Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information management become more pervasive. These shifts in strategic communications impact free speech as major players, in a global context, rhetorically embrace a world of transparency, all the while increasing ...

This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes:*an analysis of the technical devices available to assist in parental control of television broadcasting services, including descriptions of devices, their cost, availability, and the infrastructure needed to introduce them;*a corresponding analysis of potential ratings or labeling systems ...

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court are privy to the behind-the-scenes bonds that form between justices and their clerks.In Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers and Clare Cushman offer an intimate new look at the personal and professional relationships of law clerks with their justices. Going beyond the book’s widely acclaimed predecessor, I n Chambers, the vignettes collected he...

Grayson Price rettete River Reed vor acht Jahren vor einer fatalen Entscheidung und stand ihr im schwersten Moment ihres Lebens bei. Damals war sie ein verzweifeltes junges Mädchen, heute ist sie eine wunderschöne, selbstbewusste Frau. Als Grayson sie eines Abends in einer Bar trifft, erkennt er sie zunächst nicht. Erst als sein bester Freund, Rivers Vater, auftaucht, realisiert Grayson, wer sie ist: das Mädchen, dem er einst zur Seite stand und das er nie vergessen konnte. River hat Grays...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.**“Electrifying … A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the world’s greatest thriller writer." —**Daily MailIn life, Marilyn Monroe’s superstardom defies classification. ...

Karl Marx's monumental work, "The Capital" (Volumes 1-3), delves into the intricate mechanics of capitalist society, examining the relationship between labor, value, and capital accumulation. Written in a rigorous yet accessible style, Marx employs a dialectical approach to analyze the economic structures that underpin the capitalist mode of production. His exploration covers the commodification of labor, the exploitation inherent in surplus value, and the cyclical crises that capitalism e...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Drawn from rigorous research, this true crime title tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's extraordinary life and explores the shocking circumstances of her death.**'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON__________________________________BORN IN THE SHADOWS. LIVED FOR THE SPOTLIGHT. WAS SHE MURDERED?Before Marilyn Monroe, there was Norma Jeane. No one would have thought t...

In a scathing exposé on the failings of the modern American judicial system, this book pulls no punches in revealing the harsh truth - that the courts today are more concerned with politics, careers, and legal gamesmanship than actual justice. The author speaks from hard-earned experience after a devastating family tragedy.The story opens by painting a grim picture of the courtroom as an arena where truth and impartiality take a backseat to delay tactics, obfuscation of evidence, and the p...

Rapid progress in information technologies has produced an ever-broadening array of choices in information products. At the same time, it has caused historically segmented industries, such as television, telephones, computers, and print media, to converge and compete. The result is a cornucopia of products and potential in communications along with enormous strain on the governmental institutions that use and regulate information technology. The essays in this book provide a broad look at ...

Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law, this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective.The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence, rather it provides a better understanding of the forces that generate media rules, norms, and standards against the background of major transformations in the way information is mediated as a result o...

This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech and expression in the organization of societies as well as efforts to shape the broader global information society. How have different societies or communities drawn on the ideas of philosophers, r...

Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how images work on their own terms is an ever more important epistemological project for fostering the imaginative scope of human rights and its purchase on reality. Interdisciplinary in nature,...