Linda Murphy: 7 books

Without looking at a calendar, what day will your birthday fall on seven years from now? What day does your anniversary fall on? The calculations to arrive at the answers to these questions, rather than being quick and simple, are often mind-boggling complex and painful. We can change to a new calendar...

Success with Languages is designed to help all students develop the skills they need to become an effective language learner and to make the most of language study. Written by experienced language teachers at the Open University, this book offers undergraduates and postgraduates crucial and...

Do you want the raw, honest truth about dealing with breast cancer? This book tells all (and shows all – beware - middle aged pornography!) CANCER! You must be scared sh*tless! (Pardon the swear word but you are reading the description a book with the F word in the title.)  I know exactly...

Understanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the past three decades, Mamet has written more than thirty produced plays and garnered recognition as one...

Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should...

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful...

One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within...