Robert Douglas Smith: 10 books

Book cover of Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition
by Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new...
Book cover of Heroic Tales

Heroic Tales

A Collection Of 19 Great Tales- Novels, Novella, And Short Stories

by Simon Stanton, Stefon Mears, N.W. Moors
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

Imagine: you are seated about a blazing campfire, your and the other bards. Tales of Achilles, Beowulf, Alexander, Odysseus, Conan, Tarzan, Joan of Arc and other heroes are told, along with new ones that carry on with the Jungian archetypes so central to our very nature. Men and women who brave the...
Book cover of Short Flights (of the Imagination)
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Blaze Ward, Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Flights of imagination needn't be long in order to weave a wonderful tale. Join these authors in their shorter flights for a broad array of fabulous short stories in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more. Perfect imaginative getaways for commuting, breaks and lunchtimes, bedtime reading, or anytime...
Book cover of Campus Chills
by Mark Leslie, Robert J. Sawyer, Kelley Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and...
Book cover of Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Book cover of The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry

The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry

Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media

by Robert Bellamy, Alexander Cohen, Tony R. DeMars
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010

The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry: Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. Consumer behaviors and consumer expectations are being shaped by new...
Book cover of Fumbling the Future

Fumbling the Future

How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

by Robert C. Alexander, Douglas K. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999

Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after...
Book cover of America's National Security Architecture

America's National Security Architecture

Rebuilding the Foundation

by Nicholas Burns, Zoë Baird, Robert Blackwill
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017

In August 2016, the Aspen Strategy Group examined how to reform America’s national security decision-making process. The papers in this volume provide practical solutions to repair the key functions of Washington’s executive departments, agencies, and advisory bodies responsible for shaping U.S. foreign policy and national security.
Book cover of Studies in Culture Contact

Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact:...
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