Patrick Smith: 52 books
Somebody Else's Century
East and West in a Post-Western World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.
In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction...
Time No Longer
Americans After the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation,...
Japan
A Reinterpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence,...
by Patrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This is a collection of short stories by the author of Florida's most beloved novel, A Land Remembered. These stories were written throughout Smith's writing career, going back as far as the 1960's. Reading them, you can see him developing the literary style for which he later became famous, writing...
by Capt. Shaun Patrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
IF YOU DON’T PROTECT YOUR FAMILY, WHO WILL?If you don’t protect your family, who will?Self-sufficiency has always been and will always be the lighthouse in the fog of chaos. The storm is coming.Batten down the hatches!
Mixing powerful nautical quotes, leadership examples from history's...
Cockpit Confidential
Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A New York Times bestseller
For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even fearful experience. Patrick Smith, airline pilot and author of the web's popular Ask the Pilot feature, separates the fact from fallacy and tells you everything you need to know...
How...
by Patrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Millions of species have come and gone. Some can’t compete, while others evolve. All species are ephemeral. Our day will come.
This is a story of our extinction. Voluntarily, by our own will.
Why People Matter
A Christian Engagement with Rival Views of Human Significance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Amid current arguments related to human life and dignity, Christians must be clear about how their faith speaks to such concerns and what other outlooks have to say. This book brings together noted ethicists--Russell DiSilvestro, David P. Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, John F. Kilner, Gilbert C. Meilaender,...
by Henry James, Kyle Patrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features...
by 派翠克・史密斯(Patrick Smith)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 30, 2019
亞馬遜網路書店暢銷經典，航空從業人員與空中旅人必備書籍。
關於飛機、航空及與搭機旅行，你想知道的一切，都在這一本！
——中華民航飛行員協會審定——
如今我們可說已經能自由飛行了——除了航空技術已十分發達、飛航的安全紀錄十分卓越，而且飛機票價便宜得驚人。然而現代人雖然習慣搭機前往各處旅遊，卻對飛抵目的地前的空中航程，乃至於提供服務的航空公司，充滿了疑慮與不信任。
商業航空向來是不良資訊的溫床，充斥著各種無根據的說法、謬論以及陰謀論，就連知識和經驗俱佳的飛行員，也未必全完通曉內情。本書作者派翠克．史密斯為線上雜誌《沙龍》著名的「請教機師」（Ask...
by Eric Ng, Patrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The expert team is made up of veterans of some of America's largest and most recognizable law firms (hence the lack of specific firm names!). As junior and senior associates, we recognize that aspiring lawyers want to share our success. We also know that the job market can be cut-throat....
by Patrick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
A young woman is brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm – a haunt of wealthy retirees and arty weekenders. Suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi refugees, initially welcomed into the community but gradually feared and shunned. But then, as the victim's story unfolds, suspicion begins...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cognitive Therapy with Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Post traumatic stress disorder develops after exposure to one or more terrifying events that have caused, or threatened to cause the sufferer grave physical harm. This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive therapy can be used to help children and adolescents who suffer from post traumatic stress...
The Trouble with Higher Education
A Critical Examination of our Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
The Trouble with Higher Education is a powerful and topical critique of the Higher Education system in the UK, with relevance to countries with similar systems. Based on the authors’ experiences that span over 30+ years of fieldwork, the issues discussed focus on the problems facing the principle...