Sports Law examines the various areas of law, including tort, criminal liability, contract, intellectual property, marketing, trade and competition, and explores the role they play in the world of Australian sport. The third edition looks at recent controversies and common interest stories in both Australian and international sport, and help students understand how the law operates in practice through the use of discussion questions and hypothetical scenarios. Clear and engaging for a broad audience with backgrounds in law, business and sports management, Sports Law offers a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the legal pitfalls faced by players, managers, administrators and supporters on and off the sporting field.

Sports Law

Thorpe, David

Buti, Antonio

Jonson, Paul

Davies, Chris

Specialties

Oxford University Press

Sport plays a large part in modern Australian society and culture. As professionalism has developed, those involved with sport, be they players, managers, administrators or supporters, are increasingly looking to the law to protect their rights and resolve their problems. This textbook examines all the various principles of law, including tort and criminal liability, taxation, contract, intellectual property and industrial relations and the role they play in the world of Australian sport.

Fridman, Saul

Jonson f Paul

Sports plays a large part in modern Australian society and culture. As professionalism has developed, those involved with sport, be they players, managers, administrators or supporters, are increasingly looking to the law to protect their rights and resolve their problems. This textbookexamines all the various principles of law, including tort and criminal liability, taxation, contract, intellectual property and industrial relations, and the role they play in the world of Australian sport.

OUP Australia and New Zealand

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Vin Rude

Arts & Photography

Le Poste, Pierre

Photography & Video

Pan/Macmillan

Rude Health

Rude Food

Macmillan

Drawing on original research, this book provides a major critique of contemporary child protection research, policy and practice. In particular, it challenges current attempts to reorder priorities and reconstruct the balance between family support and child protection. In the process, it provides a unique insight into the nature of child protection work and the way practitioners respond to the inherent tensions and difficulties involved. It is essential reading for anyone interested in this major personal and social issue.

Child Protection: Risk and the Moral Order

Politics & Social Sciences

Parton, Nigel

Wattam, Corrine

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Pierre LePoste

Ballantine Books

Energy demand reduction is fast becoming a business activity for all companies and organisations because it can increase profits regardless of the nature of their core activity. The International Energy Agency believes that industry could improve its energy efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by almost a third using the best available practices and technologies.\nThis guide looks at the many ways available to energy managers to achieve or even exceed this level of performance, including:\nbase-lining consumption\nplanning a monitoring and verification strategy\nmetering (including smart, wireless metering)\nenergy supply management\nmotors and drives\ncompressed air and process controls.\nUniquely, it includes a whole chapter on greening data centres. It also looks at topics covered in greater detail in its companion volume, Energy Management in Buildings: insulation, lighting, renewable heating, cooling and HVAC systems. Further chapters examine minimising water use and how to make the financial case, both to prioritise measures for cost effectiveness, and to get management on board.\nThis title is aimed at all professional energy, industry and facilities managers, energy consultants, students, trainees and academics and can be read alongside training for ISO 50001 - Energy Management Systems. It takes the reader from basic concepts to the latest advanced thinking, with principles applicable anywhere in the world and in any climate.

Energy Management in Industry (Earthscan Expert)

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The role of the energy manager has evolved significantly as the task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from buildings has become increasingly important. Managers are now technical experts, negotiators, construction project managers, procurement specialists, efficiency advocates and often provide energy services to others.\nThis comprehensive book covers how to:\n• conduct an energy audit\n• plan a monitoring and verification strategy\n• make any energy-saving campaign successful\n• evaluate and make the financial case for energy-saving measures\n• make use of free energy for lighting and managing heat loss and gain.\nIt also contains special chapters on:\n• ventilation, heating and cooling\n• demand management through automated systems\n• lighting\n• most requirements of industrial facilities\n• regulatory requirements in Britain, Europe and the United States\n• the use of smart meters and monitoring\n• how to achieve zero energy buildings\n• the use of renewable energy.\nFor all professional energy, building and facilities managers, energy consultants, students, trainees and academics. It takes the reader from basic concepts to the latest advanced thinking, with principles applicable anywhere in the world and in any climate.

Energy Management in Buildings (Earthscan Expert)

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