Richard J Smith: 50 books
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in...
Negotiating Environment and Science
An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to the Space Station
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international agreements of the late and immediate post Cold War era. During his nine years as Principal...
The I Ching
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and...
by Richard J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing culture and society traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions...
Life After Eighty
A Personal Perspective of Living Well and Staying Happy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Old age might be measured by changes in physical and cognitive health rather than by birthdays. We grow old differently, but we all grow old. At some point we experience a diagnosis, an accident or an event that signals that we will never be as comfortable or safe living as we have in the past.
Those...
Once Upon a Christmas
A Collection of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
**ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS is a collection of short stories, all with Christmas settings, plots, and sentimentality. ** The author writes of his own boyhood Christmases, eighty-some years ago, and the Christmases of characters drawn from his imagination. He prepares us for each story with a commentary...
Musings of an Old Man
Some prose and poetry to ponder
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
**Musings of an Old Man: Some Prose and Poetry to Ponder is like a bowl of vegetable soup. Each selection is nourishing in itself, and in combination leave readers intellectually and emotionally satisfied.
The selections are humorous, serious, thought-provoking and written with an economy...
by Evelyn E. Smith, Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe...
Eternal Living
Reflections on Dallas Willard's Teaching on Faith and Formation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Dallas Willard spent his life making eternal living concrete for his friends. With his unexpected passing in 2013, the world lost a brilliant mind. The wide breadth of his impact inspired friends, family, colleagues, students and leaders of the church to gather their reflections on this celebrated...
by Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Frank Belknap Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazines publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the fields best known writers. Collected in this over sized edition are...
Ideas Have Consequences
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication,the...
A Spiritual Formation Workbook - Revised Edition
Small Group Resources for Nurturing Christian Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
This beginning workbook for Spiritual Formation Groups features guidelines for starting a group, study plans for the first nine sessions, and a questionnaire that helps map the way ahead. Based upon six major dimensions of the spiritual life found in the life of Christ and Christian tradition: The...
International Judicial Institutions
The architecture of international justice at home and abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law. Written by a former UN Chief Prosecutor and a leading international law expert, this book analyses the legal and political underpinnings...
Women's Cancers
Pathways to Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Taking patients through all aspects of cancer care, this book provides specific, accurate information on various tumour types and treatment modalities, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and complementary therapy. Unlike many patient guides, it explores holistic health and wellbeing as well as psychological...