Matthew Smith: 85 books

Suicide? Or murder? Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962, apparently a suicide, shocked the world. A Hollywood star, a global icon, why would she have killed herself? Yet the coroner's report stated her death was due to a massive overdose of 47 Nembutal capsules. But what about the discrepancies...

In The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!, Matthew Smith-Lahrman interprets the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock ’n’ roll band of the last thirty years. Smith-Lahrman’s analysis covers Kirkwood’s...

Choosing to start a business is a powerful decision. It brings with it a great sense of freedom, but also a great sense of responsibility. We know there’s a reason why you believe starting a business is right for you, but if you’re going to be successful, you need real advice from real business...

Updated for RetroPie 4.1!  Turn your Raspberry Pi into an incredible retro gaming machine running all your favorite games on over 30 historic game consoles. Step by step instructions guide you from start to finish with easy to follow screenshots. Play first (Atari 2600) through fifth (Sony Playstation...

You won't agree with everything in this book. That's part of the beauty of advice—you can take it or leave it. But by considering the advice in this book you will either see something in a new way, or simply be forced to reaffirm what you already thought. Either way, you will think critically...

Each year, doctors diagnose an average of nine percent of children between the ages of five and seventeen with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. One of the most common childhood disorders, it is also one of the most controversial—since first identified in the late 1950s, everyone...

Kill the Noise explores the basic premise that small business owners need to develop discipline and focus on what it is they truly do best and avoid the distractions, wasted time and unproductive side projects. The noise. By learning to identify and kill the noise, small businesses can operate more...

While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, particularly black and Latino men, face a number of unique challenges in their educational careers that often...

THE MAKING OF THE LAWMAN...Mega-City One, 2080. It is Joe Dredd's first year as a full-eagle Judge he may have been created from the genes of Eustace Fargo, the Father of Justice, and thus part of an illustrious lineage, but right now Dredd is not long graduated from the Academy, and yet to establish...

PREPARE FOR JUDGEMENT! One of the world's greatest cult comic book stars, Judge Dredd, is back on the beat in Mega-City One - the crazy megalopolis of the future with a population of over four hundred million. The Judges rule with an iron fist, their word is law and their judgement can sometimes...

To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. Another Person's Poison parses the...

The Zombie Apocalypse starts here...The masters of flesh-munchingly, gut-wrenchingly, eyeball-poppingly great zombie fiction bring you three of the best books from the first years of the critically-acclaimed Tomes of the Dead line.THE WORDS OF THEIR ROARING: In a London overrun by the zombie hordes,...

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), classical economist and influential monetary theorist. Its chief purpose is to examine Tooke’s contributions to political economy with the aim...

London's Falling!London - a city overrun by the zombie hordes. Most of the human survivors live from day to day, scraping together an existence amongst the ruins, avoiding the shambling, flesh-hungry undead that stalk the streets. But for others the situation is an opportunity, a chance to establish...