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Sharon Murphy

For twenty-five years, Lola has endured a tumultuous marriage marred by her husband Jack's infidelities and abuse. Despite his betrayals, she clung to the hope that things would change when Jack landed his dream job as university president.However, Jack's new position thrusts them into a sordid scandal involving the sexual exploitation of student athletes by the athletic director. Haunted by his own history of misconduct, Jack resorts to his usual tactics: bribery and cover-ups. Bu...

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Sharon Murphy

This textbook provides a framework for teaching children’s language and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to use in designing their literacy programs for children. Exploring how sense-making occurs in contemporary literacy practice, Murphy comprehensively covers major topics in literacy, including contemporary multimodal literacy practices, classroom discourse, literacy assessment, language and culture, and teacher knowledge.Organized around themes—talk, r...

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Sharon Murphy

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History (R0)

The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’ memoirs and letters, this book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what they reveal about attit...

The term ‘sensitive research’ is applied to a wide range of issues and settings. It is used to denote projects that may involve risk to people, stigmatising topics, and/or require a degree of sensitivity on behalf of the researcher. Rather than take the notion of ‘sensitive research’ for granted, this collection unpacks and challenges what the term means.This book is a collective endeavour to reflect on research practices around ‘sensitive research’, providing in-depth explorations...

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Sharon Ann Murphy

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Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America.Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class.Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to...

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Sharon Ann Murphy

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How Things Worked

How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States.Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something . . . or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not know the person who first issued them. Money and banking in antebellum...

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Sharon Ann Murphy

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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with—and often profited from—slavery’s perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann Murphy shows in her powerful and ...

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Timothy Alborn, Sharon Ann Murphy

By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries.

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Luke Murphy

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Sharon Huff, Conner Goff

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The Calvin Watters & Charlene Taylor Mysteries

The prodigal son …Calvin Watters hasn’t been back to USC since the day his scholarship and humility were stripped from the former running back. Calvin had cut all ties to the school, but now finds himself pulled back, when a woman’s dead body is found on the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum football field.… returns home.Detective Charlene Taylor’s new homicide case, a freshman cheerleader’s murder at USC, is complicat...

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Sharon Creech

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Donna Murphy

**“A heartfelt novel celebrating friendship and family ties.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don’t always get along, that’s true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. She understands from experience that life's twist and turns can't rattle the unique bond between two lifelong pals.Newbery Medal winner Sharon Cree...

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Sharon Creech

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Donna Murphy

From Sharon Creech, the Newbery Medal winning author of Walk Two Moons, comes a heartwarming adventure about finding family, and a home, when you least expect it.Ruby Holler is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, captures the imaginations of readers of all ages.Brother and sister Dallas and Florida are the “trouble twins.” In their short thirteen years, they’ve passed through countless fos...

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Caryn E. Neumann, Sandra J. Lindow, Tricia Clasen, Lauren Lemley, Adina Schneeweis, Christina M. Smith, Mauricio Espinoza, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Christopher Paul Wagenheim, Anita McDaniel, Sharon Zechowski, Trina Robbins, April Jo Murphy, Roy Cook, T. Keith Edmunds, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Michael R. Kramer, Joseph J. Darowski, K. A. Laity, Nathan Miczo

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men.In Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, editors Maja ...