Smith: 13242 books
New Orleans Noir
The Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“Explores the dark corners of our city . . . set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . harrowing reading, to be sure, but it’s pure page-turning pleasure, too.” —The Times-Picayune
Residents of the Big Easy are proud of its unique history and character. Resourceful and resilient, they are...
Exceptional Technologies
A Continental Philosophy of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary developments in Continental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Philosophy of technology regularly...
The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals)
A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself...
The Fall of Interpretation
Philosophical Foundations for a Creational Hermeneutic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this provocative book James K. A. Smith, one of the most engaging Christian scholars of our day, offers an innovative approach to hermeneutics. The second edition of Smith's well-received debut book provides updated interaction with contemporary hermeneutical discussions and responds to criticisms.
The Writing Experiment
Strategies for innovative creative writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
'A systematic and engaging approach to creative writing' - Carla Harryman, Wayne State University
By suggesting that students who are not born poets can yet learn to become good ones, Smith performs a very important service.' - Professor Susan M. Schultz, University of Hawaii
This is...
by Sydney Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays Sydney Smith, english wit, writer and Anglican cleric (1771-1845)
This ebook presents «Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays», from Sydney Smith. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....
An American Betrayal
Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite...
Our Stories, Our Voices
21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.
This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors—including...
by Lee Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In The Consequences of Syria, Lee Smith analyzes the current U.S. administration's stance on Syria, questioning whether it will build the foundations of a new Middle East or usher in an era of instability that will affect the entire world. The author contends that the many apparent shifts in the administration's...
by Barry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial.
Self-confessed islomaniac Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us so, and examines the kind...
by Mark Allen Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
' Brilliant thriller' Publishers Weekly
Everyone is looking for Geiger...
Detached and with an innate ability to recognize lies, Geiger was the best of the best in the field of Information Retrieval. Until he was asked to break his only rule and do the unthinkable - to torture a child....
December 6
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2002
From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.
Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other...
The Case for Palestine
The perspective of an Australian observer
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Paul Heywood-Smith's interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict commenced in London in 1973 at the time of the Yom Kippur War. He was then a young lawyer imbued with the values derived from the fight against apartheid and opposition to the Vietnam War. His thesis is that the conflict is the defining conflict...
by Jeremy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
The fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states in December 1991 was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. In the last years of Soviet rule, images of mass protests on the streets of Moscow, Tbilisi and Vilnius, bloodshed in Baku, striking...