My Final Flight (Overcoming P.T.S.D.) explains how I overcame thirty years of shell-shock, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I wrote this story in 1989 - thirty years after my traumatic jet plane crash. In doing so I had to force myself, and desperately fight, to relive that experience - and then write it down in detail, which took over one month of sheer absolute agony. To separate myself I wrote it in third-person. This separation was of very considerable aid in my recovery from the clut...

Dave (A True Story) refers to a most interesting experience Elizabeth and I incurred recently. It is a story of human kindness and generosity without restriction or condition that we received from a total stranger. That stranger was a first nation Piikani gentleman who works at the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump' near Fort MacLeod, Southern Alberta, Canada. His name is Dave and lives on the Piikani reservation next to the UNESCO site. This site is part of their he...

How did an aristocrat in his 50's lose his heritage and ancestry? Why was he not informed of his great aunt's illness, death, lying-in-state and funeral? Why were his parents forced apart, their marriage disallowed and cancelled? Why was his mother kidnapped? How was Hitler involved? How did his great aunt's (The Duchess) fight to stop Hitler end? Why, at age six months, was he removed from Europe and his identity changed? How did he lose his birthrights? Why did his father abdicate the th...

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely o...

Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – t...

Believing they were safe from the Zombie attacks that destroyed the rest of the world ten years earlier, a type of normality had settled over the small seaside community.The Zombies had not arrived.Word spreads that a celebration is to be held in the central city of Wellington, taking a chance a small band of men head into the city. Everything was as it should be. They were welcomed.A small girl calls to her dog that is playing on the shore. The dog does not respond...

Just one part of the original series Jack the Dog: and His Boy. Many of the stories have delighted audiences for years, now these are available in book form. They' are written with one purpose, to encourage all of us to find the best things life has to give. Prepare to enjoy a story that is really about you and the things most precious.

A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.Now a successful obste...

"Wabusk Outside the Wire / Nanook Looking In" is Joseph Boyden's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's most extreme environments.Introduced by award-winning journalist and radio personality Shelagh Rogers, Northwords is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors as they experienced one of Canada’s most awe-inspiring northern national parks Torngat Mountains National Park, th...

When John Mason discovers that his fiancée's father has embezzled thousands of pounds from their mutual business, he's furious. When his betrothed, Miss Mary Chartley, flees, taking the money and all the evidence with her, he's outraged. He plans to bring the woman he once loved to account--and he’ll shed no tears when he does.But when he finds Mary, she's not living a life of luxury. Instead, she's serving as a companion in exchange for a pittance. The more he attempts to untangle...

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, Diane Coyle argues, is a reckless disregard for the future--especially in the way the economy...

Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need appropriately designed public processes; guidance on the weighing of alternatives, trade-offs...