A Smith: 616 books
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.
Free Speech On Trial
Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.
At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and...
The Right Talk
How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2011
Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?
Conventional...
by William A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery AS EXHIBITED IN THE INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES: WITH THE Duties of Masters to Slaves. By William A. Smith, D.D., PRESIDENT OF RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY. EDITED BY THOMAS O....
The Trail of Gold and Silver
Mining in Colorado, 1859-2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and...
Rock Art & Ritual
Mindscapes of Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Academic interpretations of Neolithic rock motifs and their location within the landscape and on ancient monuments are often thought-provoking, but they invariably shy away from acknowledging the remarkable coherence exhibited by petroglyphs throughout the British Isles. In Mindscapes of Prehistory,...
by Bruce A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Fun with Stuff is a collection of humor columns, many of which first appeared in a Southern California Mensa publication. But dont be frightened; theyre not all that intellectual. Hardly. Instead, these are true life stories and exaggerated fabrications that everyone can relate to. Laugh along as...
The Travels of a Happy Hooligan
The World War Ii Memories of Frank A. Smith, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Sixteen-year-old twins, Frank, Jr. and Gerry wanted to help their mother make ends meet after their father became estranged from their Boston family. The year was 1942; America was at war in Europe and the South Pacific. The twins saw the chance to earn military pay to send back home to Mom. There...