Larry Smith: 42 books

Book cover of Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction

A Century of Science Fiction

by Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
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Communicator-in-Chief

How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House

by Jenn Burleson Mackay, Jonathan S. Morris, Eric E. Otenyo
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010

Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American...
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Young Lothar

An Underground Fugitive in Nazi Berlin

by Larry Orbach, Vivien Orbach-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

Lothar Orbach, the youngest son of a German Jewish family, was just 14 when the Nazis began rounding up Berlin's Jews. His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother...
Book cover of Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook
by Larry Carpenter, Joseph Meeks, Charles Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009

Master Oracle Data Guard 11g Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices...
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Unions in Court

Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

by Charles W. Smith, Larry Savage
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

Scholars with an interest in contemporary labour relations, labour law, and the discourse of rights, as well as labour movements, will find this book useful and interesting.
Book cover of Rapid Interpretation of Heart and Lung Sounds - E-Book

Rapid Interpretation of Heart and Lung Sounds - E-Book

A Guide to Cardiac and Respiratory Auscultation in Dogs and Cats

by Bernie Hansen, Bruce W. Keene, DVM
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Learn to properly identify, interpret, and differentiate a wide variety of canine and feline heart and lung sounds with Rapid Interpretation of Heart and Lung Sounds: A Guide to Cardiac and Respiratory Auscultation in Dogs and Cats, 3rd Edition. A brand new companion website features both simulated...
Book cover of Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and the Study of the American Regime
by Kenneth L. Deutsch, John A. Murley, George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1999

Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring...
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Campaign Finance Reform

The Political Shell Game

by Melissa M. Smith, Glenda C. Williams, Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010

For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the flow of money into campaigns. Almost immediately, political players found other ways to financially...
Book cover of Dark Money, Super PACs, and the 2012 Election
by Melissa M. Smith, Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014

More than two billion dollars. That’s how much money was spent in the 2012 presidential campaign—the most expensive campaign in history. Each party raised and spent more than one billion dollars as the traditional boundaries of campaign financing were ignored. Both parties could do so because...
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The YMCA at War

Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars

by Joel R. Bius, Jeffrey C. Copeland, Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018

The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in...
Book cover of Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes
by Yamuna Kachru, Larry E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

This volume aims to familiarize readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across cultures and to create awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and functions that have given rise to them. It emphasizes that effective communication among users of different Englishes...
Book cover of Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities
by Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, Patricia A Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. It focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis,...
Book cover of Manual of Canine and Feline Cardiology - E-Book
by Francis W. K. Smith Jr., DVM, DACVIM(Internal Medicine & Cardiology)
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015

The most effective, practical approach to the recognition and management of cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary medicine, Manual of Canine and Feline Cardiology, 5th Edition walks readers through the challenges and conditions encountered in everyday practice. This completely revised and updated edition...
Book cover of Savannah's Historical Public Schools
by Larry W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004

The story of Savannah's historic public schools, both black and white, is one of modest beginnings, noteworthy achievement, and remarkable people. As the small schoolhouses of downtown Savannah evolved into the sprawling educational complexes of today, they maintained an impressive record of service...
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