Joe Robertson

Joe Murphy

This is the place people suffered and dreamed. Okot wants nothing more than to get to the UK. Beth wants nothing more than to help him. Join the hopeful, resilient residents of 'The Jungle', the refugees and volunteers from around the globe who gather at the Afghan Café over fresh baked naan and sweet milky chai. They're just across the Channel, right on our doorstep. Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson'sThe Jungle premiered as a coproduction between Young Vic and the National Theatre with Good Chance Theatre, commissioned by the National Theatre. It opened at the Young , London, in December 2017

The Jungle

"Christmas for your Cranium" is a joyful source of holiday fun. It’s chock-full of delightful yuletide facts, jolly jokes and pithy quips. Even better, it gives close-up glimpses of life at the North Pole. You’ll find personal profiles for all of Santa’s reindeer, plus inside info on the elves and their impish merrymaking. And there’s plenty more to keep you amazed and amused: spirited reindeer games, new toys under development and Mrs. Claus’ Christmas list, not to mention zingy holiday quotes and timely updates from the "Polar Gazette". This blissful booklet is Christmas treasure.

Christmas for your Cranium

Two brothers, Dan and Tom Banville, find their comfortable rural existence ravaged as Ireland tips inevitably towards war. As the whispers and nods in the pubs and fields explode into all-out Rebellion, the Banville brothers find themselves thrust to the forefront of the revolution. Even as they fight the might of the British empire, more sinister battles must be fought within their own ranks as they struggle against the bigotry and indecision that will challenge the very foundations of the Rebellion. As Loyalists and United Irishmen drift ever further apart, Dan and Tom must fight to free Ireland and themselves - or lose everything. Tomorrow The Barrow We'll Cross is an epic, swashbuckling tale of the romance and hatred, heroism and barbarity of those tragic weeks in the summer of 1798. But over the roar of battle, this is a story about love. Love of family. Love of place. Love of people.

1798: Tomorrow the Barrow We'll Cross

Where I am now doesn't really matter. What matters is how I got here. How we, how me and Seán, saw that girl getting killed and all the stuff that happened after. And all the stuff that happened before. I saw her getting killed - I know I saw. Seán and me grew up in a town the rest of the world has closed its eyes to. The town we grew up in is a cartoon. A cartoon where we're the butt of every joke, the cloud of dust at the end of every falling anvil. Seán wasn't like the rest of us. Seán isn't like anyone. Seán does stuff to things, things like cats and dogs and guinea pigs. Bad stuff; he can't help it. Dead dogs and a murder. This is how I got here. I saw it happen. I really, really saw it. Dead Dogs is a novel like no other - odd, witty and darkly hilarious, full of pathos and suspense from the beginning to its taut and throttling crescendo. This is a genre-bending achievement by one of Ireland's most talented and original voices.

Dead Dogs

Mobile devices are the 'it' technology, and everyone wants to know how to apply them to their environments. This book brings together the best examples and insights for implementing mobile technology in libraries. Chapters cover a wide variety of the most important tools and procedures from developing applications to marketing and augmented reality. Readers of this volume will get complete and timely knowledge of library applications for handheld devices. The Handheld Librarian conferences have been a centrepiece of learning about how to apply mobile technologies to library services and collections as well as a forum for sharing examples and lessons learned. The conferences have brought our profession forward into the trend and kept us up to date with ongoing advances. This volume brings together the best from that rich story and presents librarians with the basic information they need to successfully make the case for and implement programs leveraging mobile devices in their libraries. Authors of the diverse practical and well researched pieces originate in all types of libraries and segments of the profession. This wide representation ensures that front line librarians, library administrators, systems staff, even library professors will find this volume perfectly geared for their needs. This book was published as a special issue of The Reference Librarian.

Handheld Tech, Handheld Reference

Mobile Devices and the Library

Caracal: Fascinating Caracal Facts for Kids with Stunning Pictures!

Fascinating Caracal Facts for Kids with Stunning Pictures!

Caracal

The Fifties brought good times to Auburn-Gresham on Chicagos South Side. The thriving business district around 79th & Halsted pulsed with activity. Enter the Murphy family, eight strong and growing. Off go four kids to St. Leo Catholic grammar school, where the Sisters of Providence fervidly teach Religion from the Baltimore Catechism. This warm and funny memoir follows the author from age eight through high school and just beyond. Humorous stories describe life in a family headed by a devoted blue-collar dad and a protective homebody mom. Outnumbered by brothers, two sisters stand up for themselves with admirable pluck. They take piano lessons and win music medals. The boys make forts and push carts and enough trouble to merit occasional lickings from dads belt. There are sibling rivalries, issues at school and fistfights with kids on the way home. Long bike rides and flights downtown on the El train provide escape for the growing brothers. Most things have a funny side, even algebra and jug. Touch football games, chats in the gangway and crushes on unsuspecting girls fill the authors passing days. Much that seemed crucial in 1958 looks comical a half century later.

A Catholic Boy's Trek Through the Fifties • Memories of My Family and St. Leo Parish

Echoes in the Gangway

A dying century. A killing presence. Present day: Nathan Jacob’s life is coming apart. His adoptive father has passed away, leaving him grief-stricken. His only companion is his best friend, for whom he is falling more deeply every day. But Nathan is grappling with other demons: things half-formed and dark. Things that link him, somehow, to a series of horrific murders from the pages of history. 1890: Sergeant George Frohmell of the Dublin Metropolitan Police is running out of time. His city has become the hunting ground of a monster who preys on prostitutes and leaves them butchered in back alleys. As the bodies mount and the politics of Victorian Ireland come to the fore, Sergeant Frohmell must find his man – or lose everything.

Old Murders Never Die

I Am In Blood

Craig A. Hill

Elizabeth Dean

Provides the knowledge and tools needed for the future ofsurvey research The survey research discipline faces unprecedented challenges,such as falling response rates, inadequate sampling frames, andantiquated approaches and tools. Addressing this changinglandscape, Social Media, Sociality, and SurveyResearch introduces readers to a multitude of newtechniques in data collection in one of the fastest developingareas of survey research. The book is organized around the central idea of a "socialityhierarchy" in social media interactions, comprised of three levels:broadcast, conversational, and community based. SocialMedia, Sociality, and Survey Research offers balancedcoverage of the theory and practice of traditional survey research,while providing a conceptual framework for the opportunities socialmedia platforms allow. Demonstrating varying perspectives andapproaches to working with social media, the book features: ulstyle="line-height: 25px; margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;" New ways to approach data collection using platforms such asFacebook and Twitter Alternate methods for reaching out to interview subjects Design features that encourage participation with engaging,interactive surveys Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research is animportant resource for survey researchers, market researchers, andpractitioners who collect and analyze data in order to identifytrends and draw reliable conclusions in the areas of business,sociology, psychology, and population studies. The book is also auseful text for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses onsurvey methodology and market research.

Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research

This detailed and wonderfully written historical novel is based on the momentous events of the 1798 rebellion, a key period in Ireland's tumultuous past.

Joe Murphy

Books

Your next favorite book is out there