New Releases by Colleen Murphy

Brought to you by MBTTT program founder, Colleen Murphy, discover an empowering adventure for your child with "My Body Tells The Truth." This activity book is designed to guide young minds on a journey towards self-awareness, emotional intelligence, & effective communication. In a world where self-expression & understanding emotions are essential life skills, this book provides the perfect toolkit for your child to become their own hero. Establish a strong mind-body connection, unlocking the door to open effective communication with you. **Highlights** Colorful Exploration: Dive into a world of vibrant colors that help your child express & map their emotions. Through creative activities, your child will learn to associate emotions with colors & understand how these feelings manifest physically. Confidence Building: Nurture your child''s self-confidence & emotional intelligence as they learn to communicate their thoughts & emotions with clarity & confidence. Open Communication: This book acts as a bridge, facilitating open & meaningful conversations between you & your child. Create a safe space to discuss challenges, seek solutions, & celebrate triumphs together. Join us on this incredible journey of self-discovery & empowerment. "My Body Tells The Truth" is not just an activity book-it''s a guide that equips your child with lifelong skills for navigating emotions, building confidence, & fostering a strong parent-child bond.

Murphys Don''t Quit is a raw, honest account of the pitfalls and challenges a family faces while navigating life through brain injury.

Murphys Don’t Quit is a story of hope and resilience as one family rallies together during a tragedy. Colleen Murphys’ daughter, Lauren, suffered severe brain damage after a tragic accident. Lauren remained in the hospital unidentified for several hours, she was not expected to survive. This story is a raw, honest account of the pitfalls and challenges a family faces while navigating life through brain injury. Murphys Don’t Quit shows how one family combined a never-give-up attitude with faith, hope, and love. Throughout the chapters, readers see not just the highs, but the heartbreaking lows. Due to the family’s Irish wit, humor often diffuses the devastating subject matter. Through the many grueling hours of therapy and by visiting specialists all over the country, Lauren was able to find her way back to a life filled with purpose and is now a highly sought after inspirational public speaker.

"Five characters who shelter at the Society for the Destitute get a $500 grant from Arts Educational Outreach to put on a play. They decide to do Shakespeare''s Titus Andronicus because it has the most murders, but as you might predict, this is not your average night of Shakespeare. Audaciously satirical, the play is an unflinching look at war, rage and grief through characters who yearn for beauty in the grotesqueness of our world today."--

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In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuit widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on a piece of ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him as her own and names him Angu''řuaq. In 1845, Angu''řuaq and his mate Panik wander into a chance meeting between Inuit hunters and explorers from the Franklin Expedition. By 2029, when surveyors and entrepreneurs examine the now-melting land for future opportunities, Angu''řuaq encounters the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship as it slinks through the oily waters of the Northwest Passage. Humorous and dramatic, and published in both English and Nattilingmiutut, The Breathing Hole is a respectful and profound saga that traces the paths of colonialism and climate change, revealing the devastating scars left on the land and in history.

"Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear. In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuit widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on a piece of ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him as her own and names him Angu''ruaq. In 1845, Angu''ruaq and his mate Panik wander into a chance meeting between Inuit hunters and explorers from the Franklin Expedition. By 2029, when surveyors and entrepreneurs examine the now-melting land for future opportunities, Angu''ruaq encounters the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship as it slinks through the oily waters of the Northwest Passage. Humorous and dramatic, The Breathing Hole is a respectful and profound saga that traces the paths of colonialism and climate change, revealing the devastating scars left on the land and in history."--

Across the genres, across the generations, across the board, this book presents over one hundred inspirational albums by women, from top-selling hits to the indie and obscure. Classic Album Sundays - the world''s most popular album listening event and content platform - initiated an #AlbumsByWomen campaign in support of International Women''s Day 2018. The hashtag soon grew into a movement, devoted to women''s musicality and the power of the female voice. Collaborators shared photographs and commentary on their favourite albums by female artists, gathered together here in a single volume. Pick up any other book on the theme of ''Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'', and you''ll confront a heavy gender bias. This project redresses the gender imbalance: an overdue celebration of women''s creativity and musicianship within a male-dominated sphere. It features over a hundred submissions from high-profile musicians including Pink Floyd''s Nick Mason, Peter Hook, Nina Kraviz, Black Madonna, Gilles Peterson, Rankin, KT Tunstall, John Grant and more. AUTHOR: Colleen ''Cosmo'' Murphy is a highly respected and experienced musical selector and curator, founder of the album-listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays, and an authority on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance. She was mentored by David Mancuso at his seminal Loft parties in New York City. Together they co-produced the compilation series David Mancuso Presents The Loft and worked on David''s record label The Loft Audiophile Library of Music. Colleen is one of the musical hosts at The Loft, the co-founder of the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London and DJs internationally on the world''s best sound systems and dance floors. She founded Classic Album Sundays as a stance against the increasing devaluation of music and sound. What began as a passion project is now the world''s most popular album listening event with satellites in four continents, and the website and social media channels host content on classic albums and artists such as interviews, videos, playlists and more. She has been a radio host, DJ and programme director since the age of fourteen and today hosts Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide on Worldwide FM and a Classic Album Sundays series on Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen. She is the writer and host of BBC 6 Music''s ongoing album series Sounds of a City and BBC Radio 4''s doc series Turntable Tales. As a producer Colleen has remixed The Rapture, Fat Freddy''s Drop, Beardyman, Candi Staton, Two Bears, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy, Chaka Khan and more under her Cosmodelica moniker and as DarkStarr Diskotek with Ashley Beedle. Along with former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, she recorded and produced as Wild Rumpus. SELLING POINTS: * 100+ of the best albums by women, as chosen by musicians, DJs, producers, journalists, radio hosts and music industry insiders * Contributors include Nina Kraviz (DJ), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), KT Tunstall (musician), Jamie XX (The XX, DJ), Black Madonna (DJ), Rankin (photographer), John Grant (musician) and Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order, Peter Hook & The Light), on albums by Billie Holiday, Kate Bush, Madonna, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Nina Simone and many more * An overdue celebration of women''s significant and compelling contributions to music

Stress conditions such as high temperature, drought, high salinity, metal stress, and pathogenic infection significantly increase production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the cell. Glutaredoxins (GRXs) are small redox proteins that possess conserved cysteine (C or Cys) residues in their active site and exhibit oxidoreductase activity to protect vital proteins from oxidative damage. CPYC and CGFS type GRXs can be found in humans, yeast, E.coli, and both lower and higher plants. The CC-type class is entirely plant-specific and is thought to have emerged with the evolution of intricate signalling mechanisms involved in plant disease resistance and floral complexity. The Arabidopsis CC-type glutaredoxin, GRX480, possesses a Cys-Cys-Met-Cys (CCMC) active site and is thought to participate in the salicylic acid (SA) mediated pathways involved in plant Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) to confer immediate and long term resistance to biotrophic pathogens. The structural and stoichiometric properties of the GRX480 protein remain uncharacterized and the mystery surrounding the role of the conserved cysteine residue (CCMC) in CC-type glutaredoxins make this protein a prime candidate for mutagenesis studies. The AtGRX480 genetic sequence was codon optimized to allow for improved recombinant expression in E.coli cell cultures. Single (SCMC, CSMC, CCMS), double (SSMC, CSMS, SCMS), and triple (SSMS) GRX480 active site variants were created by site directed mutagenesis and a Strep II tag was added to the C-terminal end of the protein for isolation purposes. Recombinant expression of these proteins in E.coli DE3 cells caused a drastic decrease in total protein concentration when compared to untransformed cultures. Wildtype GRX480 exhibited a 6.5 fold decrease while the active site variants exhibited fold reductions within a range of 1.9 to 12.7, the CSMS and CSMC variants being the lowest and highest fold reductions respectively. All recombinant protein expression caused a decrease in protein bands within the 36-32, 20, 16, and 12 kDa range of the native protein expression profile of E.coli cultures. When isolating the GRX480 proteins on the FPLC adapted Strep-column, a single injection of crude protein solution was ineffective in isolating sufficient amounts of protein to be examined by SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis. The utilization of a multiple injection method drastically improved GRX480 protein isolate yield from the column, however the majority of the protein remained bound to the column as desthiobiotin was demonstrated to be a poor eluting substrate. Examination of this isolate by gel filtration chromatography, SDS PAGE, and immunoblot revealed that wildtype GRX480 (CCMC) and the SCMC, CSMS, SSMC, and SSMS variants form a tetrameric complex in vitro. The SCMS, CSMS, and CCMS variants exhibited formation of an extremely large complex, a trimeric complex, or were not observable as an intact protein during gel filtration respectively. The SCMC, CCMS, CSMC, and CSMS variants displayed a distinct degradation pattern in the N-terminal region of the protein with the CSMC and CSMS variants possessing an additional distinct degradation band. Submission of the GRX480 amino acid sequence to the I-TASSER (Iterative Threading ASSEmbly Refinement) server revealed alternative GSH binding amino residues other than the N-terminal active site cysteine. High sequence homology and predicted structural similarities of GRX480 to monothiol and dithiol glutaredoxins known to be involved in iron-sulfur [FeS]-cluster biosynthesis or [Fe-S] mediated redox sensing were also identified by I-TASSER. These results together offer novel and previously unreported features of the GRX480 protein in terms of complex formation, the roles of the active site cysteine residues, and the observed changes in native E.coli protein concentrations with recombinant expression of the GRX480 protein.

This accessible book analyses transitional justice and discusses how it differs from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice.

Volume 19 of the May Swenson Poetry Award Series, 2016 Throughout this haunting first collection, Patricia Colleen Murphy shows how familial mental illness, addiction, and grief can render even the most courageous person helpless. With depth of feeling, clarity of voice, and artful conflation of surrealist image and experience, she delivers vivid descriptions of soul-shaking events with objective narration, creating psychological portraits contained in sharp, bright language and image. With Plathian relentlessness, Hemming Flames explores the deepest reaches of family dysfunction through highly imaginative language and lines that carry even more emotional weight because they surprise and delight. In landscapes as varied as an Ohio back road, a Russian mental institution, a Korean national landmark, and the summit of Kilimanjaro, each poem sews a new stitch on the dark tapestry of a disturbed suburban family’s world. The May Swenson Poetry Award is an annual competition named for May Swenson, one of America’s most provocative and vital writers. During her long career, Swenson was loved and praised by writers from virtually every school of American poetry. She left a legacy of fifty years of writing when she died in 1989. She is buried in her hometown of Logan, Utah.

he United States of America has numerous safeguards in place to protect our food supply, including federal regulations and the food and beverage industry''s dedication to food safety. One of the issues that the food and beverage industry continuously battles is the prevalence of intentional adulteration. The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) specifically addresses intentional adulteration and its sub-category of economically motivated adulteration (EMA) by requiring all facilities that supply food to the US to assess the vulnerabilities within their operation in order to prevent events that could cause public harm. The purposes of this study are threefold: (1) to better understand industry''s perception of EMA (2) to assess how industry determines ingredients at risk for EMA and (3) to determine the extent to which a tool that assesses ingredient vulnerability would be useful to industry. This study surveyed individuals working for food and beverage companies in departments associated with the selection, purchase, or processing of ingredients. Questionnaire items assessed their companies'' view of EMA, FSMA''s impact on their companies'' view on EMA, and examined their perception of EMA and ingredient safety. The data was analyzed for major themes. Participants (n=36) overwhelmingly agreed, 88.9%, that some ingredients are at higher risk for EMA. Results show 37% of participants say that their operation is "somewhat vulnerable" to "very vulnerable" to EMA and 55.6% rank EMA as one of their company''s top 5 food safety and quality assurance concerns. Specific ingredients such as "honey", "seafood", "olive oil", and "spices" were mentioned as higher risk ingredients. Other participants explained ingredients "supplied from China" and "high value and high demand raw materials" as well as "changes in the market" inflate the risk of EMA. The most common factors that impacted the perception of risk of EMA included the originating location of the ingredient (80.6%), supplier reliability (88.9%), historic instance of EMA (88.9%), and the value of the ingredient (86.1%). EMA is a large concern for those who completed this questionnaire. Most respondents noting that even when they feel their operation is secure against EMA, it is still a top 5 priority.

At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her.

The case centres on dispute between a group of Cold Stone franchisees and the parent organization. The franchisees filed a lawsuit against Cold Stone Creamery, for failure to provide information regarding funds received by Cold Stone from vendor rebates and unused gift cards. Additionally franchisees alleged that that requirements to purchase over-priced equipment and supplies, vendor and rapid franchise expansion hampered their ability to be profitable.

This symposium on Foreign Life Valuation brings together perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and various legal sub-disciplines to address this question: How many -- if any -- scarce domestic resources should be allocated to the prevention of foreign harms? An earlier article "Valuing Foreign Lives", co-authored by Arden Rowell and Lesley Wexler, identified a number of policy puzzles posed by foreign life valuation. In this symposium, scholars from diverse fields bring their expertise to bear on these puzzles and other questions of foreign life valuation. The symposium opens with philosopher Colleen Murphy''s piece entitled “Differentiating Moral Duties.” Murphy makes three main contributions by: noting the moral difference between doing and allowing, and articulating how that difference might influence valuation; identifying the moral significance of special relationships to identify the varied duties and obligations of individuals and states; and canvassing philosophers working in distributive justice to explore whether the state''s duty to provide distributive justice is bound by political borders or extends to foreign lives. While Murphy focuses on the state''s potential duties and obligations to foreigners, law professor Jonathan Masur emphasizes foreign individuals'' lack of accountability to states other than their own. Because many life-saving actions may require the cooperation of multiple states to achieve the greatest life valuation, Masur notes that “the welfare-maximizing valuation will be whichever valuation is most likely to encourage foreign action, and that figure may differ dramatically from case to case.” He similarly argues for case-by-case foreign life valuation in the military context and cautions against widespread transparency as it may hamper negotiations. He concludes that the foreign context may need to remain ad-hoc in a way that the domestic system does not. In “Valuing Immigrant Lives,” law professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales interrogates the implications of foreign life valuation in the specific context of immigration policy. She notes that immigrants challenge the definition of foreign lives. She then thinks through the particular distributive justice concerns raised by the valuation of immigrants both inside and on the way to our physical borders. She argues that treating such individuals as “domestic” would require a massive and likely politically unpalatable reform of current policies ranging from detention to entry to the weight given to family reunification. Yet treating them as foreign raises complicated questions of causality and reciprocity. Psychologist Paul Slovic explores the implications of a particular psychological bias -- the prominence effect -- on decisions about foreign life valuation. Focusing on humanitarian interventions as a setting in which foreign life valuation is implicated, he puzzles over why elite decision makers who profess to strong foreign life valuation nonetheless rarely engage in humanitarian interventions. Slovic points to a “prominence effect” under which “lofty humanitarian values are systematically devalued in the decision-making process” because more psychologically prominent concerns, such as national security, crowd out other conflicting values. He cites laboratory experiments to both test the strength of the prominence effect on foreign life valuation, as well as to identify potential countering techniques such as decision analysis and value-focused thinking. In “Valuing Foreign Lives in Genocides and Mass Atrocities: law, humanitarian intervention, and the prominence effect,” law professor Lesley Wexler explores how international and domestic legal institutions may interact differently with the same foreign valuation practices and the same psychological biases. Wexler explores the impact of the prominence effect on valuation by addressing the effect''s possible role: the United States'' Atrocity Review Board (“ARB”). Wexler discusses the legal context in which the ARB operates, evaluating both international law related to states'' obligations regarding genocide and mass atrocities, and the domestic legal structures that empower and constrain the ARB''s operations. She then explores possible prescriptions for responding to the prominence effect, emphasizing the importance of contextualizing those prescriptions to the institutional realities in which they operate. Law professor David Dana concludes our symposium by widening the scope of foreign valuation beyond simple life valuation. In the face of impending climate change, Dana questions whether states should expend additional resources to preserve or recreate foreign communities and cultures as opposed to simply protecting the individuals that hearken from them. He queries whether the otherness and out group biases that pervade foreign life valuation will be exacerbated for the valuation of cultures and communities unknown or radically different than our own and opens a conversation about factors, such as distinctiveness and domestic preferences, that might weigh in favor of significant resource expenditures. Rather than endorse domestic preferences as the only relevant or most decisive factor, Dana views willingness to pay studies eliciting domestic preferences as a necessary first step to “highlight and perhaps to correct -- via promoting thoughtful debate and engagement -- over and under allocations of resources.” Finally, law professor Arden Rowell concludes the symposium by synthesizing lessons and continued challenges for the study of foreign life valuation. She notes that, however policymakers should value foreign lives, in the vast majority of cases, the way they are doing so now is both atheoretic and opaque. The combination is troublesome: although opacity may be helpful in some contexts, so long as the choice of opacity is atheoretic, there is no particular reason to think that there will be a good match between opacity and the circumstances that make opacity valuable. As a result, it is important to identify strategies for foreign valuation that can help policymakers develop more considerate policies. Building on the contributions of the symposium, she suggests that future valuations might be improved through continued interrogation and contextualization of foreign valuation practices.

For so long it seemed that I wouldnt be able to have any children. Then to have not only one, but two within ten months was better than winning the lottery! Our boys were so much fun and such great brothers that as their mom, I sometimes had a hard time keeping up with them! I have told the story of our family to many people over the years, and I always get the same surprised reaction. Its just such a happy ending; it brings smiles to everyone who hears it! I think of our lives so often, I decided I had to share our story!

A new play about unlikely friendship, uncomfortable truths, courage and heroism.

A dark comedy about changing love and newfound courage that challenges social inequality, upending the notion of class distinction.

ABLA -- Autism -- Predictive -- Validity.

Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.

"In the aftermath of the 1989 Montreal Massacre, Benoit and Kathleen do everything they can to help their beloved son cope with his guilt and rage... but Jean''s young life becomes unglued. Using humour and the humdrum of everyday life, Murphy intuitively moves backwards in time to the fateful day when Jean, the only ray of hope in this working-class family, escaped the massacre... or thought he did." -- Back cover.

Rats take many forms in this corporate democracy of Hameln where an orchestrated chaos reigns and ghosts of dead children mingle with the living. Ruled by the weak but tyrannical Mayor Poppenheimer, the Town Council sells off essential services so they can buy more televisions and casino. A gang of Rats, led by Kingsley--who reads Nietzsche and longs to be human--bristle at being forced to do naughty jobs in exchange for leftovers. Into this greedy landscape comes Piper, a meek musician who is mortally afraid of bugs. He literally collides with Pink, the mayor''s daughter, and they are instantly smitten. When the body of the deputy mayor''s son is fished out of the Weser, moral outrage erupts, Kingsley is publicly tortured, and Hameln declares war on the Rats... then the fun begins. .