Laura Murphy: 11 books
by Laura Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Do not see the cross you bear as an obstacle, but as an opportunity.
Father Dan
Author Laura Murphy was involved in a serious car crash in October 1987. Twenty years later, she became a minister of care at a large Chicago hospital. She used her tragic experience as an opportunity to better...
Survivors of Slavery
Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United...
Teaching with Joy
Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working...
Unlock the Power of You
12 Keys to Health, Happiness & Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
You already have the innate ability to unlock the power of you. All you need are the keys. And this book hands them to you. It’s packed full of inspirational and practical advice to challenge old beliefs, robotic behaviors, habits and patterns that no longer serve you. The authors offer you powerful...
Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico
Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...
by Laura T. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Metaphor and the Slave Trade provides compelling evidence of the hidden but unmistakable traces of the transatlantic slave trade that persist in West African discourse. Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the commerce in human lives, this...
by Trysh Thompson, G.G. Andrew, Laura VanArendonk Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Covalent bonds aren’t just about atoms sharing electron pairs anymore—it’s about the electricity that happens when you pair two geeks together. This anthology celebrates geeks of all kinds (enthusiasts, be it for comics, Dr. Who, movies, gaming, computers, or even grammar), and allows them to...
Architettura città e paesaggio
Il progetto urbano per il quartiere Sant'Elia a Cagliari
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Collana PAESAGGI IN TRASFORMAZIONE diretta da Enrico Alfonso Corti Il testo raccoglie alcuni studi e proposte progettuali per il rinnovo del quartiere di edilizia sociale "Sant'Elia" a Cagliari sviluppate tra gli anni 2007 e 2009. Le attività di ricerca e di progetto, volute dalla giunta...
by Glenn van Zutphen, Ana Mims, Faith Chanda
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Written by expats for everyone! The Living in Singapore Fourteenth Edition Reference Guide will help newcomers settle in and long-timers get more out of their Singapore experience. The guide gives essential information for a seamless move to the Lion City and is the perfect tool for making...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Victorian Ecocriticism
The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice...