Books with author James Boyd

Humans are pushing farther into space with the ingenious and ambitious innovations of space entrepreneurs. This engaging title describes the new ways entrepreneurs are using science and technology to take us beyond Earthfrom satellite technology and imaging to new rockets and other ventures in space exploration. Detailed case studies of successful entrepreneurs and a hands-on project help readers understand the principles of entrepreneurship.

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they’re finally heading off for university. They’re thinking about finding apartments, picking courses, living like adults.But what happens when the future becomes the past? While helping Rosemary’s brother move into an apartment in Toronto, Peter and Rosemary fall into an underground river and are swept back in time, to Toronto in 1884. It’s a struggle to survive and adapt to the alien culture of the late nineteenth century. Peter and Rosemary are forced to work together, to live together, and to become the adults they’ve only been pretending to be.As the days stranded turn to weeks, then months, Rosemary and Peter begin to wonder if they’re really ready for a future together - and what they will do if they can’t get back.Then someone brings them a watch, powered by a battery, made in Taiwan.

Le Mars Bar. Not, as I guess you might have first imagined, a well-known confectionery product to be indulged very occasionally as part of a balanced and properly managed diet, but an actual bar bar. A bar of the living, breathing, sweating, pulsating, watering-hole variety and French to boot. Deep South of France French. Le Mars is the bar-du-choix in Martián-sur-Mer ... one of those jumbled, though pretty and pleasing, snuggled-up fishing villages which are to be found sprinkled along the Mediterranean coast. Locally the town is known simply as Mars and its inhabitants, though really you’d never have guessed, as Martiáns. Well what were you expecting? Life in Mars drifts along as you might suppose. Slow. Mediterranean. Relaxed. Nothing much to see here. Until that Friday lunchtime when the three Englishwomen barrelled into town and into the Le Mars. They were on the hunt for sun, sex and sangria (erm, yeah, sangria) … and plenty of. What they got was not at all what they had been expecting. Blood.

Tech to Protect explores many of the incredible technological innovations that are occurring in the defense industry, including weaponry and military hardware, as well as surveillance and cybersecurity programs. Robots and drones are replacing humans in combat situations and police officers and soldiers are being equipped with superhuman abilities through x-ray vision and exoskeletons. Young readers will also learn about the controversies some of these innovations are creating, including concerns over privacy.