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In The Emergence of Agriculture, well-known archaeologist Bruce Smith explores the initial emergence and early expansion of agriculture, and the trans...
In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages...
A Portrait of the Mountain Goat
The American mountain goat is one of the most elusive and least familiar species of hoofed mammals in North America. Confined to the remote and rugged...
Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on imp...
Summary: "Along with sixty full-color illustrations of the light and airy baths themselves, The Japanese Bath, delves into the aesthetic of bathing Ja...
The Prodigal Son Returns
Our Father is a compelling memoir by Bruce Smith chronicling his life as a fatherless boy growing up in segregated Texas and his rise to fame and fort...
Decorating with Arts and Crafts
Though the functional beauty of the Arts and Crafts movement has long been a part of American culture, it is now revitalized by simplicity seekers try...
“There are two schools: one that sings the sheen and hues, the necessary pigments and frankincense while the world dries and the other voice like wa...
A graduate-level textbook that can also serve as a reference for engineers and researchers working on problems in modern power systems. Emphasizes inc...
Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America
Organized into four sections, the twelve chapters of Rivers of Change are concerned with prehistoric Native American societies in eastern North Americ...
Physical Delivery in Libraries
Moving Materials is the guide to contemporary logistics management for libraries. Eleven experts in the field explore every aspect of this multi-milli...
The Story of Arsenal Stadium
Highbury - citadel for Arsenal Football Club for over 90 years and home to the memories of over 10,000 matches. In this informative book, Bruce Smith ...
Republican Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville
This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing...
Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation
Based on the author's thesis, Harvard. Bibliographical footnotes....
On the Tradition of Political Philosophy
Between Eternities reflects on the possibility of political philosophy as an ongoing, architectonic activity that is necessarily linked to both the pa...
Finding God Amidst Disaster - Reflections from a Hurricane Katrina Survivor
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A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise, and the Rights of Property
Conservation and Biopolitics of Our National Elk Herd
An inside look at working with the majestic elk—and the controversies surrounding their conservation....
A Memory of Charles E. Smith
In the tradition of "Tuesdays with Morrie," these short "conversations" past the wit and wisdom of a remarkable American immigrant on to a new generat...
This book examines the structural, organization and operational costs, regional distribution of crime property losses and recoveries, arrests and conv...
Reconsidering Cicero
Are we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruce S...
Fun with Stuff is a collection of humor columns, many of which first appeared in a Southern California Mensa publication. But dont be frightened; they...
The Other Lover is a collection of bittersweet American love poems. Writing with jazz-like verbal panache, Bruce Smith reaches for the paradoxical pul...
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Games and Elections
Games and elections are fundamental activities in society with applications in economics, political science, and sociology. These topics offer familia...
Attending to the O-Factor
Journeying into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, this text explores the physical aspects of human speech and the surrounding environm...
Organization and Administration
Bruce Smith's new collection of poems presents a formidable vision of growing up "white male North American" in the fifties and sixties. With poems wh...
Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture
From Shakespeare’s “green-eyed monster” to the “green thought in a green shade” in Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden,” the color green was ...
How World War II changed New Castle, Indiana. “This is a unique look at the war, far from the front lines, but equally impacting life on the home fr...
Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "comic" and "tragic" is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in c...
A book containing blessings, to better ones life. The author has studied each prayer and is now living a healthy life....
Thomas Hughes and the End of the American Century
A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth century Tom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence a...
A Field Biologist's Journey and an Indian Reservation's Renewal
In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in...
North American Vertical Rope Techniques for Caving ... Rappellers
North American vertical rope techniques for caving, search and rescue, firefighting, rope rescue, mountaineering, window cleaning, river runners, rock...
The Next Stage
Rethinking Cutwork in an Age of Distraction
Video cuts in Shakespeare productions by companies like the Wooster Group and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, cut-and-paste searches of Shakespeare's texts in ...
A careful study of the political thought of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, revealing the roots of modern democracy...