“niall murtagh”

Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler--hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a "Salaryman"--a guy in... More

Osteoporosis in Focus contains a clear, concise discussion of osteoporosis and reviews the role of the pharmacist in counselling patients on their illness, lifestyle and medicines. Chapter topics include prevention, monitoring the condition, interventions, drug treatment, hormone replacement therapy... More

Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. How did this possibility arise? Who are the... More

Where is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well-established institutionally today--through specialist journals, research centres, international conferences, professional associations and the like--semiotic... More

'Already gone wrong! It's for me to put right now. Trust me. My mind is a computer. All it needs is to be plugged in...' Things certainly go wrong around the Knapp family, but is it simply the fault of young Tommy and his weird interaction with computers? His gypsy friend, Joe, is found dead in a wo... More

As an asteroid hurtles earthwards to cleanse the planet of its ills, a group of international capitalists gather to discuss their wealth and the appalling threat posed to it by Djumbola, an ancient High Priest reincarnated to save nature and the world from itself. Computer wizard Calvin Tulley and h... More

Years have gone by since Djumbola's swift departure from Calvin and Sara's lives. In fact, the Alonso-Tulleys are now a fivesome. But the pretty picture of a settled, happy family is a mere illusion. The growing threat of the ever-approaching asteroid still looms darkly over them, coupled with the c... More

Prohibitive drug policies have been implemented in varying degrees throughout the world. These policies fail when analyzed from the perspective of law and economics and are in actuality the legislation of dominant morals and prohibition of undesirable behavior. Further, they seem to create the harm ... More