B Smith: 277 books

Book cover of The Tennessee Campaign of 1864
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...
Book cover of Whispers from the Lion Mountain
by Jimmy B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013

This beautifully written book of mostly solemn Poetry succintly captures the true ordeal of an African country in the midst of war, violence, demise, corruption, poverty and hope. Smith creates a relation between these varying themes that abounded in his Motherland Sierra Leone between the period...
Book cover of Windows into the Earth

Windows into the Earth

The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

by Robert B. Smith, Lee J. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000

Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and...
Book cover of Analyzing American Democracy

Analyzing American Democracy

Politics and Political Science

by Jon R. Bond, Kevin B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other political actors do what they do. Learning to think critically about power, institutions, and rules helps citizens engage constructively...
Book cover of The Case Against School Choice: Politics, Markets and Fools
by Kevin B. Smith, Kenneth J. Meier
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

"Compelling arguments, supported by both anecdotal and empirical evidence to convince readers that school choice does nothing to improve the quality of education. ... Solidly researched and written, Smith's and Meier's effort should sway those still undecided on the issue". -- Publishers Weekly
Book cover of Communist Indochina
by R. B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012

This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...
Book cover of Sirhowy Valley Through Time
by Ewart B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

This book shows us how the passage of time has transformed the Sirhowy Valley. Covering more than a century, photographs of Tredegar, Blackwood, and everywhere else, give us fascinating glimpses of life in industrial South Wales. Once beautifully wooded, with crystal clear streams flowing into a river...
Book cover of Governing States and Localities
by Kevin B. Smith, Alan H. Greenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

In this Essentials Editionof Governing States and Localities, authors Kevin Smith and Alan Greenblatt retain the hallmarks of their bestselling introductory text by blending the latest scholarship with engaging journalistic writing, crisp storytelling, and class-tested pedagogy. Based on market feedback,...
Book cover of Ethan Allen & the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
by Richard B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010

In April 1775, a small band of men set out from Hartford and traveled swiftly north toward the shore of Lake Champlain, recruiting men to their expedition along the way. Within only a few days, this loyal group of volunteers arrived in Vermont and, joining forces with Ethan Allen and his legendary Green...
Book cover of Pre-Communist Indochina
by R.B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....
Book cover of The Vicksburg Campaign, March 29–May 18, 1863
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
Book cover of Becoming a Word Learner

Becoming a Word Learner

A Debate on Lexical Acquisition

by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Lois Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2000

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly...
Book cover of The Search Beneath the Sea

The Search Beneath the Sea

The Story of the Coelacanth

by J. L. B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE…STRANGER THAN FICTION One of the most sensational discoveries in natural history, told by the ichthyologist who was directly involved in its first capture off the South African coast in 1938. Prior to this, the fish, although known to scientists,...
Book cover of Fancy A Day Off? The Bible Of Excuses
by J B Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012

Imagine; Monday mornings when the alarm goes off at around 6.30am with the thought of your one hour morning commute. The daily grooming rituals and the buttoned up shirt makes you cringe at the thought of it. Another day at work makes you want to cry. I can read your mind, you don’t want...
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