G Murphy: 29 books
Punishment and the Moral Emotions
Essays in Law, Morality, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
This collection of essays presents Jeffrie G. Murphy's most recent ideas on punishment, forgiveness, and the emotions of resentment, shame, guilt, remorse, love, and jealousy. In Murphy's view, conscious rationales of principle -- such as crime control or giving others what in justice they deserve...
Character, Liberty and Law
Kantian Essays in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Jeffrie G. Murphy's third collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his two previous collections: Retribution, Justice and Therapy and Retribution Reconsidered. Murphy now explores these topics in the light of reflections on issues that are...
Retribution Reconsidered
More Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Jeffrie G. Murphy's second collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his 1979 collection Retribution, Justice and Therapy.
Murphy now explores these topics in the context of political philosophy as well as moral philosophy, and he now begins...
War's Ends
Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public. As they address the right or wrong of such action, it is also a time when, in the language of the just war tradition, the wise would deeply investigate their...
Getting Even
Forgiveness and Its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
We have all been victims of wrongdoing. Forgiving that wrongdoing is one of the staples of current pop psychology dogma; it is seen as a universal prescription for moral and mental health in the self-help and recovery section of bookstores. At the same time, personal vindictiveness as a rule is seen...
Philosophy Of Law
An Introduction To Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In this revised edition, two distinguished philosophers have extended and strengthened the most authoritative text available on the philosophy of law and jurisprudence. While retaining their comprehensive coverage of classical and modern theory, Murphy and Coleman have added new discussions of the...
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
A Practical Resource for Managers and Executives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
A thoroughly pragmatic guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
This is a critical FCPA training resource for executives, managers, sales, marketing, finance and accounting personnel, as well as high level professionals.
The ideal resource for any business that takes FCPA...
by John M. Vance, Fouad Y. Zeidan, Brian G. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
An in-depth analysis of machine vibration in rotating machinery
Whether it's a compressor on an offshore platform, a turbocharger in a truck or automobile, or a turbine in a jet airplane, rotating machinery is the driving force behind almost anything that produces or uses energy. Counted on...
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One might legitimately ask what reasons other than vanity could prompt an author to issue a collection of his previously published essays. The best reason, I think, is the belief that the essays hang together in such a way that, as a book, they produce a whole which is in a sense greater than the...
by E. Gabrieli, J.H. Hoskins, J.M. Long
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This publication is sponsored by the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics. The Board of AAMSI and the Board of the Society for Computer Medicine, one of AAMSI's predecessors, agreed that a book on application of medical systems and informatics for the practitioner would help promote...
College Student Alcohol Abuse
A Guide to Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Essential evidence-based strategies for the prevention and reduction of alcohol abuse among college students
With contributions from notable substance abuse researchers, this practical guide presents clear strategies for prevention of and interventions for alcohol abuse in the college-age population.
Ranging...
Child Abuse
Today's Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The purpose of this book is to attempt to explore child abuse from a contemporary perspective in terms of its multiple elements, victims, and criminal justice responses. This text will: (1) begin to address the needs of those studying child abuse from a cultural perspective; (2) provide a general...
Gemstone of Paradise
The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
The story of the Holy Grail has gripped the imaginations of millions since it first appeared in medieval romances, among them Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210). Strangely, the Grail is identified in Parzival not as a cup or dish, but as a stone. This oddity is usually...
Tree of Salvation
Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the tree, where the gods dwelled in...