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Skills Drills & Strategies for Badminton

Skills Drills & Strategies for Badminton

This book is part of the Teach Coach Play series emphasizing a systematic learning approach to sports and activities. Both visual and verbal information are presented so that readers can easily understand the material and improve performance. Built-in learning aids help readers master each skill in a step-by-step manner. Using the cues summaries skills drills and illustrations will help build a solid foundation for safe and effective participation now and in the future. The basic approach in all of the Teach Coach Play activity titles is to help readers improve their skills and performance by building mastery from simple to increasingly complex levels. The books strive to illustrate correct techniques and demonstrate how to achieve optimal results. The basic organization in each book is as follows: Section 1 overviews history organizations and publications conditioning activities safety warm up suggestions and equipment. Section 2 covers exercise or skills participants action involved rules facility or field scoring and etiquette. Section 3 focuses on skills and drills or program design. Section 4 addresses a broad range of strategies specifically designed to improve performance now and in the future. Section 5 provides a convenient glossary of terms. | Skills Drills & Strategies for Badminton

GBP 145.00
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Net Zero Energy Building Predicted and Unintended Consequences

Net Zero Energy Building Predicted and Unintended Consequences

What do we mean by net zero energy? Zero operating energy? Zero energy costs? Zero emissions? There is no one answer: approaches to net zero building vary widely across the globe and are influenced by different environmental and cultural contexts. Net Zero Energy Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences presents a comprehensive overview of variations in 'net zero' building practices. Drawing on examples from countries such as the United States United Kingdom Germany Japan Hong Kong and China Ming Hu examines diverse approaches to net zero and reveals their intended and unintended consequences. Existing approaches often focus on operating energy: how to make buildings more efficient by reducing the energy consumed by climate control lighting and appliances. Hu goes beyond this by analyzing overall energy consumption and environmental impact across the entire life cycle of a building—ranging from the manufacture of building materials to transportation renovation and demolition. Is net zero building still achievable once we look at these factors? With clear implications for future practice this is key reading for professionals in building design architecture and construction as well as students on sustainable and green architecture courses. | Net Zero Energy Building Predicted and Unintended Consequences

GBP 34.99
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The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

This book uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050. With GHG emissions currently predicted to triple by the middle of the century the fashion industry is far off course to reach Net Zero as set out in the Paris Agreement. With misinformation and greenwashing representing an ever-growing barrier to potential solutions the book aims to demystify the source of GHG emissions from the industry breaking down in detail their origin while identifying the steps that can be taken when designing and sourcing new products. Detailing the market drivers and trends in fashion consumption it argues that change should be guided by science-based quantitative principles. Accessibly written with key insights at the end of each chapter this book will enable the reader to understand the tactics to tackle decarbonisation and ultimately outline five main strategies that can be deployed by the fashion and textile industries to align with the Paris Agreement. This book serves as a practical guide for designers buyers and the fashion industry in general to develop and understand approaches and strategies to reduce energy consumption and the resulting GHG emissions to reach Net Zero. | The Path to Net Zero for the Fashion Industry Five Strategies for Decarbonisation

GBP 31.99
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Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions nothing short of a revolution is required in our use of land our farming practices and our diet. Taking a historical approach the book examines the evolution of agriculture and the food system in the UK over the last century and discusses the implications of tackling climate change for food farming and land use setting the UK situation in an international context. The chapters analyse the key challenges for this transition including dietary change and food waste afforestation and energy crops and low-emission farming practices. This historical perspective helps develop an understanding of how our food farming and land use system has evolved to be the way that it is and draws lessons for how the agri-food system could evolve further to support the transition to net zero and avoid catastrophic climate change. Written in a clear and accessible style this book will be essential reading to students and scholars of food agriculture and the environment as well as policymakers and professionals involved climate change policy and the agriculture and food industry. | Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

GBP 35.99
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Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high performance and net zero energy buildings with a practical focus on the design and integration of these systems. This textbook and convenient reference offers a single-source guide to renewable technologies balancing broad knowledge with the details of implementation crucial for successful sustainable design. It equips students and professionals with foundations and critical information needed to confidently plan for and meet the highest standards of energy efficiency in new construction and retrofitted buildings. Part I of the book establishes key principles of renewable systems power production and design for climate introducing energy modeling and measurements of performance. Part II focuses in more depth on renewable energy systems including photovoltaics heat pumps solar thermal and more. Dedicated chapters break down the fundamental concepts behind each renewable technology and present guidelines for configuration and installation including system requirements equipment specification sizing and location of components. Part III discusses topics relevant across renewable systems including energy storage control and monitoring and cost/payback calculation. Part IV comprises case studies of exemplary renewable energy projects. Features: Covers resources and technologies including photovoltaics solar thermal hot water heat pumps biomass wind and microhydro turbines marine renewable energy deep cycle rechargeable batteries and system controllers. Compiles up-to-date essential information on designing with renewable systems in one location organized by technology for easy reference. Presents clear explanations of all concepts and system aspects using US/SI units and full-color diagrams and illustrations throughout. Features case studies of renewable energy systems in completed projects demonstrating a range of climate specific applications. Includes study questions a comprehensive guide to terminology and acronyms spreadsheets for calculations system sizing worksheets and additional online resources. Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers: Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design will serve as an essential introduction and enduring reference for students of architecture engineering construction and building science. Equally valuable as a professional resource it will quickly become the go-to guide for energy efficient design for practitioners in these areas. | Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design

GBP 89.99
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Net-Zero and Positive Energy Communities Best Practice Guidance Based on the ZERO-PLUS Project Experience

Net-Zero and Positive Energy Communities Best Practice Guidance Based on the ZERO-PLUS Project Experience

This book presents a methodology for the design construction monitoring optimization and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project. It describes the steps tools and methods developed during the project providing practical information for the energy and construction sector that will be of interest to students engineers architects developers and professionals working around high performance architecture and sustainable communities. Through the ZERO-PLUS project a consortium of 32 partners from eight countries including academic institutions technology providers architects and construction companies designed four communities covering completely different geo-climatic regions construction practices and cultural backgrounds in Cyprus Italy France and the UK. The communities were designed optimized constructed monitored handed over to tenants post-occupancy evaluated and troubleshooted through a system of continuous collaboration and data acquisition. This book presents these case studies and shows how the project targets of reducing electricity consumption below 20 kWh/m2/y increasing electricity production from Renewable Energy Systems to over 50 kWh/m2/y and at cheaper costs when compared to current zero-energy buildings were reached and surpassed. These cases demonstrate that a holistic and interactive approach to design and construction can bring communities a high standard of sustainability. The key features of the book include: Practical guidance drawn from the interdisciplinary international and remote cooperation between experts from academia and industry across the construction sector A survey of the state-of-the-art on net-zero and positive-energy communities including the experience and the lessons learned from previous projects and from the ZERO-PLUS project Descriptions of novel emerging renewable energy technologies integrated into real case study communities to achieve the energy generation target of the communities A comprehensive set of approaches tools guidelines best practices challenges and lessons learned from the five-year ZERO-PLUS project and the completion of four residential case studies to inform the reader of how to achieve affordable net-zero energy communities Four typologies of residential communities located in different climatic conditions are presented touching on the critical aspects of the design construction monitoring and occupancy phase A discussion of future trends for developing communities that are more liveable accessible and sustainable and which can comply with new energy policies in a way that is affordable for the owners and residents. | Net-Zero and Positive Energy Communities Best Practice Guidance Based on the ZERO-PLUS Project Experience

GBP 49.99
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Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

This is the decade for climate action. Internal and external stakeholders demand action. How we choose to act in the next ten years will determine our foreseeable future. Businesses hold a critical role for climate futures. The need for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint is now unquestioned but how to achieve reductions in a credible way is neither clear nor easy once you’ve tackled the obvious energy culprits. Climate Positive Business lays out the path of business climate strategy highlighting how your business must set goals measure impact and improve performance. Greenhouse gas protocols can instruct you on the core accounting process that lies at the heart of climate strategy. At least as important to success are the details that protocols don’t tell you: the sticking points; the areas of controversy and the best practices. Rooted in real experience and written in an entertaining and engaging style this book provides you with the tips tools and techniques to tackle your company’s carbon footprint and it helps you do so in a way that is credible and appropriately ambitious to meet stakeholder expectations. The book will equip you with tools to think critically about GHG reduction carbon offsets and carbon removal as well as help ensure we collectively implement real solutions to slow and eventually reverse the climate crisis. It includes lessons learned from real-world consulting projects and provides a plan of action for readers to implement. A go-to book for business looking to understand manage and reduce their carbon footprint it is an invaluable resource for sustainable business practitioners consultants and those aspiring to become climate champions. | Climate Positive Business How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

GBP 31.99
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Edu.net Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility

Edu.net Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility

Edu. net builds upon and extends a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive data resulting from a Leverhulme Trust research study focused on Africa and a study funded by the British Academy focused on India which explored the way in which global actors and organisations bring policy ideas to bear and are joined up in a global education policy network. This timely and cutting-edge new work develops concepts analyses and methods deployed in Education Plc (2008) Networks New Governance and Education (2012) and Global Education Inc. (2012). The research is framed by an elaboration of Network Ethnography an innovative method of policy research. Edu. net presents the substantive findings of the authors’ research by focusing on various kinds of policy movement – people ideas practices methods money. The book is about both global education policy and ways of researching policy in a global setting. It is an essential read for policy analysts educational academic researchers and postgraduate education students alike. | Edu. net Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility

GBP 36.99
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Game-Based Pedagogy in Physical Education and Sports Designing Rich Learning Environments

Game-Based Pedagogy in Physical Education and Sports Designing Rich Learning Environments

Using a pedagogical concept similar to game-based approaches such as Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Game Sense this book explores the teaching and learning of modified games in physical education and sports. It includes examples of innovative games designed to create a rich learning environment. The book presents a pedagogical model that structures game design to fit the needs of every specific group of students enabling physical educators and coaches to design their own games and teach within a game-based approach. The book focuses on eight sports – soccer basketball handball rugby volleyball badminton softball and cricket – and for each sport it introduces a series of learning conditions that gradually increase in technical and tactical complexity. These conditions are supported with commonly seen game play scenarios providing meaningful opportunities for developing awareness of technical and tactical solutions. Game-Based Pedagogy in Physical Education and Sports is a vital read for students of physical education teacher education (PETE) sport coaching and sports pedagogy. It is also a valuable resource for physical educators and coaches. | Game-Based Pedagogy in Physical Education and Sports Designing Rich Learning Environments

GBP 34.99
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Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

This book investigates the origins current state and fundamental value of social safety nets in developing countries as well as their effectiveness in these settings. Social safety net programs (SSNPs) are critical because they keep those who are already vulnerable from falling deeper into poverty. Analysing how social safety nets benefit the most disadvantaged and marginalized members of society by allowing those in need to become financially stable more resilient and open up more opportunities for themselves this book shows that social safety nets (SSNs) are a collection of social services designed to protect people from the effects of economic and emotional hardship. Showing that the purpose of the safety net is not to provide permanent financial security but rather to provide temporary financial security during periodic shocks and how this applies in South Asia and also in parts of Africa this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy sociology social work and Global South politics more generally. | Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

GBP 130.00
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Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

This book examines the contributions of non-public organizations such as foundations philanthropies charities non-governmental organizations private businesses and entrepreneurs to public goods and services. Too often the impact of the contributions of such private actors are overlooked. However they are playing an increasing role in meeting societal needs across the developing world. Doing Public Good? lays out key elements that need to be considered in evaluating the net results achieved by these private actors. It uses case studies and analysis to show how to answer such questions as: Is it working? How do they and the public know they are doing good? And how to improve? Such questions are particularly important since little is known about the net results of private avenues for delivering public value. The contributors conclude that doing good organizations need to be more transparent and accountable regarding their operations and achievements. The book suggests perspectives on how better monitoring and evaluation systems can improve their accountability. | Doing Public Good? Private Actors Evaluation and Public Value

GBP 35.99
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The Investment Behaviour of British Life Insurance Companies

The Investment Behaviour of British Life Insurance Companies

Originally published in 1979 The Investment Behaviour of British Life Insurance Companies provides a critical analysis of the investment policy of the life insurance industry for the period of 1962-76 and attempts to construct an econometric model of the investment behaviour. It looks at the portfolio composition of life funds and their position in the markets for securities in terms of their gross purchases and sales and net acquisitions. It also considers the principles on which life offices appear to operate the principles on which life offices appear to operate in respect of investing their ‘reserves’ to meet future contingent liabilities. This book will appeal to those working in the field of economic and business.

GBP 31.99
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Sovereignty In Dispute The Falklands/malvinas 14931982

Sovereignty In Dispute The Falklands/malvinas 14931982

The Falkland (or Malvinas) Islands-a peaceful haven for land and sea birds and once a profitable paradise for whalers and seal hunters-erupted into the headlines on April 2 1982. The armed conflict between Britain and Argentina that continued during the following two months was but one more stage in a long-standing struggle over the sovereignty of the islands a conflict dating back to colonial times. The issues much discussed remain unresolved. In this book the Hoffmanns present the background to the confrontation between Argentina and Britain as well as an analysis of the present situation. Clarifying the importance of the seemingly insignificant remote islands in the South Atlantic over which European nations nearly went to war several times and which Britain wrested from Argentina in the 1830s the authors trace the history of the dispute the involvement of the United States and the impact of the recent war on inter-American relations. | Sovereignty In Dispute The Falklands/malvinas 14931982

GBP 36.99
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The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment. For the last thirty years corporate sustainability was synonymous with the pursuit of ‘eco-efficiency’ and ‘win-win’ opportunities. The notion of ‘eco-efficiency’ gives us the illusion that we can achieve environmental sustainability without having to question the pursuit of never-ending economic growth. The ‘win-win’ paradigm is meant to assure us that companies can be protectors of the environment whilst also being profit maximizers. It is abundantly clear that the state of the natural environment has further degraded instead of improved. This book introduces a new paradigm designed to finally reconcile business and the environment. It is called ‘net green’ which means that in these times of ecological overshoot businesses need to reduce total environmental impact and not just improve the eco-efficiency of their products. The book also introduces and explains the four pollution prevention principles ‘again’ ‘different’ ‘less’ and ‘labor not materials’. Together ‘net green’ and the four pollution prevention principles provide a road map for businesses and for every household to a world in which human prosperity and a healthy environment are no longer at odds. The Business of Less is full of anecdotes and examples. This brings its material to life and makes the book not only very accessible but also hugely applicable for everyone who is worried about the fate of our planet and is looking for answers. | The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

GBP 31.99
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Automated Lighting The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights

Automated Lighting The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights

Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights Third Edition (formerly Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light) continues to be the most trusted text for working and aspiring lighting professionals. Now in its third edition it has been fully updated to reflect the vast changes in stage and studio luminairies—including LEDs switch-mode power supplies optics networking Ethernet-based protocols like Art-Net and sACN wireless DMX and much more. Its written in clear easy-to-understand language and includes enough detailed information to benefit for the most experienced technicians programmers and designers. Additional content and resources are provided at the author's website www. automatedlighting. pro. | Automated Lighting The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights

GBP 51.99
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The Handbook of Carbon Management A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function

The Handbook of Carbon Management A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function

Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book written by experts in the field of sustainability in business shows you how. The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we face today and it affects all aspects of business and society. Consequently everyone needs to know the best high-impact climate solutions that can be embedded into their organisational area. In this book you will find ideas for your team your department and your organisation to make this a reality. We provide you with implementation plans and inspiring case studies with practical and helpful tools that will help you to scale up climate solutions effectively and efficiently. If you are an owner of a company or an executive in any organisation you will benefit from this step-by-step guide on how to set up your own greenhouse gas management plan how to set targets and how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of your whole organisation. We explain key terms such as Net Zero Carbon Neutral carbon emissions equivalents and the three scopes. In order to halve our emissions worldwide by 2030 to achieve Net Zero by 2050 individual actions on a large scale are required but also systemic changes. We look at the bigger picture in this book and also how you could effect change. This is the first book to offer an easy-to-implement approach to decarbonise organisations and transform societies and is appropriate for managers at any level. This book can also be used in business schools to inspire future managers and business leaders. Last but not least everyone can find ideas here that they can implement in their personal lives – let’s scale up together! | The Handbook of Carbon Management A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function

GBP 29.99
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Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political commercial and cultural networks beyond Europe cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions and looking further east to India China and Japan. The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts items of commercial exchange objects looted at war maritime connections and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects people and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional—rather it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards. | Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

GBP 38.99
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Corporate Finance: The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify – the essential ideas of corporate finance avoiding the heavy use of maths and formulae. The calculations and figures in the book are purely to illustrate fundamental concepts appealing to readers’ common sense rather than stretch their ability to do number-crunching. Topics covered include: Financial statements through the corporate finance lens How to make investment decisions Cash versus profit Net working capital management How to determine the value of a business Through the use of a subject map this book explains how the key components of the subject are connected with each other strengthening the reader’s understanding. This book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking for a short yet scholarly overview of corporate finance.

GBP 19.99
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Inequality Studies from the Global South

Inequality Studies from the Global South

This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality and to understanding how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global South. Without the safety net of the various Northern welfare states inequality in the global South is not merely a socio-economic problem but an existential threat to the social contract that underpins the democratic state and society itself. Only a response that is firmly grounded in the context of the global South can hope to address this problem. This collection brings together scholars from across the globe with a particular focus on the global South to address broad thematic areas such as the conceptual and methodological challenges of measuring inequality; the political economy of inequality in the global South; inequality in work households and the labour market; and inequalities in land spaces and cities. The book concludes by suggesting alternatives for addressing inequality in the global South and around the world. The pioneering ideas and theories put forward by this volume make it essential reading for students and researchers of global inequality across the fields of sociology economics law politics global studies and development studies. | Inequality Studies from the Global South

GBP 34.99
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The Photo Student Handbook Essential Advice on Learning Photography and Launching Your Career Path

The Photo Student Handbook Essential Advice on Learning Photography and Launching Your Career Path

The Photo Student Handbook is a collection of short easy-to-read chapters filled with expert advice on enhancing image-making skills and launching a career as a professional photographer. Designed to help students grow beyond the technical aspects of photography this book presents a variety of methods and strategies proven to strengthen visual awareness engage creative thinking and deepen the conceptual aspects of image-making. Topics include how to: - improve the ability to see actively - understand light as a main character - cultivate a creative mind - make a standout portfolio - unpack critical theory - find and develop a creative voice. Packed with valuable tips insights and advice from over a hundred instructors professionals senior students and experts this book is engineered to help instructors guide students step-by-step through the methods and strategies needed to achieve creative success both in the classroom and the real world. This book is ideal for intermediate- and advanced-level photography students and instructors alike. Visit the accompanying website www. photostudent. net for extra chapters exercises quizzes and more. | The Photo Student Handbook Essential Advice on Learning Photography and Launching Your Career Path

GBP 35.99
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The Law of Public Communication

The Law of Public Communication

The twelfth edition of this classic textbook provides an overview of communication and media law including the most current legal developments. It explains laws affecting the daily work of writers broadcasters public relations practitioners photographers bloggers and other public communicators. By providing statutes and cases in an accessible manner even to students studying law for the first time the authors ensure that students acquire a firm grasp of the legal issues affecting the media. The book examines legal topics such as libel privacy intellectual property obscenity and access to information considering the development and current standing of relevant laws and important cases. It examines how these laws affect public political and commercial communication. The twelfth edition discusses hot topics such as proposals to modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act net neutrality legislation participant monitoring the actual malice standard for litigation against journalists and the Julian Assange Espionage Act prosecution. It also explores social media issues such as whether social media use by public officials constitutes a public forum liability for defamation and the operation of Facebook’s Oversight Board. The Law of Public Communication is an ideal core textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in communication law and mass media law. Online resources include a test bank and PowerPoint slides.

GBP 89.99
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Edmund Campion A Scholarly Life

Edmund Campion A Scholarly Life

Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life is the response at long last to Evelyn Waugh’s call in 1935 for a ’scholarly biography’ to replace Richard Simpson's Edmund Campion (1867). Whereas early accounts of his life focused on the execution of the Jesuit priest this new biography presents a more balanced assessment placing equal weight on Campion’s London upbringing among printers and preachers and on his growing stature as an orator in an Oxford riven with religious divisions. Ireland chosen by Campion as a haven from religious conflict is shown paradoxically to have determined his life and his death. Gerard Kilroy here draws on newly discovered manuscript sources to reveal Campion as a charismatic and affectionate scholar who was finding fulfilment as priest and teacher in Prague when he was summoned to lead the first Jesuit mission to England. The book argues that the delays in his long journey suggest reluctant acceptance even before he was told that Dr Nicholas Sander had brought ’holy war’ to Ireland so that Campion landed in an England that was preparing for papal invasion. The book offers fresh insights into the dramatic search for Campion the populist nature of the disputations in the Tower and the legal issues raised by his torture. It was the monarchical republic itself that in pursuit of the Anjou marriage made him the beloved ’champion’ of the English Catholic community. Edmund Campion: A Scholarly Life presents the most detailed and comprehensive picture to date of an historical figure whose loyalty and courage in the trial and on the scaffold swiftly became legendary across Europe. | Edmund Campion A Scholarly Life

GBP 42.99
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Rebuilding America's Cities

Rebuilding America's Cities

A growing cooperation between the public and private sectors indicates that the tasks of redevelopment are too large and complex for either sector to accomplish alone. Some people maintain that government can do few things right; others are equally distrustful of the private sector. As used here the private sector is considered to be all that is not government. Each of the success stories illustrated is in part a road to recovery although none appear to have been influenced by a purpose that broad. Paul R. Porter and David C. Sweet present stories of progress in self-reliance that concern neighborhood and downtown recoveries school improvement job generation a regained fiscal solvency novel financing techniques helping tenants to become homeowners and a successful venture in self-help and tenant management in crime-infested neighborhoods. The successes stem from the diverse community roles of Yale University a medical center the world's largest research organization the Clorox Company a gas company an insurance company a newspaper neighborhood and downtown organizations city governments and two religious organizations - the Mormon Church and the tiny Church of the Savior. These stories are located throughout the United States including Akron Baltimore Brooklyn Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Fort Wayne Indianapolis Milwaukee New Haven Oakland Pittsburgh St. Louis St. Paul Salt Lake City Springfield Mass. Tampa and Washington D. C. The editors have gathered the work of professionals known in the field of urban studies: James W. Rouse Donald E. Lasater Rolf Goetze Dale F. Bertsch Joel Lieske Eugene H. Methvin James E. Kunde T. Michael Smith Robert Mier Carol Davidow Jay Chatterjee June Manning Thomas Norman Krumholz Larry C. Ledebur and Robert C. Holland. | Rebuilding America's Cities

GBP 84.99
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