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An Unprecedented Election : Media, Communication, and the Electorate in the 2016 Campaign

Written by leading scholars of political communication, this book provides a comprehensive accounting of the campaign communication that characterized the unprecedented 2016 presidential campaign.The political events leading up to election day on November 8, 2016, involved unprecedented events in U.S. history: Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated by a major party, and she was favored to win the highest seat in the nation. Donald Trump, arguably one of the most unconventional and most-unlikely-to-succeed candidates in U.S. history, became the leading candidate against Clinton. Then, an even more surprising thing happened: Trump won, an outcome unexpected by all experts and statistical models.An Unprecedented Election: Media, Communication, and the Electorate in the 2016 Campaign presents proprietary research conducted by a national election team and leading scholars in political communication and documents the most significant-and in some cases, the most shocking-features of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The information presented in this book is derived from national surveys, experiments, and textual analysis and helps readers grasp the truly unique characteristics of this campaign that make it unlike any other in U.S. history. The chapters explain the underlying dynamics of this astonishing election by assessing the important role of both traditional and social media, the evolving (and potentially diminishing) influence of televised campaign advertisements, the various implications of three historic presidential debates, and the contextual significance of convention addresses. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the content and effects of the campaign communication and media coverage as well as the unique attributes of the electorate that ultimately selected Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.

Election Meltdown : Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy

From the nation's leading expert, an indispensable analysis of key threats to the integrity of the 2020 American presidential election As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. In this timely and accessible book, Richard L. Hasen uses riveting stories illustrating four factors increasing the mistrust. Voter suppression has escalated as a Republican tool aimed to depress turnout of likely Democratic voters, fueling suspicion. Pockets of incompetence in election administration, often in large cities controlled by Democrats, have created an opening to claims of unfairness. Old-fashioned and new-fangled dirty tricks, including foreign and domestic misinformation campaigns via social media, threaten electoral integrity. Inflammatory rhetoric about “stolen” elections supercharges distrust among hardcore partisans. Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years—most notably in the 2016 and 2018 elections—Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined

Elections and Governance: The Independence Years

Elections and Governance - Jamaica on the Global Frontier is presented in two books: The Colonial Years, 1663 to 1962 (available in 2023) and The Independence Years, 1962 to 2016, available in hardback, paperback and on amazon.com. Together they sketch elections and governance in Jamaica as a colony within the British Empire and as a nation-state from 1663 to 2016. The Colonial Years documents repeated failure of oligarchic governance, the triumph of the excluded marginal majority in achieving universal adult suffrage, the fear of despotism by all, and the creation of a two-party parliamentary democracy. The Independence Years, 1962 to 2016 chronicles how the nation-state has struggled with its colonial history. It highlights the dilemma of winner-take-all governance; the inherent flaws of democracy in its umbilical connection with elections, in that elected representatives can constitutionally and legally appropriate the sovereign power of the people; and outlines Jamaica's unique attempt to resolve the paradox sustained so far by the electorate and elected representatives.

Residential Landscape Sustainability

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Detailing for Landscape architects

This book is based upon the second edition of Architectural Detailing: Function, Constructibility, Aesthetics by Edward Allen, Patrick Rand and Joseph lano published in 2007. Tom Ryan adapted and expanded the material for landscape architects with Ed and Pat's assistance and guidance. Edward Allen thanks his longtime colleague Joseph Iano, who prepared many of the original versions of the draw- ings for this book and reviewed the majority of the original manuscript and illustrations. Joe's comments and ideas have strengthened the book in many important ways. Ed is very grateful for the wisdom, experience, and fresh point of view of Patrick Rand, who joined him as coauthor for the second edition of the parent book on architectural detailing. He has long regarded Pat as one of the finest teachers of architectural technology in the world today. Ed's special thanks go to Tom Ryan for a remarkable job of adapting the book to the special- ized subject of landscape detailing. Tom's expertise, excep- tional drawing skills, and good humor have been exemplary throughout the process of preparing this new book.

Landscape site grading principles

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Site Planning and Design Handbook

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The Cultured Landscape

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The Dynamic Landscape

Although this book is potentially relevant to many urban contexts, it is most strongly aimed at the ‘public’ and ‘semi-public’ landscape. Some of these landscapes are public parks of one sort or another. The remainder are a difficult-to-characterise mix of spaces around public housing, commercial developments and institutions, car parks, left-over spaces from development, structure plantings of massed trees and shrubs, and strips along paths, roads and other corridors. Taken as a whole, these often very ordinary places are the landscapes we are most familiar with and which inform, and perhaps even shape, our attitudes to the world around us. In combination with private gardens, these urban spaces are also the landscapes where we have most of our first-hand experiences of ‘nature’. The design form of these landscapes is as diverse as their physical size, location and history. Examples of planting styles inspired by or derived from the picturesque, the gardenesque, the garden city, the modern movement, the municipal engineer, the ecological and, latterly, the community involvement style can all be found. Irrespective of how we now judge the aesthetic merits of the planting styles associated with these movements, in their day all were founded on the principle of being pleasing (as well as functional) to their creators and to the public at large.

Nondestructive testing of deep foundations

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Plant-driven design

This book is for lovers of plants, nature, and gardens—in particular those who are inspired by this love to make wonderful gardens. The ideas and opinions filling the pages that follow arise from one premise: gardens exist because of gardeners, not designers. And yet this is a book about garden design. In it we aim to unite the often disparate roles of designer and gardener, and the work of creating and planting.

Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2. Seventh edition

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The engineering of foundations

As discussed in the previous paragraph, the design and analysis of slopes and retaining structures are an integral part of foundation engineering; accordingly, these topics are also included in this book. Retaining structures are used very often in connection with foundation works. For example, in urban areas, where space is restricted, retaining structures allow the construction of underground facilities, such as parking garages, underground shopping malls, subway stations, and the like. Although more incidental to foundation works, slope instability failures must also be prevented. In foundation works, temporary excavations are sometimes planned in such a way as to leave temporary soil slopes to support the excavation walls. Another situation in which slope stability becomes an issue is when the building or structure is located in a hilly or mountainous area, where a well- designed foundation will serve no purpose if the structure is founded on a potential sliding soil or rock mass.

Principles of Foundation Engineering, SI Seventh Edition

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The Civil engineering handbook

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Principles of Applied Civil Engineering Design. Second Edition

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