In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception encompassing expressive nonverbal actions, algorithms, and data. She examines a series of pi...

A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screenHistorically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908, was a courtroom drama. Since then, this niche genre has produced such critically acclaimed films as Twelve Angry Men, To Kill a Mockingbird

About the BookCloud Catcher is a whimsical story with a message: Don’t take what doesn’t belong to you! You must learn to love and respect nature from a distance. The antics of a little boy are innocent until he learns this valuable lesson.About the AuthorSusanne earned her bachelor’s degree in Educational Psychology, with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education, from the University of Georgia. She has raised two amazing children and currently resides in the peaceful ...

IT'LL SOON BE DARKEighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages.Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight.These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and inspired from folklore from all around the world. They are filled with equal measures of fright and fancy.You see, the fey are different from you and me. They don’t thin...

The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of faith in a patriarchal blessing’s unfulfilled promise, a survivor of violence calling a divided ...

Von Speyer über Schwetzingen bis nach Heidelberg: 19 renommierte Krimiautorinnen und -autoren ziehen eine tödliche Spur durch die Kurpfalz. Schwetzingen. Sommerresidenz der Kurfürsten, kulturelles Kleinod zwischen Rhein und Neckar. Doch hinter den pittoresken Kulissen von Schloss, Marstall und Palais Hirsch wird gemordet, was das Zeug hält. Und auch das Umland wird nicht verschont. Begegnen Sie Giftmörderinnen und blutrünstigen Haushaltsgeräten; lernen Sie, wie es sich geschickt mit der Fa...

"Die Stärken der Stillen" richtet sich an introvertierte Menschen, die vor allem im Arbeitsalltag ihre Stärken ausbauen und auf authentische Art und Weise erfolgreich sein wollen. Jennifer Kahnweiler demonstriert sehr feinsinnig, wie Introvertierte effektiv handeln und auf sich aufmerksam machen können. Statt des mühseligen und oftmals erfolglosen Versuchs, wie extrovertierte Menschen zu agieren, baut die Autorin darauf, die zentralen Stärken Introvertierter wirksam einzusetzen. Im Buch wi...