The murder of a child distresses us more than any other crime. Despite the national anxiety created by murderous paedophiles, the crime is mercifully rare: on average only seven cases a year occur in Britain...
This casebook, written by a renowned communications expert, offers you the skills for successful case analysis, along with a comprehensive collection of 36 cases that may be applied to any Business Communication issue or theme. The cases in this book focus on real-world companies (i.e. Northwest Airlines, Merck, The Walt Disney Company, Google, Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Sony and Kraft,) and provide the opportunity to put Business Communication theory into practice.
Most people fight over something or other and language is usually at the very center of the conflict. Often the way we use language is the cause of the battle. There are many areas in which fighting about language can be observed but civil law cases offer the most fertile examples of this warfare over words.
In The Language of Bribery Cases, Roger W. Shuy analyzes the role that language plays in bribery cases. He describes twelve court cases for which he served as an expert witness or consultant and explains the issues at stake in each of these cases, for both lawyers and linguists. The cases described include the bribery or alleged bribery of United States senators, congressmen, judges, businessmen, and brothel owners. Shuy describes the often-unused linguistic analytical tools that are available to both the prosecution and defense as they argue these cases.
Winningham's Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing, 5E
Develop your critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills with 150 realistic case studies from the four major clinical practice areas: medical-surgical, pediatric, maternity, and psychiatric/mental health nursing. Each case covers a common problem, drawn from actual clinical experiences and written by nurses who are clinical experts. All cases have been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect current clinical practices, with integrated content on pharmacology, nutrition, and diagnostic/laboratory tests to encourage you to think critically about all aspects of care.
