A Smith: 616 books
Money, Power, and Elections
How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the...
Unfree Speech
The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
At a time when campaign finance reform is widely viewed as synonymous with cleaning up Washington and promoting political equality, Bradley Smith, a nationally recognized expert on campaign finance reform, argues that all restriction on campaign giving should be eliminated. In Unfree Speech, he presents...
by Patricia A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Fiction!
"Recalls both Hellman's The Children's Hour and Lehane's Mystic River in a story about murder and false accusations."
--Bay Area Reporter
"A tense story about a small town swept up in bigotry and paranoia after the...
by Daniel A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
“A stunning novel and a joy to read” Helen Hollick, Managing Editor - Historical Novel Society (Editor’s Choice)
“Smith writes fluidly, and the society he depicts is intriguingly complex.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Steeped in immediacy and vivid detail.” D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer - Midwest...
What Would Jesus Read?
Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Since the late nineteenth century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion, and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining...
Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein,...
by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Collection of 3 Classic Books: Rose O’ The River by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The Story Hour by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith. The Story Of Patsy by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin.
The Life of a Fox / Written by Himself
(Illustrated Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2019
This little book may be looked upon as a curious manifestation of the movement among Foxes. The Editor ventures to send it forth, for an agreeable reminiscence to many who assisted in scenes which it describes; for some little instruction to sportsmen who have had less experience than himself; and...
You Are What You Love
The Spiritual Power of Habit
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think.
In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the...
On the Road with Saint Augustine
A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more...
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...