Aaron Smith: 44 books
Chasing El Dorado
A South American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Get ready for a risk-taking rollercoaster ride through the favelas of Rio Di Janeiro and the wayside towns and jungles of South America in search of the secrets of shamans and ayahuasca the vine of the soul. Aaron Smith’s often hilarious chronicle of love, danger and enlightenment, set in the one...
Thriving in the City
A Guide to Sustainable Incarnational Ministry Among the Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
What does it mean to live in an urban poor slum or inner city for twenty years? What does it take to raise a family there, and to find God's love and peace in the most challenging neighborhoods?
In Thriving in the City: A Guide for Sustaining Incarnational Ministry among the Urban Poor, T....
The Atrocities of the Pirates
A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Suffering of the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. A skilled navigator, fluent in Spanish, and regarded as what was then acceptable as a ship’s...
by Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
In his third poetry collection, Primer, Aaron Smith grapples with the ugly realities of the private self, in which desire feels more like a trap than fulfillment. What is the face we prepare in our public lives to distract others from our private grief?
Smith's poetry explores that inexplicable...
Marriage After God
Chasing Boldly After God’s Purpose for Your Life Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
What if God has purposed your marriage for something so much more than happily ever after?
Since the very beginning, God's design for marriage is for husbands and wives to be ambassadors of holy love to a hurting world. Still, so many couples stop short at happy and wonder why they feel unsatisfied....
Shanti Bloody Shanti
An Indian Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Journalist Aaron Smith never planned to go to India before he had a contract put on his life by a drug dealer, when suddenly India seemed like the perfect place to get lost. In the process, he ended up finding himself, as well as encountering a dead body or two, witnessing the tragic death of a friend,...
Rethinking Drug Use in Sport
Why the war will never be won
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration. In this critical, paradigm-shifting reappraisal of contemporary drug policy in sport, Bob Stewart and Aaron Smith argue that drug use in sport is an inexorable consequence of the nature, structure and culture of sport itself. By de-mythologising and de-moralising...
by Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Appetite is a book that explores our American Mythologies, particularly masculinity and film. Smith investigates our fascinations with the body, gender, and entertainment in poems that are critically observant, darkly funny, darkly angry, and, sometimes, heartbreaking.
Whether he is cataloging...
by Aaron Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Blue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession—how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable.
Smith’s...
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
Snapchat 101
An Easy Get Started Guide On Snapchatting
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Get On The Snapchat Train!!!
By now you’ve heard of Snapchat. It’s all over the place, and it isn’t going away anytime soon. After it launched in 2011, Snapchat has become a social media phenomenon – it is one of the world’s fastest growing social networking apps with 150 million...
by Aaron Smith, Arlin Fehr
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Azra Hemnoth, a baron from the Bazra Desert, must defend his city against the Zahrin raiders. Seldom do the raiders muster in this much force, but there are rumors they have a new leader. The rumors are not hopeful ones, speaking of a powerful sorcerer from a world beyond the borders of Antia, bringing...
Australian Sport - Better by Design?
The Evolution of Australian Sport Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Australians have invested an enormous amount of emotional and physical capital in their sporting systems and structures. While Australian sport has many times been dissected from a historical and cultural perspective, there is little detailed analysis of sport's relationship with government.
The book...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...