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  • MR. TUX FINDS A HOME
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    MR. TUX FINDS A HOME
    JOHN C. MORGAN
    Mr. Tux Finds a Home is the story of a wandering black and white cat who after many adventures finds his way home to a loving family. Along the way he discovers some very important universal lessons about life: never give up the quest for a spiritual home, stay curious along the way, be persistent in following your dream, and most important, when it comes time to die be at peac...

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  • THE LIGHT RAILWAY
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    THE LIGHT RAILWAY
    JOHN SCOTT-MORGAN
    Highlights the development of light railways in rural Britain and Ireland after the 1896 Act, showcasing their infrastructure. The light Railways Act 1896 marked the final phase in the development of the traditional railway in Britain, being designed to open up rural areas of Britain that had been bypassed by the larger railway companies. The promoting and construction of light...

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  • CULTURAL COLD WARS AND UNESCO IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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    CULTURAL COLD WARS AND UNESCO IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    W. JOHN MORGAN
    Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century addresses the now-considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. The book charts the development of the concept in the twentieth century. Structured in two parts, Part I considers the League of Nations’ idealist attempts at international intellectual cooperation. It discusses a...

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  • WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND FORENSIC SCIENCE ERRORS
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    WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND FORENSIC SCIENCE ERRORS
    JOHN MORGAN
    Forensic Science Errors and Wrongful Convictions: Case Studies and Root Causes provides a rigorous and detailed examination of two key issues: the continuing problem of wrongful convictions and the role of forensic science in these miscarriages of justice. This comprehensive textbook covers the full breadth of the topic. It looks at each type of evidence, historical factors, sy...

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  • EVERYDAY WISDOM
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    EVERYDAY WISDOM
    JOHN C. MORGAN
    If you want to live a better life, how can you do so? Like learning to play a musical instrument or another language, you need to be clear about the basics beforehand. This means describing what you value and what you need to do to move into realizing these values in your everyday life. Once your intentions are clear, again similar to playing a musical instrument, you must prac...

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  • DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD
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    DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD
    JOHN D. MORGAN / PITTU LAUNGANI
    The make-up of the contemporary nation-state is increasingly multiethnic and statistics show that in many cases no one group is numerically the largest. Interethnic relations are given global visibility by the media while much that happens among different groups depends on context. Editors John D. Morgan (King's College, London) and Pittu Laungani (South Bank and Manchester Uni...

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  • SOCIAL SUPPORT
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    SOCIAL SUPPORT
    JOHN D. MORGAN
    None of us could survive in the workplace, community, or even in our homes, if we allowed everyone to see how truly vulnerable we are. Yet, social support is a necessity if we are to achieve whatever it is we set out to achieve in this life. "No human being is an island unto himself." "Social Support: A Reflection of Humanity" is a "how to" book. In this work, the authors exami...

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  • PERSONAL CARE IN AN IMPERSONAL WORLD
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    PERSONAL CARE IN AN IMPERSONAL WORLD
    JOHN MORGAN
    The purpose of this volume is to ask and propose a positive answer to the question: "Can we attend to the personhood of individuals within systems and cultures which are mass oriented?" One of the most interesting changes in contemporary thinking has been the emphasis on the unique person. While the distinction between a person (a unique rational being) and individual (one of s...

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  • READINGS IN THANATOLOGY
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    READINGS IN THANATOLOGY
    JOHN D. MORGAN
    A comprehensive book of readings for courses on death and dying at the college or university level. It contains material by such leaders in the field as: Colin Murray Parkes, MD, John Hinton, MD, Kenneth Doka, PhD, Ira R Byock, MD, Ronald K Barrett, PhD, Robert G Stevenson, EdD, Judith M Stillion, PhD. ...

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  • ABRAHAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND EARLY JUDAISM
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    ABRAHAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND EARLY JUDAISM
    JOHN EIFION MORGAN-WYNNE
    In this book, John Morgan-Wynne carefully examines the pivotal figure of Abraham in the Old Testament and Early Judaism. Our earliest literary evidence concerning Abraham is the stream of tradition known as J, the so-called Yahwist source (ca tenth century BCE), and also the Elohist stream of tradition (ninth to eighth century, or perhaps earlier). The subsequent eclipse of the...

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  • THE IMPACT OF ART AND CULTURE ON CAREGIVING
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    THE IMPACT OF ART AND CULTURE ON CAREGIVING
    JOHN MORGAN
    "Meeting the Needs of Our Clients Creatively: The Impact of Art and Culture on Caregiving" is an important new work which integrates traditional understandings of care of the dying and bereaved with the use of arts and other forms of cultural creativity in therapy and funeralization. Twenty-one authors give us cutting-edge insights into the practical aspects of caring for the d...

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  • CULTURE AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SCHOOLING
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    CULTURE AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SCHOOLING
    JOHN MORGAN
    Since the global financial crisis of 2007-08 the question of the aims of schooling have assumed greater importance. There has been no ‘return to normal’, yet young people are encouraged to ‘Keep calm and go to university’. Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling explores the possibilities for the emergence of a progressive agenda for schooling. Culture and the Political ...

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  • CIVIL SOCIETY, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND A NEW POPULAR EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
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    CIVIL SOCIETY, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND A NEW POPULAR EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
    W. JOHN MORGAN / IRINA N. TROFIMOVA / GRIGORI A. KLIUCHAREV
    Civil Society, Social Change and a New Popular Education in Russia is a detailed account of contemporary issues that draws upon recent survey research conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from secondary published work in both Russian and English. The book explores how social change and developments in civil society are occurring in Ru...

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  • RESISTING TYRANNY
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    RESISTING TYRANNY
    JOHN C. MORGAN / RICHARD L. MORGAN
    Resisting Tyranny is a new book about an American Revolutionary patriot, Matthew Lyon, a Congressman from Vermont, who was thrown into jail for criticizing then President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. This is the story of a young Irish immigrant who became a leader in the Republican Party of his time, a crusading newspaper editor, and the founder of a to...

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  • ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE CARE OF THE DYING AND BEREAVED AGED
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    ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE CARE OF THE DYING AND BEREAVED AGED
    MORGAN JOHN
    Our problems seemingly develop faster than our ability to cope with those problems. The blessing of longer life has brought with it a host of new issues faced by the elderly, their families, and their caregivers. "Ethical Issues in the Care of the Dying and Bereaved Aged", twenty-three essays by some of the most eminent thinkers in the field of death and bereavement, addresses ...

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  • PHILOSOPHY, DIALOGUE, AND EDUCATION
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    PHILOSOPHY, DIALOGUE, AND EDUCATION
    ALEXANDRE GUILHERME / W. JOHN MORGAN
    Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work positions the socio-political views of each philosopher within a European traditi...

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  • DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD
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    DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT AROUND THE WORLD
    JOHN MORGAN / STEPHEN PALMER / PITTU LAUNGANI / DALE LUND
    This final volume of ""Death and Bereavement Around the World"" reflects on some major themes: death and after-life, religion and spirituality, rites and rituals, secularist approaches, cultural variations, suicide, and other issues. The first few chapters describe progress in end-of-life care, including some new tools to evaluate hospice care (chapter 1); what children know, w...

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  • A TEACHER, HIS STUDENTS, AND THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF LIFE, SECOND EDITION
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    A TEACHER, HIS STUDENTS, AND THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF LIFE, SECOND EDITION
    JOHN C. MORGAN
    Throughout history, philosophers have attempted to unravel the mystery of life. People from many diverse traditions have been invited to sit face to face at the table of philosophy to engage in analytical and critical reflection in what Dr. John Morgan calls "the great questions of life." This book invites students to explore the meaning of life in an easy and understandable ma...

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  • DEATH AND SPIRITUALITY
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    DEATH AND SPIRITUALITY
    KENNETH DOKA / JOHN MORGAN
    An elderly Chinese immigrant, hospitalized with terminal disease, requests to burn incense. A 30-year-old Roman Catholic gay male, dying of AIDS, is consumed by deepening moral guilt, troubled by beliefs he thought he abandoned years ago. A mother whose teenage son died of an aneurism is angry at God over his death yet fearful of expressing that anger lest He 'punish her again....

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  • A LITTLE WISDOM FOR GROWING UP, SECOND AND EXPANDED EDITION
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    A LITTLE WISDOM FOR GROWING UP, SECOND AND EXPANDED EDITION
    JOHN C. MORGAN
    A Little Wisdom for Growing Up is an ancient form of storytelling, of passing on wisdom between generations. In this delightful collection of fables from the natural world (in the style of Aesop's famous fables), the author seeks to pass on to his young son, Jonathan, what he has learned from life. Characters in these brief fables run the gamut---from skunks and fish, to trees ...

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  • RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE DIOCESE OF ST DAVIDS 1485–2011
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    RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE DIOCESE OF ST DAVIDS 1485–2011
    JOHN MORGAN-GUY
    During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both Church and State. Addressing key ideas in the development of popular religious c...

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  • ALATURKA: STYLE IN TURKISH MUSIC (1923–1938)
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    ALATURKA: STYLE IN TURKISH MUSIC (1923–1938)
    JOHN MORGAN O'CONNELL
    The early-Republican era (1923-1938) was a major period of musical and cultural change in Turkey. Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music is a study of the significance of style in Turkish music and, in particular, the polemical debate about an eastern style of Turkish music (called, alaturka) that developed during this rich and complicated era of Turkish history. Representing more th...

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  • THE LIGHT RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
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    THE LIGHT RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
    ANTHONY BURTON / JOHN SCOTT-MORGAN
    First published in 1985 by Moorland Press, The Light Railways of Britain & Ireland has remained unavailable for more than twenty-five years, until now. Re-released by Pen & Sword, this is a thorough and engaging book that covers, in depth, the fascinating story of Britain's last railway development, the Rural light railways, constructed as a result of the Light Railways Act 189...

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  • AWAKENING THE SOUL
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    AWAKENING THE SOUL
    JOHN C. MORGAN
    This devotional book is intended as a spiritual resource for nurturing your soul. What is truly personal is also truly universal. Where you touch the Holy, it reaches to touch you, and your life will be transformed. If enough of us begin with our own spiritual disciplines, a whole community may be transformed, or a neighborhood or city or nation. --from the PrefaceIn the first ...

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  • TEACHING SECONDARY GEOGRAPHY AS IF THE PLANET MATTERS
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    TEACHING SECONDARY GEOGRAPHY AS IF THE PLANET MATTERS
    JOHN MORGAN
    'Teaching Geography as if the Planet Matters provides a timely outline of powerful knowledge and arguments that will be needed to counter a strengthening of current curriculum orthodoxies. Not until school geography undergoes the revolution that this book outlines can it honestly claim to be contributing to more sustainable futures.' - John Huckle, Visiting Fellow at the Univer...

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  • BUBER AND EDUCATION
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    BUBER AND EDUCATION
    W. JOHN MORGAN / ALEXANDRE GUILHERME
    Martin Buber (1878-1965) is considered one of the 20th century‘s greatest thinkers and his contributions to philosophy, theology and education are testimony to this. His thought is founded on the idea that people are capable of two kinds of relations, namely I-Thou and I-It, emphasising the centrality of dialogue in all spheres of human life. For t ...

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  • DEAR BROTHERS, WITH LEADER’S GUIDE
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    DEAR BROTHERS, WITH LEADER’S GUIDE
    RICHARD L. MORGAN / HOWARD MORGAN / JOHN C. MORGAN
    Sooner or later every person faces questions about death and whether there is anything beyond it. This little book consists of personal and sometime private letters between three brothers who realize their own lives may soon come to an end. The wisdom they offer is not only for their own families and friends left behind, but for others who have faced the loss of loved ones. Wri...

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  • CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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    CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
    IAN MARSH / GAYNOR MELVILLE / KEITH MORGAN / GARETH NORRIS / JOHN COCHRANE
    Crime and Criminal Justice provides students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the study of criminology by taking an interdisciplinary approach to explaining criminal behaviour and criminal justice. The book is divided into two parts, which address the two essential bases that form the discipline of criminology. Part One describes, discusses and evaluates a rang...

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  • HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM IN CHINA
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    HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM IN CHINA
    MORGAN, W. JOHN / WU, BIN
    A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income countries in using tertiary education as a development strategy on such a scale, a...

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  • DEAR BROTHERS
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    DEAR BROTHERS
    RICHARD L. MORGAN / HOWARD MORGAN / JOHN C. MORGAN
    Sooner or later every person faces questions about death and whether there is anything beyond it. This little book consists of personal and sometime private letters between three brothers who realize their own lives may soon come to an end. The wisdom they offer is not only for their own families and friends left behind, but for others who have faced the loss of loved ones. Wri...

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