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A comprehensive and unique ""how to"" guide covering every area of entertainment law including fundamental principles, detailed business models, legal foundations, contract terms, practical advice, and full legal citations for cases and statutes.

Explores the sociological significance of sports. The anthology features diverse readings and perspectives that illustrate the important role of sports in the lives of millions of people. Accessible and interesting, The Sociology of Sports alerts readers to legitimate concerns about sports while also celebrating the positive role that sports play in health and community building.

Invites students to not only hone their writing skills, but to participate in and contribute to timely academic conversations. Students learn how to effectively ""listen"" to others and ""hear"" their ideas through reading texts written for a variety of audiences.

Identifies and discusses breakdowns in the criminal justice system that can have profoundly negative effects on individuals operating within or who are subjects of the system. The text also explores what can be done to successfully reduce the incidence of wrongful conviction.

Provides students with a primer for developing self-awareness and insight through interpersonal conversation. The text focuses on human behaviour in various situations - from educational settings to the workplace and the home - in order to help readers understand, appreciate, and enrich the human dynamics of their everyday lives.

Presents students with scholarly articles and chapters that take a multidisciplinary approach to understanding family violence across the lifespan. This is an ideal resource for courses in criminology, psychology, counselling, and social work that prepare students to support or interact with individuals who have endured acts of violence.

Presents a unique approach that uses a thematic view of American history as a lens through which to understand baseball. The book sets out to differentiate myth from history and to see American society as a nation of contradictions. Specific topics include liberty and freedom, myths and origins, and excess and celebrity in the 1920s.

Presents a number of prominent theological themes in the Bible, such as sin, redemption, humanity, and divine presence in the world. This volume shows how, in the light of a social science understanding of the ancient societies that produced the biblical documents, those themes were plausible and relevant to those societies.

Helps students learn critical concepts in managerial accounting through consistent and engaging practice. The text encourages students to work through problems and identifies clear procedures for completing each problem successfully.

Explores the technical aspects of the filmmaking process, the ways in which certain elements of cinema are creatively combined toward emotional and intellectual effect, and the myriad ways cinema both interacts with and reflects culture.

Addresses economic issues that students are likely to hear about in the media. The text focuses on the interconnectedness of economics, underscoring how large issues can be traced back to small origins, as well as how the welfare of individual economic agents and aggregate social benefits are not mutually exclusive.

Explores the changing notions of identity and diversity as they apply to gender and its intersection with the digital age. Through exposure to a carefully selected collection of readings and a variety of scholarly perspectives, students gain the knowledge and competence needed to successfully communicate in the broader arena of gender diversity.

Presents students with enlightening, thought-provoking articles regarding a variety of complex and emerging issues within the discipline. The readings are complemented by discussion questions, active learning exercises, and suggested readings and websites.

Featuring chapters written by leading scholars in the social work discipline, this volume examines how American social welfare policies, both historical and current, have sought to control the lives of marginalized populations. It also explore how people of colour have organised to critique and resist the racial control aspects of these policiess

Introduces students to foundational principles of modern economics with real-world applications. The text draws connections between key concepts and sports, music, entertainment, the housing market, the bond market, the stock market, the loanable funds market, and other related financial markets.

Helps students prepare for and thrive within clinical rotations, internships, and residencies. The text provides readers with practical communication skills and techniques to foster positive and productive interactions with patients and other clinicians.

Provides students with a concise overview of concepts relevant to public health and epidemiology through the lens of pharmacy practice. The text focuses on topics including health determinants, study design, health literacy, cultural competency, health promotion, and drug safety.

Fosters a greater awareness of those who develop substance abuse problems and the treatment of these individuals. The book provides a basic overview of the addiction process, with a special focus on what the experience is like for the addicted person. The second edition also implements the new DSM-5 criteria.

Featuring diverse chapters written by thirty principal scholars in the discipline, this innovative book examines what communication theory is and how it functions. Throughout the text, each scholar offers unique and insightful perspective, exposing readers to the myriad ways in which to analyse, understand, and think about communication.

Provides clinicians with a wide range of personal loss and grief examples from seasoned therapists while also considering grief through the lens of diverse cultural, religious, and theoretical perspectives. This unique text shares practicing clinicians' personal journeys of loss in myriad forms.

Helps readers understand the various issues and considerations an intelligence professional must tackle when reviewing, planning, and managing intelligence operations, regardless of level or environment. Unique in approach, this is an excellent resource for both academic courses in the subject and practical application by intelligence personnel.

The first textbook explicitly designed for graduating seniors in a Communication Capstone course, whether taught in small or large sections, or taught as a conceptual review or as a project- or skills-based course. The text features chapters authored by active, well-published, award-winning scholars and teachers in their respective areas of study.

Provides students with a series of editorials, selections, and case studies and encourages them to examine the practical application of health policies and their resulting health care outcomes. The anthology features a distinct emphasis on demonstrating how changes in health policies have significant impacts on population health.

Provides practitioners with an inclusive exploration of the unique features, challenges, and opportunities of contemporary couple counselling. Integrating CBT, existential, and systems approaches, and based on best available research, the text offers guidelines for beginning couple therapists along with breadth and depth of coverage.

Provides students with a collection of articles that explore the history, cultures, geography, and global relevance of these influential and remarkable regions. The text boasts a multidisciplinary approach and features diverse voices that centre on debates and issues surrounding Latin America and the Caribbean.

Provides students with a collection of carefully selected readings that not only helps them develop critical skills related to public speaking, but also fosters powerful self-discovery. Students learn how public speaking can help them reveal their true selves and connect with others in meaningful ways.

Challenges students to assume the role of a researcher to learn how to solve problems and analyse relevant, real-world situations. Featuring a uniquely intuitive and immersive approach, Thinking Like a Researcher is an exemplary textbook for introductory courses in communication research and statistics.

Through a uniquely multidisciplinary lens, Ethics and Vulnerable Elders employs a highly principled approach to ethics and addresses current issues affecting vulnerable older adults. The book illuminates the current and future challenges facing older adult populations and provides effective frameworks for their resolution.

Explores the techniques that powerful public speakers use to design and deliver speeches that captivate their audience members. The book takes students on a personal journey of discovery that makes them think about their default public speaking behaviours and challenges them to improve their public speaking skills.

Provides students with the foundational information they need to understand the broad study of communication, and demonstrates how to ""do"" communication. The book describes the different areas of communication studies and explores their unique features.