Bøger af Dale Smith

In a dusty trailer park near Las Vegas, eighteen-year-old Alice and Creach, her brilliant but down-on-his-luck uncle, use solar technology and creativity to invent a product to help bolster Creach's failing 'Lizard Maintenance' business. Neither Alice nor Walter realize their invention will help save save the endangered desert tortoise from extinction.

Edinburgh, 1759. The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard. That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died...It doesn't explain why, as they work, they whisper about a man called the Doctor.And about the many hands of Alexander Monro.Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

Everybody thinks that it's the system that's broken in politics; but what if it's not the system that's broken but rather our understanding of it? The Unbroken Machine seeks to explore our lack of civic literacy and show how our system of democracy should work.

A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.