Smith: 13242 books
Basic Equality and Discrimination
Reconciling Theory and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The focus of this book is the idea of equality as a moral, political and jurisprudential concept. The author is motivated primarily by a concern to better understand conundrums in the justification, interpretation and application of discrimination law. Nicholas Smith aims to provide a clearer understanding...
Solving the Paleo Equation
Stress, Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
"Solving the Paleo Equation: Stress, Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep" is the ultimate guide to customizing your diet and lifestyle practices to your unique physical and metabolic needs. You'll learn how to maximize your health practices and minimize your time and effort—no more driving yourself to exhaustion...
The Awakening Ground
A Guide to Contemplative Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Author David Chaim Smith offers a guide to the practice of mystical contemplation from the perspective of a highly unusual form of non-dual Kabbalah, unfettered by both religious mythology and psychological reductionism. The path articulates the ultimate quest for meaning, which seeks to pass through...
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy
The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals....
by William H. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
Getting Over Equality
A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to know...
by Tony C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
For those of you who are already rabid fans of StarShipSofa, this volume needs no introduction. This foreword is for the rest of you, the yet-to-be-converted. (And man, do I envy you who have yet to experience all the ‘Sofa’s episodes for the first time!)
StarShipSofa is not your typical podcast...
Beyond Sputnik
U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescopes and particle accelerators. Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. Beyond Sputnik is a comprehensive survey...
Stories of a Life Afield
"Brothers in Arms" and "Thanks to Gert"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Two short stories about the life lessons a hunter learned in pursuit of wild turkeys and deer. In “Thanks to Gert,” the first of this two-story ebook, A. Hunter Smith recalls one of the funniest and most productive April turkey-hunting seasons he has experienced in the thirty-five years he has...
by Laura L. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Originally published in 2010
Who do you blame when your world comes crashing down?
Watching her parents go through a divorce is devastating for Emma and has turned her life into a tailspin. She's angry at everyone around her--her siblings she always has to baby-sit, her parents for ruining her life,...
Forever Red
Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith’s thoughts spinning back to Saturday—last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day—until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not...
Forgotten Heroes
An American Soldier’S Journey from Korea Through the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth century, he had a very personal mission in mind. He needed to confront his demons. Smith and his twin brother, Fred, encountered some of the bloodiest...
by E. Dewey Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Have you ever asked the question, "What happens when I force my wishes to override God's will?" In this intriguing and thought provoking guide for properly aligning your life, E. Dewey Smith illuminates realities of destiny, dreams, and faith that will aid readers in managing their personal desires...