Donald E Smith: 14 books
Mr. Smith Goes to School and Stays and Stays and Stays
How to Become an Educator in Only 84 Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This is the very personal story of how and why I became an educator. It tells of how my early life influences preordained my decision to forego a more financially rewarding career and become what many people advised me to be. Its the story of the struggles and sacrifices that all teachers make. But...
Cuba - One Mojito at a Time
So Near, yet so Far
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
I had always wanted to visit Cuba. The mystique surrounding Castro and Che had piqued my curiosity and imagination. What was there about this tiny country which lay just 80 miles from Florida that prompted our government to treat it as a threat to our way of life? Why had we backed a poorly organized...
The Hopeful Agnostic
What I Believe -- I Guess
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
When I reached age 80, I decided that it was time to organize my thoughts about my life and my impending death. Jokingly, I had often described myself as a "Hopeful Agnostic." Now, I'm not certain that that is an accurate description. This book is my attempt to answer the age-old questions...
Travel and the Human Condition
When I Looked for Adventure, I Found Myself
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
In his quest to look for adventure in exotic lands, the author found himself. The book includes his daily journals kept while traveling in Tanzania, Java ,and the former Soviet Union.It includes, also, brief glimpses of life in Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and England. The journals exphasize the lives...
When the Muses Came to Call
Sometimes, I Answered Their Knocking.
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
This book is a very personal collection of poems and other writings that were written over a period of more than fifty years. They were written at times of strong emotional feelings about love, death, triumphs, tragedies and , even, the most mundane of life's events.It took fifty years for the author...
Thinking Sideways
Short Stories Both Real and Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The short stories in this book are a mixture of both fact and fiction. Some are based upon my real-life experiences with a touch of fantasy mixed in to add some flavor. Some come solely from my hyperactive imagination. It's up to you, the reader, to separate reality from the world of make-believe. Does it really matter?
Interpreting the New Testament Text
Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...
by C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In 1935, the editor of Fantasy Magazine asked five prominent science fiction writers and five prominent fantasy writers to write two "round-robin" stories, both called The Challenge From Beyond. The authors of the fantasy version were C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard...
by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Abraham Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG
By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings")
By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM...
Mind Games
Eight Science Fiction Thrillers With Attitude
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Adventures among aliens and alternative worlds are more intense when your own mind becomes one of the enemies.
Lovers of science fiction will sample a rich variety in these novels of possible futures. This collection features brain-bending thrillers and many of the books will take you into...
by Peter J. Hill, Roger E. Meiners, Terry L. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by...