Most Popular Books by Jim Murphy

Takes the reader through an Indy 500, including the crash of one of the cars. Discusses the car, track, pit crew, etc.

The assertion that ''football isn''t a matter of life or death, it''s much more important than that'' has been verified repeatedly throughout modern history. It has bolstered tyrants and helped depose them; contributed to conflict and created ceasefires. It has been an incubator of racism at home and helped bring down a racist regime abroad; shaped cities, changed cultures and inspired resistance. Its impact is as dynamic as the game itself. In this fascinating exploration, Jim Murphy takes us on a journey around the world and through the years, from Franco''s Spain to Africa''s Alcatraz, Robben Island. Charting the match that sparked a Central American war, the Barcelona team threatened at gunpoint, and the game that helped save Rupert Murdoch''s media empire, among much else, Murphy lends a fresh new perspective to some of the most iconic moments in international football. Blending a love of the game with an appreciation of its place in global events, this is an authoritative and often humorous mix of sport and history, featuring fascinating first-hand insights from those most involved in the ten matches that changed the world ... and the one that didn''t.

Following her father''s death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.

Follows a typical day in the life of a family of Hypsilophodons, a smaller, lesser-known dinosaur whose great speed aided its survival.

An incident in a park leads to an accidental death, but a police detective wonders if it was an accident -- or murder.

El best seller n.o 1 de The New York Times que ha conquistado a líderes y atletas de todo el mundo. Un manual paso a paso con el que entrenar la mente para alcanzar el máximo rendimiento y llegar a las cimas más altas. Como jugador profesional de béisbol y entrenador de deportistas de élite, Jim Murphy se propuso entender cómo los mejores del mundo lograban darlo todo y mantener la calma bajo presión. Tras años de investigación, Murphy tuvo una revelación: el camino hacia el máximo rendimiento y el camino hacia la mejor vida son, en realidad, el mismo. Excelencia interior te enseña cómo: * Desarrollar el autocontrol y dejar ir aquello que no puedes controlar. * Superar la ansiedad y construir hábitos mentales poderosos. * Eliminar bloqueos mentales y dejar de poner obstáculos en tu camino. * Entrenar tu mente subconsciente y liberarte de creencias limitantes. Repleto de ejercicios, técnicas y herramientas que mejorarán cada área de tu vida, este libro te ayudará a desbloquear tu potencial interior y a alcanzar tu mejor versión, como los mejores. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The #1 New York Times bestseller. 200,000+ copies sold in three weeks. Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world''s top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best. My #1 tip for success: Read Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy. - Stewart Cink, British Open Champion, 8-time PGA Tour Winner Whether you''re an athlete or entrepreneur, single mother or father of five, you''ll find exercises, techniques and tools in this book that will improve every area of your life. Your life will take on new meaning as you move beyond the pursuit of happiness to a life of purpose and fulfillment. Jim Murphy''s complete program of proven mental techniques is based on the powerful principles of love, wisdom, and courage, that came from over six years of full-time research and writing (after his masters degree in Coaching Science). "I read the first version of Inner Excellence six times. I recommend all my clients read it." - Matt Killen, PGA Tour coach to Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods and many others INNER EXCELLENCE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO: DEVELOP SELF-MASTERY--and let go of what you can''t control OVERCOME ANXIETY--and build powerful mental habits REMOVE MENTAL BLOCKS--and get out of your own way TRAIN YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND--and release limiting beliefs As a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization, Jim''s sense of worth and identity revolved around his performance. He was obsessed with fame but also afraid of failure, and that fear made him struggle under the pressure to perform. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he saw the same pattern over and over again: athletes had lost their joy and passion for life as the fear of failure engulfed their lives. This book will share with you how some of the best athletes in the world transformed their careers through Inner Excellence. You''ll learn how Inner Excellence propelled them to extraordinary performance even when they were filled with doubt and uncertainty, and how you can excel in the same way in your life. "Inner Excellence changed how I see the world, how I think, and how I play golf." - Vaughn Taylor, three-time PGA Tour winner Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach (mental skills) to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. The majority of his clients achieve the best year of their career their first year working with Jim (or their best year in the previous five years).

Harold devises an elaborate scheme to try to get Esther to notice him instead of Bruiser.

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Primeiro lugar na lista de mais vendidos do The New York Times. O livro de cabeceira dos grandes atletas de alto rendimento, escrito por um dos maiores especialistas do mundo em treinamento mental. “Este livro me dá uma sensação de paz. Eu o leio em todos os jogos. Meus companheiros chamam de ‘a receita’.” – A.J.Brown, campeão do SuperBowl pelo Philadelphia Eagles Fruto de extensa pesquisa, o método de preparo psicológico criado por Jim Murphy já formou campeões mundiais, elevou atletas ao topo do ranking e, acima de tudo, transformou mentes e corações na busca pela excelência pessoal e profissional. Reunindo exercícios, técnicas, ferramentas e histórias inspiradoras, ele apresenta um passo a passo para ajudar você a dar o melhor de si e se sentir realizado em todas as áreas da vida. Com base em valores universais como amor, sabedoria e coragem, o caminho da Excelência Interior vai muito além do alto desempenho, mostrando que o verdadeiro sucesso é apenas consequência de uma vida de presença e propósito. Este livro vai ensinar você a: • Cultivar a automaestria, concentrando-se no que você controla sem se apegar aos resultados. • Derrotar a ansiedade, criando hábitos mentais poderosos. • Eliminar bloqueios mentais para deixar de ser seu próprio inimigo. • Reprogramar seu inconsciente para substituir crenças limitantes e refletir sobre o que o sucesso realmente significa para você.

Ayuda a comprender y a proceder eficazmente antes los conflictos de la vida laboral.

Written for young AND old, this engaging story, along with alluring illustrations, may well encourage kids to feel confident to meet some of life''s challenges. "Donovan''s Dream" is a fun read for a child. And when a person reads it along with a child, important beliefs can surface, those that a child can grasp and practice. In his dream, building blocks go on different adventures. With teaching moments throughout the book, important values surface, such as showing kindness, respecting others (and yourself), and conquering your fears. The blocks also reveal individual gifts by being creative, strong, and pensive.

Jim Murphy proclaims himself "always more lucky than wise," but he writes about his lucky life with rueful wisdom, even as his tender love for family and the simple delights of daily life are constantly intruded on by the poet''s keen and pained awareness of the great machinations of the larger world and history''s depredations on happiness, which despite everything remains happiness, and Versions of May acknowledges it as such. This book is a "script that contains all the needed fissures and the cracks in sense" joyfully and with great artistry. Andrew Hudgins, Author of A Clown at Midnight and The Joker: A Memoir

It is 1776, and George Washington''s army of rebellious colonists is emboldened by its stunning victories over the British at Lexington and Concord, and at having driven the world''s most formidable army from Boston. But now they face the threat of a brutal British retaliation. George Washington, who has little military experience, is unanimously chosen as commander in chief-in the hope that he can whip his ragtag, unruly troops into a real fighting army. As the British begin their invasion of New York City and out-battle the Americans in one encounter after another, George Washington isn''t the only one who is overcome with doubts. In a breathtaking account of this pivotal moment in the Revolution, Jim Murphy masteruflly shows Washington''s transformation from gentleman farmer to a brilliant general as he delivers the country from the blackest of times-into the brightest of futures.

Presents a few of the weird and wonderful contraptions dreamed up by eager inventors over the last 200 years.

A man trapped in the body of an ape leads a group of trained killer chimpanzees to carve out a new life in the old world of Africa. Arthur Godschalk, an undergraduate student, innocent in the ways of the world and of women, finds part-time work at a lab that has contracted with the government to do experimental development of an army of killer chimpanzees. Becoming intimately involved with the family that owns the lab, as well as with several other women who work there, Arthur finds himself in a precarious position when he wakes up after an accident to find his fate is totally in the hands of the person who hates him most in the world, his mother-in-law. Leading his new chimp army from California to Africa, Arthur struggles to survive his new situation as he discovers secrets about himself, as well as the search for meaning that has driven all hominids for a million years--the quest of Life itself.

Learn how to repair your own credit. Which laws matter when dealing with creditors, Collectors, and the Credit Bureau''s directly. This book shows you HOW credit is scored, why some debts can be removed, as well as laws that govern the different pieces. There is also a plan on how to start from scratch and start building your credit. Credit is a game, When you understand the rules of the game you can win.

While others have written about the people who were interned in Japanese relocation centers during WWII, this is the story about one of the camps, told by two brothers who lived there. This book records the history of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center beginning on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor to April 22, 1953, when the Heart Mountain Post Office closed because nobody lived there anymore. The Center, located between the towns of Cody and Powell in northern Wyoming, was built in just 60 days to imprison 11,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast during WWII. This is the record of who built the internment camp, where the blueprints came from, how its infrastructure turned out the way it did, who managed it, how the prisoners completed its construction with their own labor, what life was like living in such a place, and what happened to the camp after the war was over. It is a fascinating study of a temporary city, its people, and all the accompanying community services that had to be created from scratch in a short time with few resources.

A young arctic wolf has a harrowing adventure trying to find his way back to the pack after being separated from them during a caribou hunt. Also includes a chapter with general information about wolves.

While some singularity or egotism may be unavoidable in poetry, not every poet chooses, as Jim Murphy does, to temper subjectivity with sensitivity to the world around him. Murphy''s choice-or his compulsion-to attend to his community, its geographies and histories, is a gift to all readers: this poetry concerns us as much as anything else. Over the last fifty years, American''s most visible poetry has been a poetry of ego and personality, in which the writer''s self serves as a primary subject-so much so the most readers seem to expect every poem to be a confession or autobiography. But the poetry of community-of environment, of city, of nation-the poetry of concern has also abided, albeit less visibly, as a counterpoise. Heaven Overland draws from both traditions. As it turns outward, this collection extends the ethical tradition, and as it turns inward, marries the subjective to the receptive, recalling Whitman''s work more perfectly. This is to say that this book is important, that its commitments and accomplishments are rare and always to be kept in mind.

Relates the history of the tractor and shows the changes in design that have resulted in the diesel-powered giants of today.

James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Describes the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914 and features quotations from young men on both sides, a timeline, and additional source material.

Perform under pressure. Achieve greatness. Live every moment. Harness the bestselling mental training system that has developed world champions with this guided workbook. Taking you through practical exercises, techniques and tools, this step-by-step system will train your heart and mind for extraordinary performance and help you become the person you were always meant to be. Unlock your Inner Excellence now.

Follows a typical day in the life of a family of Hypsilophodons, a smaller, lesser-known dinosaur whose great speed aided its survival.