Rodney Smith: 12 books
Stepping Out of Self-Deception
The Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-Self
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Anatta is the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It’s a notoriously puzzling and elusive concept, usually leading to such questions as, "If I don’t have a self, who’s reading this sentence?" It’s not that there’s no self there, says Rodney Smith....
by Rodney Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Are a person's perceptions and values altered when facing the end of life? Do the dying see the world in a way that could help the rest of us learn how to live? This book takes us into the lessons of the dying. Through the words and circumstances of the terminally ill, we become immersed in their...
Awakening
A Paradigm Shift of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
What is enlightenment? Rodney Smith’s answer to that elusive question offers an explanation not only of the radical shift in perception that the word enlightenment connotes, but of the entire topography of the journey from beginning to end, of the multiple ways we undermine the very growth we seek, and of the awakened life that ultimately arises out of the new consciousness.
Touching the Infinite
A New Perspective on the Buddha's Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A prominent Insight Meditation teacher explores the profound implications of the traditional Buddhist teaching on the four areas to which mindfulness is applied as a means to liberation.
Awakening manifests through the application of mindfulness to four areas: body, feelings, mind, and dharmas....
From Carr to Keneally
Labor in office in NSW 1995-2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
At the NSW state election in 2011, the public turned on the 16-year-old Labor administration with unprecedented fury. The Government that had won spectacular victories in 1999 and 2003 was defeated with a swing that was an Australian postwar record. How did it manage to stay in power for four terms?...
Money, Power, and Elections
How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Have campaign finance reform laws actually worked? Is money less influential in electing candidates today than it was thirty years ago when legislation was first enacted? Absolutely not, argues Rodney A. Smith in this passionately written, fact-filled, and provocative book. According to Smith, the...
Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel?
The Truth and Other Insights About the African American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel challenges a long-held belief that has permeated the African American community that suggests that Blacks, generally, are not supportive of each other. Author and educator, Rodney D. Smith, tenaciously confronts the age-old myth that African Americans stand in the...
Somebody, Help! I’M Stuck!
101 Ways to Find Success and Achieve Anything You Want in Life!
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
SOMEBODY HELP IM STUCK; Everyday people wake up feeling stuck in life, work, relationships, marriage, and have no clue how to change their situation! Now there is a solution, to feeling Stuck in life. This book will change your life in ways you never thought possible.
Rev. Smith has provided...
Lord Teach Me How to Pray
10 Petitions That Strengthen Your Relationship with God
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
To new and growing Christians who want to strengthen your relationship with God by communicating frequently with Him through prayer. Do you end up disillusioned or even bitter when you feel your prayer isnt heard or answered? How long should you pray to be effective? Do you dread prayer time or feel...
by Rodney V Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Nobody expects to get turned into a vampire, especially a guy like Bob.
Everybody hopes that if they somehow get transformed into a vampire, they will instantly become some kind of superhero vampire out of the movies. Bad news guys: not gonna happen. More likely than not, you're gonna be...
by Rodney V. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Nobody expects to get turned into a vampire, especially a guy like Bob.
Everybody hopes that if they somehow get transformed into a vampire, they will instantly become some kind of superhero vampire out of the movies. Bad news guys: not gonna happen. More likely than not, you're gonna be...
by Rodney V. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2019
In the Wattys 2018 award-winning novel, a serial killer stalks the tropical paradise of Barbados, leaving victims naked in cane fields. With locals and tourists alike in danger, the island police force is ill-equipped to handle the case, the first of its kind. Enter Seattle homicide detective and...