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  • The Storm Before the Calm: The Early Lives of Venus and Hiro

    by Ron D Smith ...
    The wedding that Thanksgiving weekend 1958 in Chicago should never have happened. Venus Ballesteros should have been on her way back to the Philippines. Hiro Tanamachi should have died in the war.Somehow, the man who had trained to die as a suicide submarine pilot in the Japanese Navy, and the woman whose hometown had been occupied by the Japanese, met 8,000 miles away from their homelands. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Piper Cherokee

    A Family History

    by Ron Smith ...
    This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from STOL modifications and new engines to seaplanes and tailwheel conversions. The hugely successful Piper PA-28 was produced and sold as a direct competitor to the Cessna 172. Initially produced with a ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • 100 Questions That Have No Easy Answer

    Classic Thought Experiments, Moral Dilemmas, and Philosophical Puzzles That Make You Question What You Believe

    by Ron Smith ...
    You have asked questions that no lab can settle. Should you pull the lever if it saves 5 lives and ends 1. Is the person who wakes up with no memory of yesterday still you. Could your entire life be a simulation you cannot detect. This book puts 100 of those questions on the table, not to give you the answer key, but to train the muscle that finds answers under pressure.Each chapter is a short, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defiant Mind, The

    Living Inside a Stroke

    by Ron Smith ...
    “What is a stroke?” This is the question that plagues Ron Smith as he emerges from the carpet bombing of his brain. The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke is a first-person account of a massive ischemic stroke to the brain stem. Smith takes the reader inside the experience and shows how recuperation happens ― the challenges of communication, the barriers to treatment, the frustrations of being ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rear Gunner Pathfinders

    by Ron Smith ...
    A Bomber Command book with a difference. Rear Gunner Pathfinders is the story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a 'Tail-End Charlie' rear gunner in a Lancaster. Flying firstly with 626 squadron, and later 156 Pathfinder squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations and recorded them with the intensity brought on by the isolation of being cocooned in his lonely gun ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come up a Cloud

    by Ron D Smith ...
    A troubled young man steps through the back door of a shop in a small town on a blistering August day. In a rampage that lasts less than 60 seconds, he kills six men and then himself. Maesie Mattsen is the only survivor of the killing spree, but the horror she witnessed has made her too afraid to leave the sanctuary of her backyard. Soon, she will have no choice.Fearing how their neighbors will ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Farmer's Goodbye

    by Ron D Smith ...
    After a half century of farming, an old man takes one last walk across his land. ... Read more

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  • Habeas Equus

    by Ron D Smith ...
    Just before a man reports to prison, he and his sons have to deal with a dead horse. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defence Acquisition and Procurement

    How (Not) to Buy Weapons

    by Ron P. Smith ...
    Series series Elements in Defence Economics
    The acquisition and procurement of major weapons systems is fraught with difficulties. They tend to be delivered late, over budget and unable to meet requirements. This Element provides an economic analysis of why this happens. Market structure, demand by the military and supply by the arms firms, shapes the conduct of the agents and generates the poor performance observed. The military are trying ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • That Beauty in the Trees

    Poems

    by Ron Smith, Dave Smith ...
    Series series Southern Messenger Poets
    Moving effortlessly from Virginia to Italy and beyond, Ron Smith’s new volume responds with a range of emotions from humor to horror and with a variety of forms from the sonnet to visually expressive organic shapes. The book’s forty-three pieces gather themselves into three flights that hover above and touch down among the politics of memory and the psychology of beauty. With inspiration drawn ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Our Lady of Aberdeen

    by Ron Smith ...
    "The remarkable story of the survival of this unique statue"A result of 8 year's research, this book tells the story of the remarkable survival of a wooden statue from Aberdeen.It has survived the religious persecution of the 16th and 17th century, was smuggled into the Low Countries, and was again hidden there during wars and persecutions. It is in a church in Brussels today, where it is held in ... Read more

    $1.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • St. John Ogilvie - The story of Scotland's only post-reformation saint

    by Ron Smith ...
    10th March 2015 is the 400th anniversary of the death by hanging of Scotland's only post-Reformation saint, John Ogilvie.St. Thomas' Church, Keith, have produced a book about St. John Ogilvie. He was born at Keith, and died in Glasgow. He had a short life, full of intrigue and mystery, as it was illegal to be a priest in those days, and he often travelled around in disguise. This book tells all ... Read more

    $1.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus