Boyd K : 30 books
Freedom on the Border
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Memories fade, witnesses pass away, and the stories of how social change took place are often lost. Many of those stories, however, have been preserved thanks to the dozens of civil rights activists across Kentucky who shared their memories in the wide-ranging oral history project from which this...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 2
Cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Wheat is the most widely cultivated cereal in the world and a staple food for around 3 billion people. It has been estimated that demand for wheat could increase by up to 560% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such challenges as climate change, threats from pests and...
The Reflecting Man - Volume Two
Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In January of 1936, our loquacious and unreliable narrator, Kurtis De’ath arrives in London on the orders of Adolf Hitler. Kurtis is loaded with secrets, confections, and more than a few mysteries. Closeting his other identities (Herr Death, mysterious confidant of Adolf Hitler, and the Wagner Family’s...
by D.K.R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
In 1922, in a small town in the Maritimes, an unusual boy with an unusual name is adopted by a Baptist family of chocolate makers. With his copy of Plain Facts for Young and Old by the cereal king, Dr. Kellogg, to guide him, young Kurtis De’ath, a natural polyglot, comes to terms with a world he...
We Have Sinned
Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (Prayers of Awe)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...
The Reflecting Man - Volume Three
Volume Three
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In late 1937, our loquacious and unreliable narrator, Kurtis De’ath returns to Germany, where he prepares for a trip with Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, to Moscow. On his own with orders from Adolf Hitler (and Sir Joseph Ball), Kurtis probes the unspeakable secrets of the Holodomor,...
The Book on Bullies:
How to Handle Them Without Becoming One of Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
This book will inspire and equip you to handle the bullies in your life and the lives of your children. Using Christian principles and practical strategies you can take back control.
The Book On Bullies moves you quickly from page to page describing what to look for and how to talk to your...
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
by D.K.R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Fifteen-year-old MacKenzie Kuper finds relief from his troubled relationship with his stepfather via the Internet. "MacKid," as he calls himself, meets "2Cool" in cyberspace, and the two quickly become good friends. Unfortunately, events from the past and the present propel the...
by D.K.R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Nicholas Sparks is a "normal" fourteen-year-old who likes rock music and sports. The only problem is that something has caused him to commit a terrible act that has changed his life forever. His psychiatrist thinks she can help him, but she doesn't know the dark secret that Nicholas is carrying......
by D.K.R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“How do you know...I mean, how can you tell if you’re cracking up?” Kendal Twiner is young, handsome, gifted, and on the brink of superstardom when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of an unbelieveable scandal. What could have driven this prodigy to risk it all? Uncover Kendall’s painful...
The Toyah Phase of Central Texas
Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered...
Godly Love
Impediments and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities examines the theory of “Godly Love,” understood as including a vertical axis denoting the love of God and a horizontal axis involving the love of others, is at the core of a new field of research that studies how divine love influences the love of others...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...