This book explores historical and contemporary issues relating to libel suits against media organizations, emphasizing the consequences of the development of libel law for the First Amendment. It also considers the spe-cial problems that broadcasters have with libel suits and their potentially in-hibiting effect on television news coverage.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"Media Psychology" examines the impact that 21st century media use has on human behaviour, from teenage crushes on pop stars to soap fandom in adulthood. It brings together North American communication research with European media research in a variety of disciplines.

Covers a wide range of modernist novelists and novels, and also provides a guide to key developments in the genre. This revised edition includes a new discussion of "Heart of Darkness", an expanded section on gender and a revised section on the politics of Modernism.

Looks at how Virginia Woolf, as well as her husband Leonard, used the concept of madness and the profession of psychiatry to manage and manipulate their own and each other's lives. The author interprets Virginia Woolf's life and work as expressions of her character, and her character as the "product" of her free will.

Offers an introduction to phonetics in a presentation that equips the communication disorders student to deal with the wide range of speech types that will be encountered in a clinic. This work examines speech acoustics, with illustrations of sample spectrograms in traditional articulatory drawings. It is accompanied by a CD of sound examples.

Presents an account of modern plant science, reflecting advances in genetics and genomics. This book features chapters that provide information on our understanding of plant cell biology, plant metabolism, and plant developmental biology, and discuss the relationship of plants with humans: domestication, agriculture and crop breeding.