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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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The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules resources and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1 100 legislators 230 committees and 12 000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers Shannon Jenkins examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. Jenkins traces these important contextual effects across the legislative process examining bill introduction committee processing and floor passage of bills in these legislatures. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers. After tracing these effects across the legislative process the book concludes by examining the practical implications of these analytical findings. How can the rules of institutions be designed to create effective legislatures? And what do these findings mean for those who seek to shape the policies produced by these institutions? Understanding of how the context of legislating shapes the outputs of legislatures is a critical element of understanding legislatures that has been sorely missing. An original and timely resource for scholars and students researching state legislatures and state politics. | The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

GBP 18.99
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Self-build How to design and build your own home

Self-build How to design and build your own home

If you’ve ever dreamt of designing and building your own home this book is for you. Becoming a ‘self-builder’ doesn’t necessarily mean learning to build a house physically from scratch. Anyone can be a self-builder – you can do so without ever having to lay a brick yourself. Self-built homes can also be more individual better designed and more economical than buying from a developer. This book is designed for homeowners and self-builders whether aspiring or on the brink of starting a project. It provides a jargon-free step-by-step guide to the process of designing and building your own home distilling all of the practical information needed to make your dream house a reality. Carefully crafted to offer friendly easy-to-understand practical guidance and packed with watch points hints and tips it also highlights the potential pitfalls and suggests ways of avoiding them. Including indications of costs and timescales Self-build demystifies the process of budgeting finding a site gaining planning permission designing your home and all of the surrounding issues to do with sustainability planning regulations procurement and the use of building contracts. Beautifully illustrated with over 230-colour photos diagrams and plans it provides all the inspiration and ideas you need to bring your own project to life. Featured houses include: Amphibious House by Baca Architects Corten Courtyard House by Barefoot Architects Haringey Brick House by Satish Jassal Architects Shawm House by Mawson Kerr Architects Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects The Pocket House by Tikari Works Architects. | Self-build How to design and build your own home

GBP 45.00
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Physical Modelling in Geotechnics Volume 2 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2018

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics Volume 2 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2018

Physical Modelling in Geotechnics collects more than 1500 pages of peer-reviewed papers written by researchers from over 30 countries and presented at the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 2018 (City University of London UK 17-20 July 2018). The ICPMG series has grown such that two volumes of proceedings were required to publish all contributions. The books represent a substantial body of work in four years. Physical Modelling in Geotechnics contains 230 papers including eight keynote and themed lectures representing the state-of-the-art in physical modelling research in aspects as diverse as fundamental modelling including sensors imaging modelling techniques and scaling onshore and offshore foundations dams and embankments retaining walls and deep excavations ground improvement and environmental engineering tunnels and geohazards including significant contributions in the area of seismic engineering. ISSMGE TC104 have identified areas for special attention including education in physical modelling and the promotion of physical modelling to industry. With this in mind there is a special themed paper on education focusing on both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as practicing geotechnical engineers. Physical modelling has entered a new era with the advent of exciting work on real time interfaces between physical and numerical modelling and the growth of facilities and expertise that enable development of so called ‘megafuges’ of 1000gtonne capacity or more; capable of modelling the largest and most complex of geotechnical challenges. Physical Modelling in Geotechnics will be of interest to professionals engineers and academics interested or involved in geotechnics geotechnical engineering and related areas. The 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics was organised by the Multi Scale Geotechnical Engineering Research Centre at City University of London under the auspices of Technical Committee 104 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). City University of London are pleased to host the prestigious international conference for the first time having initiated and hosted the first regional conference Eurofuge ten years ago in 2008. Quadrennial regional conferences in both Europe and Asia are now well established events giving doctoral researchers in particular the opportunity to attend an international conference in this rapidly evolving specialist area. This is volume 2 of a 2-volume set. | Physical Modelling in Geotechnics Volume 2 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2018

GBP 170.00
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