Andrew Smith: 136 books
by Becky Heaver, Michael Barton, Andrew Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In this rich and diverse collection, 28 writers describe what positive experiences they have had as an autistic person, and show how the most unexpected subject areas can be a source of the positive. They demonstrate that individuals can, and do, experience life in positive ways, sometimes in the...
Not That God
Trading the Believable Lie for the Unbelievable Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Do you ever have trouble reconciling the goodness of God with the waiting, doubt, tension, and tragedy you see in the world? Does the voice of doubt ever whisper, What on earth is God doing?
Gospel-centered and biblically saturated, Not That God discusses weighty themes in an honest, approachable,...
Gothic death 1740–1914
A literary history
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914.
by Andrew Smith, William Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book's focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films.
by Andrew Smith
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Na pequena cidade de Ealing, Iowa, Austin e seu melhor amigo, Robby, libertam acidentalmente um exército incontrolável. São louva-a-deus de um metro e oitenta de altura, completamente tarados e famintos. Essa é a verdade. Essa é a história. É o fim do mundo e ninguém sabe o que fazer.Com todos...
by Andrew Smith
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
*** Sex und Liebe *** Wenn man Ryan Dean West heißt, Klassenbester und dazu noch zwei Jahre jünger als alle anderen ist, wird einem der Kopf manchmal ins Klo gehängt. Aber Ryan Dean hat größere Sorgen: Wie soll er verhindern, dass sein neuer Zimmergenosse im Internat ihn nachts erwürgt? Noch...
by Andrew Smith
Language: German
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Finn berechnet die Zeit in Meilen, nicht in Minuten. So erklärt er sich die Welt und so überzeugt er sich davon, wirklich zu sein, nicht eine Romanfigur im Kult-Bestseller seines Vaters. Stets am Rande der Katastrophe – als Kind ist ein totes Pferd von einer Brücke auf ihn gefallen – hat Finn...
Starving the South
How the North Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A historian's new look at how Union blockades brought about the defeat of a hungry Confederacy
In April 1861, Lincoln ordered a blockade of Southern ports used by the Confederacy for cotton and tobacco exporting as well as for the importation of food. The Army of the Confederacy grew thin while...
Oil, Illiberalism, and War
An Analysis of Energy and US Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
An argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation hidden behind a facade of liberal internationalism.
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct...
Hamburger
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc once said, “It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.” The hamburger has been a staple of American culture for the last century, both a source of gluttonous joy and a recurrent obstacle to healthy eating. Now the full beauty of the burger...
Sand in the Gears
How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile factories has created ghost towns that dot the landscape. It is also clear from the dormant...
African Herders
Emergence of Pastoral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2005
Scholars have long acknowledged a gap in the archaeological literature on African herder societies. Utilizing almost 40 years' work, Andrew Smith presents a detailed portrait of modern herdsmen and their historical antecedents. Following the assumption that Africa has never been isolated from the...
Fast Food
The Good, the Bad and the Hungry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The single most influential culinary trend of our time is fast food. It has spawned an industry that has changed eating, the most fundamental of human activities. From the first flipping of burgers in tiny shacks in the western United States to the forging of neon signs that spell out “Pizza Hut”...
American Tuna
The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the...