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The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world. Critics have long feared waves of mergers creating a handful of large media firms that would hold sway over public opinion and endanger democracy and innovation. But others believe with equal fervor that the Internet and deregulation have opened the media landscape significantly. How concentrated has the American information sector rea...

The Bush Administration has notoriously argued that detainees at Guantanamo do not enjoy constitutional rights because they are held outside American borders. But where do rules about territorial legal limits such as this one come from? Why does geography make a difference for what legal rules apply? Most people intuitively understand that location affects constitutional rights, but the legal and political basis for territorial jurisdiction is...

This book offers an extensive analysis of carbon-energy taxation that addresses the interplay between carbon-energy taxation and emissions trading, as well as the implications for future international climate policy.

The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead. Edited by two of America's leading constitutional scholars, the book provides a new framework for addressing the most important constitutional issues of the future in clear, accessible language. Featuring some of America's finest legal minds-Cass Sunstein, Bruce Ackerman, Robert Post, Harold Koh, Larry Kramer, N...

The story of the most powerful political metaphor of the twentieth century, shattering the conventional assumption that it was coined by Churchill in the 1940s and charting its long and influential history prior to the onset of the Cold War.

In this book Pierre Assouline reveals the life and art of Tintin's Belgian creator, Georges Prosper Remi, better known as 'Hergé'. Assouline has had privileged access to personal papers to explore Hergé's life and work and the fascinating ways in which the two intertwine.

Leading scholars present state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives and demonstrate the value of combining theoretical and experimental approaches.

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. These terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, but Aristotle did not intend this. Beere's careful reading of Metaphysics Theta shows the way to an analogical conception of energeia.

This book opens a new perspective on logic. After analyzing the functional adequacy of natural predicate logic and standard modern logic for natural linguistic interaction, the author develops a general theory of discourse-bound interpretation, covering such topics as discourse incrementation, anaphora, presupposition and topic-comment structure.

James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy.

The Law of American State Constitutions provides complete coverage of the legal doctrines surrounding, applying to, and arising from American state constitutions. Using specific examples, Professor Williams provides legal analysis of the unique nature and function of state constitutions, including rights, separation of powers, policy-based provisions, the unique judicial interpretation issues that arise under state constitutions and the proces...

for SSATB unaccompanied First performed by the choirs of St Paul's, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, this anthem sets a medieval English poem to contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall's style: expressive melismas, well-placed astringent harmonies, and a strong modal feel.

for SATB and organ This is Chilcott's first setting of the Evening Service, written for the Choir of Downing College, Cambridge. The Magnificat is a powerful setting of the Canticle of Mary, with homophonic textures and strong harmonies, while the Nunc Dimittis is expressive and poignant. A long-awaited addition to the Evensong repertory.

Each year, the United States Armed Forces ( Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard) commission thousands of new officers. Peterson's Master the Officer Candidate Tests 9th Edition study guide provides potential candidates with extensive background information on careers in the military as well as details about the tests that applicants will need to know to prepare successfully for the qualifying exams. Inside this comprehensive g...

Shonda Cheeke's hip and provocative follow-up to the critically acclaimed Another Man's Wife welcomes readers back into the world of Yani and Alex Chance and the ever popular Asia Fenton as they strive to stay strong in the face of tough choices, unexpected complications, and the sweet joys and bitter lows of love. Asia Fenton is finally on the road to her happily ever after. Her new relationship with the handsome Detective Johnny Johnson ...

A migrating gray whale and calf get hung up on an oil drilling platform off the coast of California. Caught in an oil spill, their fate and that of the coastal habitat of Southern California hinge on the migration of Monarch butterflies from Mexico and on a diary written thirty years earlier by a dying 13-year-old girl.

Updated edition of the classic which has sold over 250, 000 copies, now with a new introduction bringing it up to date. 'A sharp and very timely book... A couple of chapters in, your mind is already reeling... convincing and necessary, clear and fresh, calm but unsparing' "Guardian

Award-winning fantasy artist and creator of "Dinotopia" Gurney teaches budding artists and fans of fantasy how to create believable pictures of imaginary subjects, in this groundbreaking guide.

Das Handbuch der Geographie des Klaudios Ptolemaios, das kurz nach 150 n. Chr. in Alexandria verfasst wurde, ist eines der bedeutendsten wissenschaftlichen Werke der antiken Literatur. In seinen 8 Büchern fasst es das ganze geographische Wissen der Antike zusammen und bleibt mit seinen neuartigen Projektionsmethoden, seinen etwa 8000 meist mit Koordinaten bestimmten Ortsangaben und seinem farbigen Kartenatlas bis zur Schwelle der Neuzeit unerr...

Step-by-step - the proven path to recovery from bulimia nervosa and binge-eating'Written in a language that is both clear and pragmatic, an informative account of this stressing affliction. It is eminently readable by patients and will serve as an invaluable aid to treatment.' Michael Strober, Professor and Director of the Eating Disorders Program, UCLAOne in twenty women in the Western world experiences bouts of uncontrolled binge-eating and ...