New Releases by Mary Murphy

If you are concerned about the health of our planet then turn your attention to what lies under your feet. Working in the soil below are creatures that play a pivotal role in producing the food we eat and impacting the quality of our food crops. Earthworms were described by Darwin as the most important species on our planet and by Aristotle as ‘the intestines of the earth’. Beginner’s Guide to Earthworm Farming provides all the information you need on these remarkable creatures and how important they are to the functioning of life on Earth. The content includes how earthworms benefit the environment, your garden and the economy; the role earthworms play in reducing carbon emissions and removing heavy metals and toxins from our soil; how you can set up your own earthworm farm or compost heap; recyling, how waste negatively impacts water and the environment, how to effectively reduce kitchen waste; and much more.

Animals of various size reveal themselves one by one, but at the end it is revealed that even the biggest surprises can come in the smallest package.

In this book, "How to Manage Your Child-from a teacher''s perspective," Mary Murphy will give you: The benefits of managing your child; How to establish your authority; and how to manage your child. She not only talks to parents, and grandparents, she talks to teachers as well. This book is very practical. You will be able to apply what you learn immediately and you will experience some immediate results. She guarantees to any person that reads and applies what he/she learns from reading this book that he/she will never be the same. You will have a more peaceful home, or classroom. Your children and you will receive praises from past and present teachers and others that come in contact with them. You will be able to get more done. You will be able to parent or teach without the frustration. The most important thing that you will learn is that there is no such thing as a bad child.

Lift the flaps and join the peek-a-boo fun with a little pup searching for his mommy. Babies and toddlers are invited to lift the flaps and transform the pictures in this bright board book as they follow a puppy who is looking for his mother. Mary Murphy’s colorful illustrations of adorable animals will entice the youngest of children as they discover a variety of mommies and babies along the way.

The riveting true account of the 2001 murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, starring Robert Blake—the Hollywood icon accused of killing his wife in cold blood In May 2001 Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in a car parked on a dark Hollywood side street. Eleven months later Robert Blake—her husband, the father of her child, and the star of the classic film In Cold Blood and the popular 1970s TV detective series Baretta—was arrested for murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. Did Blake kill his wife? Did he hire someone to do the job for him? Award-winning journalist Dennis McDougal and entertainment-media expert Mary Murphy recount a real-life crime story more shocking and bizarre than any movie, chronicling the parallel worlds of Blake and Bakley, from their troubled youths to their sham of a marriage. By the late 1990s Blake was coasting on his past success. Bakley was a con artist who concocted online sex scams and victimized unsuspecting men, netting big money and dangerous enemies. In true noir style, McDougal and Murphy lay bare the stories of two violent people whose lives collided in a tragic tangle of abuse, betrayal, and love gone horribly wrong.

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From the creator of A Kiss Like This, a gentle concept book about the irresistible sounds that animals make. The perfect baby gift! Exploring the different kinds of ways animals say hello, this joyful companion to Mary Murphy''s A Kiss Like This is an ideal read-aloud for babies and toddlers. Dogs say it loud - Bow-wow! Cats say it proud - Meow! And donkeys say it silly - Heehaw! Using a clever split-page format that makes for funny and very noisy surprises, and with a glittery finale spread, Mary Murphy is sure to have those just learning to speak gurgling, giggling, clapping hands and making fun animal sounds, too!

Animals are sentient beings. This means that they are just as much capable-if not more capable-than humans are of feeling pain, sadness and other emotions. We teach our children to be kind and loving towards all creatures, then turn around and feed them these same animals.Children and animals share a common innocence; it is devastating that we lose this innocence as we grow older, trading it for ignorance-ignoring the inhumanity and injustices of how we treat animals across the country and throughout the world. While we are ignorant to their pain, it is no secret how these animals receive their pain. Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Our nations'' animals are not just treated poorly, but their basic rights are taken away. This collection of poetry was written to make people more aware of what is going on in our world-we are killing the animals, hurting the environment, and ultimately ruining our health, the health of our children, and jeopardizing the future of humankind.

Can you help Puppy find his mummy in this bright young board book for babies and toddlers? Lift the flaps and transform the pictures as you join Puppy in his search, and discover all kinds of mummies and babies along the way. Mary Murphy''s adorable animals and colourful art style are sure to delight the very youngest readers and help develop a lifelong love of books.

This book tells a story that nobody knows because at the time the story happened, nobody cared. The individual lives of the labouring Irish were unrecorded, irrelevant. The Hungry Grass weaves the threads of daily routine, annual cycles, religious faith, fairy belief, communal practice, and political reality to show as clear a picture as possible of the very complex life among tenant families in the nineteenth-century. The poet begins with the little she knows of her Murphy ancestors: the names and birthdates of the six who survived to emigrate, and the name of the parish where they lived. I also knew from my triple-great-grandfathers obituary that two children did not survive. This volume is one continuous poem that unfolds over the course of fifteen years. It never falters in evoking its theme, or in being focused and concise, with impeccable word choices, and unfailing, echoing rhythm. When employed, the rhyming is subtle and musical. The shape of thought, which is a consistent seven-syllable line with occasional variation of one or two syllables, is masterful in its execution of sound and sense. This is poetry that will show anyone who doubts it the continuing and necessary love of this craft, this art.

What if we, as Christians and believers, were as focused on God as the guards are at guarding Buckingham Palace? The Changing of The Guard imagines an awakening in Christians that propels them to devote as much time with God as the guards do to protect their Queen. Author Mary Dixon shares the spiritual insight she gained from her trip to London, England. Incorporated into her revelations are chapters from her children. Her son, Carl, shares that "Finance Matters, in Every Aspect," and her daughter, Kesha, takes us back to Genesis and being good stewards over what God has blessed us with. This eclectic book, The Changing Of The Guard, provides suggestions for living a holy and godly life, so you can be equipped to face every change you encounter with wisdom found in a faithful walk with the Lord and a heart intent on pleasing him. You must let your light shine in darkness for others to see! This to-the-point book enlightens you of the paradigm shifting, shaking, uprooting, transitioning, and repositioning taking place in the global world. Mary Dixon has worked in street ministry for thirty-five years, which inspired her more to get a message to the people. Discover a way to face life''s up and downs in The Changing of the Guard.

Un bisou de girafe, c''est doux et haut... Un bisou de souris, c''est vif et petit... Un bisou de poisson, c''est pétillant et glougloutant...Le livre de tous les bisous, pour les petits et les grands ! Et quel est le meilleur de tous les bisous ? Devinez !

Follow Snail''s shiny trail as she slowly makes her way home for dinner.

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

Tender, playful, and full of joy, this ode from mother to child makes an utterly lovely baby gift and will resonate with readers big and small. Oh, my Yummy One, my Utterly Lovely One! Look at you, so gorgeous! So opens a glorious praise song from a parent crane to her little cranelet — drawing many other species into the circle of love as she sings. Warm, funny, and full of energy and affection, this is another gem from Mary Murphy, whose springlike palette is well suited to the story''s celebratory air.

A beautiful new novelty title from Mary Murphy that bursts at the seams with all kinds of kisses and cuddles from giraffes, mice, fish, bumble bees and even elephants!! It''s a total love fest! A giraffe kiss is gentle and tall...like this! Mwaaaah! Then there are kisses that are quick and small...others are fizzy and bubbly some are even long and tooty-tooty! There are SO many different types of kisses, just turn the page to see! This split-page book, with its cast of loveable, cuddly-looking parent-and-child animals, will evoke lots of giggles, gurgles and smiles - not to mention kisses - from little babies! It is a truly delightful book for a baby and a parent to share. A great new baby gift! Mary''s artwork is done with a dry paintrbrush effect that is utterly seductive, beautiful and bold. Look out for the glittery foil effect on the last spread, which will burst with kisses galore!

Follow Quick Duck on his journey to the pond for a swim.

Panda Foo wants to bring his new friend Curly to the picnic that he and his friends Jigger Bird and Baby Boar have planned.

Follow the adventures of Comet the fairy dog as he explores the big wide world and learns all about life. How to bake and share, read and make light, how to tell friend from foe, how to fly, and that there''s nothing quite like his very own home.

A baby penguin describes things he likes to do with his parent.

Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott became some of the United States'' best-known photographers through their pictures of Depression-era America. Their assignment, as one of their associates described it, was to have "a long look at the whole vast, complicated rural U.S. landscape with all that was built on it and all those who built and wrecked and worked in it and bore kids and dragged them up and played games and paraded and picnicked and suffered and died and were buried in it." In Montana the four photographers traveled to forty of the state''s fifty-six counties, creating a rich record of the many facets of the Depression and recovery: rural and urban, agricultural and industrial, work and play, hard times and the promise of a brighter future. The photographers captured the dignity of Montanans as they struggled to scratch out livings from dried-up fields, nurture families in the shadows of Butte head frames, and foster communities on the vast expanses of the northern plains. Hope in Hard Times, features over 140 Farm Security Administration photographs to illustrate the story of the Great Depression in Montana and the experiences of the photographers who documented it. Today these striking images, from cities like Butte to small towns like Terry, present an unforgettable portrait of a little-studied period in the history of Montana. Selected from the Farm Security Administration Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the photographs in Hope in Hard Times offer viewers an unparalleled look at life in Montana in the years preceding the United States'' entry into World War II.

Various animals tell how they saw, fed, sang to, tickled, and kissed the new duckling.

Chenille aimerait pouvoir voler comme ses amies Abeille et Coccinelle. Un jour, elle s''endort et son rêve devient réalité. Sur le thème de la nature et de la transformation

This is CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr''s memoir about the turnaround of IBM and his transformation of the company into the industry leader of the computer age. When Gerstner became CEO of IBM in 1993, shares were in freefall and the company was on the verge of collapse. Hired for his successful management of RJR Nabisco and American Express, Gerstner had no background in technology, but during his seven-year chairmanship, he transformed the company into the leading force of the computer age.