R Smith: 417 books

U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to exploit information power, which could be a U.S. advantage but instead is being used advantageously by insurgents. Because insurgency and counterinsurgency involve a battle for the allegiance of a population between a government...

While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, particularly black and Latino men, face a number of unique challenges in their educational careers that often...

The Factory Worker is the story of three couples in a midwest steel town. Victor finds his first real love, Patty, his boss's daughter, but only to lose her? Lacey has a haunting secret from his past. Will Caroline understand? And Roark, the oldest is married to Francine, who realizes her strength comes from her husband. Will he come back this time?

Adeline Ve’duer Remenon has been on the run for ten years. Framed for the murder of her entire family, and hunted by an elite force of warriors from the warmongering kingdom of Varscodia, she finds herself at the limits of her emotional resilience. On the night marking the tenth anniversary of her...

A selection of thirteen short-shorts, short stories about people and animals.  Some, paranormal. Some, fact. Some, fiction. The reader is left to decide which is which. A great addition to collectors of short fiction.

The dragons have mysteriously vanished from the lands of Valadae––except one. With no memory of his past, or what happened to his kin, Laeka’Draeon begins the daunting quest for answers, well aware the stakes are more than personal. If the dragons fail to return and restore the waning magic...

Mitchel Becker ventures in Versailles, France days before the Nazi occupation, confident he can get out before the Nazis invade. It isn't the first time he's been wrong. Then he meets Kirsche. He doesn't realize she is a trained Gestapo assassin.  Enter Burns of Army Intelligence who coaxes...

What Follows is an eclectic selection of ten short stories of various genres; Science Fiction, Fantasy, Whimsy, and Literary fiction, featuring "The Quatro**:** four short stories from the village of Dos Cruces, east of Chihuahua, in the Sierra Madre." 

Laeka’Draeon is the last dragon in Valadae. The key to finding his missing kin lies in the prophecy obtained through the centaur prophet, Belzor Ven’Ho. To interpret its hidden meanings, Laeka’Draeon and his companions must journey to heart of the Raegelian forest, wherein resides the legendary...

Laeka’Draeon and his companions have awakened the first of the Beacon Throne guardians. But only with the power of all four guardians can he hope to stop Valadae’s imminent destruction and fulfil his calling as the last of the dragons. His journey takes him west, into a kingdom rife with conflict...

All Alex has to do is think of something, and it happens. It's easy to bring an object or an event into his life. He tries to keep it a secret from his friends. He just wants to be ordinary like anyone else. But things get complicated. When his live-in girlfriend leaves him, he accidentally...

Willard wants to write a novel, but he doesn't have any ideas, until he meets Robert on the strand at Venice Beach. Robert offers Willard a story, a story about which he swears every word is true, but there are some complications that come with it.  Robert appears to be harmless enough, but...

The first two Beacon Throne guardians have been awakened. The third lies far away to the east, beckoning Laeka’Draeon and his companions onward in their race to stop a second Manna Eruption from destroying Valadae. But with every achieved triumph the danger grows, not only from the enemies of the...

In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams—such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility—and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development. The result is improved...