Bøker av Ron Smith

Learn to identify 36 of Australia's most common birds and develop your birdwatching skills while creating great memories with family and friends. Backyard Birdwatching helps to increase the environmental life skills of people of all ages and create conversation and activity around the birds in your backyard or local park. Birdwatching is easy, costs nothing and is a great discussion topic maintaining a thread from one day to the next. It is also an activity which can be activated quickly with few resources.

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 high regard. This book unveils a lot of the mystery and secrecy that has surrounded this statue over the centuries. It is a fascinating story, much of which has not been told before.

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 that is known of his life and work, and is inspiring and informative.

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 from memoir, myth, history, fiction, and the visual arts, That Beauty in the Trees presents, ponders, and sometimes judges the actions, fates, and aesthetics of not only the author's friends and family but also legendary and historical figures, including Achilles, Catullus, George Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, H.D., Ezra Pound, and many more.

The companion to Adventures in Community Science, this hands-on workbook serves as a how-to guide on participating in and/or starting community-based science initiatives.

Adventures in Community Science is one part nature journal and one part call to action!

This period covers the 85 years that brought liberty to the modern world. It started in 1603 with the persecution of the Separatists, the Puritans and the Scottish Covenanters by the Stewart kings. Each king was worse than the previous one. The first was James I, then Charles I, then Charles II, a lastly, James II. It ended with The Glorious Revolution in 1688.

From athletic events to family portraits to celebrations of historic scenes, Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery speaks with the stately music of complex witness....The drama of these poems is to convert physical life to words without losing touch with physical life.

The title of Ron Smith's new collection comes from Yeats's observation that creators "must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes."

From the Mediterranean to the American West, the poems in Ron Smith's new collection move across time and place to find reliable truths through personal observation. Beyond his own experiences Smith draws from the lives of notable and diverse figures.

From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences "Via Appia" and "To Ithaca", Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel.

A visual celebration of the wide and colorful variety of the world's light aircraft, old and new, organized from A to Z by manufacturer, this book illustrates more than 800 light aircraft types that are likely to be seen when visiting smaller airports and airfields across the globe. The text explains how each type relates to other models from the same manufacturer and describes the differences between sub-variants, giving the numbers built. For some types, an indication is also given as to how many are currently active. The aircraft fall into the following categories: mass production aircraft built in the thousands by major manufacturers such as Beechcraft, Cessna, De Havilland, and Piper; lesser-known but important production and homebuilt aircraft, typically built in reasonable numbers and likely to be seen at the local airfield; and finally, a selection of older aircraft that continue to be flown and cherished.

Military power needs to be financed and economic development is often shaped by military conflict, thus the interaction of military and economy, power and money is central to the modern world. This book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of the use of organized force, with a wide range of historical and current examples.