Murphy: 2125 books
A Wodehouse Handbook
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In 1981, Norman Murphy caused a minor stir in literary circles when he published In Search of Blandings, which demonstrated that many of P.G. Wodehouse's legendary characters and settings were based on fact. In the two volumes of A Wodehouse Handbook, he reveals his findings across a wider field - the...
Fully Functioning Human (Almost)
Living in an Online/Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
'I'm just a nitwit girl who's sort of stumbling through life learning that we all have our own roads to walk - but that it's still valuable, and rather lovely, to hear about other people's journeys...'
Filled with honesty, wit and wisdom, Fully Functioning Human (Almost) - part memoir, part...
by Arthur Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory Arthur Murphy, pseudonym Charles Ranger, Irish writer (1727-1805)
This ebook presents «A Dialogue Concerning Oratory», from Arthur Murphy. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
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by Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This unforgettable narrative follows the astonishing career and epic manhunt for Whitey Bulger—a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction.
Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey" Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting...
Rounding the Horn
Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn-a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of South America-is a place of forlorn and foreboding beauty that has captured the dark imaginations of explorers and writers from Francis Drake to Joseph Conrad....
South from Limpopo
Travels through South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
South from Limpopo is a social, cultural and political journey through South Africa, before, during and after the transfer of power in 1994, by the much-loved and formidable travel writer, Dervla Murphy. It is an account of three journeys, covering more than 6000 miles by bicycle, which took Murphy...
Hidden Wisdom
The Secrets of the Western Esoteric Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
From Egyptian mythology to Jewish mysticism, Rome and Greece to the druids and the gnostics, Tim Wallace-Murphy exposes a fascinating lineage of hidden mysteries and secret societies, continuing through the Templars, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons to our modern visionaries. This hidden stream of spirituality...
by Joseph Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
In this extraordinary book Dr. Murphy reveals the inner workings of the subconscious mind, and makes this book one of the most practical guides in overcoming the troubles that beset mankind. The amazing results, "miracles," some might call them, reported by those who attended Dr. Murphy's...
The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove
The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled...
God's Jury
The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
“From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the ‘inquisitorial impulse’ alive, and only too well, in our world” (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).
Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred...
Eight Feet in the Andes
Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Traveller Dervla Murphy and her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, accompanied by an endearing mule named Juana, clambered the length of Peru with only the most basic supplies to sustain them, spending most of their time above 10,000 feet. Their gruelling journey was marked by discomfort and danger, though...
Poo! What IS That Smell?
Everything You Need to Know About the Five Senses
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Glenn Murphy, author of the best-selling Why is Snot Green? tells you everything you've ever wanted to know about the five senses. Find out which animal has the biggest eyes, what's inside your ear-holes, why sweaty socks smell so stinky, why sprouts and ice cream taste so different, why we can touch and feel things, and lots more!
by Walter F. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Now in a readily available digital edition, and adding a substantive 2016 Foreword by Lee Epstein and Jack Knight, this classic of law and political science is presented to a new generation of thoughtful observers of the U.S. Supreme Court and how its justices create judicial decisions. As Epstein...
The Heroic Earth
Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision...