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  • You Too Were Once on Fire
    Peter E. Murphy
    Murphy takes you on a journey through the cosmos, an intergalactic dad asking philosophical questions to ponder, but the fire is in moments of eclipse where the 'I' is examined through a microscope, and the speaker is 'tided / into the fog,' admitting blindness. New Jersey references to zombie-like traffic jams and Atlantic City Boardwalk realizations underscore the harsh reali...
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    15,54 €

  • A Tipsy Fairy Tale
    Peter E. Murphy
    In the wake of his mother’s passing, Peter Murphy’s childhood plunged into chaos. Suffering from neglect, abuse, and a lack of stability, he endured a series of hardships. Murphy was kidnapped at gunpoint, broke half a dozen ribs in a freak accident, and found himself indebted to the Mafia. While as a young teen he turned to painkillers and alcohol to cope, he also developed...
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    35,53 €

  • Emergency Services Management
    Paresh Wankhade / Peter Murphy
    An expert guide to contemporary research in the field of emergency services management, this shortform book will help academics, scholars, and practitioners to appreciate the important role and contribution of these services. 　 ...
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    46,79 €

  • Science Fiction and Narrative Form
    Andrew Milner / David Roberts / Peter Murphy
    Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as they appear in the conventional modern novel. Inspired by, and building upon, Georg Lukács’s criticism of the orthodox novel for its depiction of life as alienating and disjointed, Milner, Murphy and Roberts ...
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    51,13 €

  • COVID-19
    Peter Murphy
    COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It details the sociological aspects of the spread of the virus, the role played by social distancing in virus mitigation, and the comparative effect of social proximity and distance on national anti-viral behavior. Peter Murphy discusses various publ...
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    79,40 €

  • IELTS Academic Reading Practice
    Paul Murphy / Peter Clements
    '...invaluable ... you will not be disappointed.' -Martin Sketchley, ELT Experiences'...tremendously useful for students.' -David Wills, TED-IELTS'A versatile book that can be used by a wide range of teachers and learners alike.' -Jim Fuller, Sponge ELTEach of the 14 units in this book introduces a different reading task that you may encounter during the IELTS Academic Reading ...
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    21,80 €

  • Finishing Stroke
    Peter Murphy
    Peter Murphy is one of Australia’s most respected poets. His new collection is a generous and ambitious project. Reflective and joyful in equal measure, profound and playful, Finishing Stroke is rare in offering a deceptively playful immediacy which reveals more and more of its intellectual antecedents on reflection and re-reading. His work is a linguistic and visual joy. ...
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    16,38 €

  • The Political Economy of Prosperity
    Peter Murphy
    This book argues that three further factors are key to the success of prosperous economies - paradoxes, patterns, and portals - and it is only by integrating these additional philosophical, ethical, religious and geographic elements that we can truly understand the successes of prosperous economies. ...
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    79,97 €

  • Critical Perspectives on the Management and Organization of Emergency Services
    Leo McCann / Paresh Wankhade / Peter Murphy
    Critical Perspectives in Emergency Services Management  provides an in-depth, scholarly and comprehensive analysis of the changing landscape of emergency service provision and clearly addresses a gap in the market for a critical volume on the emergency services. ...
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    83,69 €

  • Limited Government
    Peter Murphy
    This book explores the growth of the public sector in the wealthiest modern societies over the past century and asks whether, given the correlation between over-large public sectors and diminished economic social and dynamism, this growth can be halted or scaled back. ...
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    80,09 €

  • Rebuilding the Fire and Rescue Services
    Katarzyna Lakoma / Peter Murphy
    The book examines the new arrangements for organizing policy, delivery and public accountability in Fire and Rescue Services. Contributors of this invaluable text assess the effectiveness of government responses to new legislation that came as a result of inadequacies identified in governmental reviews, namely the Policing and Crime Act of 2017. ...
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    85,05 €

  • Public Service Accountability
    Laurence Ferry / Peter Murphy / Russ Glennon
    How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important. Yet austerity, recent changes to accountability frameworks, and the loss of the Audit Commission have created a huge deficit in our understanding of how well services are delivered. The time is thus right to re-examine the state of our vital public services, as well as how we can make them more acco...
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    79,20 €

  • The Man Who Never Was
    Peter E Murphy
    The Man Who Never Was was a failed TV show from the late Sixties whose protagonist was a spy named Peter Murphy. The poems in The Man Who Never Was borrow the titles of the show’s 19 episodes and explore identities, politics, lies (Sorry, that’s redundant), and personal mythology while shamelessly punning and quoting from Murphy’s Law, The Peter Principle, The Dropkick Murphys ...
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    17,18 €

  • The Collective Imagination
    Peter Murphy
    The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. A comprehensive audit of the creativity claims of the post-modern age - that finds them badly wanting and looks to the future - this book will appeal to sociologists and philosophers concerned with cultural theory, cultural and media studies and aesthetics. ...
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    88,06 €

  • International Trade and Global Macropolicy
    Farrokh Langdana / Peter T. Murphy
    In the curricula of highly ranked MBA programs, two areas of discussion are conspicuously absent: International Trade, and Global Macroeconomic Policy. In this post-financial crisis environment, as the US and other advanced economies continue to experience sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and political agitation for increasingly protectionist policies, discussio...
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    136,71 €

  • Social Security for Decision Makers
    Peter D. Murphy / Peter DMurphy
    In Social Security for Decision Makers-Charting Your Course to Retirement, Peter Murphy provides his readers with the necessary information to make optimal Social Security benefit decisions. Social Security is one of the biggest pieces of the retirement puzzle, making up 40% of the average retirees income. Since it’s such an important component of retirement, deciding when to s...
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    13,16 €

  • The Math of Astrology
    Beth Rosato / Peter Murphy
    The Math of Astrology is a simple, methodical, step-by-step guide for manual chart calculation with pencil and paper. Often perceived as difficult, chart calculation is in fact a skill easily mastered with practice. Basic arithmetic is used with each formula to determine sidereal time, planetary positions, and house cusps. Manual chart calculation offers an extra benefit: the p...
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    31,70 €

  • Dialectic of Romanticism
    David Roberts / Peter Murphy
    Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism (later historicism and post-modernism) as central to the development of European modernism alongside enlightenment, and, like the enlightenment, subject to its own dead-ends and fat...
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    129,50 €

  • Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain, 1760 1830
    Murphy Peter T. / Peter T. Murphy / Peter TMurphy
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    57,92 €

  • Evidence, Proof, and Facts
    Peter Murphy
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    264,94 €