David A Demers

Florida DUI Manual

Florida DUI Manual

Florida DUI Manual

Investigation Report on the MGM Grand Hotel Fire, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 21, 1980: Report Revised January 15, 1982

The Media Essays: From Local to Global

China Girl: One Man's Adoption Story

My Grandpa Loves Trains: A Picture Storybook for Preschoolers

The Menace of the Corporate Newspaper: Fact or Fiction?

China Girl: One Man's Adoption Story

Professor David Demers had a good job and a good life. So why would the divorced man who had never changed a diaper adopt a Chinese baby girl on his own? China Girl answers this question and then tells the adoption story, including the trip to China and life afterward. China Girl is funny, heartwarm...

The Lonely Activist: An American Odyssey

Democracy. Free expression. Due process. Accountable government. Individualism. American institutions love their civil liberties and the activists who promote them. Or do they? When journalist-turned-professor David Demers uncovered a “slush fund” scandal in student government, college student senat...

How the Mass Media Really Work: An Introduction to Their Role as Institutions of Control and Change

More than two decades ago Professor Pamela J. Shoemaker reviewed 15 introduction to mass communication/media textbooks and concluded that their self-described purpose is to provide a global view of mass communication to neophytes, and their approach is largely descriptive. The textbooks contained li...

Florida DUI Handbook, 2014-2015 ed. (Vol. 11, Florida Practice Series)

Appropriate for attorneys, prosecutors, and judges, this title answers the most common questions pertaining to Florida DUI cases. It covers important state-specific issues, such as accident report privilege and admissibility of statements. You also get the full text of every relevant Florida statute...

Florida DUI Handbook, 2013-2014 ed. (Vol. 11, Florida Practice Series)

Appropriate for attorneys, prosecutors, and judges, this title answers the most common questions pertaining to Florida DUI cases. It covers important state-specific issues, such as accident report privilege and admissibility of statements. You also get the full text of every relevant Florida statute...

The Lonely Activist: An American Odyssey

The true story of one man whose passion for liberty and democracy enrages bureaucrats and sparks one of the most important academic free-speech legal cases of the 21st century. "This book is sociology par excellence ... By tracing and reflecting on his personal initiatives and activities in the twil...

The Ivory Tower of Babel: Why the Social Sciences Are Failing to Live Up to Their Promises

Like the Babylonians, who built the infamous Tower of Babel, social scientists for the past two centuries have been building a tower of sorts, only this time it’s composed of knowledge rather than bricks. The primary goal of these scholars — anthropologists, communication scholars, economists, polit...

Fundamentals of Journalism: Reporting, Writing and Editing

Too long, too vapid and too expensive. Like many journalism instructors, R. Thomas Berner was familiar with these complaints, which college students often made about the textbooks assigned in their reporting, writing and copy editing classes. So Berner, a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State Uni...