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  • Academic Overtures

    by 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 ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sense-Making and Shared Meaning in Language and Literacy Education

    Designing Research-Based Literacy Programs for Children

    by 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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901

    by Sharon Murphy ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Queering Elementary Education

    Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling

    by Kathy Bickmore, Perry Brass, Betsy Cahill, Kevin Colleary, Greg Curran, Barbara Danish, James Earl Davis, Kate Evans, Karen Glasgow, Pat Hulsebosch, Kevin Jennings0, Gigi Kaeser1, James R. King2, Rita Kissen3, Mari E. Koerner4, Kevin K. Kumashiro5, Glorianne Leck6, William J. Letts IV7, Rita M. Marinoble9, Gregory Martinez0, Wayne Martino1, Margaret Mulhern2, Sharon Murphy3, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli4, Eric Rofes5, Daniel Ryan6, Mara Sapon-Shevin7, Jennifer Jasinski Schneider8, Rachel Theilheimer9, LisaWeems.0 ...
    Series series Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series
    Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It's not part of a sinister stratagem in the “gay agenda.” Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness.Queer elementary classrooms are those where ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Telling Pieces

    Art As Literacy in Middle School Classes

    by Peggy Albers, Sharon Murphy ...
    Telling Pieces is an exploration of how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge and understanding of the conventions of art (art as literacy) and how they use this knowledge to create representations of their lives in a small midwestern U.S. town.Beginning with an overview of social semiotics and emergent literacy theorizing, the authors set the stage for their study of sixth ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    Banking on Slavery

    Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

    by Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 56 min

    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Other People's Money

    How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic

    by Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Investing in Life

    Insurance in Antebellum America

    by Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–1914 Volume 2

    by 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. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 Volume 1

    by 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. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Ditch (Unabridged)

    by Violet HUNT ...
    Narrated by Sharon Murphy ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    An amusing but deeply poignant story, “The Last Ditch” describes the wartime experiences of a British aristocratic family who gradually realize that their old feudal perquisites are passing away in the trenches of the Great War and that unprecedented new forces are pushing out the comfortable old ways. Lady Arles is the matriarch determined to resist to her last breath. Her bohemian young daughter ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Unpacking Sensitive Research

    Epistemological and Methodological Implications

    Edited by Erica Borgstrom, Sharon Mallon, Sam Murphy ...
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD