Bøker av John Murphy

Addiction is a disease that infiltrates most, if not all, families across the United States and the world. As an alcoholic, I have had the privilege of admitting myself into several detoxes, treatment centers, and partial hospitalization programs around Massachusetts and New England. It is now my duty to share with you what I have learned about the people, my fellow addicts, through my months of involvement in recovery.These may be people that you see once a year, maybe it's on Christmas, Thanksgiving, or at a funeral. These are the family members that we can be so quick to give up on. But, addicts are not bad people - we are sick people. In this book, it is my goal to showcase the good and the bad of rehab; demonstrating who the people on the inside are, for those of us that don't get the chance to visit addiction on a daily basis.Addiction is a hard-fought battle. It controls every second of an addict's day - whether that be foraging for drugs, using their substance(s), and/or making up for the time they spent high and drunk. This is a life of misery, not immorality, for everyone involved, especially the addict themselves. But, every hit or every shot is the addict's solution to their internal issues. From mental health to daily stress, drugs and alcohol are not a problem, they are a solution to a lack of comfort. What rehab does is deliver coping skills that addicts can use, as opposed to their substances, to feel better while re-integrating into social and familial life. Within this book are the people who are getting better, for themselves, their families, and their higher power.

This book captures solution-focused therapy's essence, distinguishing it from problem-focused approaches that have dominated psychotherapy.

Economic torts play a key role in the development of private law more generally. Indeed, the landmark case of OBG v Allan (2008) provided one of the most important decisions in the whole of the law of torts in the last generation, as the House of Lords sought to bring order to an area of the law that has long been beset by doctrinal and theoretical puzzles. Probably the most enduring question of all in this area is whether the economic torts can be unified. This book argues that the search for unity is a will o' the wisp. More particularly, it shows that although some juridical connections exist between some of these torts, there is far more that separates them than unites them. Offering a unique perspective, this is a landmark publication on the law of economic torts.

''This important and illuminating book provides a powerful and harrowing depiction of the inadequacies of the Australian welfare system. Its findings challenge the foundations and direction of the welfare reform agenda.'' - Professor Peter Saunders, University of New South Wales''This major new study challenges many myths about life on welfare and in low paid work. It should be read by anyone concerned with welfare reform.'' - Jane Millar, Professor of Social Policy, University of BathWhat is it really like to be unemployed and on welfare? How do you make ends meet? Does the welfare system actually help people get back into jobs?Half a Citizen draws on in-depth interviews with 150 welfare recipients to reveal people struggling to get by on a low income, the anxieties of balancing paid work with income support, and how unstable housing makes it difficult to get ahead.By investigating the lives beyond the statistics, Half a Citizen also explodes powerful myths and assumptions on which welfare policy is based. The majority of welfare recipients interviewed are very active, in paid work, caring for children or for other family members, and they see themselves as contributing and participating citizens, even if they sometimes feel they are being treated as ''half a citizen''. These stories of resilience and passion bear no resemblance to the clich d images of dependence, laziness, and social isolation which underpin social policy and media debate.

Early-20th-century Indianapolis was developing into a major transportation center. The extension of rail lines operated by the "Big Four Railroad," the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railway, invaded farmland 5 miles southeast of the busy Indianapolis Union Station. By 1904, the native beech trees neighbored the construction of the Big Four Shops, a facility charged with the production of steam locomotives. The shops brought jobs, an immediate draw for commercial and residential development, culminating in 1906 when the unnamed, adjacent community incorporated as the town of Beech Grove. A century later, the city of Indianapolis has grown to entirely surround the vibrant community, yet Beech Grove retains its small town atmosphere. Anchored by a vibrant Main Street, the charm of Beech Grove is found within quiet residential neighborhoods, distinguished schools, diverse churches, and major employers, including Amtrak and St. Francis Hospital.

By 1813, in an area originally inhabited by Native Americans, including a significant Delaware Indian village located on White River's western banks, the future Greenwood was made safe for settlement by the Kentucky and Indiana militias. In 1818, with the New Purchase treaties and establishment of Whetzel Trace, the earliest east-west transportation route through central Indiana, the dense, overgrown forest became readied for settlement. Arising from humble beginnings as Smocktown, the community was officially named Greenfield in 1825, followed by renaming to Greenwood in 1833. The territory has seen tremendous growth through the decades since John B. and Isaac Smock arrived, transforming the land from a pioneer village into a contemporary hub of business and industry. Accused of being a "bedroom community" of Indianapolis, Greenwood strives to maintain its relevance as a unique and historically proud community.

A collection of essays taking a new look at social and cultural aspects of the 1950s in Australia. Research presented here suggests a much more complex cultural period, drawing out themes such as sexuality, modernism, suburbanism and popular and public culture.

The world's best-selling English course - a perfectly-balanced syllabus with a strong grammar focus and full support.

The world's best-selling English course - a perfectly-balanced syllabus with a strong grammar focus and full support.

By sketching a narrative up to and including the welfare state of the 1940s, this book highlights the halting way in which Australia's distinctive welfare regime was built, how key individuals and events were influential in its successes and failures and how its dilemmas are with us.