Brophy: 56 books

WINNER of The Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Book of the Year Award.  This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter century through the lens of the resistance...

This biography for young readers focuses on Michelle Obama's youth. A good supplementary source for home and classroom use, especially as the now former First Lady's book Becoming brings her renewed attention. Follow the story of a hardworking girl growing up on the South Side of Chicago and...

Original Comic Strip Book Come and join the whole cartoon gang for a variety of adventures. raccoon, rabbit, salamander, bear, cat, turtle and snake can all get along sometimes. I have grown up reading Peanuts, Garfield, Heathcliff, B.C. and many others. I really enjoyed reading these...

Superheroes have been around for a long time, and the period from just before to several years after World War II is known as comics' golden age. In The Good Fight 5: The Golden Age, presented by the Pen and Cape Society, some of the best writers in the superhero fiction industry share their stories...

The Pen and Cape Society presents the third volume of superhero stories by its members: The Good Fight 3: Sidekicks. This collection contains the following tales: "Dating Games" by Marion George Harmon On a date that goes bad, Astra discovers helpers she didn't know she had. "Underestimated"...

First came the Superheroes in The Good Fight. Then came their dastardly opponents in The Good Fight 2: Villains. The heroes found help in The Good Fight 3: Sidekicks. Now The Pen & Cape Society returns with The Good Fight 4: Homefront. Ever wonder how superheroes spend their...

At Christmas, You Always Tell the Truth, Nancy Brophy For a long time, spotlight-avoiding attorney, Janelle Jackson, has been in love with her playboy law practice partner, Matt Masterson. She is the stalwart brains, and he is the flashy muscle—a perfect partnership. At least, until her one-sided...

Duke "HandCannon" LaRue is a bad guy, an angry nihilist who'll lease his prosthetic gun-arm to the highest bidder. Today it's Dr. Shocktagon, who's just one major player in a nefarious plan to rewrite reality and unleash an ancient nightmare on Earth. But when Duke gets life-changing news,...

The tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that...

Czigany “Cezi” Romney is perfectly happy. Yes, she’d have liked to have graduated high school, perhaps even attended college and become a CSI rather than working for her father and Uncle as an asthmatic sidekick. But leaving Armadillo Creek would be impossible. A gypsy without family would be...

Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation.

The telling of stories lies at the heart of human communication. In this important new book Peter Brophy introduces and explains the concept of story-telling or narrative-based practice in teaching, research, professional practice and organizations. He illustrates the deficiencies in evidence-based...

'We believe in an Ireland where society is changing rapidly and evolving in all directions. However, one thing that has not changed is the need constantly to strive for harmony in the home - in families and in relationships. This timely book offers practical solutions to the difficulties being experienced...

University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured physical abuse on campuses. As Alfred L. Brophy shows,...