Communicative visuals, including written text, have a diverse range of forms and purposes. In this volume, the authors show that it is possible to both describe and explain the major properties of diverse visual-communication forms and purposes within a common theoretical framework of information design and ethics. For those unaccustomed to thinking of written text as a visual form belonging to the same general class as other visual forms (colour, texture, shape, imagery, etc.), consider how a text's readability suffers if we remove all white space and punctuation, which can be identified as visual signals of the same subtype as grid lines and bullet points, dividing and calling attention to adjacent information. The authors identify deep connections between foundational visual design elements and the grammar of language itself. No physicist or chemist today questions the value of a single theory that describes and explains a wide variety of phenomena, but oddly enough, the authors have frequently been asked why they are interested in advancing a unified theory of visual communication. The simplest answer is: to treat visual communication as a science, and seeking unified theories is just what science does. In more practical terms, a unified approach to visual communication allows us to teach visual design students relatively few things that will enable them to do relatively many things.

Communicative visuals, including written text, have a diverse range of forms and purposes. In this volume, the authors show that it is possible to both describe and explain the major properties of diverse visual-communication forms and purposes within a common theoretical framework of information design and ethics. For those unaccustomed to thinking of written text as a visual form belonging to the same general class as other visual forms (colour, texture, shape, imagery, etc.), consider how a text's readability suffers if we remove all white space and punctuation, which can be identified as visual signals of the same subtype as grid lines and bullet points, dividing and calling attention to adjacent information. The authors identify deep connections between foundational visual design elements and the grammar of language itself. No physicist or chemist today questions the value of a single theory that describes and explains a wide variety of phenomena, but oddly enough, the authors have frequently been asked why they are interested in advancing a unified theory of visual communication. The simplest answer is: to treat visual communication as a science, and seeking unified theories is just what science does. In more practical terms, a unified approach to visual communication allows us to teach visual design students relatively few things that will enable them to do relatively many things.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The concepts of cultural diversity and cultural identity are at the forefront of the political debate in many western societies. In Europe, the discussion is stimulated by the political pressures associated with immigration flows, which are increasing in many European countries. The imperatives that current immigration trends impose on European democracies bring to light a number of issues that need to be addressed. What are the patterns and dynamics of cultural integration? How do they differ across immigrants of different ethnic groups and religious faiths? How do they differ across host societies? What are the implications and consequences for market outcomes and public policy? Which kind of institutional contexts are more or less likely to accommodate the cultural integration of immigrants? All these questions are crucial for policy makers and await answers. This book aims to provide a stepping stone to the debate. Taking an economic perspective, this edited collection presents a current, comparative picture of the process of cultural integration of immigrants across Europe. It documents the main economic debates on the causes and consequences of cultural integration of immigrants, and provides detailed descriptions of the cultural and economic integration process in seven main European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It also compares the European context with the integration of immigrants in the United States.

"This is a fine book, revealing a breadth of scholarship and vision. It pulls many threads together in labour economics to offer a thought-provoking re-evaluation of how labour economists approach many topics, including market power, wage distributions and wage equations, and the economics of education and training. As such it should appear on the syllabi of graduate labour economics programmes."--Richard Disney, Nottingham University

"The best way to appreciate the value of this book is to go to its first table. There, the author provides an overview of what textbooks in labor economics have to say about monopsony and imperfect competition--not all that much. In that light, Alan Manning's book fills a real gap in the discipline. The book shows that the monopsony model provides a simple alternative explanation for a number of well-known stylized facts of labor markets."--Coen N. Teulings, General Director, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam

"[This book] is bound to propel the idea that labor markets are imperfectly competitive into a new orbit. Students and scholars will benefit from Alan Manning's clear presentation and dispassionate analysis for years to come."--Alan Krueger, Princeton University

"Alan Manning's book fills a real gap in the discipline. The book shows that the monopsony model provides a simple alternative explanation for a number of well-known stylized facts of labor markets."--Coen N. Teulings, General Director, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam

"This book pushes a conservative field as hard as possible to adopt a more open attitude toward imperfect competition in the labor market. By leading creative younger scholars to think 'outside the box', it could wellbecome a classic. Carefully organized and well written, it includes an impressive amount of new empirical material on many different aspects of the labor market. Manning has devoted considerable thought to the question of what imperfect competition means for real-world behavior."--David Card, University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of "Myth and Measurement"

"This is a splendid book. The careful mix of theoretical background and new ways to interpret the empirical evidence provides a unique treatment of the working of the labour market that departs from most other textbooks guided by the competitive paradigm."--Juan J. Dolado, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Co-Director of the "CEPR Labour Economics Programme"

President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew him. Presidential historian Alan Manning invites readers to see not the thoughtful, burdened president delivering the Gettysburg Address to a war-torn nation, but a man quietly reading bedtime stories to his sleepy-eyed sons; and not the resolute commander-in-chief seeking out winning generals and forming war policy, but a man wrestling with his own grown son's desire to join the army and go off to war. A combination of history, biography, and family culture, this book follows Lincoln from his growing law practice in Springfield through the turbulent war years in the White House, highlighting the same challenges that many fathers face today: balancing a successful career with paternal responsibilities-a perspective largely ignored by previous Lincoln biographers, thus helping to complete the portrait of one of the most popular, significant, and complex figures in American history.