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Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence

Product Description: 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 argues that market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking, discourage critical reflection, and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty...read more

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9783319251677 | Springer Verlag, December 18, 2015, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior.

The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging

Product Description: This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging. Many of the dimensions that are discussed represent updates of past debates but some are entirely new. In particular, globalization is accompanied by subtle social imagery that profoundly shapes the way institutions and identities are imagined...read more

By John W. Murphy (editor)

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9781461445074 | Springer Verlag, September 14, 2012, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging.

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9781489990754 | Springer Verlag, October 15, 2014, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging.

Community-based Interventions: Philosophy and Action

Product Description: For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal. Yet the concept of decentralized services delivered where people live has proved to be an elusive ideal as well, with the promise of empowerment often giving way to disinterest and apathy...read more

By John W. Murphy

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9781489980199 | Springer Verlag, January 3, 2014, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: For decades, community-centered social services have been promoted as an admirable ideal.

Contemporary Social Theory: Key Themes and Analysis

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By John W. Murphy (editor)

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9781619422551 | Nova Science Pub Inc, May 30, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Book by

Worthy of Recall

Product Description: 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, Condi, Tattoos, Elephant Oil, Mountain Top Mining, Putin, Sarkozy, Parking cars ands yachts, Cross the Border, and many more...read more

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9780595507023 | Iuniverse Inc, July 11, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 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, Condi, Tattoos, Elephant Oil, Mountain Top Mining, Putin, Sarkozy, Parking cars ands yachts, Cross the Border, and many more.

Uriel Molina and the Sandinista Popular Movement in Nicaragua

'This social biography describes the life of Padre Uriel Molina and his role in the Sandinista Revolution, interweaving history with personal recollections and perspectives. Compiled from primary sources and extensive interviews with Molina himself, it concentrates on his worldview and the ways in which his perceptions influenced his stance on various issues'--Provided by publisher.

By Manuel J. Caro and John W. Murphy

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9780786424351 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 30, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 'This social biography describes the life of Padre Uriel Molina and his role in the Sandinista Revolution, interweaving history with personal recollections and perspectives.

Stories from a Favored Clime: (Mostly for Fun, Told in Rhyme)

Product Description: 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. Does love always win out? A WIFE'S APPRECIATION, perhaps not what you would expect; ON THE HUSTINGS, an entrenched member of Congress gives a lesson; HUMILITY, A lady, with jaundiced eye, looks at fellow parishioners; MEMO FROM MOTHER, upper class advice to the family about to take a cruise; SHUT OUT, an unusual environmental spokesman is heard...read more

By John W. Murphy

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9780595387144 | Iuniverse Inc, February 28, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Each story is complete in itself, so you can begin to read at any place in the book.

Disability Issues For Social Workers And Human Services Professionals In The Twenty-First Century

Product Description: Examine issues of vital importance to you and your disabled clientsÂtoday and in the years to come!This groundbreaking text provides you with up-to-date, authoritative information that will prove to be of critical importance for disability professionals in the coming years...read more

By John W. Murphy (editor) and John T. Pardeck (editor)

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9780789027139 | Routledge, May 16, 2005, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Examine issues of vital importance to you and your disabled clientsÂtoday and in the years to come!

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9780789027146 | Routledge, May 9, 2005, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Examine issues of vital importance to you and your disabled clientsÂtoday and in the years to come!

Globalization With A Human Face

By Manuel J. Caro (editor), Jung Min Choi (editor) and John W. Murphy (editor)

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9780275979164 | Praeger Pub Text, December 30, 2004, cover price $64.00

Body in Human Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Embodiment

Product Description: The human body has recently emerged as a central concept of social theory. Social scientists, philosophers, and scholars in other disciplines now routinely argue that abstract concepts such as class and gender should be understood by examining how they are expressed in the body's everyday practices...read more

By Vicente Berdayes (editor), Luigi Esposito (editor) and John W. Murphy (editor)

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9781572735064, titled "The Body in Human Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Embodiment" | Hampton Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: The human body has recently emerged as a central concept of social theory.

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9781572735071 | Hampton Pr, August 15, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The human body has recently emerged as a central concept of social theory.

20 Great Life Stories

Product Description: Biography fans will be happy to read the essentials of the lives of 20 extraordinary people, set in concise and entertaining rhyme. Their struggles, determination and triumphs are revealed in settings at home and abroad. The chosen careers of these individuals represent the worlds of humor, music, sports, medicine, film, literature, theater, painting, dance, humanism, aviation, religion and poetry...read more

By John W. Murphy

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9781589395169 | Virtual Bookworm.Com Pub Inc, November 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Biography fans will be happy to read the essentials of the lives of 20 extraordinary people, set in concise and entertaining rhyme.

The World of Quantum Culture

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By Manuel J. Caro (editor) and John W. Murphy (editor)

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9780275970680 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 2002, cover price $109.00

Aesop, Just in Rhyme: A New Humorous Version of the Great Fables for Readers of All Ages

Product Description: A new humorous version of the great fables for readers of all ages. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John W. Murphy

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9780738841571, titled "Aesop, Just in Rhyme: A New, Humorous Version of the Great Fables for Readers of All Ages" | Xlibris Corp, April 1, 2001, cover price $30.99 | About this edition: AESOP, JUST IN RHYME is a new version of more than 100 favorite Aesop's Fables.

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9781591091868 | Createspace, January 1, 2002, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A new humorous version of the great fables for readers of all ages.

Aesop, Just in Rhyme: A New, Humouous Version of the Great Fables for Readers of All Ages

Product Description: A new humorous version of the great fables for readers of all ages. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John W. Murphy

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9780738841588 | Xlibris Corp, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: A new humorous version of the great fables for readers of all ages.

Computers, Human Interaction, and Organizations: Critical Issues

Product Description: 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. Computers, Human Interaction, and Organizations revisits important theoretical and conceptual issues that have not been resolved in discussions of the increasing computerization of society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Vicente Berdayes (editor) and John W. Murphy (editor)

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9780275963859 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 2000, cover price $138.00 | About this edition: 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.

Reason and Rationality in Health and Human Service Delivery

Product Description: 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 considerations, not just technology, as a basis for improved services...read more

By Charles F. Longino (editor), John W. Murphy (editor) and John T. Pardeck (editor)

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9780789005090 | Routledge, July 1, 1998, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: 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.

Postmodernism, Religion and the Future of Social Work

Product Description: 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 and practitioners will learn about the developments that have shaped postmodern thinking as they pertain to society in general, as well as to the profession of social work...read more

By Roland G. Meinert (editor), John W. Murphy (editor) and John T. Pardeck (editor)

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9780789005168 | Routledge, May 1, 1998, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: 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.

Postmodernism, Unraveling Racism, and Democratic Institutions

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By Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy

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9780275956646 | Praeger Pub Text, May 30, 1997, cover price $64.00

The Politics of Culture: Race, Violence, and Democracy

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By Karen A. Callaghan, Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy

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9780275948894 | Praeger Pub Text, July 1, 1995, cover price $64.00

The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model: Paradigm Strain and Health Policy

Product Description: Central to this book is 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. Longino and Murphy trace the philosophical and technological development of the biomedical model and show its inadequacy to deal with the massive chronic disease demand of the present and the future...read more

By Charles F. Longino and John W. Murphy

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9780895031655 | Baywood Pub Co, June 1, 1995, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Central to this book is 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.

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9780895031679 | Baywood Pub Co, January 1, 1995, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: Central to this book is 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.

Open Institutions: The Hope for Democracy

Product Description: Democratization involves far more than instituting a few democratic practices, such as universal sufferage. Instead, people must be able to debate issues, have access to diverse sources of information, be able to tolerate viewpoints that are disliked, and have access to every aspect of government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John W. Murphy (editor) and Dennis L. Peck (editor)

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9780275940287 | Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 1993, cover price $118.00 | About this edition: Democratization involves far more than instituting a few democratic practices, such as universal sufferage.

The Politics and Philosophy of Political Correctness

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By Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy

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9780275942861 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 1992, cover price $108.00

The Computerization of Human Service Agencies: A Critical Appraisal

Product Description: This work serves as an introduction to both the theoretical and practical aspects of using computers to improve the delivery of social services. Though many practitioners believe that computerization dehumanizes clients and should be avoided, John Murphy and John Pardeck demonstrate how, through a holistic approach to computer use, this problem, and others like it, can be averted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John W. Murphy and John T. Pardec

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9780865690233 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1991, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: This work serves as an introduction to both the theoretical and practical aspects of using computers to improve the delivery of social services.

Culture and the Restructuring of Community Mental Health

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By John W. Murphy and William A. Vega

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9780313268878 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 1990, cover price $64.00

Are Prisons Any Better?: Twenty Years of Correctional Reform

Are Prisons Any Better? brings together criminologists, economists and political scientists to address both the theoretical and political aspects of penal reform over the past two decades. The contributors varied backgrounds give the book an extra dimension because, the book argues, prison and social reform are synonymous, and discussing or proposing one without the other is fruitless.

By Jack E. Dison (editor), John W. Murphy (editor) and Prison Reform Conference (editor)

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9780803935693 | Sage Pubns, July 1, 1990, cover price $58.00

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9780803935709 | Sage Pubns, April 1, 1990, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Are Prisons Any Better?

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