Steven Smith: 104 books
The Senate Syndrome
The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place...
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...
Recapturing the Voice of God
Shaping Sermons Like Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
There is a difference between preaching from the Bible and preaching that allows the Bible to drive the substance, structure, and spirit of the sermon. A text-driven sermon allows the structure of the text to become buoyant, to come to the surface so that the sermon can be built around that structure....
by Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Edited by Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.
No genre limitations,...
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...
egonomics
What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In this original, eye-opening work, authors David Marcum and Steven Smith argue that the upside of ego is as powerful as the downside and answer questions about ego that have been a mystery to most people.
In his landmark book, Good to Great, Jim Collins showed that one of two key traits defined...
An Empire of Print
The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This...
Fiction River: Fantasy Adrift
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to bestsellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to...
The Magic Castle
A Mother's Harrowing True Story Of Her Adoptive Son's Multiple Personalities-- And The Triumph Of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Alex Smith and his eight personalities were trapped in a world of unfathomable evil...until he entered the "magic castle" and found the key to his freedom.
When Carole Smith and her husband decided to take in a foster child that no one else would have, they knew ten-year-old Alex...
by Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in...
The Politics of Institutional Choice
The Formation of the Russian State Duma
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand. Here Steven Smith and Thomas Remington provide the first intensive, theoretically grounded examination of the early development of the State Duma, the lower house of the...
The Centre-left and New Right Divide?
Political Philosophy and Aspects of UK Social Policy in the Era of the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
First published in 1998, this volume offers some solutions to the inherent difficulties with moving from philosophical generalities to specific policies, by exploring how a bridge might be built between political philosophy and social policy analysis. In light of these findings, Steven R. Smith evaluates...
Van Gogh
Sein Leben
Language: German
Release Date: November 6, 2015
"Die maßgebliche Biographie für Jahrzehnte."Leo Jansen, Kurator des Van-Gogh-Museums, AmsterdamDie große, bahnbrechende, opulent illustrierte Biographie Vincent van Goghs, die einen völlig neuen Blick auf das Malergenie ermöglicht. Sie vereint große erzählerische Kraft mit psychologischem...
by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations...