Videoland

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video stores served as a crucial embodiment of movie cultureÕs historical move toward increased flexibility, adaptability, and customization. In addition to charting the historical rise and fall of the rental industry, Herbert explores the architectural design of video stores, the social dynamics of retail encounters, the video distribution industry, the proliferation of video recommendation guides, and the often surprising persistence of the video store as an adaptable social space of consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, cultural geography, and archival research, Videoland provides a wide-ranging exploration of the pivotal role video stores played in the history of motion pictures, and is a must-read for students and scholars of media history.

Following consistent and rapid general economic growth, Pacific Rim countries have grown as a major force in sports. Australia, China, Japan and Korea populated the top ten medals list at the 2012 London Olympics. Pacific Rim countries are major consumers of international sports and domestic professional sports have expanded continuously over time. Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korean Baseball Organization are the second and third largest baseball leagues measured by attendance and revenue following Major League Baseball in the U.S. This book also includes event studies of team ownership, assessment of human capital markets, analysis of the relationship between attendance and competitive balance, the components of fan demand in common the world over, and business decisions concerning attendance and pricing. There is already demand for comprehensive study of the sports business in the Pacific Rim as witnessed by this growth. This book will be of interest of researchers studying and/or teaching in the fields of sports economics and sports management as well as a general audience interested in business governance around the world.

Drawing from the liberal arts and natural sciences and emphasizing psychology's historical dimensions, this gold-standard text shows students how and why psychology is relevant in their lives and to the other disciplines they are studying.The Seventh Edition introduces a new four-part structure that highlights the central issues that motivate psychological research and previews them through thought-provoking introductory essays. Throughout, the part reorganization is reinforced by carefully refined questions and themes, providing a coherent and exciting view of psychology today.

The only casebook dealing with e-commerce, Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition, utilizes problems to expound a transactional approach to electronic commerce. Written by Ronald J. Mann, a preeminent and prolific Commercial Law scholar, this system-oriented text is structured around the hypothetical representation of a technology company. The new edition has been meticulously updated with the latest cases and problems that reflect those cases and current issues. This concise casebook offers: Distinguished authorship: Ronald Mann is a leading scholar in Commercial Law and recently served as Reporter for revisions to UCC Articles 3, 4, and 4A. Lucid and concise reading assignments that use non-technical language whenever possible. Need-to-know technology is explained clearly and accessibly. Exercises that clearly illustrate current issues in e-commerce practice. Dozens of separate assignments so that professors can easily concentrate on their own areas of interest. Coverage of important commercial law topics, including: Click-through contracts Cybersquatting Web site development Software licensing Electronic payments New to the Fourth Edition: Updated problems based on recent case law and current issues. New cases, including: Rescuecom Corp. v. Google & Second Circuit decision permitting lawsuit against Google for selling ads based on trademarked name Jacobsen v. Katzer & First appellate decision validating licenses for open-source software Jaynes v. Commonwealth of Virginia & Virginia Supreme Court case invalidating Virginia anti-spam law under First Amendment Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com & Ninth Circuit en banc decision on liability of Web site for discriminatory postings seeking roommates Chicago Lawyers & Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. v. CraigsList, Inc. & Easterbrook decision exonerating CraigsList for behavior similar to Roommates behavior condemned by Ninth Circuit Conwell v. Gray Loon Outdoor Marketing Group, Inc. & Indiana Supreme Court case interpreting contract for design of Web site