M Smith: 550 books

Book cover of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
by Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his...
Book cover of Rantings of an Insomniac : or I Wish Jesus Hadn't Said That
by Stephen H. Smith M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009

Book summary Rantings Of An Insomniac was meant to be a lever that would take your chair and tip it back to the point where it almost tips over but not quite. Its cautiously dangerous at examining our persistent flawed thinking as a culture that inevitably ends with two wheels mired in the mud. And...
Book cover of Eurasia 2.0

Eurasia 2.0

Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media

by Vlad Strukov, Andrei P. Tsygankov, Mark Bassin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

This book discusses the return of geopolitical ideas and doctrines to the post-Soviet space with special focus on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics, which is an overarching term for different political practices including dissemination of geopolitical ideas online, using the internet by political...
Book cover of Alzheimer's For Dummies
by Patricia B. Smith, Mary M. Kenan, Mark Edwin Kunik
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011

An estimated 4 million people are living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in America today, with approximately 370,000 new cases diagnosed every year. AD patients live anywhere from 5 to 20 years after their diagnosis; and their inability to care for themselves grows more dramatic as the disease progresses,...
Book cover of Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

by Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth L. Cohen, Mary Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...
Book cover of The American Congress Reader
by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008

The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader...
Book cover of The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective
by Celeste Ward Gventer, M.L.R Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking.
Book cover of Democracy Reconsidered
by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine...
Book cover of The Vicksburg Campaign, March 29–May 18, 1863
by Michael B. Ballard, Stephen Nathaniel Dossman, William B. Feis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Ulysses S. Grant’s ingenious campaign to capture the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River was one of the most decisive events of the Civil War and one of the most storied military expeditions in American history. The ultimate victory at Vicksburg effectively cut the Confederacy in...
Book cover of Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito
by Rachana Kamtekar, Mark McPherran, P T. Geach
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004

Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by...
Book cover of Corey Village and the Cayuga World

Corey Village and the Cayuga World

Implications from Archaeology and Beyond

by Michael Rogers, David Pollack, Wesley D. Stoner
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured...
Book cover of The Worlds of William Penn
by Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention...
Book cover of Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change

Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder

by Jennifer Smith, Akiko Tsuchiya, Christine Arkinstall
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...
Book cover of The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986
by M. Alonso, Norman K Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014

This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
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