Susan Boyd: 16 books
Framing Law and Crime
An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical...
Killer Weed
Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of “epidemic” proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus about the...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Seder to Sunday Step into Scripture
A Bible Study for Easter
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Do you wish you could have walked beside Jesus? Would you do a Bible study if it were as exciting as watching a movie? Well, scripture is the script! It unfolds a drama filled with moral struggles, betrayal, friendships, villains, and undying hope. It is also evidence of the supernatural, with all...
More Harm Than Good
Drug Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm...
by Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Deborah Moore, Wendy Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
In an era in which environmental education has been described as one of the most pressing educational concerns of our time, further insights are needed to understand how best to approach the learning and teaching of environmental education in early childhood education. In this book we address this...
by Susan C. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006,...
The Women's Haftarah Commentary
New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot & Special Shabbatot
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism.
Discover how their interpretations of the Prophets, Writings,
and Megillot can enrich your perspective.
The Haftarah is a potent tool for understanding the values, ethics, and moral lessons contained in the Torah readings. In this first-of-its-kind...
American Challenge: Revolution, A New Nation, and Westward Expansion
Revolution, A New Nation, and Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Girls are girls wherever they live-and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8-12-year-old girls: Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre (covering the year 1770), Kate and the Spies: The...
American Triumph
The Dust Bowl, World War II, and Ultimate Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years (1935), Mandy the Outsider:...
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...
by AJ Fyler, Rhiannon Rhys-Jones, Aila Alvina Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of using gold (and other precious metals) to repair broken pottery. The ritual is complex, intentional, and contemplative. Upon completion, the once-broken vessels are made whole. They are stronger and possess a different type of beauty than before.
Kintsugi is...
Psalms of Nauvoo
Early Mormon Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the mid-nineteenth century, in the growing city of Nauvoo,
Autonomous Motherhood?
A Socio-Legal Study of Choice and Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to...
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