Smith Lee: 128 books
by Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Now back in print from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls.
It was in 1833 or '34 that Moses Bailey brought young Kate Malone down to Cold Spring Holler to be his wife. But Moses, wanting to become a preacher like his daddy was, left Kate time and again to look after the...
Speaking OUT
Queer Youth in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
A photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages 14–24, identifying as queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning), Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus presents portraits without judgment or stereotype...
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election
Her Political and Social Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is anedited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary...
Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen
Soulful, Traditional, Seasonal: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Sara Foster’s love of Southern fare began in her Granny Foster’s Tennessee kitchen. There, the combination of down-home comfort, fresh-from-the-farm ingredients, and dedicated preparation hooked her for life. Now the award-winning cookbook author and restaurateur serves up nearly two hundred contemporary...
by Lee B. Smith, Rod T. Mitchell, Iain J. McEwan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This volume provides a brief résumé of the history of testosterone research, from the early pioneers through to the most recent advances in the field. We discover how steroid hormones were first identified and how testosterone was shown to be essential for male development. Moving forward we explore...
Talking Appalachian
Voice, Identity, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have...
Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theory and Practice across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations between faculty in different disciplines. In theory, interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions between different departments, allowing more...
Roads Taken
The Professorial Life, Scholarship in Place, and the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Public liberal arts colleges are higher education’s gems, yet their intimate campus settings and locations outside of the intellectual-cultural capitals challenge the traditional rhythm of academic careers. Professors trained at elite research institutions, usually located in large urban centers, must...
by David Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This primer for architects explores the basic physical principles and requirements of every aspect of passive and active controls in buildings. Avoiding needless jargon, Environmental Issues for Architecture supports an understanding of environmental systems in order to inform architectural design....
An Indispensable Liberty
The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century...
by Annette Cox, James Hall, Fritz Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
Edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The American South and the Great War, 1914–1924 investigates how American participation in World War I further strained the region’s relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships altered the South’s traditional social structure,...
Freedom of Speech
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The essays in this volume portrays the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the 18th century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive...
Ind13 Issue 2
Indie Games Developer Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
What’s the big idea?
IND13 has been created to fill a gap discovered in the magazine and publishing market – a title aimed at people interested in independent games development. Our team of people working in the independent gaming indstry came together and created IND13 to fill that gap....
The New Media Frontier (Foreword by Hugh Hewitt)
Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
A Pew Study reports that only 2% of America's twelve million bloggers claim "religion, spirituality or faith" as their main topic. This leaves a great mission field in cyberspace, say contributors to The New Media Frontier, because the latest forms of communication present so many opportunities to...