Tim Murphy

Tim Murphy has authored more than 60 "cookbooks for guys." Now he turns his culinary skills to cooking for some of his best friends...dogs "Flannel John's Dog Bowl Cookbook" offers dozens of home made recipes for our furry, four-legged family members. For those that would like to come up with their own recipes from scratch, Murphy lists some of the best ingredients to feed Fido. He also lists those human foods you should never feed to a dog. It's all about keeping them safe and healthy.

Flannel John's Astoria Cookbook is a collection of recipes that celebrate the lifestyles, cultures and history of Astoria Oregon. From Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery to the filming of The Goonies, Astoria has a lot packed in to its 200] years. These recipes are inspired by and honor the fisherman, crabbers, loggers, Finnish immigrants, trappers, hunters, film-makers, brewers, river pilots, cannery workers, Clatsop Indians, dock workers and Coast Guard that helped build the town.

This book proposes a general theory of the nature of law based on the idea that law exists in all human communities before it is ever posited or in any other sense formally expressed. According to the theory, the nature of law is not captured in what is variously called 'positive law', 'conventional law', 'state law' or 'human law'. The theory holds that a living law is an omnipresent feature of human community. By 'living law' is meant primarily those normative judgments and choices that are generally accepted and approved in a particular community. The book begins by exploring the origins of civil society and the function of law. The authors adopt the Roman law definition of justice as the willingness to give each what is due, and they examine the mutual rights or entitlements that must be for the most part honoured for any society to survive. In addition to distinguishing natural justice from conventional justice, and setting out in detail the distinction between distributive justice, rectificatory justice and reciprocal justice, the study analyses justice and the trading order; adjudication and interpretation; the relationship between morality, law and legislation; natural law; rights; law and coercion; and the authority and legitimacy of law. While the authors invoke several classical and medieval sources, their account of law and justice in community is innovative and contemporary. It will be of interest to students of philosophy, social anthropology, political science, and those involved in the jurisprudential or sociological study of law.

If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this "crisis of representation". The volume traces the history of religious studies, critiquing the concept that "experience" is central to understanding religion. The views of influential semioticians and philosophers - notably Nietzsche, Saussure, Foucault, Barthes, and Bakhtin - are used to construct a new methodology for the critical study of religion. Representing Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of semiotics as well as theory and method in religious studies.

If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this "crisis of representation". The volume traces the history of religious studies, critiquing the concept that "experience" is central to understanding religion. The views of influential semioticians and philosophers - notably Nietzsche, Saussure, Foucault, Barthes, and Bakhtin - are used to construct a new methodology for the critical study of religion. Representing Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of semiotics as well as theory and method in religious studies.