Best Selling Books by Clint Smith

A Best Book of the Year 2023: TIME NPR’s Best Books New York Public Library Electric Lit The Root NBC Today Mother Jones The New York Times bestselling poetry collection with \"inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom\" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, author of #1 bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith’s lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children’s lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through the changing world of which we are all a part. Above Ground is a breathtaking collection that follows Smith''s first award-winning book of poetry, Counting Descent.

Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness. Clint Smith''s debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward. - Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards - 2017 ''One Book One New Orleans'' Book Selection

This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation''s collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country''s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted. Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith''s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Stowe Prize Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021

Design Next-Generation Wireless Networks Using the Latest Technologies Fully updated throughout to address current and emerging technologies, standards, and protocols, Wireless Networks, Third Edition, explains wireless system design, high-speed voice and data transmission, internetworking protocols, and 4G convergence. New chapters cover LTE, WiMAX, WiFi, and backhaul. You''ll learn how to successfully integrate LTE, WiMAX, UMTS, HSPA, CDMA2000/EVDO, and TD-SCDMA into existing cellular/PCS networks. Configure, manage, and optimize high-performance wireless networks with help from this thoroughly revised, practical guide. Comprehensive coverage includes: Overview of 3G wireless systems UMTS (WCDMA) and HSPA CDMA2000 and EVDO TD-SCDMA and TD-CDMA LTE WiMAX VoIP WiFi Broadband system RF design considerations Network design considerations Backhaul Antenna system selection, including MIMO System design for UMTS, CDMA2000 with EVDO, TD-SCDMA, TD-CDMA, LTE, and WiMAX Communication sites including in-building and colocation guidelines 5G and beyond

*The first-out-of-the-gate reference on LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Services), the technology designed to carry voice, data, and video signals in two directions--ane which may soon overtake DSL, cable, as a broadband delivery solution.*Offers wireless telecom managers and engineers a start-to-finish look at LMDS services, network operation and management, and implementation--plus Network Design Guidelines.*Provides a clear picture of key issues and difficulties that arise in the initial stages of LMDS system design and deployment.

As wireless networks take ever-bigger bites out of the USD 350 billion dollar telephone market, they create their own performance problems. International customers require global networks; more customers mean bigger networks; new services create more complicated networks. Then there''s changing out the network; each time a provider introduces a new technology or capability, it has to do so without interrupting service delivery to existing customers. Here is realistic advice on metrics, troubleshooting methods, design guidelines, revenue assurance and more, from a team that has performed the same services for AT&T Wireless, Nextel and Verizon.

During a career that has spanned decades Clint Smith has continued to teach the fundamentals of marksmanship to students from all occupations from Military, to Law Enforcement, to Civilian. He continues to teach and learn from his students that travel from around the county and internationally to Lakeview, OR to attend courses at Thunder Ranch. Smith''s positive influence on students as well as firearms trainers can be seen in the longevity and success of both Thunder Ranch Texas and Oregon, in addition to ten years of International Training Consultants- ITC. In that time Clint has taught tens of thousands of students in hundreds of classes. LOGIC continues to be the foundation of the school and the approach to learning. This book is a compilation of a lifetime of training and teaching the rifle for over 45 years. In it Clint shares not only technique but wisdom in safe handling and his passion for teaching. This is Clint Smith''s Urban Rifle.

The wireless communications industry is growing rapidly. Newcomers and oldtimers alike need help to catch up, and they will find it in this book: answers to the most frequently asked questions; new technologies and nomenclatures covered in detail; quick answers to key, specific questions; all of wireless, including RF and network issues. The tabbed interior design for easy lookup makes this the perfect desk reference.

The integration of 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and 802.16 (Wi-Max) into wireless networks is a major new potential revenue stream for service providers. This rigorous tutorial shows communications engineers how to re-engineer existing networks to integrate the new standards. Contents: Introduction * Radio Engineering * Network Engineering * Digital Wireless Systems * 802.11 * 802.16 * 802.20 * Convergence Wireless Mobility

The Georgia Air National Guard units in Marietta, Savannah, Warner Robins, and other locations have played a role in major conflicts around the world. Clint Smith, a retired member of the Georgia Air National Guard uses images from the Georgia National Guard history office and the Historical Society of the Georgia National Guard to illustrate its history since the guard''s official creation in 1947.

Clint Smith, author of NYT Bestseller How the Word is Passed, continues his exploration of public memory, reckoning with the legacy of World War II, one of the most consequential events of the last century, and one that we still haven''t fully faced up to. Beneath the Soil is a memorial, a people-and-place based excavation of the non-dominant narratives of a war that continues to shape the contours of the world in order to truly grapple with the history of World War II from an international perspective.

Hiring has never been more challenging. There are fewer qualified applicants with more employers competing for them. And most business owners are stuck trying to figure this out on their own. Most books on hiring are written for HR professionals. How to Hire was written to give owners & operators a playbook to achieve hiring success. How to Hire covers everything you need to hire the right people, including: * Clarifying mission/vision/values * Understanding who you need * Attracting high-quality candidates * Running an effective hiring process * Building a winning culture The strategies and processes described in this book are proven. Clint Smith has worked closely with hundreds of business owners to develop them. This playbook is the foundation for his company''s hiring software, which is used by over 17,000 companies to hire over 100,000 people per year. TOOLS TO GET YOU STARTED How to Hire was written with one word in mind: ACTION. We created a website with all of the resources you need to attract, hire, and onboard the right people for your team, including: * Ideal candidate profiles * Job description templates * Interview guides * Onboarding checklists * Training plans

Things are in decline...for Joseph Lowe, a rootless young man who falls for the wrong girl; for Gregory Bath, an aristocratic magnate who spares Lowe an almost certain death for his \"transgression,\" imposing upon him a kind of parasitic servitude. Now working as a line cook at Bath''s legendary Tudor Quoin, as well as catering to the growing needs of a man far older than he seems, Lowe desperately seeks release from a trap which has ensnared him for the past nine months. But who could possibly escape a family as powerful, as influential, or as far-reaching as the Baths? In the end, choices must be made, sides must be drawn, and for Lowe this means discovering an unlikely salvation between himself and his captor, as well as learning the true meaning of \"family.\"Clint Smith is the author of ''Ghouljaw and Other Stories, '' a collection of fourteen dark tales which, as Publishers Weekly noted, \"range from the poignant and unsettling to the viscerally horrific.\"

Are you among the 50 percent of American adults who do not yet have a will? For many of us, busy day-to-day lives often result in putting the crucial process of estate planning precariously on the back burner. In fact, if you don''t have a clear, considered plan, government treasurers and probate attorneys may just have the ultimate say on your estate. Estate Planning: A Plain English Guide to Wills and Trusts is attorney Clint W. Smith''s easy-to-read, invaluable book that will demystify the confusing legal issues and dispel the common misunderstandings that can have serious repercussions for anyone with a net worth of over $50,000. Establishing a well-considered estate plan now can save you or your loved ones considerable costs, months of time, and even relationships. While many individuals believe that wills are the most beneficial way in which to handle estates, the author introduces the option of revocable living trusts as a potential alternative to wills. While wills by their nature result in time-consuming probate, public disclosure, estate tax, and attorney fees, Smith explains that revocable living trusts can provide you with a way to minimize taxes, provide flexibility, help navigate the realities of a living will, and solve the problems inherent to joint tenancy, right of survivorship, and community property. Estate Planning: A Plain English Guide to Wills and Trusts also clears up common misconceptions about wills, offers answers to specific questions about trusts, and offers a step-by-step guide to plan your own revocable living trust. This informative, essential book will teach you the questions you need to ask, and motivate you to act immediately. Accessible and illuminating, Estate Planning will ensure that you are empowered to do a better job of it than the state, and that you leave behind a fitting legacy for your loved ones.

\"These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked.\"-Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of \"The Last Policeman\" \"Clint Smith''s \"Ghouljaw\" stories use vivid imagery to build intense close-ups that connect reader with character, then adds psychologies corrupted by sex, loss, betrayal, guilt, cowardice, denial, and that fatal flaw pomposity. With sprightly literate language he twists old motifs into new shapes of the rural gothic, often embodied in some of the spookiest \"monsters from the id\" yet imagined-creatures gory, squishy, bloody, witchy, wild. Not to forget a demonic \"dog\" that scared the bejesus out of me! The monsters of humanity, too, find new life here, as blood cults, avenging mystics, violent poachers, PTSD, and repressed memories incarnate. Clint Smith''s \"Ghouljaw\" releases into the reader''s world a darkness that teaches, shakes, and warns. Read and after a night of tossing sleep you''ll awaken changed. For the better? Well, as it is with Smith''s characters, that matter''s up to you.\"-Jim Powell, MFA, Senior Lecturer, IUPUI Over the past several years, Clint Smith has established himself as a powerfully imaginative writer of weird fiction. In this first collection of short stories, Smith demonstrates the multifaceted talents that will establish him as one of the notable weird writers of his generation. What distinguishes Smith''s work is both the originality of its weird conceptions and its careful delineation of human character. One of his earliest tales, \"Benthos,\" features both these qualities, telling a grim tale of alienated youth and drug-taking that veers into the grotesquely supernatural. In \"The Tell-Tale Offal,\" Smith cleverly updates Poe''s \"The Tell-Tale Heart\" in a grisly story of physical horror. In \"What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell,\" Smith uses the war in Afghanistan as a chilling backdrop to unthinkable horrors unleashed in the parched sands of the Middle East. \"I have no doubt that Clint Smith will be heard from in the future as a leading practitioner of the modern weird tale. The stories in this collection testify not only to his literary potential but to his already significant accomplishments.\"-From S. T. Joshi''s foreword

As a young boy growing up in a city like Indianapolis with crime and drugs was very opening to my eyes.

An annual anthology of strange and darksome tales, which this year profiles the work of 19 contemporary scribes: Clint Smith, Joshua Rex, Douglas Thompson, Timothy Granville, Elin Olausson, Gordon Brown, David Surface, Douglas Ford, Alexander James, Jason A. Wyckoff, Rhonda Eikamp, Steve Toase, Tim Major, Ashley Stokes, Regina Garza Mitchell, Marc Joan, Danny Rhodes, Charles Wilkinson, and LC von Hessen. \"A very promising anthology.\" -Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year \"An annual highlight of the genre.\" -Anthony Watson, Dark Musings \"Weirdness with truth at its heart.\" -Des Lewis, Real-Time Reviews

Tim Jennings searches for his fiancee who presumably died in a tragic accident, but he believes that she is still alive -- her body never recovered. His search leads him headlong into a subversive underground organization dedicated to toppling the U.S. government. The organization plans to implement a mysterious medical formula that halts the aging process to accomplish its evil goals. While Time confronts evil, he struggles with his own faith. What will be the outcome?

While providing basic theory, this book also covers design principles and all current operating standards, it is unique because of its in-depth attention to on-the-job troubleshooting. In addition, discussion of each major topic is followed by numerous examples and interesting case studies drawn from actual projects.

Instructional textbook for fighting with a rifle in an urban environment