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  • Sociology And Nature

    Social Action In Context

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Sociology as if nature did not matter has been the sociological expression of modern societies negligent of the processes of nature. In response to this ?ecological blindness,? Raymond Murphy examines the limitations of sociology that have resulted from this neglect.Humanity's success in manipulating nature destabilizes the natural support system of society on a planetary scale and, in turn, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis

    Foresight or Discounting Danger?

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shove’s social practices approach and Murphy’s own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate that the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Rationality And Nature

    A Sociological Inquiry Into A Changing Relationship

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Divergent beliefs about humanity's relationship to nature collide as the second millenium ends. One belief emphasizes that a distinctive characteristic of humans—reason—enables them to reshape and master nature. Another insists that nature is not so plastic, hence humans must adapt to nature and render development sustainable, or even limit growth. "Social ecology" asserts that environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Leadership in Disaster

    Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sociological Theory and the Environment

    Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

    by Ted Benton, Frederick Buttel, William R. Catton Jr., Riley Dunlap, Peter Grimes, Rosemary McKechnie, Elim Papadakis, Timmons Roberts, Ornulf Seippel, Elizabeth Shove, Alan Warde, Peter Wehling, Ian Welsh, Steve Yearley, John Hannigan, Raymond Murphy ...
    Sociological Theory and the Environment is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment. This book touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today-classical and twentieth century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Chilling Ghost Short Stories

    by Kurt Bachard, Jonathan Balog, Trevor Boelter, Donna Cuttress, Zach Chapman, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Amanda C. Davis, James Dorr, Tim Foley, Philip Brian Hall, Raymond Little, Luke Murphy, Jeff Parsons, Michael Penkas, Brian Rappatta, Rhiannon Rasmussen, M. Regan, Annette Siketa, Cathy Smith, Lesa Pascavis Smith ...
    Series series Gothic Fantasy
    New Authors and collections. A deluxe edition with a chilling selection of original and classic short stories. The new tales, many of them published here for the first time, are written by today's top authors, and they bring a modern twist to the outstanding mix of intrigue that lurks in the furtive imagination of E.F. Benson, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Oscar ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tomorrow's KM: Innovation, best practice and the future of knowledge management

    by Hélène Russell, Cyndi Murphy, Dr Mona Alhefdhi, Raymond Olayinka, Sara Traynor, Dr Randhir Reghunath Pushpa, Clare Harman Clark, Caroline White-Robinson, Dr Vincent Ribiere ...
    Innovation is arguably an integral part of the knowledge management function and KM practice - as a popular "buzzword" over the past few years, and in the fast changing business world of today, it has become the mainstay of professional service organizations. The complexity of innovation increases with the growth in knowledge available to organizations, and with this comes the need to determine ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion

    Exploring Emerging Intersections of Religion, Public Discourse, and Rhetorical Scholarship

    by James W. Vining, Megan Von Bergen, Raymond Blanton, Emily Murphy Cope, Tiffany Thames Copeland, Michael-John DePalma, Sara M. Dye, Elizabeth Kimball, Kristina M. Lee, Christian Lundberg0, Joshua H. Miller1, Farah Mourad2, Jeffrey B. Nagel3, Holland Prior4, Jeff Ringer5, Mark Allan Steiner6, Wei Sun7 ...
    New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion reflects the complex and fluid natures of religion, rhetoric, and public life in our globalized, digital, and politically polarized world by bringing together a diverse group of rhetorical scholars to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking collection on rhetoric and religion. This volume addresses these topics in three separate sections: 1. Rhetorics of ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Central Business District

    A Study in Urban Geography

    by Raymond E. Murphy ...
    The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefly concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    The Busie Body (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Susanna Centlivre ...
    Narrated by Gregorio Kunze, Roger Zeiler, Raymond Murphy, Beverlee Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 55 min

    A rich heiress pretending to be in love with her guardian, but with several other suitors. A jealous merchant from Spain with a beautiful but cloistered daughter. A Busy Body who tries to know everybody else's business. Conniving servants. Plot elements stolen - and improved - from Moliere, Johnson, and Dryden. Definitely comedy, and written by a very successful woman playwright. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Ecological Rift

    Capitalism’s War on the Earth

    by John Bellamy Foster, Richard York, Brett Clark ...
    Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD