For some of us, moviegoing is an occasional pleasure. Kevin Murphy made it his obsession, and he did it for you.
Mr. Murphy, known to legions of fans as Tom Servo on the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, went to the movies every day for a year. That's every single day, people. For a whole fricken' year. And not only did he endure, he prevailed -- for this is the hilarious, poignant, fascinating journal of his adventures: the first book about the movies from the audience's point of view.
Kevin went to the multiplex, sure. But he didn't stop there. He found the world's smallest commercial movie theater. Another one made completely of ice. Checked out flicks in a tin-roofed hut in the South Pacific. Tooled across the desert from drive-in to drive-in in a groovy convertible. Lived for a week solely on theater food. Took six different women to the same date movie. Dressed up as a nun for the Sing-Along Sound of Music in London. Sneaked into the Cannes and Sundance film festivals. Smuggled an entire Thanksgiving dinner into a movie theater. And saw hundreds of films, from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, from the sublime to the unspeakable. Come along on a joyous global celebration of the cinema with a man on a mission -- to spend A Year at the Movies.

A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

Arts & Photography

Murphy, Kevin

History & Criticism

It Books

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," and cautioned that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual" type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Issues of masculinity not only penetrated the realm of the elite, however. Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a variety of classes, especially in the work of late nineteenth-century reformers, who trumpeted the virility of the laboring classes. By highlighting this cross-class appropriation, Murphy challenges the oppositional model commonly used to characterize the relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal reformers at the turn of the twentieth century. He also revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the Progressive Era.

History

Americas

Columbia University Press

Murphy/Higgins's CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION 2010 offers students a better way to learn tax Â- through a conceptual approach. This approach presents taxation as a small number of unifying concepts. Once students understand these concepts, they can apply them to specific tax rules and to basic aspects of everyday economic life. The authors present the latest tax changes in a clear and straightforward manner so that students are not overwhelmed with technical detail. The text introduces students to individual taxation and covers business entities at the end. Concept Checks throughout this edition present material in comprehensible segments, ideal for CPA Exam review. Examples, appearing frequently throughout the text, relate concepts to familiar business scenarios using an engaging discussion and answer format. Murphy/Higgins's CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION 2010 promises more exercises than any other text of its kind for the practice students need. H&amp;R Block's TaxCutÂ® software and CheckpointÂ® Student Edition from Thomson Reuters are packaged with each new copy of this text to provide your students with additional professional experience!

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2010, Professional Version (Book Only)

Higgins, Mark

Tax Law

South-Western College/West.

Master the concepts behind today's federal taxation using the balanced, conceptual approach in Murphy/Higgins' CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION 2020. You examine the latest tax codes and most recent changes for the current tax year in a clear, straightforward approach that prepares you for success on the CPA Exam. You learn the unifying concepts behind the Internal Revenue Code rather than memorizing details of the Code. Concepts and applications appear in brief, comprehensible segments that are ideal for CPA Exam review. In addition, examples relate concepts to familiar business scenarios with more opportunities for practice than any other book of this kind. CengageNOWv2 online homework tool helps optimizes study. Intuit ProConnect software and RIA Checkpoint Student Edition from Thomson Reuters also provide practice working with professional tax tools as you strengthen your understanding of taxation.

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2020 (with Intuit ProConnect Tax Online 2018 and RIA Checkpoint 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card)

Business & Money

Accounting

Cengage Learning'

Master the concepts behind today's federal taxation using the balanced, conceptual approach in Murphy/Higgins/Skalberg's CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION 2021. You examine the latest tax codes and most recent changes for the current tax year in a clear, straightforward approach that prepares you for success on the CPA Exam. You learn the unifying concepts behind the Internal Revenue Code rather than memorizing details of the Code. Concepts and applications appear in brief, comprehensible segments that are ideal for CPA Exam review. In addition, examples relate concepts to familiar business scenarios with more opportunities for practice than any other book of this kind. CengageNOWv2 online homework tool helps optimizes study. Intuit ProConnect software and RIA Checkpoint Student Edition from Thomson Reuters also provide practice working with professional tax tools as you strengthen your understanding of taxation.

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2021 (with Intuit ProConnect Tax Online 2019 and RIA Checkpoint 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card)

Skalberg, Randy

Prepare for success in working with today's federal taxation using the balanced, conceptual approach and unmatched practice opportunities in Murphy/Higgins/Skalberg's CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION 2022. You examine the latest tax laws and most recent code changes in segments that are ideal for C.P.A. Exam review. This edition also reinforces tax concepts using the Internal Revenue Code to prepare you for C.P.A. Exam tax simulations. To ensure understanding, this edition presents taxation as a small number of unifying concepts that you learn and then apply to tax rules and everyday economics. Frequent examples demonstrate how concepts apply to business activities. This edition provides more practice exercises than any other book of its kind to make certain you can use what you've learned. You also have access to professional taxation tools, Intuit ProConnect software and RIA Checkpoint (Student Edition) from Thomson Reuters, for further practice.

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2022 (with Intuit ProConnect Tax Online 2021 and RIA Checkpoint 1 term Printed Access Card)

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior (Applied Psychology Series)

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior explores the psychological and social processes by which groups develop a tolerance for and even encourage misbehavior. Drawing from decades of research on social, cognitive and organizational psychology, as well as a deep well of historical research, this book shows how commitment to groups, organizations and movements can turn moral individuals into amoral agents.Pulling together what have been traditionally distinct areas of study, How Groups Encourage Misbehavior provides a detailed and unified account of how good organizations go bad and how groups of all types can push otherwise honest and upright individuals to behave in ways that violate laws and social norms. This text describes how social norms, rationalization, the characteristics of formal and informal groups, attachment to groups and organizations, and the structure of organizational life can all contribute to misbehavior. Each chapter includes one or more sidebar discussions of relevant and interesting examples to illustrate the ways groups and organizations encourage and support misbehavior. The final two chapters discuss how many of these same attributes and processes can be used to encourage positive behaviors and foster recovery from dysfunctional and corrupt cultures and modes of behavior.A valuable text for a broad range of psychology courses, How Groups Encourage Misbehavior will especially appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students interested in ethics in organizations and the intersection between social psychology and organizational behavior.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

"How Groups Encourage Misbehavior explores the psychological and social processes by which groups develop a tolerance for and even encourage misbehavior. Drawing from decades of research on social, cognitive and organizational psychology, as well as a deep well of historical research, this book shows how commitment to groups, organizations and movements can turn moral individuals into amoral agents. Pulling together what have been traditionally distinct areas of study, How Groups Encourage Misbehavior provides a detailed and unified account of how good organizations go bad and how groups of all types can push otherwise honest and upright individuals to behave in ways that violate laws and social norms. This text describes how social norms, rationalization, the characteristics of formal and informal groups, attachment to groups and organizations, and the structure of organizational life can all contribute to misbehavior. Each chapter includes one or more sidebar discussions of relevant and interesting examples to illustrate the ways groups and organizations encourage and support misbehavior. The final two chapters discuss how many of these same attributes and processes can be used to encourage positive behaviors and foster recovery from dysfunctional and corrupt cultures and modes of behavior. A valuable text for a broad range of psychology courses, How Groups Encourage Misbehavior will especially appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students interested in ethics in organizations and the intersection between social psychology and organizational behavior"--

Ecosystems introduces the basic concepts and processes in the ecosystem and explores its role in solving environmental problems. Examining the development of the ecosystem concept, the book explains how ecosystems function and analyzes the complex interactions between life and its physical environment. Presenting examples from all parts of the world within lively case studies and illustrations, Ecosystems focuses on 'real world' problems and topical and controversial issues, particularly on human impacts on the natural environment, and the consequences of environmental change.

Ecosystems: A Functional Approach (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environmental Science)

Science & Math

Dickinson, Gordon

Biological Sciences

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A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2010, Professional Version (Book Only)

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2020 (with Intuit ProConnect Tax Online 2018 and RIA Checkpoint 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card)

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2021 (with Intuit ProConnect Tax Online 2019 and RIA Checkpoint 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card)

Concepts in Federal Taxation 2022 (with Intuit ProConnect Tax Online 2021 and RIA Checkpoint 1 term Printed Access Card)

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior (Applied Psychology Series)

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior (Applied Psychology Series)

Ecosystems: A Functional Approach (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environmental Science)