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Robert W Smith
Assassination, espionage, war, and vigilante violence.Welcome to Chicago in 1917. Within this caldron of intrigue and deceit, live nearly half a million Irish and German American immigrants, among them Irish-born…
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This collection brings together the work of leading international scholars to provide a multi-disciplinary analysis of Deleuze's theory of temporality.
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You cannot find a Christian without prayer, Martin Luther said, just as you cannot find a living man without a pulse. The pulse never stands still; it is always throbbing…
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Martial Musings offers a special perspective of martial arts as they evolved during the 20th century.
By: Robert W. Smith, Pub. 1883, reprinted 2023, 826 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-101-2.
Armstrong County was created in1800 from Allegheny, Lycoming and Westmoreland Counties. Its early settlers…
For sheer, raw excitement, this work inspired by the 1993 Storm of the Century, the great blizzard which covered much of the United States, will become a classic. The blending…
Here’s an engaging selection that is built completely around the blues scale. Percussion support for the style adds a flavor of the real thing. A stupendous introduction to the blues…
This brilliant new work at the young level by master composer Robert W. Smith begins with a characteristic fanfare with an elegant ballad-like section. The rhythms sounds hard but are…
This work, from the pen of Robert W. Smith, consists of an original theme with a set of three variations. A charismatic melody sets the scene and knits itself to…
Here’s a moving holiday work based on Silent Night. Incorporating his technique for providing a soloist experience for any member of the ensemble (or a combination of players), Robert W…
Inspired by the events surrounding the railway between Atlanta and Chattanooga during the early years of the Civil War, Robert W. Smith stages the train chase complete with fascinating textures…
Encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, working…
Solving word problems requires both strategy and skill. When confronted with a problem, students need to figure out how to solve the problemand then solve it! The 250 exercises in…
Experience in-depth views of specific events surrounding the early Native Americans.
Original scripts based on historic events and highlights; introductory background information to set the stage for each script; reader’s response and extension activities; convenient, reproducible pull-out scripts for each student.
Includes 150 leveled passages with a variety of interesting topics; comprehensive questions that target reading skills & strategies; and standards & benchmarks. –Cover.
These lessons reinforce nonfiction reading skills while connecting social studies to other areas of the curriculum. Some features include lesson plans, reproducible reading selections and quizzes, student activity pages, and…
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Distilling the martial art known in the West as kung fu, Robert Smith presents Chinese boxing (ch'uan shu) as an art that combines the hardness of a wall and the…
The critical role of early American diplomacy in preserving the existence of the United States
Fits perfectly into Robert McMahon’s series, Issues in the History of American Foreign Relations, bringing in a much-needed contribution from the early American period; Includes 10-20 primary documents to enhance…
How did the ideology that inspired the American Revolution and the US Constitution translate into foreign policy? Robert W. Smith identifies three contending brands of republicanism - classical, whig, and…
One will die. One will find himself by learning that truth stands alone, wears no flag and employs no spokesman. The other two will live forever, legends in the minds…
This book, originally published in 1982, describes and explains in detail the archival evidence, including the ‘Great Debate’ between Harlow Shapley and H. D. Curtis, of our own star system…
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This work in the field of Chinese martial arts covers all the most important aspects of learning this ancient boxing method, including the history, philosophy, training sets and the two-person…
This volume is compiled from prophetic utterances and writings of noted church leaders, statesmen, scientists, world famous writers, philosophers, commentators, etc., among which are George Washington’s Vision, the White Horse…
