legal system, and what can be done to stop it. One of the barriers to action in the past has been an inability to prove that campaign donations influence state judicial decision-making. In this book, Kang and Shepherd answer that challenge for the first time, with a rigorous empirical study of campaign finance and judicial decision-making data. Pairing this with interviews of past and present judges, they create a compelling and persuasive account of people like Marsha Ternus, the first Iowa state supreme court justice to be voted out of office after her decision in a same-sex marriage case. The threat of such an outcome, and the desire to win reelection, results in judges demonstrably leaning towards the interests and preferences of their campaign donors across all cases. Free to Judge is thus able to identify the pieces of our current system that invite bias, such as judicial reelection, and what reforms should focus on. This thoughtful and compellingly written book will be required reading for anybody who cares about creating a more just legal system.

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Stanford University Press

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1503636208

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9781503636200

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy

Performance, Ethics, Poetics

By: Michael Meere

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Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy

Performance, Ethics, Poetics

By: Michael Meere

The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. It traces and examines the ethical and poetic stakes of violence, as playwrights were experimenting with the newly discovered genre during decades of religious and civil war (c. 1550-1598). The study begins with an overview of the origins of French vernacular tragedy and the complex relationships between violence, performance, ethics, and poetics. The volume focuses on specific plays and analyzes biblical, mythological, historical, and politically topical tragedies—including the stories of Cain and Abel, David and Goliath, Medea, the Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the Roman general Regulus, and the assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1588—to show how the multifarious uses of violence on stage shed light on a range of pressing issues during that turbulent time, such as religion, gender, politics, and militantism.

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Oxford University Press

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0192658026

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9780192658029

Hacking Digital: Best Practices to Implement and Accelerate Your Business Transformation

By: Michael Wade,Didier Bonnet,Tomoko Yokoi,Nikolaus Obwegeser

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Hacking Digital: Best Practices to Implement and Accelerate Your Business Transformation

By: Michael Wade,Didier Bonnet,Tomoko Yokoi,Nikolaus Obwegeser

Improve your business performance through digital transformation Digital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and information that you need to successfully transform your organization. Hacking Digital is organized into six easy-to-follow sections: • Initiating Your Digital Transformation • Setting Up the Right Organizational Dynamics • Working with the Outside World • Creating Value in New Ways • Leading People and Organizations • Anchoring and Sustaining Performance How do you create a sense of urgency? How do you set up digital governance? How do you create successful digital offerings? How do you manage the relationship between digital transformation and IT? How do you scale digital initiatives? Hacking Digital answers these and many other questions you need to transform your organization and seize a competitive edge for years to come. www.hackingdigital.org

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1264269633

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Legal Executions in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma Including the Indian Territory

A Comprehensive Registry

By: R. Michael Wilson

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Legal Executions in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma Including the Indian Territory

A Comprehensive Registry

By: R. Michael Wilson

Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--whether by hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or lethal injection--has persisted as one of the most controversial ethical and practical issues of American jurisprudence. This volume chronicles every legal execution in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, including Indian Territory, through December 2010. Each case history includes a detailed description of the crime, the pursuit and capture of the suspect, his or her pre-trial experiences, the trial, sentencing, incarceration, execution, and its aftermath.

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McFarland

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078648909X

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9780786489091

The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

By: Andrew B. Peitzman,C. W. Schwab,Donald M. Yealy,Michael Rhodes,Timothy C. Fabian

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The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

By: Andrew B. Peitzman,C. W. Schwab,Donald M. Yealy,Michael Rhodes,Timothy C. Fabian

No member of the emergency room or trauma ward physician should be without this 4th edition of The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Designed to be used as a quick reference, this multidisciplinary pocket guide addresses all areas of trauma and emergency surgery with a list of key points at the end of each chapter. In addition to a new section on the intensive care unit and an extended section on surgical emergencies, this manual also covers GI hemorrhage, hernias, bowel obstruction, pancreatitis, biliary tract disease, and other surgical challenges faced by trauma and emergency surgery personnel. Organized in a chronological fashion following the usual events and phases of care after injury or acute surgical illness, this user-friendly manual is one guide every trauma surgeon, surgical resident, surgical critical care specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse, will want to keep close by.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451177941

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9781451177947

Abeloff's Clinical Oncology E-Book

By: John E. Niederhuber,James O. Armitage,James H Doroshow,Michael B. Kastan,Joel E. Tepper

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Abeloff's Clinical Oncology E-Book

By: John E. Niederhuber,James O. Armitage,James H Doroshow,Michael B. Kastan,Joel E. Tepper

Practical and clinically focused, Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology is a trusted medical reference book designed to capture the latest scientific discoveries and their implications for cancer diagnosis and management of cancer in the most accessible manner possible. Abeloff’s equips everyone involved - from radiologists and oncologists to surgeons and nurses - to collaborate effectively and provide the best possible cancer care. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Select the most appropriate tests and imaging studies for cancer diagnosis and staging of each type of cancer, and manage your patients in the most effective way possible by using all of the latest techniques and approaches in oncology. Enhance your understanding of complex concepts with a color art program that highlights key points and illustrates relevant scientific and clinical problems. Stay at the forefront of the latest developments in cancer pharmacology, oncology and healthcare policy, survivorship in cancer, and many other timely topics. See how the most recent cancer research applies to practice through an increased emphasis on the relevance of new scientific discoveries and modalities within disease chapters. Streamline clinical decision making with abundant new treatment and diagnostic algorithms as well as concrete management recommendations. Take advantage of the collective wisdom of preeminent multidisciplinary experts in the field of oncology, including previous Abeloff’s editors John E. Niederhuber, James O. Armitage, and Michael B. Kastan as well as new editors James H. Doroshow from the National Cancer Institute and Joel E. Tepper of Gunderson & Tepper: Clinical Radiation Oncology. Quickly and effortlessly access the key information you need with the help of an even more user-friendly, streamlined format. Access the complete contents anytime, anywhere at Expert Consult, and test your mastery of the latest knowledge with 500 online multiple-choice review questions.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455728810

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9781455728817

The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2006

By: David S. Neft,Richard M. Cohen,Michael L. Neft

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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2006

By: David S. Neft,Richard M. Cohen,Michael L. Neft

The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2006 covers the history of every player and every team, with detailed statistics and summaries about each season, as well as full coverage of this year's exciting pennant and wild card races.

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Macmillan

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0312350015

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9780312350017

The Big Three

By: Michael J Kollins

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The Big Three

By: Michael J Kollins

Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume tells the fascinating story of the Big Three in American automotive history - Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler - and the people who made those companies grow. Pioneers covered in this volume include: Henry Ford Louis Chevrolet William Durant General Motors John and Horace Dodge Walter Chrysler

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SAE International

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1468603345

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9781468603347

Public Law

By: Michael Doherty

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Public Law

By: Michael Doherty

Public Law is an ideal choice for all undergraduate and GDL students looking for a comprehensive yet accessible textbook on this area of law. The author’s clear writing style, accessible tone, and focus on modern case law help bring the subject to life. The book covers the key institutions, concepts, and legal rules of the United Kingdom’s constitutional system, with the chapters arranged around four subjects: the foundations of the constitutional system; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; and human rights. The book’s central theme is that of state power, and the relationship between the state and the citizen. The second edition has been revised to reflect recent key developments in Public Law, and now extensively explores, in addition to several other key chapter updates, the impact of the 2016 EU referendum, the 2017 General Election, and changes in devolution across England, Scotland, and Wales. Clearly written and easy to use, Public Law enables students to fully engage with the topic and gain a profound understanding of this fundamental, exciting area. The Routledge Spotlights series brings a modern, contemporary approach to the core curriculum for the LLB and GDL, which will help students: to move beyond an understanding of the law to refine and develop the key skills of problem-solving, evaluation and critical reasoning, which are essential to assessment success to discover sources and suggestions for taking your study further By focusing on recent case law and real-world examples, Routledge Spotlights will help you shed light on the law, understand how it operates in practice and gain a unique appreciation of the contemporary context of the subject. This book is supported by a range of online resources developed to support your learning, keep you up-to-date and to help you prepare for assessments.

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Routledge

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135138001X

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9781351380010

The Small Independents

By: Michael J Kollins

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The Small Independents

By: Michael J Kollins

Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume uses more than 450 photos to help weave the story of the risk-takers who helped shape the automotive industry from the very beginning. Pioneers and companies covered in this edition include: Charles and Frank Duryea Studebaker The Pratt Family and the Elcar Motor Care Company Joseph Moon Russell Gardner Louis Clarke George Pierce and Charles Clifton Packard/Joy/Macauley and the Packard Motor Car Company Edwin Thomas Ransom Olds Peerless Fred and August Duesenberg Kissel Brothers Hupp / Drake / Hastings / Young and the Hupp Motor Car Corporation Walter Flanders Chapin / Coffin / Bezner / Jackson / Hudson / McAneeny and The Hudson Motor Car Company Harry Stutz Harry Ford Graham Brothers Charles Nash

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SAE International

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0768009014

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9780768009019

The Mathematica GuideBook for Programming

By: Michael Trott

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The Mathematica GuideBook for Programming

By: Michael Trott

This comprehensive, detailed reference provides readers with both a working knowledge of Mathematica in general and a detailed knowledge of the key aspects needed to create the fastest, shortest, and most elegant implementations possible. It gives users a deeper understanding of Mathematica by instructive implementations, explanations, and examples from a range of disciplines at varying levels of complexity. The three volumes -- Programming, Graphics, and Mathematics, total 3,000 pages and contain more than 15,000 Mathematica inputs, over 1,500 graphics, 4,000+ references, and more than 500 exercises. This first volume begins with the structure of Mathematica expressions, the syntax of Mathematica, its programming, graphic, numeric and symbolic capabilities. It then covers the hierarchical construction of objects out of symbolic expressions, the definition of functions, the recognition of patterns and their efficient application, program flows and program structuring, and the manipulation of lists. An indispensible resource for students, researchers and professionals in mathematics, the sciences, and engineering.

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Springer

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1441985034

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9781441985033

The Cheabol and Labour in Korea

The Development of Management Strategy in Hyundai

By: Seung Ho Kwon,Michael O'Donnell

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The Cheabol and Labour in Korea

The Development of Management Strategy in Hyundai

By: Seung Ho Kwon,Michael O'Donnell

Focusing on the labour management strategies of the Hyundai Business Group, this important new study argues that historical analysis is essential for a complete understanding of the dynamics of South Korean industrial relations.

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Routledge

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1134597495

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9781134597499

Socialist Planning

By: Michael Ellman

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Socialist Planning

By: Michael Ellman

An overview of socialist planning that explains the underlying theory and its limitations, also placing developments in their historical perspective.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107074738

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9781107074736

Directory of Official Architecture and Planning

By: Michael Evans

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Directory of Official Architecture and Planning

By: Michael Evans

This is a reference source for the public and private sectors on architecture and planning in the United Kingdom. It is a guide to key contacts and organizations involved with architecture, planning, surveying and related work in both the public and private sectors. entrants themselves and it is indexed with a gazetteer of eacy reference. departments, including address, telephone number and the names of key officials are given, plus summaries of development policy and industrial development. In addition, the directory includes chapters on central government departments, development and planning bodies, public services / statutory authorities, parks and tourist boards, universities and ecclesiastical buildings, staff architects to commerce and industry, professional and training bodies, sources of professional information and related and allied organizations. authorities, architects in private practice, staff architects and construction, building and civil engineering firms.

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0582095247

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9780582095243

Small Change

Why Business Won't Save the World

By: Michael Edwards

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Small Change

Why Business Won't Save the World

By: Michael Edwards

A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by applying the magic of the market to the challenges of social change. Its supporters argue that using business principles to solve global problems is far more effective than more traditional approaches. What could be wrong with that? Almost everything, argues former Ford Foundation ...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459626427

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9781459626423

Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations

By: Michael G. Parkinson,L. Marie Parkinson

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Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations

By: Michael G. Parkinson,L. Marie Parkinson

This exceptional new text offers an up-to-date and integrated approach to communication law. Written by two practicing attorneys with extensive experience teaching the communication law course, Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations covers the areas of communication law essential and most relevant for readers throughout the communication curriculum. Its integrated approach will serve students and practitioners in advertising and public relations as well as those in journalism and electronic media. Providing background to help readers understand legal concepts, this comprehensive communication law text includes an introduction to the legal system; covers legal procedures, structures, and jurisdictions; discusses the First Amendment and electronic media regulations; and considers issues of access. Additional material includes: *intellectual property law; *employment and agency law, with explanations of how these laws create obligations for mass communication professionals and their employees; *commercial communication laws; and *special laws and regulations that impact reporters, public relations practitioners, and advertisers who deal with stock sales. Special features of this text include: *Magic Words and Phrases--defining legal terms; *Cases--illustrating key points in each chapter; *Practice Notes--highlighting points of particular interest to professional media practices; *Instructions on finding and briefing cases, with a sample brief; and *Examples of legal documents and jury instructions. This text is intended as an introduction to communication law for students and practitioners in mass communication, journalism, advertising, broadcasting, telecommunications, and public relations.

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Routledge

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1136774629

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9781136774621

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