Reliably updated by Ian Smith and Aaron Baker, this popular textbook maintains its reputation for balancing authority with accessibility. Providing comprehensive coverage of all the key employment law topics the 12th edition continues to offer unrivalled support for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike. Smith & Wood's Employment Law draws on the extensive teaching and practical experience of its authors to provide students with a clear explanation of essential legislation and case detail while also offering incisive academic commentary and critical detail to help with essay preparation and class work. Throughout the book topics are carefully explained in their social and historical context, providing readers with an insight into the fast-paced development of employment law and offering perceptive analysis of its future direction. This book is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which includes further reading suggestions and useful weblinks to support independent study plus self-test questions with instant feedback to help consolidate learning and prepare for exams.

Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Smith, IAN

Baker, Aaron

Business

Oxford University Press

Known for its detailed and authoritative approach, the authors of Smith &amp; Wood's Employment Law provide a comprehensive, yet accessible guide to employment law. Clear accounts of essential case law and legislation are complemented by insightful commentary and critique to direct preparation for classes and assessments. The topics are carefully explained in their social and historical context, providing readers with an awareness of the fast-paced development of employment law and offering perceptive analysis of its future direction. Chapter overviews give students a sense of what they can expect to learn as they read each section while a 'Review and Final Thoughts' feature concludes each chapter by emphasizing the key issues as well as highlighting areas of development and technical difficulty which may need further attention by students. Full references to further reading are provided throughout the book to help guide additional research, and helpful web links can be accessed via the Online Resource Centre which accompanies this book. Multiple choice questions with instant feedback give students the opportunity to test their understanding of the themes.

Business & Money

Warnock, Owen

Management & Leadership

Known for its detailed and authoritative approach, the authors of Smith &amp; Wood's Employment Law provide a comprehensive, yet accessible guide to employment law. Clear accounts of essential case law and legislation are complemented by insightful commentary and critique to direct preparation for classes and assessments. The topics are carefully explained in their social and historical context, providing readers with an awareness of the fast-paced development of employment law and offering perceptive analysis of its future direction. Online Resources This book is accompanied by online resources including multiple-choice-questions with instant feedback and web links to further employment law resources.

Known for its detailed and authoritative approach, Smith & Wood's Employment Law provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to employment law. Clear accounts of essential case law and legislation are complemented by insightful commentary and critique to direct preparation for classes and assessments. This textbook carefully explains topics in their social and historical context, providing readers with an awareness of the fast-paced development of employment legislation and offering a critical analysis of the future direction of the law. Digital formats and resources The fifteenth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The following resources for this book are available online: - Self-test questions with feedback for each chapter - Further reading lists and useful websites

Updated by Ian Smith and Aaron Baker, Smith &amp; Wood's Employment Law maintains its reputation for both thorough coverage and lucidity of presentation. The authors provide contextualized discussion throughout and introduce the socio-political pressures affecting this dynamic and fast paced area of law. The topics are introduced with clarity and focus and have been carefully organized to reflect the structure of employment law courses. The tenth edition features coverage of the most significant aspects of individual employment law including a revised chapter on discrimination law in light of the Single Equality Act and an analysis of the repealed statutory dismissal and disputes procedure. The book finishes with a concise overview and analysis of collective employment law and industrial action. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre including: Regular updates post publication - crucial in this fast moving area of law Multiple choice questions allowing the reader to test their understanding of the topics being studied Web links to useful sources of information to provide an ideal starting point to online research on employment law

Reliably updated by Ian Smith and Aaron Baker, this popular textbook maintains its reputation for balancing authority with accessibility. Providing comprehensive coverage of all the key employment law topics this new edition continues to offer unrivalled support for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike. Recently revised and restructured, Smith & Wood's Employment Law draws on the extensive teaching and practical experience of its authors to provide students with a clear explanation of essential legislation and case detail while also offering incisive academic commentary and critical detail to help with essay preparation and class work. Throughout the book topics are carefully explained in their social and historical context, providing readers with an insight into the fast-paced development of employment law and offering perceptive analysis of its future direction. In particular, the effect of the Equality Act 2010 and the development of discrimination law are considered in detail.This book is also accompanied by an Online Resource Center which includes further reading suggestions and useful weblinks to support independent study plus self-test questions with instant feedback to help consolidate your learning and prepare for exams.

Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacle of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph, and individual achievement. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities like class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. Looking at films from almost every sporting genre--with a particular focus on movies about boxing, baseball, basketball, and football--Contesting Identities maps the complex cultural landscape depicted in American sports films and the ways in which stories about "subaltern" groups winning acceptance by the mainstream majority can serve to reinforce the values of that majority. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.

Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

University of Illinois Press

Steven Soderbergh (Contemporary Film Directors)

Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Using a combination of realism and expressive stylization of character subjectivity, Soderbergh's films diverge from the contemporary Hollywood mainstream through the statements they offer on issues including political repression, illegal drugs, violence, environmental degradation, the empowering and controlling potential of digital technology, and economic inequality. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and Soderbergh has repeatedly emphasized place as a major factor in his narratives. Formally, he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacles of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph and individual achievement. In this text, Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations have evolved over time.

Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Using a combination of realism and expressive stylization of character subjectivity, Soderbergh's films diverge from the contemporary Hollywood mainstream through the statements they offer on issues including political repression, illegal drugs, violence, environmental degradation, the empowering and controlling potential of digital technology, and economic inequality. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and Soderbergh has repeatedly emphasized place as a major factor in his narratives. Formally, he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.

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Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Smith & Wood's Employment Law

Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film

Steven Soderbergh (Contemporary Film Directors)

Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film

Steven Soderbergh (Contemporary Film Directors)