Patrick Murphy: 25 books
by Patrick J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction...
The Media Commons
Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's...
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and...
by Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention...
by Anne Murphy, Sonia Ospina, Ashly Pinnington
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Social care needs excellent leaders now more than ever. Effective leaders aim high, listen to what the service users want and need, inspire their staff and continually question what they are doing and why.
This book draws together the latest research on fundamental leadership issues in social...
Ethics in Marketing
International cases and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Understanding and appreciating the ethical dilemmas associated with business is an important dimension of marketing strategy. Increasingly, matters of corporate social responsibility are part of marketing's domain.
Ethics in Marketing contains 20 cases that deal with a variety of ethical issues...
Mutiny and Its Bounty
Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery—so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today’s organizations are much quieter, more social and intellectual, and far less violent,...
The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)
An Historical and Sociological Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional...
The Stairway to Heaven
The Beatitudes and God's Plan for Your Life! :Looking at Matthew 5 with Fresh Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
The premise of this book is that the Beatitudes are like a stairway, each one leading to the next as a logical consequence of the one that came before, and that the rest of Matthew chapter 5 is a commentary, a fleshing out of the consequences of what the Beatitudes are designed to accomplish in our...
Hooligans Abroad (RLE Sports Studies)
The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the problem. The authors used ‘participant observation’...
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many...
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