Bruce Smith: 69 books
by Bruce Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
It would be realy swell if those ascending to power were good, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Theyre not. Power doesnt corrupt; people corrupt everything. That includes the Allied Nations, an amalgam of the worlds governments. What about those anthropomorphic mechs from Infitech that eventually...
by Bruce A. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Fun with Stuff is a collection of humor columns, many of which first appeared in a Southern California Mensa publication. But dont be frightened; theyre not all that intellectual. Hardly. Instead, these are true life stories and exaggerated fabrications that everyone can relate to. Laugh along as...
Life on the Rocks
A Portrait of the American Mountain Goat
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The American mountain goat is one of the most elusive and least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. Confined to the remote and rugged mountains of the western United States and Canada, these extraordinary mountaineers are seldom seen or encountered, even by those who patiently study...
Technology in America
A History of Individuals and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
This volume traces the history of American technology—its inventions and inventors—from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley. The...
Toxin Toxout
Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
How do I get this stuff out of me?
Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of North America's environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway international bestseller, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday...
Stories from Afield
Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West’s most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the...
Slow Death by Rubber Duck
The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
A look at the chemicals surrounding us that’s “hard-hitting . . . yet also instills hope for a future in which consumers make safer, more informed choices” (The Washington Post).
Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal.
The...
The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.
As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 million times.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical...
Bootleggers & Baptists
How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
In Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities...
by J. Brian Benestad, Robert Benne, Bruce Fields
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics—and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among...
by Andy Bruce, David Birchall, Patrick Harper-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Master Powerful New Ways to Manage Innovation, Projects, People, and Performance!
Three great books present breakthrough techniques for managing innovation, projects, people, and business performance! Innovation: Fast Track to Success presents a practical framework for identifying new commercial...
by Tim O'Mara, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Reed Farrel Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Down to the River is a collection of twenty crimes stories that take place on or near American rivers from some of the strongest voices in crime fiction writing today. As these stories show, rivers are not only sources of life; they can also be scenes of murder and revenge.
All twenty stories...
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...
by Eugene D. Frank, MA, RT(R)
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Designed for quick reference in the clinical environment, Merrill's Pocket Guide to Radiography is a pocket-sized companion to Merrill's Atlas of Radiographic Positioning and Procedures, 12th Edition. This handy resource summarizes essential information for 170 of the most frequently requested projections...