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Colonial Justice

Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849

By: David Murray

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Colonial Justice

Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849

By: David Murray

In 1791 when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this new study of early Canadian law, David Murray has delved into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyze the criminal justice system in the district during the first half of the nineteenth century. Murray explores how far local characteristics affected the operation of a criminal justice system transplanted from England; his analysis includes how legal processes affected Upper Canadian morality, the treatment of the insane, welfare cases, crimes committed in the district, and an examination of the roles of the Niagara magistrates, constables, and juries. Murray concludes by arguing that while the principles and culture of British justice were firmly implanted in the Niagara district, this did not prevent justice from being unequal, especially for women and visible minorities. Integrating the stories of the individuals caught up in the legal system, Murray explores law from a local perspective, and illuminates how the Niagara region's criminal justice system operated under hybrid influences from both Britain and the United States.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442655968

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Bleak

The Mundane Comedy

By: R.M. Murray

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The Mundane Comedy

By: R.M. Murray

Best First Book of the Year, Scotland's National Book Awards 2021. An entertaining Scottish memoir of rain, biting bugs, and minor humiliations, lightened with music, booze, dry humor and an array of eccentric characters. R.M. Murray has a story. Quite a few of them. Of seasickness, hangovers, the wrong kind of weather. Of the joy of woe, and disappointments fairy-lit with hope. From fishing in the endless rain on the Isle of Lewis to performing in a punk band with Craig Ferguson and Peter Capaldi at Glasgow's famous School of Art. A stargazer, looking through the wrong end of the telescope. This is a memoir... of sorts. A join-the-dots journey through a life. A series of vignettes and minor personal fables. If it were a wine it would be very dry with an insolent nose and a desperate finish. Complex but approachable. And affordable.

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300

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Saraband

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1915089727

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Geographies of Globalization

By: Warwick E. Murray

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Geographies of Globalization

By: Warwick E. Murray

Offers a geographical perspective on globalization. This book provides an exploration of its spatial impacts, and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this field. It is useful to human geography, sociology, political science, and development studies undergraduates and postgraduates.

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417

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Routledge

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1134369018

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9781134369010

Film, Environment, Comedy

Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

By: Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann

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Film, Environment, Comedy

Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

By: Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change. Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.

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195

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Taylor & Francis

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1000588564

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9781000588569

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho

The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis

By: Colin Murray

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Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho

The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis

By: Colin Murray

This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'.

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528

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474471226

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Baptism in the New Testament

By: G. R. Beasley-Murray

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Baptism in the New Testament

By: G. R. Beasley-Murray

Baptism In The New Testament In this thorough and well-documented study of the sacrament of Holy Baptism, G.R. Beasley-Murray presents a critical defense of the doctrine of believers' baptism on the basis of the New Testament evidences. The author--one of the leading New Testament scholars in England--is himself a Baptist; but his discussion transcends denominatioal lines. Beasley-Murray begins by discussing various rites that precede Christian baptism historically, and analyzes the relationship between these earlier rites and baptism. From these antecedents--Old Testament ritual washings, Jewish proselyte baptism, the lustrations practiced at Qumran, and the baptism of John the Baptist--the author proceeds to the foundations of Christian baptism in the career of Jesus, its emergence as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, and its development in the New Testament epistolary literature. In his consideration of the doctrine of Christian baptism as ariculated in the New Testament, Beasley-Murray focuses his attention on the necessity of baptism and its relationship to grace, faith, the Spirit, the church, ethics, and hope. A careful examination of the rise and significance of infant baptism follows, and the study concludes with a selected bibliography and several indices.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597528595

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9781597528597

And Gazza Misses The Final

By: Rob Smyth,Scott Murray

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And Gazza Misses The Final

By: Rob Smyth,Scott Murray

Classic World Cup clashes brought to life and re-evaluated by two of the writers of the popular Guardian minute-by-minute football blog. Watching each match in real time and reacting to the twists and turns of the action, Murray and Smyth bring you the real stories of the matches as they happened, not the highlights package or rose-tinted version. From the crowd swarming over the pitch moments before the Brazil-Uruguay classic of 1950 kicked off, to the dubious refereeing decisions that decided England's single triumph at Wembley, this is the history of the World Cup as you've never seen it before. As well as 30 classic moments from other matches, the games given a full report include: 1950 Uruguay v Brazil 1962 Chile v Italy 1966 England v Argentina England v West Germany 1970 England v West Germany Italy v West Germany Brazil v Italy 1974 West Germany v Holland 1978 Scotland v Holland 1982 Brazil v Italy West Germany v France 1986 England v Argentina France v Brazil 1990 England vs Cameroon England v West Germany 1994 Romania v Argentina 1998 Argentina v England 2006 Italy v Germany 2010 Spain v Holland

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244

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Constable

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1472111060

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9781472111067

Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores

Vol. 2

By: D. Murray Smith

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Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores

Vol. 2

By: D. Murray Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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278

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385223040

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9783385223042

Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy

The Aeolian Mode

By: Murray Cox,Alice Theilgaard

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Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy

The Aeolian Mode

By: Murray Cox,Alice Theilgaard

The authors look at how literary material can be incorporated into therapy, and show that the value of associativeness as a complex cognitive function is not merely decorative.

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326

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853024597

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9781853024597

God of Salvation

Soteriology in Theological Perspective

By: Murray A. Rae

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God of Salvation

Soteriology in Theological Perspective

By: Murray A. Rae

The theology of salvation stands at the heart of the Christian faith. Very often the structure of Christian salvation is seen in terms of a single theme, such as atonement for sins, forgiveness, liberation or friendship with God. It is easy to reduce soteriology to a matter of merely personal experience, or to see salvation as just a solution to a human problem. This book explores a vital yet often neglected aspect of Christian confession - the essential relationship between the nature of salvation and the character of the God who saves. In what ways does God's saving outreach reflect God's character? How might a Christian depiction of salvation best bear witness to these features? What difference might it make to start with the identity of God as encountered in the gospel, then view everything else in the light of that? In addressing these questions, this book offers fresh appraisals of a range of major themes in theology: the nature of creaturely existence; the relationship between divine purposes and material history; the holiness, love and judgement of God; the atoning work of Jesus Christ; election, justification and the nature of faith; salvation outside the church; human and non-human ends; the nature of eschatological fellowship with God. In looking at these issues in the light of God's identity, the authors offer a stimulating and tightly-argued reassessment of what a Christian theology of salvation ought to resemble, and ask what the implications might be for Christian life and witness in the world today.

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341

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Routledge

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1317126548

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9781317126546

Enlightenment in a Smart City

Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750

By: Pittock Murray Pittock

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Enlightenment in a Smart City

Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750

By: Pittock Murray Pittock

This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban innovation and Smart City theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible. In a journey packed with evidence and incident, Murray Pittock explores various civic networks - such as the newspaper and printing businesses, the political power of the gentry and patronage networks, as well as the pub and coffee-house life - as drivers of cultural change. His analysis reveals that the attributes of civic development, which lead to innovation and dynamism, were at the heart of what made Edinburgh a smart city of 1700.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474416624

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9781474416627

The Pleader

An Autobiography

By: Len Murray

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The Pleader

An Autobiography

By: Len Murray

Len Murray, described by a High Court judge as the most respected pleader of his generation, practised as a solicitor in Glasgow for over 40 years. As part of a triumvirate of top lawyers based in the city during its period of renaissance, he built up one of the most respected law practices in the country. Among the benchmark cases with which Murray was involved was that of Tony Miller, one of the last people to be hanged in Scotland. Despite a desperate appeal by Murray, the 19-year-old was sent to his death on 22 December 1960. In his candid account Murray describes both the legal arguments and the personal effect the case had on him. Murray was also involved in bringing the Nazi war criminal Antanas Gecas to justice after his discovery in Edinburgh, he was the only solicitor ever to be retained by both Rangers and Celtic footballers who were accused of assaulting each other during a match at Ibrox, and he made a cheeky defence of famous Beatle Paul McCartney who was arrested on drugs charges. The Pleader recounts these and many more tales of the courts and the characters who inhabited them, whether they sat on the bench or stood in the dock. Reluctant to go public until now, Murray has always upheld the simple tenet that client confidentiality is paramount. His decision to publish his memoirs at this time reflects a feeling that he has a responsibility to new students of law and to old friends to put the record straight on many of the fascinating stories to come before the Scottish courts. From the simplest of violations to the most serious of capital crimes, he opens his amazing and hitherto secret files to the world.

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240

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Random House

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1780577702

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9781780577708

Book's by Murray Forsyth

Colonial Justice

Colonial Justice

Bleak

Bleak

Geographies of Globalization

Geographies of Globalization

Film, Environment, Comedy

Film, Environment, Comedy

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho

Baptism in the New Testament

Baptism in the New Testament

And Gazza Misses The Final

And Gazza Misses The Final

Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores

Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores

Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy

Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy

God of Salvation

God of Salvation

Enlightenment in a Smart City

Enlightenment in a Smart City

The Pleader

The Pleader

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