Most Popular Books by Jim Murphy

In this entertaining and informative work, former ChicagoCub and noted author, speaker, and coach Jim Murphyshares invaluable insight and wisdom from interviews with39 of the top managers in baseball. Legendary coachesSparky Anderson, Gene Mauch, Jim Leyland and many othersoffer their insight on how to build individual champions,coach the details, practice under pressure, and much,much more.

This book draws on 2,000 years of wisdom and lays it out for you in one place - to set in motion the life of your dreams: a life of deep contentment, joy, and confidence

Describes one of Thoreau''s trips to the Maine wilderness, based on his own writings.

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The first humorous book in the Dear America series, "West to a Land of Plenty" follows an Italian girl''s immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.

It has become clear o those paying attention that America is in a downward spiral of moral decay and is spinning out of control. It is time to wake up the uninformed and to expose the causes of this moral decline. The future of America is at stake, and, unfortunately, the minds of America’s youth are the battleground. In Crisis in Our Classrooms: The Lies We Tell Our Children, author, teacher, father, and retired US Navy chief petty officer Jim Murphy presents a no-holds-barred rebuttal of America’s secular education system, especially of the two main culprits—evolution (with no mention of Creation) and sex education. Murphy begins by exploring the untruths being spread and the methods of control used by secular institutions, but he also shows how everyone has played a part in allowing these large and entrenched special interests to take control. Through lessons designed for group or individual study, Crisis in Our Classrooms offers hope and ammunition for the struggle and the change that needs to happen as America moves forward. This change needs to happen now, before it’s too late—parents, students, and all concerned citizens should stand united and show the educational system and historians of America that we are still accountable to a higher purpose and meaning beyond ourselves. We are still responsible for upholding the values and principles that alone can save America and her children.

Describes forty-five unusual, but actual, inventions, some of which worked, some of which failed, after inviting the reader to guess their purposes from pictures. Sequel to "Weird and Wacky Inventions".

Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth.

Mean Rat does his best to spoil the other animals'' Christmas.

After developers encroach upon its forest home, a young black bear wanders into a neighborhood and creates chaos in the middle of a peaceful summer night.

The Raver Legacy - Book 2The dragon hunt is over and the Angels'' Blessing has been broken. Now the survivors of the party, and the other inhabitants of the Land must deal with the consequences.This is the follow up to ''April''. It picks up the story at the conclusion of the first book and continues from there.

Helps readers understand the roots of conflict in their organizations, assess their current conflict-resolution skills, and devise new strategies to actively and assertively overcome the tensions and other disagreements that threaten productivity and cooperation.

These are the hours when our dreams betray us and night terrors take hold.

Some people are just destined for a bit of adventure. This compelling coming of age story follows the excitement, hardships, and life-long bond that forms when two young friends and a dog decide to risk it all and take a shot at life on a boat.

Long-term monitoring of juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha is needed to identify recruitment and mortality processes, to understand early marine biology and ecology, and develop tools useful for fisheries management. A sampling program for Yukon River salmon was established in the northern Bering Sea in 2003 but annual sampling has been tenuous due to funding limitations. This project was designed to maintain the sampling program for Yukon River stocks, develop a genetic baseline to identify Yukon River stocks, and evaluate a lower cost survey alternative using a smaller vessel and trawl configuration. Results indicated that the genetic baseline can identify four groups of populations from Western Alaska, the two vessel/trawl configurations provided similar estimates of juvenile Chinook salmon abundance (within 20%); however, sea state limitations of the small vessel required an earlier survey timing (August rather than September). The change in survey timing contributed to differences in the spatial distribution and length of salmon caught during the 2 surveys. Surveys identified above average juvenile Chinook salmon abundance during 2014-2016 and above average juvenile abundance per spawner in 2014 and 2015. Both indicate an improvement to the recent poor production of Yukon River Chinook salmon, because juvenile abundance in the northern Bering Sea is known to be a leading indicator of adult returns for this stock. Sampling 2 different time periods provided additional insight into the early marine growth rates of juvenile Yukon River Chinook and other salmon species. Average Chinook salmon growth rate was 1.55 mm per day from marine entry to August, and 1.06 mm per day from August through September. This project represents a critical step to enable the long-term monitoring of juvenile Chinook salmon in Western Alaska and continued pursuit of factors that determine productivity and cohort strength of Yukon River Chinook salmon.

This is the memoir of a C20th man. Jim Murphy left Canada at 15 years of age and emigrated to New Zealand where he completed school and university. He married an Australian and had two sons. Jim lived and worked in 10 countries in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and Africa as a teacher, entrepreneur and university professor. His adventures and experience in different places among various cultures led him to Life Lessons for his grandchildren that are of universal merit. He discusses issues current over the years that give context to a life at the end of the C20th and beginning of the C21st. His story involves joy, heartache, pain and laughter. It is informative, up-lifting and funny. It involves bombs, counterfeiting, and export control evasion. It involves education, professional sport, relationships, work and UFOs. Today no-one can repeat his experience living freely around the globe the world has changed so much. This memoir answers the question, ''How did a common man live at this time and what was his experience of life?'' The memoir proves the value of family, friends and relationships to enjoy a good life that contributes to the growth of others.

A survey of fish species in the Yukon River Delta, primarily focused on juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, was conducted in 2014 and 2015. The primary objective of this project was to get basic information on the fish assemblage in the delta, the outmigration phenology of salmon smolt, and the size and distribution of species using delta habitats. Sampling occurred during summer months starting with ice breakup, and included regular collections in habitats in major distributaries of the delta as well as monthly surveys in marine waters of the delta front. Water temperatures were much warmer in 2014 and 2015 than previous surveys of the Delta in 1986. Juvenile Chinook salmon were abundant within distributary samples throughout the sample period, utilizing all major distributaries of the river delta. Outmigration phenology of juvenile Chinook salmon was earlier in 2015 (median outmigration date 10 June) than 2014 (median outmigration date 23 June) and 1986 (median outmigration date 24 June). Average size at outmigration for distributary samples was also variable and significantly different among years (mean length in 1986 was 95 mm, in 2014 was 98 mm and in 2015 was 92 mm). Non-Chinook salmon species also showed evidence of interannual differences in size, seasonal growth patterns, and interannual outmigration phenologies. For example, chum salmon O. keta, were smallest in 1986 (mean length 43 mm) and largest in 2014 and 2015 (48 mm). Like Chinook salmon, chum salmon outmigrated earliest in 2015 (median outmigration 10 June) compared to 2014 (median outmigration 20 June) and 1986 (median outmigration 18 June). Important non-salmon species captured in the Yukon River delta included: coregonids, burbot Lota lota, Arctic lamprey Lethenteron camtschaticum, saffron cod Eleginus gracilis, Pacific herring Clupea pallasii, ninespine stickleback Pungitius pungitius, rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax, and sheefish Stenodus leucichthys.

In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.

Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the modern racing bicycle and HPV.