Boyle: 377 books

Using the story of the “West and the world” as its backdrop, this book provides for beginning students a clear and concise introduction to Human Geography, including its key concepts, seminal thinkers and their theories, contemporary debates, and celebrated case studies. Introduces and applies...

Abandoned in the Dark is a collection of unnerving stories which are grounded in reality, journeys that promise to keep you awake at night and get your heart pound- ing. "Abandoned in the Dark" and "Close Call," among other similar stories collected here, delve into our universal...

Lotteries are widely used to decide places (seats) at schools, colleges and universities. Conall Boyle explores many examples to find out why. The emotional turmoil that the use of ballots can cause to students and parents alike is graphically described. But lottery selection teaches lessons too;...

Coach Brian Mueller assumed this baseball season would be routine. The kids would pick their noses until they bled, the parents would knock each other’s teeth out with their fists, and a sexually transmitted disease or two would be caught from sitting on those ugly wooden benches. Little did he...

'This is a timely book that effectively challenges the current emphasis on a homogeneous approach to teaching, learning, and assessment in early literacy. It encourages us to engage with the real world complexity of young children’s learning and offers a series of rich and detailed examples of this...

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality....

Cheryle demonstrates how heartbreaking family dysfunction can be, and the love of the mother is palpable throughout, in her new book 538: Murder, Suicide and A Mother’s Love. Cheryle’s book is a faction combining some facts with fiction. Drama is felt throughout this story about family dysfunction,...

Distraught parents George and Sophie seek the help of a woods witch in the birth of their child. When Aradia's efforts fail, she is blamed for the child's death and suffers a horrible death. Things turn truly bizarre when the child awakens, but Aradia’s death cries invoke a curse that destroys Brooks Valley and will haunt lives of those involved for generations to come.

Rien n’aurait jamais dû troubler la sérénité des Channel Islands, petit chapelet d’îles au large de Santa Barbara, havre de paix pour une faune luxuriante que sont venus à peine déranger, au fil des siècles, quelques aventuriers solitaires, fermiers, hippies et autres naufragés… Mais...

En Europe, alors que le XVIIIe siècle expire en de multiples convulsions, l’explorateur écossais Mungo Park découvre en Afrique le royaume de Ségou, où la folie humaine s’exprime avec une simplicité biblique... T. C. Boyle rassemble dans ce roman culte toutes les formes de la fiction, du conte libertin au roman noir américain.

San Miguel, c’est le nom d’une île minuscule au large des côtes californiennes. Sur ce lopin de terre aride qui pourrait faire aussi bien figure de paradis que d’enfer, les destinées de deux familles, à plusieurs décennies de distance, vont se croiser. Le jour de l’an 1888, Marantha Waters...

Des adolescents qui se promènent dans un zoo à leurs risques et périls, au couple qui retourne vivre sur les ruines radioactives de son passé, en passant par un pauvre homme frôlant la folie à cause d’un amour impossible ou encore un géant élevé pour devenir un super-héros… Les personnages...

In Drop City, een commune van hippies in 1970, worden de principes van `vrijheid, blijheid erg ruim genomen en zijn ze moeilijk hanteerbaar. Als de gemeente uiteindelijk met bulldozers komt om het vervallen complex met de grond gelijk te maken, besluiten de pseudo-goeroe Norm en enkele van zijn volgelingen...

Alma Boyd Takesue werkt als biologe op de Kanaaleilanden. Het is haar missie de bedreigde inheemse diersoorten te beschermen tegen binnendringers als ratten en wilde varkens, die volgens haar uit de weg geruimd moeten worden. Haar grootste tegenstander is Dave LaJoy, een zakenman met dreadlocks en...