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1. High Performance Agent-Based Modeling

   By Michael John North, Nicholson Collier, John T. Murphy

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science

   This book details step-by-step methods for developing, verifying, validating, and executing agent models on high performance computers. Readers only need a basic background in computer programming to benefit from the book. All of the examples in the book use the free and open source Repast for High...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
2. Globalization and Lifelong Learning

   By Derek C. Mulenga, John Holst, Mark Thomas F. Murphy

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Marketing and the Common Good

   Essays from Notre Dame on Societal Impact

   Edited by Patrick E. Murphy, John F. Sherry Jr.

   Marketing is among the most powerful cultural forces at work in the contemporary world, affecting not merely consumer behaviour, but almost every aspect of human behaviour. While the potential for marketing both to promote and threaten societal well-being has been a perennial focus of inquiry, the...

   To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Conducting Student-Driven Interviews

   Practical Strategies for Increasing Student Involvement and Addressing Behavior Problems

   By John J. Murphy

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews—conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behavior problems and build solutions based on their own strengths and resources. In contrast to...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Public Management and Complexity Theory

   Richer Decision-Making in Public Services

   By Mary Lee Rhodes, Joanne Murphy, Jenny Muir, John A. Murray

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on attempts to eliminate unpredictability...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Disability Issues for Social Workers and Human Services Professionals in the Twenty-First Century

   By Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy

   Examine issues of vital importance to you and your disabled clients—today and in the years to come!This groundbreaking text provides you with up-to-date, authoritative information that will prove to be of critical importance for disability professionals in the coming years. It will leave you...

   Published May 9th 2005 by Routledge
7. Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work

   By Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy, Roland Meinert

   Postmodernism, Religion, and the Future of Social Work discusses the benefits and disadvantages of the postmodern philosophy as a foundation for social work and human service practice. Social work students and practitioners will learn about the developments that have shaped postmodern thinking as...

   Published June 30th 1998 by Routledge
8. Reason and Rationality in Health and Human Services Delivery

   By Jean A Pardeck, John W Murphy, Charles Longino, Jr

   Reason and Rationality in Health and Human Services Delivery is the first book to discuss the topic of decisionmaking and services from a multidisciplinary approach. It uses theory and social considerations, not just technology, as a basis for improved services. Health and human service students...

   Published June 4th 1998 by Routledge
9. Football on Trial

   Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World

   By Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, Patrick J Murphy, John Williams

   Published May 23rd 1990 by Routledge
10. Perverts by Official Order

    The Campaign Against Homosexuals by the United States Navy

    By Demetrios Simopoulos, John Dececco, Phd, Lawrence Murphy

    This candid book documents for the first time the U.S. Navy’s use of entrapment in pursuit of homosexuals in and around Newport, Rhode Island, during the early twentieth century. This most extensive systematic persecution of gays in American history occurred with the approval of Navy Secretary...

    Published September 7th 1988 by Routledge