Ron Smith: 70 books

In Two Up Down Under, Ron and Jim enjoy a road trip around Canberra and the Riverina in Jim’s 50-year old VW Kombi, Miss October. As well as the journey, the story of Miss October is told, and, as would be expected, there are over 190 photos mostly in colour as there is a focus on both flying and...

'Two Up' is a collection of aviation anecdotes and photographs covering five decades and going back to the brothers' early fascination with aircraft in the sixties. It includes a wealth of insider information from two brothers who spent their working lives in the aviation industry.. From the sixties...

When Ron suggested to his wife that he wanted to leave his well-paid job with the state government so that he could help people become fit and healthy, her reaction was, “Who the hell would pay you to do that?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “But let’s make it work.” So...

“What is a stroke?” This is the question that plagues Ron Smith as he emerges from the carpet bombing of his brain. The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke is a first-person account of a massive ischemic stroke to the brain stem. Smith takes the reader inside the experience and shows how recuperation...

From the Mediterranean to the American West, the poems in Ron Smith's new collection move across time and place to find reliable truths through personal observation. Beyond his own experiences Smith draws from the lives of notable and diverse figures -- Edward Teller, Edgar Allan Poe, Mickey Mantle,...

Atlanta is a unique southern city known for its vast diversity and fast-paced lifestyle. Rarely is it associated with a rich beer and brewing culture, but not for a lack of one. From Atlanta's first brewery in the 1850s to the city's Saloon Row and the parched days of local and national Prohibition,...

After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many consider flappers and gangsters the iconic images of the era, in reality, it was marked with temperance zealotry, blind tigers and white lightning. Georgia's...

How to Cut Red Tape has been written as the small business tactics handbook to be used world wide to cut the bureaucratic cancer that is robbing the world of millions of jobs and just making people miserable and frustrated. Red Tape is the invisible tax, it costs a fortune to comply with, usually...

How to Get Publicity in 7 Days for Small Business" the Insiders strategy of how to create media combined with the nuts and bolts of simple steps and easy to use email program. With everyone on the move we are publishing in all formats suitable for IPhones, IPads , Kindle , Laptops and PCs so you have your media strategy and what to do literally at your fingertips.

Chosen by WWII History magazine as one of the Best Books of the Year. In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, the small, illequipped arm of the Navy known as Submarine Force would stand between the shattered U.S. Pacific Fleet and the might of the Japanese Navy. Unfortunately, the spirit and courage...

This eBook has been designed to provide 20 fun ideas and activities for people to become involved. Parents with children and grandchildren become involved and talk about the birds that visit their back yard. Apart from identifying some of our most common birds and developing bird watching skills,...

The title of Ron Smith’s new collection comes from Yeats’s observation that creators “must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes.” The poems in The Humility of...

Public Relations: The Basics is a highly readable introduction to one of the most exciting and fast-paced media industries. Both the practice and profession of public relations are explored and the focus is on those issues which will be most relevant to those new to the field: The four key phases...

We men are so predictable. As a way of avoiding even the most remote possibility of authentic relationships, most of us are quick to form a complex web of surface-level friendships, an ever-expanding collection of "buddies." Yet we never manage to develop even one really close friendship....