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When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes by Thomas Murphy is a unique look from inside the mind of Tom outward at the landscape of America today. He pulls no punches as he rages against injustice while finding a sliver of community. "When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes is an intimate poetry of witness, a celebration of nature, language, and art. Lush yet economical, piercing, it explores breath and space, the verse is often projective. In a painful and pla...

They were role models for a successful marriage. Can she learn in time their incredible formula: One plus one equals one? Peggy Moore yearns to know the secret to her parents' long-lasting love. Six weeks before her own wedding, the twenty-three-year-old has an argument with her fiancé that shatters her confidence. When she discovers her parents created an "Anniversary Box" during their twenty-four-year marriage to record messages to support t...

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They were role models for a successful marriage. Can she learn in time their incredible formula: One plus one equals one? Peggy Moore yearns to know the secret to her parents' long-lasting love. Six weeks before her own wedding, the twenty-three-year-old has an argument with her fiancé that shatters her confidence. When she discovers her parents created an "Anniversary Box" during their twenty-four-year marriage to record messages to support t...

Originally published in 1949, TO HELL AND BACK was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both marines and paratroopers because he was too short, Murphy eventually found a home with the infantry. He fought through campaigns in Sicily, France...

The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play.'Young Edward Kilcullen's life is blighted by alcohol. Lawyer McGinty desires possession of all the Kilcullens ever owned and relishes the prospect of his demise. However, the temperance preacher and philanthropist Sir Arden Rencelaw is at hand...Can the young Kilcullen be saved? And what is Agnes, the maniac's, hidden secret? Comedy, tragedy, heroics, villainy and song in this exuberant, life affirm...

The poetic canvas of Pearl is as vast as the poet's extensive learning. The thrust of the book is a series of achingly poignant poems about the poet's early life in California. Gifted with a prodigious memory for detailand an expansive heart, Murphy probes a litany of seminal life events including rebelliousness, drug and alcohol abuse, friendship, intellectual inquisitiveness, creativity, suicide, loss, and human sensuality, and hedoes so wit...

researchED is an educator-led organisation with the goal of bridging the gap between research and practice. In the latest book in this accessible and punchy series, James Murphy examines the latest evidence surrounding student literacy.

Snakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They appear to be responsible for our excellent vision, as well as the anxiety we feel. Despite the dangers we faced in prehistory, snakes now hold clues to solving some of humankind's most debilitating diseases. Pythons and boas are capable of eating prey that is equal to more than their body weight, and their adapt...

Snakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They appear to be responsible for our excellent vision, as well as the anxiety we feel. Despite the dangers we faced in prehistory, snakes now hold clues to solving some of humankind's most debilitating diseases. Pythons and boas are capable of eating prey that is equal to more than their body weight, and their adapt...

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-> Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (USA 1996, 87 Min., FSK 6): Wie jedes Jahr beobachtet der Glöckner Quasimodo sehnsüchtig aus seinem Glockenturm hoch über den Dächern von Paris das Fest der Narren - die fröhlichste Party der Stadt. Nur zu gerne würde er wenigstens einmal an diesem bunten Treiben teilhaben, wenn es sein strenger Herr nicht ausdrücklich verboten hätte. Als ihn aber die drei lustigen Freunde dazu ermutigen, wagt sich Quasimodo in...

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BASED ON A REAL LIFE BOSTON MARATHON LEGENDThere has been a long-standing belief that a woman slipped into the 1951 Boston Marathon undetected and ran the race. If that could be proven it would make her the first woman to have run a marathon on American soil. She wore "red, " as claimed by a group of Canadian runners who say they tried to bring the matter to the attention of race Director Jock Semple and other race officials. But to no avail, ...

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Wie jedes Jahr beobachtet der Glöckner Quasimodo sehnsüchtig aus seinem Glockenturm hoch über den Dächern von Paris das Fest der Narren - die fröhlichste Party der Stadt. Nur zu gerne würde er wenigstens einmal an diesem bunten Treiben teilhaben, wenn es sein strenger Herr nicht ausdrücklich verboten hätte. Als ihn aber die drei lustigen Freunde dazu ermutigen, wagt sich Quasimodo ins Getümmel und erlebt eine Welt, von der er bislang ausgeschl...

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Sarah ist eine junge Frau, die gerade im Begriff ist, die Karriereleiter emporzuklettern, als sie völlig unerwartet und ungewollt schwanger wird. Von finanziellen Grundängsten geplagt, steht sie nun vor der Wahl, ihren gerade aufkeimenden beruflichen Erfolg und die damit verbundene finanzielle Unabhängigkeit zugunsten des Mutterglücks zu opfern, oder das moralisch Unmögliche zu tun, das Kind abzutreiben. Als ein Fremder in ihr Leben tritt und...