David Boyd: 29 books
by David Boyd, David Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A practical guide to reducing your ecological footprint from the man Tim Flannery calls "the greatest environmentalist of our age."
Everyone knows that human actions affect our natural environment. With this indispensable guide, readers will learn to consume fewer resources and become...
I am Spain
The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, John Dos Passos, Felicia Browne, John Cornford, Stephen Spender... These were just some of the talented, committed and adventure-hungry men and women who travelled to Spain to join the struggle against General Franco's fascist...
by David Boyd, D.K.R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Zaki is a long distance runner. But now he’s in the care of his psychiatrist who believes that his patient can only come to grips with the terrible events in which he was involved by writing about them. Slowly, reluctantly, Zaki begins to open up and examine his life, family, and friendships…...
by David Boyd, D.K.R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Paul is 15 and a survivor. His psychiatrist believes he can help Paul deal with the terrible images he has locked inside his mind in the aftermath of his best friend’s shooting rampage in his high school. Writing in his journal, Paul’s struggle to make sense of what happened reveals the depth...
A Crisis of Brilliance
Five Young British Artists and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art, where they...
by David Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Zaki is a long distance runner. But now he’s in the care of his psychiatrist who believes that his patient can only come to grips with the terrible events in which he was involved by writing about them. Slowly, reluctantly, Zaki begins to open up and examine his life, family, and friendships…especially...
by David Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Paul is 15 and a survivor. His psychiatrist believes he can help Paul deal with the terrible images he has locked inside his mind in the aftermath of his best friend’s shooting rampage in his high school. Writing in his journal, Paul’s struggle to make sense of what happened reveals the depth...
Dodging the Toxic Bullet
How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Practical and empowering strategies for identifying and avoiding health hazards, from the co-author of David Suzuki's Green Guide.
Following David Suzuki's Green Guide -- called ""the green bible"" by the Globe and Mail -- Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies...
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier
A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the...
May God Remember
Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
An engaging and sobering look at memorializing in Judaism and why memory—ours and God's—is so central to people.
Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine...
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so much human history. In...
The Rights of Nature
A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
The Right to a Healthy Environment
Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012),...