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John W Murphy
Each story is complete in itself, so you can begin to read at any place in the book. Some are: GARDENING, Mother Eve objects in The Garden; THE AWKWARD PRINCE…
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John W. Murphy
The editors have assembled a collection of original essays offering a holistic view of how technology shapes the modern world.
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Community-Based Interventions
This book shows why community programs often founder and proposes a framework for success. Demonstrates the power of community interventions in offering services, reducing inequity and giving individuals more control…
Jean A Pardeck,John W Murphy,John W. Murphy
The moral model of disability, the editors argue, is largely the result of superstition and ignorance, while the medical model is largely based on the needs of the disability care…
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Professor John W Murphy
Subjects of news stories include political candidates, Bush and Cheney, Streisand, Enzyte Bob, Blackwater, Tiger, Paris White Night, The Best Movie, Helen Mirren, 2nd homes, Baseball playoffs, Celebrity endorsements, Greenspan…
Vicente Berdayes,John W. Murphy
As computers become more prevalent throughout society, the issue of computer-human interaction has become paramount to computer scientists and professionals furthering the computerization of organizations.
Toward a Post-Market Society
John W. Murphy,William Vega
A critique of the theoretical and programmatic aspects of providing mental health services to traditionally underserved populations. Focusing on the case of Hispanics, the authors maintain that the present service…
This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with insights from psychology and linguistics, it…
Originally published in 1989, this book differed from others on the topic of microcomputers and education at the time, in that it focuses on the influence that microcomputer technology has…
First published in 1990. This study on special educational needs explores the identification of the gifted, research on gifted children and programmes, programming for young gifted children, and the socio-psychological…
John W. Murphy,John T. Pardeck
Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the use of computers to improve the delivery of social services. The authors adopt a holistic approach to avoid dehumanization of clients and…
Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of institutionalizing community-based health care. While the community-based or localized model is growing in popularity and importance in the United States…
This salient reference grounds readers in the theoretical basis and day-to-day practice of community-based health care programs, and their potential as a transformative force in public health. Centering around concepts…
This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging. Current debates about globalization and aging are expanded by helping readers see the social imagery that is both…
Thus persons will demand autonomy and the freedom required to be self-governed. Yet, as Murphy and Peck and the analysts brought together for this collection point out, self-government or democracy…
Jung Min Choi,John W. Murphy
Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key facets of the debate over PC. Starting with an examination of the key concepts of PC, Choi and Murphy review the essentials…
Charles F. Longino,John W. Murphy
Presents the idea that the United States is in the midst of a health care crisis, one that will be exacerbated as the population continues to age. The authors trace…
Addressing the failure of initiatives in community-based service delivery to look beyond practicalities or to consider the tensions in thinking about service delivery, this book explores the significant philosophical shift…
Explains workplace bullying in plain English for the general reader in a revealing, often confronting style. Includes the latest views and strategies to address one of Australia’s most serious workplace…
Jung Min Choi,Karen A. Callaghan,John W. Murphy
Postmodern philosophy is shown to be a valuable tool for exposing the bankruptcy of laissez-faire economics and culture and in developing a democratic policy. This volume of cultural criticism will…
Algis Mickunas,John W. Murphy,Joseph J. Pilotta
This volume details the philosophical propositions of technology, illustrates its impact on various facets of social life, and demonstrates how the disruptive effects of technology can be reduced by providing…
Jean A Pardeck,John W Murphy,Charles Longino, Jr
Reason and Rationality in Health and Human Services Delivery is the first book to discuss the topic of decisionmaking and services from a multidisciplinary approach. It uses theory and social…
John T. Pardeck
Pardeck demonstrates that the ecological approach to social work practice stresses effective intervention, and that effective intervention occurs through not only working with individuals, but also with the familial, social…
Jung Min Choi (San Diego State University, USA),John W. Murphy (University of Miami, USA)
This collection challenges the framework of globalization and provides practical advice for making globalization beneficial to all countries. This volume seeks to transform globalization into something productive for humanity as…
John W Murphy,Berkeley A. Franz,Jung Min Choi,Karen A. Callaghan
This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public health care. Chapters describe community involvement across a continuum of control, from health consultants…
Jean A Pardeck,John W Murphy,Roland Meinert (University of Missouri, USA)
Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students…
John Glynn,Anne Abraham,Michael Murphy
Focuses on the importance of general managers understanding the role played by their accounting and financial management colleagues. This book gives an appreciation of the three traditional subject divisions of…
John W. Murphy,Jung Min Choi,Jung Min Choi (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barry University, USA)
Professors Murphy and Choi use postmodern philosophy to expose a source of racism and cultural domination. They examine foundationalism, which they see at the core of the Western intellectual tradition…
L.B. McCarty,John W. Everest,David W. Hall,Tim R. Murphy,Fred Yelverton
Offers control information that professionals need to maintain the quality that is so vital to the golf, sports field, and managed landscape industries. This title includes 50 weed profiles, 400…
Roland E. Murphy
WBC series delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. It emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural…
Analyzing the causes of the social, political, and economic crises that erupted in Indonesia in the late 1990s, the scholars elicit the responses of the elite and civil society, and…
Photothermal science continues to be an area of rapid development and active investigation, as is demonstrated by this volume. The various contributions present fundamental research in materials science, physics, chemistry…
John F. Schank,Frank W. Lacroix,Robert E. Murphy,Mark V. Arena,Gordon T. Lee
Presents an overview of five submarine programs in the three countries - the UK’s Astute program; the US Navy’s Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia programs; and Australia’s Collins program - and…
John F. Schank,Cesse Ip,Kristy N. Kamarck,Robert E. Murphy,Mark V. Arena
Collins was the first submarine built in Australia. This title presents a set of lessons learned from Australia’s Collins submarine program that could help inform future program managers.
This book studies Southern environmental policy and politics in order to understand the concrete realities of the Southeast and extend those realities’ understanding to other regions of the country. It…
