B B Smith: 277 books
by B.J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
August in the Midwest. A muggy morning in Des Moines. A cyclist turns up dead outside the central transit station, and the real heat is on.
Detective Red Shaw and his partner, Phil Vega, are on the scene early but hardly at their best. Shaw had recently outsmarted a murderous sociopath who...
1914
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
In the early days of August, 1914, Europe’s great powers went to war, drawing millions of young men into the first truly industrialized conflict in history. The mass-production of powerful and devastating weapons ensured that those millions of men would face horrors of battle the scope of which...
egonomics
What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In this original, eye-opening work, authors David Marcum and Steven Smith argue that the upside of ego is as powerful as the downside and answer questions about ego that have been a mystery to most people.
In his landmark book, Good to Great, Jim Collins showed that one of two key traits defined...
Corinth 1862
Siege, Battle, Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
**Fletcher Pratt Award
McLemore Prize**
In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy—perhaps in all the South—than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi.
Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of Union forces in the Western Theater,...
Embracing the Love of God
The Path and Promise of Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Unfortunately, in today's world many people fail to experience the freedom and healing power of God's grace. Even Christians too often experience judgement, rather than the love that is the vital essence of Christian life. A visionary guide in the spirit of Celebration of Discipline, Embracing the...
by Kenny B Smith, Raleigh Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
D is back and now finds herself inside city walls, which is proving to be no safer for her than the comfort of her former home in Bunker Six. While Doc is determined to find more people with potential like D, others are looking to rid themselves of anyone with potential. Can D save herself and others...
Predisposed
Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political convictions. Our biology predisposes us to see and understand the world in different ways, not always reason and the careful consideration of facts. These...
Champion Hill
Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
The Mississippi battle between Grant’s and Pemberton’s forces that sealed Vicksburg’s fate.
The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The fighting on May 16, 1863, took place just twenty miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen....
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...
Whispers from the Lion Mountain
Of War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This beautifully written book of mostly solemn Poetry succintly captures the true ordeal of an African country in the midst of war, violence, demise, corruption, poverty and hope. Smith creates a relation between these varying themes that abounded in his Motherland Sierra Leone between the period...
Windows into the Earth
The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and...
Analyzing American Democracy
Politics and Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other political actors do what they do. Learning to think critically about power, institutions, and rules helps citizens engage constructively...
The Case Against School Choice: Politics, Markets and Fools
Politics, Markets and Fools
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
"Compelling arguments, supported by both anecdotal and empirical evidence to convince readers that school choice does nothing to improve the quality of education. ... Solidly researched and written, Smith's and Meier's effort should sway those still undecided on the issue". -- Publishers Weekly
by R. B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...