Michael Smith: 358 books

Strolling through this wide sweep, gazing across the fleet of trains bound for Paris or Brussels, the powder blue steel vaulting soaring above them, the inside of a giant whale's ribcage, a hymn to the infrastructure of our hyper-connected age; like Jonah swallowed up by it all, by the hum of the...

Appeals to an existing audience as a new edition with its fidelity to the original and extensive research, and serves as a clear and helpful introduction for new readers; includes glossaries, notes and historical context. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author’s own intricate...

This book is designed to bring your awareness from the mind and thoughts to your connection with Oneness.  Similar to Reiki, Massage, Meditation, Prayer, Yoga, etc… these poems cleanse your mind and expand your awareness beyond your body.  These poems make you feel free and alive. Any poem in...

Master Fixer is the second book in The Forevers, featuring Jayne Wu. Now 16 years old, Jayne Wu is working as a fixer on Biome 3, a thoroughly inhospitable environment. She is just starting to feel she can serve her world through advancing in her chosen profession. Her friend, Poppy Greenway,...

Tom Crean ran away from his Kerry home, aged 15, to join the British navy in 1893. He travelled to the Antarctic with the famous explorers, Scott and Shackleton. He explored the unknown, crossed ice fields and wild oceans and courageously saved friends from death.

This book is a compilation of a life well spent as a world traveler and police commander with the Richmond Virginia Police Department. It is presented as is life, in the form of short stories of police operations and life lessons in other areas. There is much humor inside, because this is the way...

Master Oracle Data Guard 11g Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices...

A quick, step-by-step guide to developing the practical negotiating skills that every business manager needs. The authors cover preparation, strategy development, getting started, building understanding, bargaining, and closing the deal. Managers learn effective tools for negotiating within their...

Europe's Experimental Union challenges conventional writings on European integration by situating the analysis of the EU in the context of changing patterns of political and economic order. The authors conclude that the union is not evolving towards a federal superstate, but rather, is an arena of...

For 2nd and 3rd year courses in international politics and foreign policy. This text examines foreign policy in relation to 'change and transformation.' It discusses traditional assumptions about foreign policy and foreign policy making, and develops a framework to facilitate analysis of the challenges...

A Nottinghamshire Miscellany is essential reading for anyone with an interest in or a connection with the county, either as a resident, a tourist or a student of its history.This is a guide book, a history book, a gazetteer, a sporting compendium, a natural history of the county, a dictionary of...

Originally published in 1982. This book is concerned with the new kinds of demands on our reading ability made by the work we undertake for A-level, or in college, or at university, or indeed at work. It is not a speed reading book, or a reading skills book. Anyone with a lot of reading to get through...

Running For Beginners  90 days Running Program for Beginners for Faster Weight loss and Better Mental Health Running for Beginners is a fresh, unique look at the exciting and challenging exercise program we call “running.”   As you will learn in Running for Beginners, running can...

What were they thinking? Ever since Adam snacked on the forbidden fruit and was chased naked out of the Garden of Eden, mankind has bitten off a bevy of bad ideas. From skinny-dipping Presidents to toxic tooth fillings to singing pop stars who can't carry a tune, 100 of the Worst Ideas...