Stephen Smith: 144 books

Despite many setbacks Ralph Hartman now runs a successful transatlantic business.He is happily married and life for Ralphis good. At a party he rebuffs the predatory advances of the hostess, Anna. Shortly afterwards she falsely accuses him of trying to seduce her. Ralph isinnocent but has a...

Foursquare means bold and forthright. Here you will find a dozen such stories. They are stories that will appeal to everyone from teenagers to seniors. They are stories which are entertaining, but with all the references to art, folklore, geography, history, literature, numismatics, and science they...

Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...

Première grande biographie de Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ce livre relate l'histoire d'un "indigène" devenu enfant de troupe, officier de l'armée française, maréchal président à vie puis empereur de Centrafrique et, après sa condamnation à mort et sept années de prison, "treizième apôtre du Christ",...

L’Afrique du Sud passe pour « le pays de Mandela ». Mais l’homme qui incarne le « miracle » politique en Afrique du Sud est si exceptionnel qu’il ne peut être représentatif d’un pays couturé des plaies de l’apartheid. Ce privilège ambigu revient à son ex-épouse, la « mère de...

Douceur du chocolat, évocateur de délice fondant et de béatitude repue... De tout sauf de guerre meurtrière. Pourtant la guerre du cacao fait rage, du fond de la brousse ivoirienne, jusque dans les tranchées du marché à terme de Londres, en passant par les méandres du négoce international....

Welcome to Connor, My Hometown is a novel about a small town in Ohio and, more importantly, its various people, their lives, loves, failures and successes, and their interactions with one another.   It employs a device, first seen in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, whereas, in that...

« L’Afrique noire est mal partie », alertait René Dumont en 1962, alors que le « soleil des indépendances » venait de se lever sur le continent, résolu à prendre son destin en main. Quarante ans plus tard, mal partie et jamais arrivée, l’Afrique se meurt : 3,3 millions de victimes dans...

J'aime l'Afrique… Pendant plusieurs générations, en France, ce fut un credo banal : on aimait ce continent attachant, certes sauvage, mais peuplé de gens aimables. C'en est fini de ces ritournelles. Une époque est révolue. Désormais, l'Afrique est présentée comme un continent en perdition,...

This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries...

While 70% of all organizational change initiatives fail, this one succeeded and improved telecom producer Mitel Corporations bottom line profitability by a factor of 40. Like many organizations, Mitels entrenched processes, procedures and policies its Sacred Cows had resulted in products that...

Over 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger, and over ten million children die each year from preventable causes. These may seem like overwhelming statistics, but as Stephen Smith shows in this call to arms, global poverty is something that we can and should solve within our lifetimes. Ending...

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The...

Every day, inner and outer violence ravages the soul, leaving us weak, fearful, and malnourished. In Soul Custody, Stephen W. Smith presents eight choices to help readers reclaim custody of their one and only life—choices about silence, community, vocation, honoring the body, finding one’s true...