M Smith: 550 books
by C. M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In the tradition of Charles Dickens, who utilized ghosts to bring some horror to his classic Christmas novella A Christmas Carol, C. M. Smith uses a monster to explore the meaning of Christmas in a modern context. But this is no made up monster. This monster is real: the Krampus of Alpine folklore,...
The Voyageur Canadian Essays & Criticism 2-Book Bundle
Selected Writings, A.J.M. Smith / The Kindred of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G.D. Roberts was a distinguished writer of his time who published more than forty volumes of poetry,...
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
A Sensory History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege,...
Political Peoplehood
The Roles of Values, Interests, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
For more than three decades, Rogers M. Smith has been one of the leading scholars of the role of ideas in American politics, policies, and history. Over time, he has developed the concept of “political peoples,” a category that is much broader and more fluid than legal citizenship, enabling Smith...
by Lynette M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Imagine a world of people focused on gratitude for one another. Make it so! Start by writing letters of appreciation that will be treasured forever.
“How to Write Heartfelt Letters to Treasure” helps you touch others with your genuine, original letters to express your feelings of appreciation.
You...
Mastered by the Clock
Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly...
by James M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church...
Dynasties and Democracy
The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators....
by Sundra M Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
"EDUCATIONAL TRANSPARENCY:Outstanding University Essays and Articles" a 2016 CAREER WRITERS ASSOCIATION publication was created because of Sundra M. Smith's desire to be transparent and show the world her craft. Some of the papers included are written for previous Education courses, MBA courses...
Through It All in the Hollow of His Hand
The True- Life Story of Samuel M. Smith — Truth Is Sometimes Stranger Than Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Through It All, IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND
the real-life story of dangers, great and small, that author Samuel M. Smith faced but through which he was protected by the hand of God.
A Bible college student on summer break in 1955, he was attacked by his father in the middle of the night....
How Race Is Made
Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial...
by Mark M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended...
Beautiful TV
The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society should...
by Holly M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Most of us hope to do what morality requires of us. But what if we can't figure out what it does require? A soldier may know that morality requires him not to kill an innocent civilian but he can't tell whether the driver of a suspicious car is an innocent civilian or a terrorist about to detonate...