R Smith: 417 books

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...

For thousands of years the immortal Gilgamesh has presided over the legendary Ur-Bar, witnessing history unfold from within its walls. Some days it is a rural tavern, others a fashionable wine shop. It may appear as a hidden speakeasy or take on the form of your neighborhood local. For most patrons...

Beginnings are always messy. ~ John Galsworthy Spacecrafts hurtling toward alien worlds. Second chances for civilizations. First contact. Rebirth. Non-humans looking for a new life. Opportunities for fresh starts and do-overs far from Earth. These stories and more explore the theme of Re-Launch. Send...

A fifty-day devotional for Pentecost featuring the words and teachings of faithful men and women of God, both classic and contemporary authors, regarding the miraculous power available through God's gift of the Holy Spirit. Includes excerpts from Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, William Seymour,...

The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest. Fully revised and updated this edition includes: * a wealth of photographic...

Robin of Tudor Gables is a novella length story about an eight year old boy growing up in the tenements of post WWII Chicago. He is convinced the grownups are crazy, and what he sees going on around him gives him every reason to believe it. Sometimes, at night, the neighbors hear him scream. Sometimes,...

Farley's best friend's dying wish is that he deliver a mysterious gift to a mysterious, disfigured woman. Her landlord threatens him with his life to stay away. Margie wants to open it. She tells Farley she's sure there's money it, and Anna Kalupski doesn't deserve it, but is she telling the truth?...

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we...

In the best tradition of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers Delivers features raconteurs as beguiling as the tales they tell. These lyrical, darkly humorous monologues portray a range of denizens of the American South desperately trying to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A Confederate reenactor...

For most of the church's history, people have seen Christian ethics as normative and universally applicable. Recently, however, this view has been lost, thanks to naturalism and relativism. R. Scott Smith argues that Christians need to overcome Kant's fact-value dichotomy and recover the possibility of genuine moral and theological knowledge.

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues...

Author R.Leland Smith served as Executive Director of The St. Leonards Half-way House on Chicagos Near West-side. This was the most challenging but yet rewarding experience of his long career in human services. His search for Truth and Meaning began there and remains his most fervent quest!

All Conrad Daniels wanted was to leave his killing life behind and farm with his family. But time catches up with a man, like Lenore from his past, his reputation as a gunfighter, and the horrors of Antietem Creek catching up with him. Now there's a female bounty-hunter who wants to kill him, and...

Depend on Hinman’s for up-to-date, authoritative guidance covering the entire scope of urologic surgery. Regarded as the most authoritative surgical atlas in the field, Hinman's Atlas of Urologic Surgery, 4th Edition, by Drs. Joseph A. Smith, Jr., Stuart S. Howards, Glenn M. Preminger, and Roger...