A A Smith: 616 books
by A. Hunter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In A Life Afield, A. Hunter Smith welcomes readers to sit by his fireside as he recounts twelve evocative tales from his extensive experience as a hunter and hunting guide. Though Smith could draw from some 350 years of ancestral sportsman stories, he instead describes his own successes and mishaps...
Live Ten
Jump Start the Best Version of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Listen. Listencarefully. Listen with your heart. Hear God calling to you. He wants yourGod-inspired dreams to come true. He wants you to help make His world all Heknows it can be. He is for you. Cheering for you. And if God is for us, how canwe do anything but believe that our best possible future...
The Daddy Shift
How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
**A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood-for men, their families, and for American society
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It's a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What do stay-at-home fathers struggle with-and...
A Portrait of Virginia A. Smith
Gaining Strength Through Life's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Raised in the 1950’s by a father who showed love and a mother who rarely did, Virginia A. Smith has experienced her share of dysfunction, fear, pain and disappointment. Her journey has taken her from hell and high waters tob eing completely delivered, healed and transformed, and she owes it all...
Like Cattle and Horses
Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was...
by E.A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1999
This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king’s contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving...
The Great Coharie
Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Great Coharie River, named for an Indian tribe, became a place of retreat and solitude for author James A. Smith. This was where he felt at ease and could become one with nature. It was the place where he was accepted without criticism. And it was his safe place, away from beatings he had come...
Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
Reflections on Faith and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this accessible, insightful book, noted Christian scholar and award-winning author James K. A. Smith gathers together a range of his writing for popular audiences. Working at the intersection of faith and culture, past and present, church and world, Smith offers both incisive cultural criticism...
Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This compelling narrative demonstrates the passionate interest the
Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and
expanding Jefferson's "empire of liberty."
The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans
eager to move away from the crowded...
Stories of a Life Afield
"Brothers in Arms" and "Thanks to Gert"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Two short stories about the life lessons a hunter learned in pursuit of wild turkeys and deer. In “Thanks to Gert,” the first of this two-story ebook, A. Hunter Smith recalls one of the funniest and most productive April turkey-hunting seasons he has experienced in the thirty-five years he has...
Forgotten Disease
Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these...
From Sight to Light
The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors...
Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3)
Reforming Public Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
Herping Texas
The Quest for Reptiles and Amphibians
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Coiled beneath discarded trash or rocky slabs, basking along river edges, and tucked into rock cuts beside the highway, reptiles and amphibians constantly surround us. While many people go out of their way to avoid snakes or shudder at the thought of touching a toad, herpers take to the field armed...