Boyd Books

This book is great for fun for little Red Sox fans. My son is an avid Red Sox fan, who knows all the players and their stats. He loved this coloring book. We took the book with us on a recent trip and it kept him entertained for a long time.

The kids loved it and we spent a lot of time working through the games and puzzles. It was nice to find Red Sox memorabilia that we could afford for a change. It makes a great gift - I think there is a Yankee Book too.

I like math because Im in the girls only math class. no boys hahahah!!!! My mom got Riddle-iculous Math so I showed my teacher and she showed my whole class. It was so cool and this book is cool. I likeit because I like the riddles and becasue you learn.

Kids will enjoy this amusing book on their own and it has many good math lessons. My kids particularly liked the Egg and Spoon Race (subtraction and addition as kids move forward and backward in the race) and The Spud Brothers (teaches even and odd), and Plenty of Pizza (fractions a la Mr. and Ms. Sweet-za eating and sharing pizza). We all liked the math jokes and short riddles thrown in on most pages as well. The art is lively and colorful. I liked the style of it--it's unusual and active. The book is well-organized and packed with info, but not too busy. An excellent math choice for about ages 7-10 or so. (I'm 36, and I enjoyed it too!)

A friend gave me this before my recent trip to East Africa. Safari Journal was a great companion to have on safari. Not only a good guide book to most of the animals and birds, but I kept a journal of my trip in it. I highly recommend it - even if you don't go to Africa. The photos are superb.

This guide and journal proved invaluable during my recent trip to Tanzania. ID of wildlife was easy and the background info in the front was excellent reading prior to the trip. The checklist is an added bonus, allowed me to keep a record of the wildlife I saw during the trip. I didn't actually use the Journal pages for notes because I had along a small note pad that was sufficient plus I didn't want to mess up the pages with my sloppy writing!

who knew that the bard could be funny? i laughed so hrad that i was starting to scare myself. ROMEO AND JULIET has never been my favorite play but now seeing it from juliet's nurses point of view, i love it! TWELFTH NIGHT is positively hilarious with toby belch's drunken ramblings in his letters. and my personal favorite, MACBETH is great written in a detective style. one can practically see Macbeth leaning back in a chair smoking a cigarette, in the streotypical style of detectives. i was actually mad at myself for finishing this book, i loved it so much! and bottoms drunken account of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is what laughing is all about. so i advise you, shakespeare fans and those that just love parodies, to buy or at least read this book.

This audio book is absolutely a riot. I have read all the plays which were rewritten and I thought that Carpenter did an outstanding job of accurately recreating these stories. Each story had its own special twist to it and though some were taken out of its historical time, they still fit the original story. I highly recommend this to anyone who has longed to become aquainted with Shakespeare's works, but couldn't understand what wasw going on.

Craig A. Boyd manages to resuscitate the theory of natural law. He manages not only to repel the criticisms of natural law but he also creates a more robust theory by taking into account the insights of other fields of study.

Morality is Boyd's first book, having written many papers at the intersection of theology, science, and ethics. Morality brings together Boyd's interdisciplinary interests to defend a theory of natural law integrated with a theory of virtue, a partnership Craig argues has been lacking in contemporary ethics (NOTE: characteristic of his interdisciplinary habits, Craig does not limit himself to Christian ethics). In short, Craig argues that neither natural law theory nor virtue theory are complete without one another.

Craig realizes that he has his work cut out for him. With the exception of some politically conservative theorists seeking to build up a religionless theory of universal human rights, natural law has largely fallen into disrepute, at least among academics. Craig identifies four challenges to natural law: sociobiology and evolutionary psychology (the scientific challenge); divine command ethics (the religious challenge); postmodernist relativism (the cultural challenge); and analytical philosophy (the philosophical challenge). He devotes a chapter to each, chronicling their respective critiques of natural law, responding to those critiques and appropriating them into his own theory.

Personally, I found the chapters on sociobiology/evolution and postmodernism the most helpful. The others are certainly important but as someone who works with non-academic people in the local church, these two topics pop up most frequently. People aren't really talking about postmodernism in the Sunday School classes I've witnessed, but they do talk about "moral relativism" which is part and parcel of postmodernism.


In any case, A Shared Morality is a wonderful invitation to the rich tradition of natural law. Though it is written for academic audiences, the informed lay reader should find it readable though challenging (isn't that what good books do?).

Boyd's book is profound, timely, and irenic. He lays out the structure of natural law theory in an accessible and informative way. His sophisticated understanding of philosophy, especially the thought of Thomas Aquinas, shines brightly.

Perhaps the most important part of the book is Boyd's wrestling with contemporary objections to natural law. To those who think recent work in critical theory, postmodernism, or science has undermined the power of natural law, Boyd shows otherwise.

But Boyd is not afraid to draw from constructive elements of contemporary natural law objections. For this reason, he proposes a more robust version of natural law than what readers may have imagined possible. And along the way, Boyd shows the importance of natural law theory for a cogent approach to understanding and appropriating the virtues.

This is a GREAT book!

This is a cute book about sheep doing winter activities on Christmas day. The number of sheep gradually decrease as they each end up in a snow bank, until the last sheep left standing rescues them all and they return safely home. It's a good Christmas story without any moralizing. It's also a fun winter counting book with a bit of humor and no scary parts. Altogether, the book has about 200 words.

I originally bought this book for my five yr. old but my one yr. old quickly made it his own. The dry humor and brevity of this book make it an extremely enjoyable read for kids. I'm just glad I can re-order one since our current copy is in shreds from so much use. What a great book!

I found this story among the books on tape at our local library. It was one my children had not read and so I took it out to preview it. Listening to it during my hour-long drive to and from work, I found this story haunting.

One terrible night, a cloud of some unspecified but man-made substance passes over the surface of the entire earth, causing all living organisms unfortunate enough to be found above ground to vanish suddenly. The central characters, a recently widowed mother, her son and her son's friend, awake after spending the night in a makeshift fort in the old foundation of a silo to a world in which everyone in their small English village and in the world beyond, and most of the animals, have disappeared. The only evidence that the disappeared ever existed is the hair they left behind on their pillows and in the cars that litter the roads, having crashed as soon as their drivers were gone.

What I found most haunting about the story is the way the author evokes the emptiness of the world in which the protagonists find themselves, especially its profound silence. Since the birds and insects disappeared along with most of the people and other animals, there is simply nothing to make noise. A true silence pervades the changed world, silence the survivors have never known. Many is the time since listening to The Sixth Seal that I have noted the noise that constantly surrounds us all no matter where we are - the songs of birds and buzzes of insects, music from passing cars and houses, the rumble of automobiles, distant trucks and airplanes flying high overhead.

This story focuses not on how the apocalypse happened, but on how the survivors cope with the horror of the empty new world to which they awake. The disaster described seemed particularly relevant in the age of genetically modified organisms and biological weapons. The behavior of the characters is not that of the frenetic heroes of movies, but of individuals numb with shock and struggling to find the will to survive. This story struck me as a strikingly realistic vision of how people would act in the face of a suddenly depopulated world, what choices they would face and how they might choose. I recommend it to all ages, especially as a book to listen to on a long car trip.

I found this book in a pile of discarded libary books, it was 15 years old, i was drawn to it only because i had enjoyed other Mary Wesley books. However the 'The Sixth Seal' turned out to be nothing like the rest. I found it impossible to put down, it made me comtemplate things that in my short 13 years i had never before considered. In truth the book terrifies me, but reassures me at the same time, i feel in some way perpared now for a world disaster. I am now 17 and have just rediscovered the book for the 4 time and am enjoying it just as much. What surprises me is that i have meet no one else who has let alone the book, i tried to make a friend read it but she never did, just so that i could share it with someone else. I most definitely recommend this book and i would love to hear from anyone who appreciates it as much as me.

This book is properly titled "The Skin Sourcebook". I purchased "The Skin Sourcebook" after spending some time in Guatemala working with some doctors. I found I needed to know more about certain skin conditions and diseases. This book was exactly what I was looking for. It covers every possible skin condition, has tips on taking proper care of your skin, discusses modern medications used by doctors, and takes an in-depth look at all types of skin cancer. After reading this book I have been able to discuss with many people certain prevention's they can practice to take care of their skin and (Thanks to Dr. Boyd) I have recognized the risks I have been taking with my own body. Trying not to sound too cheesy, I must say that this book is a life savor. I suggest to anyone with skin to pick this book up and spend some time taking care of yourself.

Dr Boyd makes things so easy to understand in this informative, helpful book on every skin disorder imaginable. It's a worthwhile purchase and very handy.

Book was brand new, as advertised, came really fast, and was much cheaper than buying it anywhere else! Thanks!

This is an excellent book for anyone who wants a framework for therapeutic work with kids. It works form the general to the specific within an ecological-developmental framework. The author provides useable assessment tools and moves through each topic using a variety of case examples. I wish it had been my text in practice class in grad school. It is an enjoyable and helpful read!

South Riding is a massive novel (564 pages)--but a quick read.

It deals with a huge cast of characters. Sarah Burton is technically the main one; but the tapestry is enormous, and Holtby has such a sure touch for characterization that she breathes life into even the minor figures.

In breadth of scope and generosity of heart and mind, Winifred Holtby reminds me of George Eliot. She seldom judges, though she obviously has her preferences and dislikes. She sees the interrelationships of all classes and all actions.

But Holtby is a better stylist than Eliot. She is both clear and poetic, both brief and profound. Her apprenticeship as a journalist served her well. She gets right to the heart of feelings and facts, yet they shimmer with life and richness.

She is particularly good on the imponderables--why a sensible and self-confident progressive like Sarah Burton should fall so incongruously in love with a feudal troglodyte like Robert Carne; why Carne should sacrifice everything for his neurotic-and-psychotic wife Muriel.

She is also good on depicting the sweep of history. Though her characters are real people, they are also emblematic of historical trends: the long slow death of the landed aristocracy, the encroachment of urbanization and industrialization, the flattening of tragedy and democratization of hope.

A wonderful book

Winifred Holtby's last and perhaps greatest work was published after her death at the age of 37. This novel is a tribute to the land and to the people of East Yorkshire, Holtby's native place.(There is no South Riding in Yorkshire) This is her version of Middlemarch 1935 and it is a masterpiece. South Riding is a novel of Yorkshire between the wars when the social fabric of the society was changing ; the landed gentry were becoming vanishing breed and their lifestyle, like their stately homes, became too extravagent to maintain. It is a novel of social change, Sarah Burton returns to the Riding,no longer the blacksmith's daughter but as an educated woman. She comes home with a Masters (rare in that day),traveled (she has taught in South Africa,)to take over the local girls school. Ms. Burton's goal is to prepare the girls, whatever their social and economic status for their place in a changing civilization. They will become professional women, not soley identified as wives or spinsters but individuals in their own right, their talents developed by their education will be put to use for the communal good. She and the local Squire Robert Carne, who is also on the school board, agree on nothing and her fight for progressive education clashes with his notion of women and their dependence and gentility. Yet, there is an attraction between these antagonists and a respect that transcends their disagreements. There is also a night in a hotel but ... One other major character Mrs. Beddows, the local councilwoman, was based on Holtby's mother who was the first alderwoman elected in Yorkshire, thru her eyes we are made aware of Holtby's belief that when local government puts the needs of their citizens before personal gain, the community benefits and contributes more effectively to the inner workings of a national or global society. Mrs. Holtby was scandalized by South Riding and tried to have it suppressed, fortunately she was not her daughter's literary executrix and to her dismay it was published. The political content was so accurate that Mrs. Holtby resigned. South Riding is a book that acknowledges the cycle of birth and death. There are several deaths in the novel,Holtby virtually willed herself to live long enough to finish her work. Death does not triumph,Holtby's hopes for the new generation foresaw a continuation of love for the land and the community and an elegic respect for the vanished landscape. Through Sarah Burton's eyes, Holtby shares, with the reader, a vision when South Riding would embrace the ideas and progress of the 20th Century and welcome equally the talents of all the Riding's inhabitants.