Smith: 13242 books
The Eating Instinct
Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important...
Imagine
Living in a Socialist U.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population....
Coach's Guide to Game-Winning Softball Drills
Developing the Essential Skills in Every Player
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
“Mastering these drills will arm your players with one of the biggest intangibles necessary to perform well--confidence.”
--Michele Smith
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Hall of Fame pitcher Michele Smith throws one right down the middle with this big collection of more than 250 skill-building...
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell
A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith’s wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu’s North Shore—a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger,...
Crossing the Heart of Africa
An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Banff Mountain Book Awards WINNER
The spellbinding true story of retracing the extraordinary trek of Ewart "the Leopard" Grogan—the legendary British explorer who, in order to win the woman he loved, attempted to become the first person to cross Africa
In 1898 the dashing...
by Evelyn E. Smith, Roger Dee, Ross Rocklynne
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
The awe-inspiring twelfth volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction!! Featuring: Once a Greech, by Evelyn E. Smith Pandemic, by J.F. Bone My Fair Planet, by Evelyn E. Smith Sorry: Wrong Dimension, by Ross Rocklynne Junior, by Robert Abernathy Song in a Minor Key, by C.L. Moore The Right Time, by...
by E. E."Doc" Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
E.E. "DOC" SMITH COLLECTION Cronicles of the Lensmen 1. Triplanetary 2. First Lensmen 3. Galactic Patrol 4. Gray Lensmen 5. Second Stage Lensmen 6. Children of the Lens 7. The Vortex Blaster The Skylark Series 1. The Skylark of Space 2. Skylark Three 3. The Skylark of Valeron Other Work Masters of Space The Galaxy Primes Spacehounds of IPC Subspace Survivors
Wade in the Water
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States
Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else
Are they so buffered...
The One
The Life and Music of James Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our time
Playing 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling...
Women Drummers
A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In 1942, drummer Viola Smith sent shock waves through the jazz world by claiming in Down Beat magazine that “hep girls” could sit in on any jam session and hold their own. In Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country, Angela Smith takes Viola at her word, offering a comprehensive...
Girl Walks Out of a Bar
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a...
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.
“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should...
The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers
The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks?
Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary...
Mastered by the Clock
Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly...