New Releases by Timothy Smith

Timothy Smith challenges today''s frantic pace and offers helpful solutions to families who are missing out on togetherness because of overscheduling. Simple Solutions for Families in the Fast Lane will help families connect with each other in meaningful ways in spite of work, school, extracurricular activities, and other responsibilities.

Buck Wilder and his forest friends try to figure out why the squirrels have gone missing from the forest.

When the stream starts drying up and the forest animals that live there depart, Buck investigates what has happened.

Nice is not enough. We are raising a generation of "nice" kids. Nice kids are well behaved and look good on the outside, but they often lack courageous character inside. Offering practical wisdom gleaned from his experience as a parent and family coach, Tim Smith helps you move your kids from simply polite to truly compassionate. He targets nine key qualities children need but often lack and shows you how to build them into your children by modeling core values and biblical practices. Your kids can be--and indeed, are meant to be--kingdom builders who help bring God''s light and life to others through their decisions and influence. "Being nice won''t help them stand apart," Tim says. "We need to strategically train our children to engage and challenge the popular views of our culture." Here is a clear, down-to-earth resource that will help you do just that. But be prepared for change--in you, in your kids and in the world.

Teaching preaching the parables so that listeners will hear and apply the parables principle without trimming the timeless and universal truths

When someone starts removing animal droppings and sweeping away forest trails, making it hard for the animals to find their way home or know who has visited them, Buck Wilder and his friends investigate who is responsible, and why.

Buck Wilder and his friends work to discover why there is a large ant hill blocking the animal expressway.

Buck Wilder and his friends investigate why the owls no longer give a hoot and stop being the time keepers of the woods.

Launch a Tradition of Love, Laughter, and Learning--Together Is your family going five different directions at once? Do you long for quality family time--where everyone''s together, away from the TV and computer, doing something fun yet meaningful? With 52 Family Time Ideas and about 20 minutes a week, even the busiest of families can establish and enjoy regular times together that will have a lasting impact. For each week of the year, including holidays, you''ll find an easy-to-follow activity plan to help you and your kids discover and experience timeless principles for strong families. Through games and other activities, as well as short Bible readings and guided discussions, your family will be drawn together and closer to God. Ideal for families with kids from ages 4 to 14.

Timothy Smith challenges life''s frantic pace and offers helpful solutions to developing the perfect pulse for individual families. As families become increasingly busier, the stress puts a strain on relationships. But some active families have discovered a rhythmic pace, a heartbeat that works for them. Connecting With Your Kids is a stethoscope to listen to each individual''s pulse and develop a cadence as a family benefitting everyone.

Timothy Smith argues that the French economy and society is in crisis and that globalization is not to blame.

This is an important work, which should be read by anyone who is trying to understand nineteenth-century America. It will be of especial interest to students of church history, intellectual history, and social reform. Henry Lee Swint, ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' This is a brilliant study, full of stimulating suggestions, rich bibliographical leads, and well-chosen quotations. A chief feature of the work, which won the Brewer prize for 1955, is its apt and extensive documentation. The author has industriously ranged through mountains of books, periodicals, and fugitive materials, and competently supported his well-written narrative with illuminating footnotes, which happily and helpfully appear where they belong at the foot of each - and almost every - page. Hence his judgments are backed by impressive scholarship. Robert T. Handy, ''Church History'' So many historians have tracked the trail of the American revivalists that it is difficult for anyone to discover something new about that trail. Timothy Smith claimed to discover that they were more oriented towards social reform than their critics saw them to be. He backed up, with solid documentation, his claim that they were, in their own way, fathers of the Social Gospel. His book represented one of those rare moments in the study of American church history: the development of an original thesis, one worthy of the argument which it has during the past decade inspired and survived. Martin E. Marty

Extensive Gallup research offers a unique glimpse inside the heads and hearts of today''s teens. A must-have for parents, youth workers, and teachers.

Despite the development of a consensus foreign policy during the early years of the Cold War that supported containment of the Soviet Union, there were both internationalists and pacifists who opposed the efforts of the Truman administration. These groups felt that American actions, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty, and even the Korean War weakened the UN, threatened the Soviet Union with war, hindered European economic recovery, and promoted colonialism. Often mislabeled as isolationists, both the pacifists, with their traditional opposition to war, and the liberal internationalists, who supported efforts to continue the wartime alliance with the Soviets through the development of a strong UN, felt that the United States should play an active role in world affairs. The peace movement forces have been marginalized or dismissed as insignificant by many historians, however, while their impact was minimal in the late 1940s and early 1950s, their ideas would later re-emerge to have a strong impact on American policy, particularly in the ban the bomb and the antiwar movements of the Vietnam era. They continued to support efforts to maintain the Soviet alliance through the UN, to assist in the reconstruction of the world economy, to promote disarmament, and to end colonialism. While a commitment to these ideas would probably not have prevented the Cold War, it might have lessened its severity or slowed the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The only book in which parents of extremely premature infants share their experiences and information--a heartwarming, realistic resource for parents.

Analyzes the expansion of US national security interests in Italy. It begins with the onset of the Cold War, when the US deepened its commitment to Western Europe and the Mediterranean region and sought to strengthen the Italian government to prevent the Italian Communist Party from gaining power.