J J Findlay: 16 books
The Children of England
A Contribution to Social History and to Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
As much a social history as a volume charting the history of education this book examines the major forces influencing education in England during the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as class differences, economic success and poverty, the legacy of the industrial revolution and factors such as migration.
Ascent to the Absolute
Metaphysical Papers and Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Originally published in 1970. This book is a collection of lectures and papers given by Professor Findlay in the 1960s. The theme is an argument for a metaphysical Absolute, in the sense of post-Hegelian Idealism. Findlay’s word for the Absolute process is ‘Enterprise’, which must be necessary...
Aesthetic Breast Surgery
Concepts & Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Filled with take-away messages and valuable insights, Aesthetic Breast Surgery by Elizabeth Hall-Findlay, MD, is a masterful text that you will refer to time and again. It presents a personal and time-proven approach to all forms of aesthetic breast surgery.
This book is a distillation of the...
Values and Intentions
A Study in Value-theory and Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Professor Findlay in this book, originally published in 1961, set out to justify, and to some extent carry out, a ‘material value-ethic’, ie. A systematic setting forth of the ends of rational action.
The book is in the tradition of Moore, Rashfall, Ross, Scheler and Hartmann though it...
Wittgenstein
A Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Language, Mind and Value
Philosophical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Philosophical themes as diverse as language, value, mind and God are among the topics discussed in this book, originally published in 1963. Considerably influential, there are contributions on Time, Camrbidge Philosophy, Doedelian Sentences, Morality by Convention and the Non-Existence of God. They...
Governing Through Globalised Crime
Futures for International Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Governing through Globalised Crime provides an analysis of the impact of globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system. It explores how the perceived increased risk in global security has resulted in a reformulation of the relationship between crime...
International and Comparative Criminal Justice
A critical introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
International criminal justice is in transition. This book explores the growing internationalisation of criminal justice as a phenomenon of global governance. It provides students with a critical understanding of the international institutions for regulating transnational crime, the development...
by Mark J. Findlay, Ralph Henham
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This book sets out an agenda to transform international criminal trials and the delivery of international criminal justice to victim communities through collaboration of currently competing paradigms. It reflects a transformation of thinking about the comparative analysis of the trial process, and...
by Gordon H. Aylward, Tristan J. V. Findlay
Language: German
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Man möchte vor dem Experiment die Wärmeentwicklung einer Reaktion abschätzen, eine neue Syntheseidee auf Plausibilität prüfen oder die Kenngrößen einer neuen Substanz in Beziehung zu bereits bekannten setzen – dies bedeutet meist für jeden Wissenschaftler einen zeitaufwendigen Besuch in...
Imposing Decency
The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Feminists, socialists, Afro-Puerto Rican activists, and elite politicians join laundresses, prostitutes, and dissatisfied wives in populating the pages of Imposing Decency. Through her analyses of Puerto Rican anti-prostitution campaigns, attempts at reforming marriage, and working-class ideas about...
We Are Left without a Father Here
Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government, migrated to...
Harlequin Heartwarming March 2018 Box Set
A Clean Romance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now!
This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:
MARRYING THE WEDDING CRASHER
A Harmony Valley Novel
by Melinda Curtis
Vince Messina needs a date for an important family wedding...
by Kaye Boesme, F. J. Robledano Espín, Brandon Ketchum
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... is a unique periodical of long form fiction published three times a year. Each issue provides an eclectic collection of novelette and novella-length speculative and literary fiction.
In this issue:
In Hope Endures Where Life Persists, a decades-long...
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