J J Smith: 831 books
The Wild Duck Chase
Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
THE WILD DUCK CHASE is the basis for “The Million Dollar Duck,” a documentary feature film, directed by Brian Golden Davis and written by Martin J. Smith, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival in January 2016. The book takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it...
by J. Douglas Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Winner of the Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
A Slate Best Book of 2014
The inside story of the Supreme Court decisions that brought true democracy to the United States
As chief justice of the U.S....
by Sally J. Smith, Jean Steffens
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From the USA Today bestselling writing team of Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens comes a hilarious first book in a brand new mystery series that will keep you guessing until the end...
Melanie Hamilton is not your average artist. She brings home the bacon by inking tattoos at New Orleans's...
by M.D., J. Clinton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Almost fourteen percent of American children over age six and twelve percent of adolescents are obese, more than double the rate of thirty years ago. Although there are countless diet and weight-loss books on the market, few of them explain in jargon-free terms the basic factors, the body processes...
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy
The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals....
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...
by Oswald J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
When Oswald J. Smith wrote this book almost a hundred years ago he felt the most pressing need of the worldwide church was true revival—the kind birthed in desperate prayer and accompanied by deep conviction for sin, godly sorrow, and deep repentance, resulting in a living, victorious faith. If...
Tomorrow's Air Force
Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
“A bold and courageous clarion call from a highly respected serving officer that should be read and heeded by anyone interested in the future of the US Air Force.” —Everett Dolman, School of Advanced Airpower Studies
Looking ahead to future airpower requirements, this engaging and groundbreaking...
Liberty, Fraternity, Exile
Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In this moving microhistory of nineteenth-century Haiti and Jamaica, Matthew J. Smith details the intimate connections that illuminate the conjoined histories of both places after slavery. The frequent movement of people between Haiti and Jamaica in the decades following emancipation in the British...
Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice
Concise Professional Advice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Starting your own architecture or engineering firm may seem a bit daunting. In Operating Your Own Architectural or Engineering Practice, author Walter J. Smith presents a handbook to help you navigate that process in order to be successful in the long term.
Based on information gleaned from...
by Barbara J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Barbara J. Smith is the eldest of eight children of who all have a great sense of humor. She was born in Mobile. Alabama to Jellene and the late James Norwood Sr. Barbara graduated high school in 1967, and came to New York to work for the summer and never went back to Alabama to live. She married...
by Sally J. Smith, Jean Steffens
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
From USA Today bestselling authors Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens comes murder, magic, and laughter on the bayou...
There’s magic in the air at The Mansion at Mystic Isle where Melanie Hamilton works—magic everywhere. The Federation of Magicians has contracted to hold their annual show...
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...
Performance and Religion in Early Modern England
Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance...