Ryn: 18 books
Mistaken Identity
Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A grief reversed. A hope deferred. Mistaken Identity tells the unprecedented story of Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, and the other in a coma being cared for by the wrong family.
Five lives were lost in a tragic car accident, and the sole survivor was rushed...
Will, Imagination, and Reason
Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the epistemology of the humanities and social...
Design for an Empathic World
Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Despite an uncertain economy, the market for green building is exploding. The US green building market has expanded dramatically since 2008 and is projected to double in size by 2015 (from $42 billion in construction starts to $135 billion). But green-building pioneer Sim Van der Ryn says, “greening”...
To Kill or Escape
Stolen Years, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Based on a true Stolen Generations story.
Ryn Shell's Stolen Years series are stories depicting the triumph of the human spirit.
Born into a multicultural, Aboriginal and Scottish family in Australia, the crimes that rob the young boy of his family and attempt to deny him his heritage...
Effective DevOps
Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Some companies think that adopting devops means bringing in specialists or a host of new tools. With this practical guide, you’ll learn why devops is a professional and cultural movement that calls for change from inside your organization. Authors Ryn Daniels and Jennifer Davis provide several approaches...
To Kill for a Ghost
Stolen Years, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
A lonely and neglected boy creates an imaginary friend-protector in a turn-of-the-screw chilling story.
A ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong. Based on true 19th and 20th Century revenge crimes.
One quiet day, the peace of the small inland country town is devastated by murder.
Ryn Shell's...
Star Struck
Stolen Years, #7
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Linton and Rose didn't care if the NASA Skylab's safe re-entry over Western Australia was a cover-up, as long as they could be together.
A stand-alone, not quite cozy, mixed genre novel.
Come on a powerfully emotional, twenty-year journey of family love, mystery and danger in rural and outback...
Gold
Stolen Years, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Gold, is a richly drawn, evocative, stand-alone novel.
ORPHANED, BETRAYED, and DETERMINED, Jane Mutta's adventures lead her to the 1850s Australian gold rush and encounters with (highwaymen) bushrangers. Amidst the dangers, there are rocky entanglements on a coach and steamship with the explorer...
by Ryn Shell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Seven Stories of Hope, perfect for when you need a short read, with 29 Ryn Shell's creative life video links.
Story 1/ "Lost Boy" is women's fiction, a story of love and resilience.
Story 2/ "Kakadu Reunion" is an Australian rural-lit adventure romance.
Story 3/ Women's Fiction,...
by Ryn Nicol
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Nina and Guinness marry because she's having a baby. Their attempts at acting like responsible adults are fleeting. The hard job now is to survive each other. While Nina's infatuated with the easy route to fame by appearing on talk shows, Guinness rather drink and play video games. Whether it's ill...
by Ryn Pitts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
A young mother dies in the intensive care unit and the medical center goes into a defensive tailspin. Fingers point to a fatal medication error by moonlighting pharmacist, Heli Harri. But Heli bites back and begins a chase for the truth that becomes a surefire prescription for hidden danger and unexpected...
Culture, Architecture and Nature
An Ecological Design Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological design philosophy. It offers a unique decade-by-decade retrospective of the key issues in environmental design,...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
by Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions...
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