Justin Smith: 21 books
Statin Nation
The Ill-Founded War on Cholesterol, What Really Causes Heart Disease, and the Truth About the Most Overprescribed Drugs in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and for decades conventional health authorities have pushed that the culprits are fat and cholesterol clogging up coronary arteries. Consequently, lowering cholesterol has become a hugely lucrative business, and cholesterol-lowering Statin drugs...
Leonardo: Insatiable Curiosity
The Artist, The Genius, The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The Artist, The Genius, The LegendLeonardo da Vinci’s legacy is everywhere: from bridges to helicopters, fashion to fiction, flying machines, human anatomy, not to mention some of the most compelling artworks ever created by man. Leonardo da Vinci was centuries ahead of his time, a visionary...
Preparing Your Campus for Veterans' Success
An Integrated Approach to Facilitating The Transition and Persistence of Our Military Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“This book is a must read for all educators, counselors, higher education administrators, and community leaders. It is a playbook for solutions that will enable our veterans to achieve their capacity for greatness and empower them towards graduation. It teaches us the ways that education leaders can...
Divine Machines
Leibniz and the Sciences of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines, Justin Smith offers the first in-depth examination...
The Mexican-American War (Vol. 1&2)
The Relations Between the U.S. And Mexico, Attitudes on the Eve of War, the Preliminaries of the Conflict, the California Question, the War in American Politics, the Foreign Relations of the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Mexican-American War" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This two-volume edition was written by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith, specialist on the Mexican-American War. For his exceptional...
The U.S.-Mexican War (Vol. 1&2)
The Relations Between the U.S. And Mexico, Attitudes on the Eve of War, the Preliminaries of the Conflict, the California Question, the War in American Politics, the Foreign Relations of the War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This two-volume edition was written by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith, specialist on the Mexican-American War. For his exceptional work Smith was awarded with Pulitzer Prize for History.Aseveryone understands, the conflict with Mexico has been almost entirely eclipsed by the greater wars...
Mystery Tribune / Issue Nº7
Fall 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Our 240 page Fall 2018 issue of Mystery Tribune is a must-have! This volume features must-read short fiction by the acclaimed author Reed Farrel Coleman and Scandinavian author Ragnar Jónasson.
A curated collection of photography from European and North American artists, interview with...
Irrationality
A History of the Dark Side of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationality
It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment...
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference
Race in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German...
by Deering, Rachel; Jordan, Justin; Bunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
In The Dark is a monstrous collection of all-new original terror tales from the darkest and most brilliant minds in comics and prose. Featuring an introduction by American Vampire, The Wake, and Severed writer Scott Snyder, and a frightful feature on the history of horror comics, through their rotten rise and dreadful decline by comic book historian Mike Howlett!
The Philosopher
A History in Six Types
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions—ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that, providing...
Triathlon - It HURTS
Inspiring stories on the path to becoming an Ironman
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In October 2012, over 1000 people applied to take part in a university research study to assess how normal, recreationally active people cope with the demands of training for their first IRON distance triathlon a 3.8km swim, followed by 180km of cycling and finishing with the mere matter of a 42.2km...
by Maggi Smith Hall, Michael Justin Holder, West Volusia Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
Nestled in Central Florida between the northerly flowing St. Johns River and the alluring beaches of the Atlantic Ocean, DeLand has been described as the "Athens of Florida." Founded in 1882, DeLand has fought to maintain a small-town atmosphere even as development surrounds the tranquil city. Balancing...
Animals and War
Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war...
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