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  • The Myth of Metaphor

    Colin Murray Turbayne (7 February 1916 – 16 May 2006) was an Australian philosopher, who spent most of his academic career at the University of Rochester, where he first had a position in 1957 and became professor emeritus in 1981. His doctorate was from the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II he had worked for Australian Intelligence, in the Pacific War theatre.He was an authority on ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Mourning

    Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief

    Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Love and Loss

    The Roots of Grief and its Complications

    Loving and grieving are two sides of the same coin: we cannot have one without risking the other. Only by understanding the nature and pattern of loving can we begin to understand the problems of grieving. Conversely, the loss of a loved person can teach us much about the nature of love.Love and Loss, the result of a lifetime's work, has important implications for the study of attachment and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Constitutional and Administrative Law

    Using numerous topical examples and a clear structure, this third edition textbook provides an accessible, discursive and scholarly treatment of the key contemporary issues in UK public law. Drawing upon their extensive teaching and research experience, Roger Masterman and Colin Murray offer an engaging account of the key topics which make up a constitutional and administrative, or public, law ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Random History of Football

    by Colin Murray ...
    'A real knock-out' DAILY TELEGRAPHRandom occurences that shaped the history of football - an alternative history of the game from loveable broadcaster Colin Murray.Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend £50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary Italian goalkeeper, but you cannot take into account the effects of a dodgy takeaway meal, a dropped bottle of aftershave on a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Speaking of Dying

    A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care

    Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying patient, and an engaging, empathic bond between two people.Louis Heyse-Moore draws on his wealth of experience as a trained counsellor and palliative medicine specialist. Covering difficult subjects ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Price of Love

    The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes

    Series series World Library of Mental Health
    In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking. His early studies involved working alongside John Bowlby in the development of attachment theory and led to his pioneering work on the Harvard Bereavement Project in the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Bereavement

    Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Fourth Edition

    The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their experience.Long recognised as the most authoritative work of its kind, this new edition has been ... Read more

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  • Bordering Two Unions

    Northern Ireland and Brexit

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How does Brexit change Northern Ireland’s system of government? Could it unravel crucial parts of Northern Ireland’s peace process? What are the wider implications of the arrangements for the Irish and UK constitutions?Northern Ireland presents some of the most difficult Brexit dilemmas.Negotiations between the UK and the EU have set out how issues ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Death and Bereavement Across Cultures

    Second edition

    All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Western science has had a major impact on how people die, it has taught us little about the way to die or to grieve. Many whose work brings them into contact with the dying and the bereaved from Western and other cultures are at a loss to know how to offer ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Responses to Terrorism

    Can psychosocial approaches break the cycle of violence?

    Edited by Colin Murray Parkes ...
    Why do responses to terrorist attacks often perpetuate cycles of deadly violence?Can an understanding of the psychology of these cycles help us to break them?Drawing on clinical experience of the care of people and communities affected by violence and disasters and on advances in cognitive and dynamic psychology, attachment theory, group psychology and thanatology, this ground-breaking work by a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Inherent Right of Self-Defence in International Law

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Determining the earliest point in time at which international law authorises a state to exercise its inherent right of self-defence is an issue which has been debated, but unsatisfactorily reasoned, by scholars and states since the 1960’s. Yet it remains arguably the most pressing question of law that faces the international community. This book unravels the legal and factual complications which ... Read more

    $89.09 USD