Steven D Smith: 19 books
Pagans and Christians in the City
Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very...
Getting Over Equality
A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to know...
by Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in...
by Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1996
A fundamental critique of American law and legal thought, Against the Law consists of a series of essays written from three different perspectives that coalesce into a deep criticism of contemporary legal culture. Paul F. Campos, Pierre Schlag, and Steven D. Smith challenge the conventional representations...
Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture
Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an anthology of epigrams by contemporary...
Man and Animal in Severan Rome
The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste in the late second century CE, spent his career cultivating a Greek literary persona. Aelian was a highly regarded writer during his own lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential for a thousand years and more in the Roman world....
Rethinking Housing Bubbles
The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide insight into the bubble propensity...
by Liz Barclay, Colin Barrow, Paul Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Written by a team of business and fi nance experts, Starting & Running a Business All-In-One For Dummies is a complete guide to every aspect of setting up and growing a successful business. Featuring straight-talking advice on everything from business planning and marketing, managing staff and...
by David Wohl, Christina Z, Marc Silvestri
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
In our generation, The Darkness took root in Jackie Estacado, an orphan, as all the bearers before him, raised by pimps and thievesThe Franchetti Crime Family. Like those who walked in the shadow of The Darkness before him, Jackie's powers manifested on his 21st birthday. In that moment he was both blessed...
by David Wohl, Christina Z, Steven Harvey Firchow
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In our generation, The Darkness took root in Jackie Estacado, an orphan, as all the bearers before him, raised by pimps and thievesThe Franchetti Crime Family. Like those who walked in the shadow of The Darkness before him, Jackie's powers manifested on his 21st birthday. In that moment he was both blessed...
by Scott Calef, Dan Dinello, Don Fallis
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands—memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influential because of their success in crafting “Power Pop” singles like “My Generation” and “I...
by Steven K. Galbraith, Geoffrey D. Smith, Joel B. Silver
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Successfully managing rare book collections requires very specific knowledge and skills. This handbook provides that essential information in a single volume.
• Provides a bibliography of reference resources for rare book librarians
• Includes sidebars with examples drawn from real-life experience
Flattering the Demos
Fiction and Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This volume brings together reflections on the relationship between politics and storytelling, especially within the democratic context. Examples are drawn from the ancient and modern worlds, from classical Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to television, science fiction, and comic books, in order to...
Pieces: A Mobile Writers Guild Anthology
Mobile Writers Guild Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Sweet Home Alabama.
Have a slice of Alabama Literature. This collection brings you over 20 authors from the Gulf Coast in Alabama, including USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Carolyn Haines and Craig A. Price Jr., Award Winning author Jodie Cain Smith and several others, including some first time...
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