New Releases by Jim Murphy

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.

This collection represents an engagement with American history, technology, and cultures. Murphy''s poetry ranges from fairly straightforward narrations of events to experimental pieces using a variety of American-speaking subjects and several angles of vision on cultural creations--Elvis Presley, Holly Golightly, and Elmore James, to name just a few. Formal choices include the interlocking movements of the sestina and the rondau, the ebb and flow of loose blank verse, and the syncopated variety of free verse.

This book presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City.

In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them. He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy''s humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire.

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

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.

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.

An account of Robert Louis Stevenson''s twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West.

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

A description of the Battle of Gettysburg as seen through the eyes of nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway.

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

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".

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Come fanno gli atleti a prepararsi per anni per una gara che, spesso, dura meno di un minuto? Come riescono i migliori al mondo a rendere al massimo proprio quando la pressione diventa quasi insopportabile? E, soprattutto, cosa possiamo imparare da loro? Dopo cinque anni di ricerche a tempo pieno, di cui due e mezzo passati in quasi totale solitudine nel deserto dell''Arizona, Jim Murphy, coach di atleti professionisti di livello internazionale, è arrivato a una conclusione sorprendente: la strada che porta a queste prestazioni straordinarie coincide con quella che conduce a una vita realmente felice. Quando orienti il cuore verso qualcosa di autentico e duraturo, la tua vita si trasforma: invece di rincorrere il successo, ti muovi verso la tua essenza più profonda, e proprio qui trovi forza e pienezza. Eccellenza interiore traduce questa visione saggia in un sistema pratico di allenamento. Ricco di esercizi, tecniche e strumenti concreti, questo libro ti aiuterà a coltivare la padronanza di te stesso e lasciare andare ciò che non puoi controllare, a superare l''ansia e costruire abitudini mentali sane, a sciogliere i blocchi interiori e liberarti dalle convinzioni che ti limitano. Che tu sia un atleta, un imprenditore, un genitore o semplicemente qualcuno che vuole esprimere appieno il proprio potenziale, Eccellenza interiore può insegnarti la via per un''esistenza più appagante, gioiosa e realizzata.