Richard Stanford: 7 books

A journalist plunges into the underworld of Paris in 1885, searching for the elusive man who founded the International Red Cross and who has lived homeless, without a trace for twenty years.  With this story, Searching For Henri, Richard Stanford opens his new collection, Chance Does Not Exist, elaborating...

A journey into the lives of an outlaw, an artist, a playright, a filmmaker, and a dog.

Using the conventions of biography, memoir, interviews, and screenplays, Bars and Pens: The Biography of a Prison Writer, tells the true story of Peter Madden and his courageous journey from long-term prison inmate to published writer. It is with the idea of making one last break from prison...

THE DAYS OF COMPOST AND ROSES will give you everything you need know about composting all year round. Composters, methods, raw materials, location, soil building, green manures, winter, spring, summer, autumn – you will have more compost than you’ve ever imagined. Your vegetable...

LIFE GOES ELSWHERE is a collection of true stories: about an outlaw who becomes a national hero, a prisoner who becomes a writer and artists who set themselves afire. You will meet a filmmaker who documents his neighbourhoods, a landscape that creates artists, and a country that creates filmmakers. Most of all, these essays are about journeys, about life going elsewhere.

CHANCE DOES NOT EXIST is a collection of short stories exploring the worlds of artists and thieves, prisoners and taxi drivers. We travel from Montréal 1947, to Québec City 1905, to Boston 1947, Italy 1975, and back to Montreal 2005 as the diverse characters struggle to discover their identity while surrounded a world of hostile lies.

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge...