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    The Way of the Hermit

    Ken Smith

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    Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off to a rocky beginning, but I started to see Treig in a…

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    Ken’s Guide to the Bible

    Ken Smith

    An insider’s guide to the Bible with a focus on sex, gore and lunacy.

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    The Way of the Hermit

    Ken Smith

    A rare insight into an alternative way of life in this unforgettable journey of one man pitting his wits against the wilderness and enduring endless isolation, providing precious insights into…

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    Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide

    Including the state's beloved Lakes Region and Seacoast, this sixth edition of the comprehensive trail guide from the Appalachian Mountain Club covers New Hampshire hiking more than 200 hiking trails.

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    Swedenborg’s Lusthus 2024

    This is a book about a small house. It is also a book about place, memory and the modes of our thinking. Constructed in 1747 and situated at the end…

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    Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The best of Joe Bageant

    Joe Bageant,Ken Smith

    ‘I’m so damn average that what I write resonates with people’, Joe Bageant said in explaining how he gained a global following for his web-published essays. In 2004 at the…

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    Monograph on landscape architect Ken Smith, known for dazzling temporary installations (WallFlowers at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York), popular urban parks (Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street, New York)…

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    Trail Guide to Mount Washington and the Presidential Range

    Ken Macgray, Steven D Smith

    Enjoy the benefits of the most popular sections of AMC's White Mountain Guide in a smaller, more portable form. This abridged version of the guide includes the first two sections…

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    Ken Smith Landscape Architect: Urban Projects

    Ken Smith/New York Projects focuses on 3 prominent works in New York City: East River Ferry Landings, PS 19, and MoMA Rooftop Garden. Through colourful, playful drawings and photographs each…

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    Emperor of Industry: Lord Armstrong of Cragside

    Ken Smith

    This is the story of Lord W.G. Armstrong of Cragside (1810-1900) inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong Gun.

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    Collage: A Life in Fragments

    Ken Smith

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    Tales from My Welsh Village

    Ken Smith

    A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s. Reprint. First Published in 2018. –…

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    More Tales from My Welsh Village

    Ken Smith

    A second humorous novel based on the outrageous antics of local characters from the author’s early life in the South Wales Valleys. By the author of the very popular and…

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    Camp Century: The Bucephalus Incident

    Ken Smith

    Three children. One prince. A mysterious treasure as ancient as the world, itself. Lauren, Ben, and Charlie lead normal lives until the day an ailing, old army captain knocks on…

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    Sales Lessons from the Masters

    Ken Smith

    Ken Smith is an experienced insurance sales and marketing executive who knows firsthand the challenges of the sales profession. He speaks hundreds of times a year in front of agent…

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    Lifeline

    Ken Smith

    William is a typical 5th grader, except for one important thing: He is the not-so-proud owner of a failing heart. It doesn’t help that he has an overprotective mom and…

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    Herald Diary: Somebunny Loves You

    Ken Smith

    So what did Scots have to smile about this year? All the top stories that made up The Herald’s funniest stories of the year, published every day in the newspaper’s…

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    Shed: Poems 1980-2001

    Ken Smith

    Shed houses poems from all the poetry books by Ken Smith published by Bloodaxe in the last twenty years. It is a journal of two decades of journeys East and…

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    Historic Tales From Newcastle

    Ken Smith

    Newcastle’s colourful and sometimes dramatic history is brought to life in this series of varied tales spanning several hundred years. Including some of the most fascinating accounts from his previous…

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    Celestial Discharge and Other Poems

    Ken Smith

    The poems in this collection are not about something else. Rather, in the words of James Joyce, each poem is the transient, constantly displaced, forever disappearing thing itself.

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    Before Animals Talked and Other Poems

    This is his second collection of poems. The poems are never about something else. They are what they are. In the words of James Joyce, each poem is "the transient…

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    Homosexual Theology

    What does God think of Homosexuality? After all He created it. He also created heterosexuality. This short book is an attempt to find out what God thinks and so we…

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    Citizens & Soldiers

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    A compiled collection of the mostly World War 2 art of Ken Smith, most of which has been published as game box or magazine covers for the Advanced Squad Leader…

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    The Herald Diary 2018: No moos is good moos

    Ken Smith

    A selection of the year’s funniest stories published every day in The Herald’s “Diary’ column, gathered together for you to enjoy all over again.

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    Hodaka Motorcycles Collector’s Edition: The Complete to Guide to America’s Favorite Trail Bike

    Ken Smith

    Hodaka motorcycles were some of the most creatively marketed and designed motorcycles in America. The bike of choice for the hip young racer, the street-savvy urbanite, or the 14-year-old boy’s…

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    Luck!

    Ken Smith

    In the early hours of March 5, 1865 Lucas Brooks and Danny Boyle broke into the home of President Abraham Lincoln. They were hoping to find a few semi-valuable objects…

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    Communication in Leadership Redux

    Ken Smith

    Communicating official messages to soldiers within the United States Army is an endeavor that leaders at every level have conducted since the inception of the organization. Army doctrine links communication…

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    Hodaka Motorcycles: The Complete to Guide to America’s Favorite Trailbike

    Ken Smith

    Hodaka motorcycles were some of the most creatively marketed and designed motorcycles in America. The bike of choice for the hip young racer, the street-savvy urbanite, or the 14-year-old boy’s…

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    The Changing Past: Trends in South African Historical Writing

    Ken Smith

    E.H. Carr said: Before you study the history, study the historian. Written history often tells us more about the historian’s own times than it does of the times about which…

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    The Herald Diary: Owling with Laughter: Best-of-the-Decade Bumper Edition!

    Ken Smith

    A bumper collection of the decade’s funniest stories, as published every day in The Herald’s ‘Diary’ column, gathered together for you to enjoy all over again.

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    The North East Coast

    Ken Smith

    The North East Coast presents a selection of true-life accounts from the region's fascinating maritime and seafaring history. Ken Smith throws the spotlight on such exciting episodes as Grace Darling…

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    The Herald Diary 2019: A Quacking Good Read

    Ken Smith

    And fortunately the readers of The Herald newspaper agree, as over the past year they have sent the newspaper’s Diary column their funniest moments, whether it’s about the daft things…

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    A History of Disaster: The Worst Storms, Accidents, and Conflagrations in Atlantic Canada

    Ken Smith

    An exploration of more than 40 disasters that have hit Atlantic Canada in the past 250 years.

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    War at Sea: Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic

    Ken Smith

    The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest single engagement of the Second World War, resulted in the coming-of-age of the Royal Canadian Navy. By 1945, the Canadian Navy had transformed…

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    Cookie Crumbs: An Autobidography

    Ken Smith

    Perhaps the greatest story ever written is the story of man and his best friend the dog. Its pages abound with tales of adventure, courage, and loyalty - pages that…

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    Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans

    Ken Smith

    Written by the author of KEN’S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE, an illustrated book containing profiles of twenty two Americans who came to an unfortunate end, including Karen Silkwood, who was…

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    Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970

    Ken Smith

    After scouring obscure educational films for nine years, the author offers a fascinating stroll down memory lane via the hundreds of films designed to keep public school children on the…

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    Junk English

    Ken Smith

    Reaching as high as no.3 on the Washington Post best-seller list, this book pulls hundreds of examples from everyday life to show that sloppy English is not merely the province…

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    Junk English 2

    Ken Smith

    Written so that the ordinary writer and speaker of English can readily see the manipulations of language, this reference points out the alarmingly verbal atrocities used today. It is arranged…

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    Coast Guard Follies

    Ken Smith

    Smith relives his three-year adventure with the U.S. Coast Guard that took him from the frigid North Atlantic to an atoll in the South Pacific called Ulithi. His is a…

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    Echoes of the North East Miners: Some last traces of the collieries and tributes to the pitmen

    Ken Smith

    Comprehensive guide to what remains of the North East’s Mining Heritage

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    Collected Poems

    Ken Smith

    New retrospective by Ken Smith (1938-2003), a major voice in world poetry - and the first poet published by Bloodaxe in 1978 - whose work and example inspired a whole…

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    Wings But No Angel

    C. K. Smith

    The life story of an extraordinary man who witnessed so much. His uncompromising attitude singled him out as an exceptional individual but the five years of warfare defined him. Just…

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    A History of Disaster: The Worst Storms, Accidents, and Conflagrations in Atlantic Canada

    Ken Smith

    An exploration of more than 40 disasters that have hit Atlantic Canada in the past 250 years.

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    The Way of the Hermit

    Ken Smith

    The extraordinary story of a true hermit, an alternative way of life and endless isolation in the Scottish Highlands. Written with Will Millard, Ken Smith's The Way of the Hermit…

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    The Town Moor: Newcastle’s Green Heart

    Ken Smith,Tom Yellowley

    Newcastle’s Town Moor is a unique green space at the heart of a busy conurbation. Famously bigger than Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath, it has seen horse racing, political meetings…

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