Paddy: 125 books

An accessible account of philosophical concepts, theories and key thinkers with an emphasis on recent developments in the field. Containing over 300 entries, the terms are ordered alphabetically and cross referenced for ease of use. Suggestions for further reading follow the explanations, encouraging further reflection and independent learning.

Cars and vans in high-vis livery, racing to incidents with pulsating lights and blaring sirens are part of the everyday scene in our towns and on our highways. Police STOP! Patrol and Response Vehicles of England and Wales outlines the fascinating story of vehicles in police service, and shows how...

Set in the Australian bush, a wryly funny, beautifully observed novel about friendship, motherhood, love, and the importance of fighting for things that matter. Loretta Boskovic never dreamed she would end up a single mother with two kids in a dusty Australian country town. She never imagined...

Portland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago. Shaping Portland: Anatomy of a Healthy City is about the values engendered by the place, and how those values have influenced the growing city. It examines how and why the public realm supports or obstructs...

This book presents a ‘Traveller’s Guide’ to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of Deaf...

Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the ‘who’ and ‘how’ we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt, childhood, and of the status of ‘deserving’...

It's 2007, the government has just introduced a blanket ban on smoking in public buildings and workplaces in Ireland. Michael Martin, the minister for health takes pride in being the only country in Europe to take such measures to date, but the regulars in a Dublin pub are incensed as they're forced...

Australia’s region comes to the brink of conflict Regional tensions are fed by political instability, neo-fundamentalism and an increasing trade in the tragic commodity of refugees. From the Indonesian archipelago to Papua New Guinea and homeland Australia, the Australian government...

February, 1942: T. L. S. Normandie, the world's most famous luxury liner of the time, has just been set alight and burned to the water-line in New York Harbor, initiating widespread panic in fear of German saboteurs. In one of the most controversial decisions of the war, Naval Intelligence opts to...

Through shear dint of effort, Ronald Lump the third, now in his fourth and last term as president, had with tireless campaigning and unprecedented cooperation in both the House and the Senate, been able to whittle away at the 3% who controlled 97% of the wealth. He got it down to 1%. Worse yet, of...

Self-Controlled Case Series Studies: A Modelling Guide with R provides the first comprehensive account of the self-controlled case series (SCCS) method, a statistical technique for investigating associations between outcome events and time-varying exposures. The method only requires information from...

~~Ryan Curtis is almost an average teenager. There’s just one small problem: his parents are superheroes. Ryan just wants to be normal but instead his family life is full of danger, excitement and action, but then the tragic actions of a demented scientist mean he has to go into hiding....

Did our universe, spanning over billions of years, ever create an intelligent life form that is still alive and advanced enough to contact us? If this is true, where are they? Why have they not contacted us yet? Are we, then, really alone? Or are we made to believe so? What if these aliens don't want...