Julia Boyd: 4 books

Book cover of A Dance with the Dragon

A Dance with the Dragon

The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony

by Julia Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012

With its wild, dissolute, extravagant group of fossil hunters and philosophers, diplomats, dropouts, writers and explorers, missionaries, artists and refugees, Peking's foreign community in the early 20th century was as exotic as the city itself. Always a magnet for larger than life individuals, Peking...
Book cover of Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
by Julia Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018

This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices—even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett—into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon. Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right...
Book cover of Education and Social Media

Education and Social Media

Toward a Digital Future

by Jack Balkin, Mark Warschauer, danah boyd
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,...
Book cover of Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Broken Bones, Broken Bodies

Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence

by Petra Banks, Eric J. Bartelink, Derek A. Boyd
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...
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