Best Selling Books by Michael Smith

It is New Year at Camelot and a mysterious green knight appears at King Arthur’s court. Challenging the knights of the Round Table to a Christmas game, he offers his splendid axe as a prize to whoever is brave enough to behead him with just one strike. The condition is that his challenger must seek him out in a year and a day to have the deed returned. Sir Gawain accepts and decapitates the stranger, only to see him pick up his head, walk out of the hall and ride away on his horse. Now Gawain must complete his part of the bargain, search for his foe and confront what seems his doom... Michael Smith’s translation of this magnificent Arthurian romance draws on his intimate experience of the North West of England and his knowledge of mediaeval history, culture and architecture. He takes us back to the original poetic form of the manuscript and brings it alive for a modern audience, while revealing the poem’s historic and literary context. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed recreations of the illuminated lettering in the original manuscript and the author’s own linocut prints, each meticulously researched for contemporary accuracy. This is an exciting new edition that will appeal both to students of the Gawain-poet and the general reader alike.

English food is enjoying a revival after decades spent in the shadow of European and other cuisines. Michael Smith''s highly acclaimed book is centred on eighteenth-century recipes, but also delves back into Elizabethan and Stuart kitchens, and his skill in adapting historic dishes for the contemporary cook puts Almond Soup, Asparagus and Bacon Fraze, and Caveached Sole within easy reach of today''s reader. Traditionally, English cooking was generous in its use of herbs and spices and adventurous in its combining of flavours, and Michael Smith''s wide-ranging research uncovers dishes with a surprisingly modern air: Mustard Soup, Salmon in Red Wine, and Gooseberry and Rosemary Ice Cream, for example, sit alongside classic potted meats and fish. For too long, breakfast and tea have been seen as the only meals at which English cooking has anything to offer the world. This refreshingly contemporary collection of classic recipes proves once and for all that the inventiveness and diversity of English food deserve to be recognised – and enjoyed. ''Of the many books on our food, he is my favourite, the one I use most.'' Jane Grigson

A British journalist specializing in defense topics offers a readable, useful addition to the literature on American special operations forces.

In "The Imperial President: Above the Law," Michael Smith takes readers on a compelling journey through the controversial Supreme Court ruling that grants broad immunity to the president. This satirical yet insightful exploration delves into the implications for American democracy, examining the historical context, the political fallout, and the potential future of presidential power. With a mix of humor and rigorous analysis, this book sheds light on the dangers of unchecked executive power and the vital importance of maintaining checks and balances in the government.

Wondering what to make for dinner that everyone in the family will enjoy? Looking for simple and delicious recipes to make for breakfast, school lunches, and weekday dinners when you are short on time? Want to make mealtime fun and get your family involved in the kitchen? Stress no more: Michael Smith is ready to save your day! Michael is his family’s cook and has been creating delicious, healthy meals for them for years. Now he’s here to help you make—and enjoy—great-tasting dishes while you satisfy even the pickiest eaters in your family. Try some of Michael’s favourites, such as: · Weekend Pancakes · Nacho Burgers · Old World Chicken Cacciatore -Special Shrimp Fried Rice · Tortilla Lasagna · Boston Cream Cupcakes

On 17 March 1912, Lawrence ''Titus'' Oates crawled bootless from a tent to his death in blizzard conditions of -40°C. Oates, always an outsider on Scott''s Polar expedition, died on his 32nd birthday. His parting words were: ''I am just going outside and may be some time.'' Oates was the epitome of the Victorian English gentleman: a public schoolboy who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War. Stationed in Ireland from 1902 to 1906, his passion became horse racing and he won numerous victories at racecourses throughout Ireland. Oates'' austere and dominating mother blamed Scott for her son''s death and was among the first to challenge the accepted version of events. She continued to control his memory long after his death, keeping his diary and letters hidden, even ordering their destruction from her deathbed. Oates always had difficulty forming lasting relationships with women. He died without realising that he was a father. The story of how Oates died, unaware of his daughter, has been a closely guarded secret until now. This is a compelling and heart-rending story of endurance, bravery and folly. From the author of TOM CREAN: AN UNSUNG HERO

The Power of Dadhood encourages men to father with the knowledge that they are vitally important to the futures of their children. National speaker Michael Byron Smith discusses the implications of a fatherless home, the challenges of parenting, and the hierarchy of fathers. There are absent fathers, present yet uninvolved fathers, authoritative fathers, loving fathers, teaching fathers, and many more. Any man, through The Power of Dadhood, can assess himself, see where he stands, and make choices to become a real Dad and find the power of Dadhood!

This book is a compilation of a life well spent as a world traveler and police commander with the Richmond Virginia Police Department. It is presented as is life, in the form of short stories of police operations and life lessons in other areas. There is much humor inside, because this is the way I saw my life. There is, as well, serious and well-thought-out tales that occurred over a lifetime of living.

This widely anticipated volume offers a systematic introduction to and striking analysis of the central issues animating current debate in moral philosophy.

Chef Michael Smith shares the culinary master he has created at the Inn at Bay Fortune in this stunning collection of recipes inspired by the ingredients of Prince Edward Island, his passion for farming, and cooking with fire. Famous for its miles of beaches, lighthouses, farmland, and sea-food, Prince Edward Island is a destination for travelers and food lovers alike. Nestled on forty-six acres of land overlooking the picturesque Fortune River near the eastern tip of Prince Edward Island, the Inn at Bay Fortune is a leading five-star country inn with the award-winning restaurant FireWorks offering a unique live-fire culinary experience with unforgettable meals enjoyed family-style at long feast tables. The Inn at Bay Fortune is first an organic farm, encompassing eight fertile acres, multiple herb gardens, various permanent farm beds, five greenhouses, and a small orchard. As a restaurant with its own farm, award-winning chef Michael Smith brings his culinary knowledge and passion for flavour to the restaurant and this stunning collection of recipes inspired by the ingredients of the Island and cooking with multiple fires daily to pull off the FireWorks Feast. Featuring gorgeous food and location photography, Farm, Fire & Feast is an impressive cookbook. Smith’s collection of unique recipes includes Iron-Seared Island Scallops, Oven-Baked Salt-Crusted Halibut, Beach Lobster, Wood-Grilled Butcher’s Steak, Smokehouse Pork Belly, Wood-Roasted Spatchcock Chicken and Vegetables, Fire Garden Tacos, Sunchoke Fries, Potato Bacon Cheddar Tart, Strawberry Rhubarb Shortcake, and Wild Blue-berry Maple Grunt. Packed with recipes to cook over fire, wherever possible, alternative cooking methods are provided so a recipe can be pulled off in an indoor kitchen—and all are well within the reach of the home cook.

They have incredible social skills, and are champions when it comes to small talk. They are instantly likable and can effortlessly build rapport with anyone. They are surrounded by people that love and admire them and build phenomenal relationships with almost everyone they meet. They seem to have the ability to achieve any goal they set themselves, and they usually do. They love what they do for a living, and get paid well for it. Here is a preview of what you''ll learn... · Why is charisma so important? · Fast techniques to become more charismatic · How to build your charisma with great communication skills · Steps to increase your charisma and self-confidence · Emotional intelligence and how it can increase your charisma · Using body language to have more charisma · Using charisma to influence and persuade others · Leadership skills and charisma · Much, much more! If you’re ready to say goodbye to the old, uninteresting, and lonely you and say hello to a more confident, authentic, charismatic, and influential version of yourself, then don’t waste a second longer! All these tools are summarized in one print-ready cheat sheet you can download at the end of the book.

Once upon a time, in a small, magical town called Anston, lived a boy named Seth. Anston was unlike any other town in the world. The streets sparkled with fairy dust, the houses were made of gingerbread and candy, and the trees glowed with tiny lights, even in the summer. But the most wonderful thing about Anston was how everyone loved Christmas.

Over 80 innovative recipes and techniques for grilling, smoking, spit-roasting, cooking over coals, and more, from award-winning chef and master of wood-fired cooking Michael Smith. Having spent a lifetime cooking with a passion for the flame, Michael Smith has mastered the many miraculous ways that wood, fire, and smoke go beyond merely cooking food, elevating it instead to crave-worthy meals. Gathering wood, building a fire, tending it, and cooking delicious food with it also offers us a connection to the primal art of cooking over fire. Wood, Fire & Smoke is a celebration of the intoxicating power of live-fire cooking. In over 80 recipes, the book explores the many ways to cook with fire—methods include wood-grilled, wood-smoked, wood oven–roasted (or baked), pit-smoked, plancha-seared, fire-kissed, barbecued, and charcoal-cooked. Cooking fires, each with its own purpose, are featured throughout and include wood ovens, offset smokers, rotisserie rigs, grills, campfires, wood candles, and more. Inside, Smith shares his knowledge and cooking techniques for building and tending every type of cooking fire as well as how to harness the magical power of smoke—hard-earned experience cooking over a myriad of fires at the award-winning wood-fired culinary experience at the picturesque Inn at Bay Fortune. The cookbook features flavour-packed recipes for every backyard cook, including Smoked Cracked Ribs with Old-School Dry Rub; Wood-Roasted Pork Loin with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Apples, and Wilted Arugula; Smoke-Roasted Chicken Wings with Ancho Spice Rub and Blue Cheese Aioli; Ember-Roasted Caveman Ribeye Steaks with Board Sauce; Hay-Smoked Salmon with Maritime Mustard Pickles; Iron-Steamed Mussels with Tomato Basil Broth and Fire Toast, Wood Oven–Fired Pizza; Fire-Kissed Broccoli Salad with Broccoli Hummus; Garlic Thyme Campfire Potatoes; Ember-Roasted Acorn Squash with Tarragon Applesauce; and Rum Creamsicle Campfire Marshmallows. Wood, Fire & Smoke is for everyone who wants to cook over fire—novice and experienced cooks alike.

Organic Synthesis, Fourth Edition, provides a reaction-based approach to this important branch of organic chemistry. Updated and accessible, this eagerly-awaited revision offers a comprehensive foundation for graduate students coming from disparate backgrounds and knowledge levels, to provide them with critical working knowledge of basic reactions, stereochemistry and conformational principles. This reliable resource uniquely incorporates molecular modeling content, problems, and visualizations, and includes reaction examples and homework problems drawn from the latest in the current literature. In the Fourth Edition, the organization of the book has been improved to better serve students and professors and accommodate important updates in the field. The first chapter reviews basic retrosynthesis, conformations and stereochemistry. The next three chapters provide an introduction to and a review of functional group exchange reactions; these are followed by chapters reviewing protecting groups, oxidation and reduction reactions and reagents, hydroboration, selectivity in reactions. A separate chapter discusses strategies of organic synthesis, and he book then delves deeper in teaching the reactions required to actually complete a synthesis. Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions using both nucleophilic carbon reactions are presented, and then electrophilic carbon reactions, followed by pericyclic reactions and radical and carbene reactions. The important organometallic reactions have been consolidated into a single chapter. Finally, the chapter on combinatorial chemistry has been removed from the strategies chapter and placed in a separate chapter, along with valuable and forward-looking content on green organic chemistry, process chemistry and continuous flow chemistry. Throughout the text, Organic Synthesis, Fourth Edition utilizes Spartan-generated molecular models, class tested content, and useful pedagogical features to aid student study and retention, including Chapter Review Questions, and Homework Problems. A full Solutions Manual is also available online for qualified instructors, to support teaching. - Winner, 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association - Fully revised and updated throughout, and organized into 19 chapters for a more cogent and versatile presentation of concepts - Includes reaction examples taken from literature research reported between 2010-2015 - Features new full-color art and new chapter content on process chemistry and green organic chemistry - Offers valuable study and teaching tools, including Chapter Review Questions and Homework Problems for students; Solutions Manual for qualified course instructors

"The U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good."--Back cover.

"On February 4th, 1999, the 639-foot cargo ship named New Carissa ran aground off the Oregon Coast near Coos Bay. What started out to be a routine salvageable resuce operation, turned into one of the largest and most expensive maritime disasters ever recorded in Oregon''s history. This is the true story behind ''the ship that refused to die.''"--P [3].

The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and outlived both. Among the last to see Scott alive, Crean was in the search party that found the frozen body. An unforgettable story of triumph over unparalleled hardship and deprivation.

The church''s process for declaring a marriage null is a mystery to most people. While a declaration of nullity is a matter of public record, the facts of each case are confidential, leading to misunderstanding, misinformation, and pastoral problems.This video demystifies the concepts and the procedures surrounding annulments. In clear and accessible style it answers questions such as:--What does the church teach about marriage?--How is the church''s court system structured and how does it work?--What''s the difference between annulment and divorce?--Why can''t Catholics divorce and remarry?--Do declarations of nullity make children illegitimate?--How does one get a declaration of nullity?This easy-to-understand, accessible video provides an overview of the marriage law of the church and its practical implications and makes difficult concepts understandable to the nonexpert.

His name is Michael Ray Smith. He was born in Sacramento, CA. He is Comanche and Irish. He was a Marine. He is a Sundancer. That doesn''t say much about who he is, where he''s been, or what he''s doing. Or does it? He has walked many paths in his life and done many things in many places with many different people. He''s seen things no man should have to see, and he''s seen things anyone would be blessed to see. His artwork portrays some of these experiences; through his paintings and writing, he attempts to share some of the sights and feelings that have crossed his path these many years. Some of his work depicts the stark realities of his youth and the process of growth he underwent as he moved through the darkness. Some of it represents his sense of humor and the joy he has always felt when interacting with nature spirits. Other parts of his work show the curiosity that''s always causing him to look outside himself, beyond his borders. He paints things that make him laugh or make him cry--or both--at once. His paintings range from symbolic spiritual work to fantasy to shocking reality. Much of his work is very esoteric. Spirit moves him to tell stories with his paintings. His work has had a tremendous impact on those who have walked in that story. Most people see his painting, The Sniper (a painting of an NVA sniper in a bamboo stand, pointing an AK47 straight at the viewer), and say, "Huh?" because they fail to comprehend what it means--they don''t feel it. If they watch a ''Nam vet, from the 101st Airborne, view the painting, they''ll see some of what they missed by seeing his reaction to it. His poetry and prose cover a similar range of subjects and elicit like responses. Often, he prefers to present a poem along with a painting on the same topic; he finds it helps tell the story better. He is a painter, a writer, a sculptor, and a teacher. He is a storyteller, with a paintbrush.

''Elements of Ecology'' presents a clear, modular approach using explanatory writing style to focus non-majors students on the core concepts of ecology.