Martin Smith: 99 books
Relationship-Based Social Work, Second Edition
Getting to the Heart of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This comprehensive guide to relationship-based practice in social work communicates the theory using illustrative case studies and offers a model for practice. Updated and expanded, it now includes increased coverage of anti-oppressive and diversity issues, service user perspectives and systemic approaches...
by Martin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Minion or Master is a fast paced thriller set in 1966 that interweaves different story lines and characters leaving the reader in suspense as each section ends until the final conclusion. The story subtly develops the Minion or Master concept whilst exploring relationships between father and son,...
The Heart of Zen
Enlightenment, Emotional Maturity, and What It Really Takes for Spiritual Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
While we are more and more familiar with popular ideas of enlightenment and spiritual awakening, life still comes at us full force, and hope can turn to frustration as the gulf between our spiritual belief and our everyday life seems to loom ever larger. Through spirited Q&A sessions with Zen...
The Wild Duck Chase
Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
THE WILD DUCK CHASE is the basis for “The Million Dollar Duck,” a documentary feature film, directed by Brian Golden Davis and written by Martin J. Smith, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival in January 2016. The book takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it...
by Martin Cruz Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
From Martin Cruz Smith, “a master of the international thriller” (The New York Times), a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice.
Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the...
by Martin Cruz Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2004
A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series.
In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical,...
Tatiana
An Arkady Renko Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Martin Cruz Smith's “masterful” (USA TODAY) and “irresistible” (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalist’s mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.
Arkady...
December 6
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2002
From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.
Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other...
Martin Cruz Smith Ebook Boxed Set
Stalin's Ghost, Wolves Eat Dogs, Three Stations
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Stalin's Ghost
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking,...
Three Stations
An Arkady Renko Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace.
So begins Martin Cruz Smith’s masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately...
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...
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
Mr. Las Vegas Has a Bad Knee
and Other Tales of the People, Places, and Peculiarities of the Modern American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
For more than thirty years, journalist and author Martin J. Smith has traveled the American West, chasing offbeat stories that often are bizarre, always compelling, and at times profound. His journey through that oft-idealized and misunderstood landscape has made him a witness to some of the West’s...
by Martin Ian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This book will take you from concept to comic book in a series of easy-to-follow steps. It contains practical, real-world advice based on over ten years of experience. You will learn how to craft a marketable concept, write a winning script, find that perfect artist and add the finishing touches....