A A Smith: 616 books
"No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar"
Sherman's Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro, March 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
“Smith and Sokolsky have firmly established themselves within the highest echelon of 1865 Carolinas Campaign historians.” —Civil War Books and Authors
Gen. William T. Sherman’s 1865 Carolinas Campaign receives scant attention from most Civil War historians. Career military officers...
by Terry A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This is an uplifting collection of sermons written by the Rev. Dr. Terry A. Smith, encompassing lessons about life, death, love, marriage, divorce, forgiveness, and entertainment, to name a few. After his death, his son, Michael A. Smith, found in his father's effects the results of a forty year...
by Katherine A Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Third in the Northnest Saga, "Hearthsraven" follows Vor, a young mage introduced in book 2. Orphaned on the streets of a conquered city, Vor's fledgling mage powers kept her alive, but also drew the attention of the conquering lord, Altare Dhordirh, who took her for his apprentice. Now,...
The Fall of Interpretation
Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this provocative book James K. A. Smith, one of the most engaging Christian scholars of our day, offers an innovative approach to hermeneutics. The second edition of Smith's well-received debut book provides updated interaction with contemporary hermeneutical discussions and responds to criticisms.
How (Not) to Be Secular
Reading Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.
Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007)...
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
Making the Case for Leadership
Profiles of Chief Advancement Officers in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The advancement industry has experienced tremendous growth in breadth and depth over the last few decades. Driving this growth is the chief advancement officer; however, as a relatively new position on most college and university campuses, little is formally known about the role and the people who...
Sociology and Human Ecology
Complexity and Post-Humanist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set – social phenomena – that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.
Within Sociology and Human Ecology, Smith...
Bullying from Streets to Schools
Information for Those Who Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Bullies don’t discriminate. They are equal opportunity abusers. In Bullying from streets to schools: Practical information for those who care, authors Smith and Kearney guide their readers through multiple facets of this growing and pervasive problem. Far beyond other books that simply explore the...
by Katherine A Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Jessika, Kassandra, Rikah, and Karolan found a home among the wild griffins and there grew safely towards adulthood, but they have never forgotten the home they came from: the conquered kingdom of Northnest. Certainly Jessika has not. She was third born of the royal children. Northnest is both her...
Educated by Initiative
The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
"This body of research not only passes academic muster but is the best guidepost in existence for activists who are trying to use the ballot initiative process for larger policy and political objectives."
--Kristina Wilfore, Executive Director, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center and Foundation
Educated...
Weird John Brown
Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view,...
Sports and Freedom
The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1990
Perhaps more than any other two colleges, Harvard and Yale gave form to American intercollegiate athletics--a form that was inspired by the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry overseas, and that was imitated by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Focusing on the influence of these prestigious...
Japan Rearmed
The Politics of Military Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the United States, Sheila Smith shows. No longer convinced they can rely on Americans to defend their country, Tokyo’s political leaders are now confronting the possibility that they may need to prepare the nation’s military for war.