A collection of short essays on growing and learning in the Christian adventure.

Christianity Rubs Holes in My Religion

Bob Murphy

Hunter Books

This book takes the reader on a voyage into the aging body, explaining why aging occurs. It deals with specific degenerative changes, such as heart disease, cancer, and dementia, explaining why these things happen and what can be done to ameliorate their effects. This is a book for today's aging population. Anyone 45 years or over will have a special interest in this book. However, its highly readable yet authoritative style makes it of interest also to anyone, outside of that age group, who just wants to understand the aging body. Although there are many books of this genre on the market, few of these combine the sound scientific research with ease of expression and readability, as does this one. For some of the ideas expressed in this book, this is their first unveiling in the public domain, although of course, they have been available in the scientific literature. It has the rare quality of being a book for the average reader and for the scientist and clinician at the same time. Baby boomers' guide to Healthy Aging is a book for everyone.

Baby Boomers' Guide to Healthy Aging

Universal-Publishers

Through nine years as a columnist with The Age, Bob Murphy revealed himself to be a very different footballer indeed. Shunning the stern-faced statistical analysis that dominates the AFL landscape, he revisited the things about the game that captivated him as a child. His words were the smells of leather and liniment leaping off the page. Gentle, romantic, funny, whimsical, thoughtful, sad - Murphy's writing is rich, tender yet powerful, above all achingly human. In Leather Soul, he uses moments and events from the last three years of his 312 game career - his three seasons as Western Bulldogs captain - as trigger points to revisit his early career and wander back through his youth, exploring along the way the people and places that have shaped him, from his former priest and nun parents, to wife Justine and their three children, to the teammates and mentors that colour a footballer's life. How did the country kid with a gypsy's heart, who carried his footy gear under his arm because he didn't even have a bag, become an All-Australian captain? How does it feel to turn an opponent inside out with a shimmy of the hips, to connect boot to ball with the crispness of a musical note, to watch it sail majestically through the goals? How do you reconcile the club you love achieving the one thing you've truly longed for when you're a spectator, broken of body and heart? How does it feel to know you can no longer do the things that made you great, that the sun is setting and it's time to go? The great Australian football bard Martin Flanagan has long insisted Bob Murphy has a book in him like no footballer has written. Leather Soul proves him right.

Leather Soul

Sports & Outdoors

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Christianity Rubs Holes in My Religion

Baby Boomers' Guide to Healthy Aging

Leather Soul