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In the 1970s, the Supreme Court directly ruled for the first time that commercial speech is protected by the free speech clause of the Constitution. The Court, however, did not grant it the full protection afforded to political and artistic speech. The SEC regulates a vast array of corporate speech that it considers to be a type of commercial speech. In this book, Professor Nicholas Wolfson examines the SEC's considerable powers in the control...

Offers reviews and summaries regarding articles that examine the role of various inflammatory cells and their mediators in the pathogenesis of asthma. This book contains topics including pharmacological and biochemical regulation of the airways, involvement of key inflammatory cells and the release and effect of their mediators in airway function.

A historical and descriptive study of the United States/Canadian mass communications "border war, " this volume centers on millions of dollars spent annually bycompanies to advertise on U.S. border stations.

Take Charge of Your Own HealthFrom hypertension to hardening of the arteries, cancer to cataracts, Heimlich's authoritative guide surveys the latest nonconventional medical treatments for today's most prevalent diseases. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an objective, up-to-the minute sourcebook on the most significant alternative approaches to health, including:Antioxidants • Bach Flower Remedies • BiomagnetismColon Detoxification • Electrod...

A strong addition to the existing military history reference literature and to its series. . . . Dawson's research guide is more useful than a standard bibliography, and much more thorough for the time period covered than [other] sources. . . . Dawson builds his guide around more than 1, 100 bibliographic entries, many of which have brief, descriptive annotations. The citations, arranged topically in eight chapters, are drawn from books, perio...

This book presents a comprehensive catalogue of elementary data types like sets, maps, orders, trees and lists, written in Ada. Such data types are often used in systems programming. The major focus is on: - a uniform syntactic and semantic interface for all data types, - many implementation variants per data type, all ac cessible through a single interface, - a hierarchical system of the data types as a basis for data type selection and imple...

Just a few years ago, the concept of job-related privacy was barely recognized by the law and virtually unknown to most employers. Under the legal doctrine of employment-at-will, the conditions of most employment were dictated by employers, and workers held their jobs at the discretion of their superiors. In the past two decades, however, numerous laws and court rulings have established the doctrine of workplace privacy: the protection of empl...

This is the first booklength survey of the Anglo-American common law contract over its 800-year history, from genesis in 12th-century England to the present form in contemporary America. The volume presents a technically accurate yet readable analysis that focuses on how the form assumed by contract law was tempered by the reasoning of lawyers and judges, and procedural, economic, intellectual and social considerations throughout the period. O...

In this book, Luis Roniger offers a comprehensive and systematic discussion of the influence of clientelism and clientelistic relationships in social and political life in Mexico and Brazil. The author describes, analyzes, and compares clientelistic arrangements not only in terms of economic development and social differentiation, but also as a strategy of interaction and control over economic and political markets shaped both by structural fa...

Beowulf, the primary epic of the English language, is a powerful heroic poem eloquently expressive of the Anglo-Saxon culture that produced it. In this beautiful book a designer, a poet, and a specialist on Anglo-Saxon literature recreate Beowulf for a modern audience.

In the period between 1865 to 1920, as America shifted from a rural-farming economy to urban-manufacturing, a major transformation also occurred in the behavior of the country's consumers. This change is perhaps best illustrated in the advertisements that appeared in popular magazines. They began by simply informing consumers of the cost and availability of a product, but, by 1920, they were projecting an image that defined the American dream ...

This volume explores American attitudes toward affirmative action policies through an extensive study of a national sample of university faculty. By examining views about affirmative action in academia within a framework that outlines the larger issues involved in using affirmative action to promote equality of opportunity for historical victims of discrimination, Stephanie Witt offers new insights into the competing values in American society...

Focusing on case studies of immigration in a variety of national settings including developing countries and colonies, this work offers information on the economic consequences of immigration. Countries studied include Australia, Kenya, West Germany, India, Israel, Ireland, America and the UK.

Examines selected non-classified periodicals that are predominantly American and devoted to military and naval subjects. The criteria used to select the journals were either that they had influenced military thought or that they were produced in multiple editions or since World War II.

Nineteen essays by distinguished researchers explore the epidemiology and health status of prehistoric, historical, and present day populations in transition.

A study of the programmes transmitted by the Armed Forces Radio Service from 1943 to 1947 for the American military personnel. This study provides discographical data for the first 1, 000 recordings of the AFRS Basic Musical Library Series.

Biographical directory of early black American playwrights from the time prior to the Civil War to World War II. Around 200 playwrights, librettists, screenwriters and radio script writers and their work are discussed.

Aims to provide the raw materials for undertaking comparative studies of housing issues and policy problems, which vary from country to country. The book aims to demonstrate that housing is an integral part of a nation's financial system, social structure and political apparatus.

Although Americans enjoy the convenience and economic benefits of the world's most advanced air transportation system, the future of the airline industry is clouded by capacity constraints, safety and environmental concerns, the consolidation of carriers, and, especially, airline labor relations under the Railway Labor Act. In this volume, William E. Thoms and Frank J. Dooley provide a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the history, the ...