Bøger af 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.

Donkey Killer is written to bring novice poker players to a level they could compete with professionals. This book covers many very important aspects of the game of poker including Chip Retention, Betting Strategies, Recognizing Bluffing Opportunities and even includes a newly developed 7 Point System.

"Something" or "Someone" was visiting him in the hallway, a supernatural power encounter in his bedroom, singing with Angels, lights that came down from the stars? What could be God's plan for this young man's life?A small town high school student struggles with the meaning of life. Join him on his journey of self discovery and purpose as God supernaturally reveals His plan that takes him to the Philippines. In this book you will also discover: - How to be free from destructive addictive substances.- How to pull down strongholds that are hiding in your mind.- What is Vision and the power thereof.- How to discover Gods plan and purpose for your life.- How to be led by the Holy Spirits presence. Get your copy today and follow his amazing faith building story!

HOW TO BUILD A CAMPFIRE teaches a proven process to goal achievement in an entertaining and forthcoming way. The author compares the process of building a campfire to the process of obtaining goals. By the time you are finished reading, How to Build a Campfire, you will have a clear understanding of what you might be missing in your own goal setting process, what you need to do to correct it, and be able to establish a path to accomplishing what you want. To some, it's just a campfire, something we make in order to have a social experience, cook on while we are camping, keep warm while we tell stories or lie next to and look up at the stars. To the author it proves we can achieve or become whatever we want. How to Build A Campfire is a metaphor for a process to achieve your goals, wants, and desires

Are you questioning what to do next? This book offers practical life lessons and timeless truths to help you make better choices. You will see how the Word of God sustains you as you pray, while taking responsibility for your life. Delivered 2 Choices gives a biopsychosocial/spiritual approach to overcoming drug addiction. Life's struggles cannot be avoided; so if you can train yourself to be better, should you? If you can learn one or two more strategies to help you stay free from drugs forever, would you? Learn how to make it through a drug program, a prison sentence, or devastating life challenges and set the stage for a lifestyle of developing in every area of your life. Let this book support you with establishing new behaviors, and developing consistency in your life. It's not what happens to you, but how you handle it. By taking a holistic approach to recovery, you can change. Identify the real enemy: is it your bunky, roommate, or family? Discover Ron's "what if," "what was" and "what is" philosophy of change and realize the power of "I" statements. Doing something new, broadening your horizons, and exploring your new world of deliverance is something within reach. Acquire the skill of compromise and negotiation. Let these words of wisdom contribute to the quality of your life, thrusting you forward on a continual journey of God/self-development. This book is designed to get you into activity.

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!

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.

An antique strongbox filled with a cache of Old West artifacts - and gold! Hidden in a place that time has forgotten. Tony Howard had once been a rock star, and the son of a Hollywood legend. That ride ended abruptly, and he became one of those celebrities whose names are always preceded by the phrase, "Whatever happened to?" Now, the hapless has-been is on the cusp of fame once again as he pursues an extraordinary treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains. With his grifter girlfriend, Tony will have to decipher a perplexing trail of clues, dealt out by an eccentric novelist with a colorful past of his own. Tony will have to outsmart a horde of other treasure hunters who are equally determined to claim the prize.In Treasure At Beaver Creek, Ron Smith spins a tale of adventure, subterfuge, and desperate people taking desperate measures. Set in the spectacular gold mine district of southern Colorado, Smith brings to life a cast of colorful characters and a bit of history that few have heard of.A true page-turner for action/adventure fans.

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.

This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from STOL modifications and new engines to seaplanes and tailwheel conversions. The hugely successful Piper PA-28 was produced and sold as a direct competitor to the Cessna 172. Initially produced with a rectangular wing planform and fixed undercarriage, it was available with installed powers ranging from 140 to 235 hp. A retractable undercarriage resulted in the Arrow series. The closely related PA-32 Cherokee Six, Saratoga and Six X are larger high performance aircraft. Versions of the PA-32 fitted with retractable undercarriages are the Lance and the sophisticated Saratoga II series.

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.