“timothy murphy”

The one thing that Eric Fitzpatrick wants is to escape--both from his family and the racially tense town in which he lives. The only son of an Italian-Irish family in a working class suburb of boston, he intends to go away to college and leave his old life far bhind. But all his plans are set askew ... More

If you have lived in an apartment community you may indeed appreciate this book for its characters and humor. "Graham Place Manor" will take you immediately into the lives of the staff, and residents of this grand old apartment home. The occupants of Graham Place Manor come in all shapes and sizes w... More

The aim of the Reader's Guides is to provide guidance to the secondary material in specific intellectual disciplines by means of essays that analyze, interpret, and evaluate that material--providing the student, teacher, researcher, and librarian with informed recommendations for further reading. "T... More

This textbook for instruction in biomedical research ethics can also serve as a valuable reference for medical professionals and bioethicists. The 149 cases included in the book are grouped in nine chapters, each of which covers a key area of debate in the field. Some of the case studies are classic... More

Ethics in an Epidemic, a humane and graceful book by a philosopher of medicine, offers fresh insight into our attempts--popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political--to make moral sense of the pain engendered by AIDS.AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalize... More

"Makes a powerful claim for the centrality of Burroughs's work in twentieth-century American fiction, and is critical to our understanding of the possibilities of radical political change in the so-called 'postmodern' era of American culture. Nobody discussing Burroughs henceforth will be able to ig... More

From the land of "Down Under" comes this true story about a male high school drama student who falls in love with the captain of the football team. Winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Nonfiction, HOLDING THE MAN has been adapted into a play opening in America in September 2007. The p... More

This book takes a critical look at some of the underlying assumptions which shape our current understanding of the role and purpose of law and society. Arguing that the relationship between law and society must be reconceived in a different way in the era of economics, sociology and statistics, Murp... More