William Alden Smith's Books

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

By: William Alden Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Merely a day afterTitanicsurvivors arrived in port in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an investigation into the wreck of the great "unsinkable" ship. For the first time in book form, here is the dramatic testimony of crew and passengers from all walks of life, as they recall the sights and sounds of the night of April 14, 1912.From the manners of the day to the conduct fo those boarding the lifeboats, from acts of kindness to palpable greed, here is an unforgettable portrait of human nature in the face of theTitanictragedy, in the words of the men and women who survived....J. Bruce Ismay,British officer of the White Star Line, who hopped into a lifeboat to save himself and never looked back to see her go down....Second officerCharles Lightoller'sharrowing plunge as the sinking ship's force of suction pulled him under water....On-duty lookoutFrederick Fleet'sadmission that the iceberg might have been avoided if the crew had been equipped with binoculars....PassengerDaisy Minahan,who recalled the refusal of an officer in her lifeboat to aid those adrift in the frigid waters...and many more witnesses to one of the most shattering events of our century. Illustrated with historical photographs, TheTitanic Disaster Hearingsis a vital piece of the puzzle that has sparked worldwide fascination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

612

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0671025538

ISBN 13

9780671025533

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

By: William Alden Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

By: William Alden Smith

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

612

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0671025538

ISBN 13

9780671025533

Happy Days Were Here Again

Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Happy Days Were Here Again

Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

From the man who helped ignite the modern conservative movement, a delightful collection of eloquent and witty writings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

504

Publisher

Basic Books (AZ)

Published Date

ISBN 10

0465003354

ISBN 13

9780465003358

Advances in Historical Ecology

By: William L. Balée

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Advances in Historical Ecology

By: William L. Balée

Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change, eighteen specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perspectives on historical ecology. The contributors focus on traditional societies where lands are most at risk from the incursions of complex, state-level societies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

450

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0231106335

ISBN 13

9780231106337

Perils Of The Atlantic

Steamship Disasters 1850 To The Present

By: William Flayhart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Perils Of The Atlantic

Steamship Disasters 1850 To The Present

By: William Flayhart

Perils of the Atlantic" captures the stories of a number of vessels that experienced adventure on the high seas, from the tragic loss of the liner "Arctic" in 1854 to the swift sinking of the Italian "Andrea Doria" in 1956.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

388

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393041557

ISBN 13

9780393041552

History of Babylonia and Assyria

By: Robert William Rogers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History of Babylonia and Assyria

By: Robert William Rogers

In this two-volume 1901 work, Rogers provides a history of the Mesopotamian civilisations, with material on archaeological and literary sources.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

441

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108083080

ISBN 13

9781108083089

Homer in Wittenberg

Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer

By: William P. Weaver

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Homer in Wittenberg

Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer

By: William P. Weaver

Homer in Wittenberg draws on manuscript and printed materials to demonstrate Homer's foundational significance for educational and theological reform during the Reformation in Wittenberg. In the first study of Melanchthon's Homer annotations from three different periods spanning his career, and the first book-length study of his reading of a classical author, William Weaver offers a new perspective on the liberal arts and textual authority in the Renaissance and Reformation. Melanchthon's significance in the teaching of the liberal arts has long been recognized, but Homer's prominent place in his educational reforms is not widely known. Homer was instrumental in Melanchthon's attempt to transform the university curriculum, and his reforms of the liberal arts are clarified by his engagements with Homeric speech, a subject of interest in recent Homer scholarship. Beginning with his Greek grammar published just as he arrived in Wittenberg in 1518, and proceeding through his 1547 work on dialectic, Homer in Wittenberg shows that teaching Homer decisively shaped Melanchthon's redesign of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Melanchthon embarked on reforming the liberal arts with the ultimate objective of reforming theological education. His teaching of Homer illustrates the philosophical principles behind his use of well-known theological terms including sola scriptura, law and gospel, and loci communes. Homer's significance extended even to a practical theology of prayer, and Wittenberg scholia on Homer from the 1550s illustrate how the Homeric poem could be used to exercise faith as well as literary judgment and eloquence.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192679139

ISBN 13

9780192679130

A History of Christian Theology

An Introduction

By: William Carl Placher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A History of Christian Theology

An Introduction

By: William Carl Placher

This intellectual history, a story of people and their ideas, is a delight to read. I predict it will be widely used not only in colleges and seminaries but also in lay institutes and study groups"........John D. Godsey in The Christian Century

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Westminster John Knox Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0664244963

ISBN 13

9780664244965

Comeuppance

Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction

By: William Flesch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Comeuppance

Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction

By: William Flesch

With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh. Fiction, Flesch contends, gives us our most powerful way of making sense of the social world. Comeuppance begins with an exploration of the appeal of gossip and ends with an account of how we can think about characters and care about them as much as about persons we know to be real. We praise a storyteller who contrives a happy or at least an appropriate ending, and fault the writer who refuses us one. Flesch uses Darwinian theory to show how fiction satisfies our desire to see the good vindicated and the wicked get their comeuppance. He conveys the danger and excitement of reading fiction with nimble intelligence and provides wide reference to stories both familiar and little known. Flesch has given us a book that is sure to claim a central place in the discussion of literature and the humanities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674263472

ISBN 13

9780674263475

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

By: William M. McBride

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

By: William M. McBride

Winner, Engineer-Historian Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and the United States Navy, William M. McBride examines how the navy dealt with technological change—from the end of the Civil War through the "age of the battleship"—as technology became more complex and the nation assumed a global role. Although steam engines generally made their mark in the maritime world by 1865, for example, and proved useful to the Union riverine navy during the Civil War, a backlash within the service later developed against both steam engines and the engineers who ran them. Early in the twentieth century the large dreadnought battleship at first met similar resistance from some officers, including the famous Alfred Thayer Mahan, and their industrial and political allies. During the first half of the twentieth century the battleship exercised a dominant influence on those who developed the nation's strategies and operational plans—at the same time that advances in submarines and fixed-wing aircraft complicated the picture and undermined the battleship's superiority. In any given period, argues McBride, some technologies initially threaten the navy's image of itself. Professional jealousies and insecurities, ignorance, and hidebound traditions arguably influenced the officer corps on matters of technology as much as concerns about national security, and McBride contends that this dynamic persists today. McBride also demonstrates the interplay between technological innovation and other influences on naval adaptability—international commitments, strategic concepts, government-industrial relations, and the constant influence of domestic politics. Challenging technological determinism, he uncovers the conflicting attitudes toward technology that guided naval policy between the end of the Civil War and the dawning of the nuclear age. The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy," he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

374

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801872855

ISBN 13

9780801872853

Book's by William Alden Smith

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

Happy Days Were Here Again

Happy Days Were Here Again

Advances in Historical Ecology

Advances in Historical Ecology

Perils Of The Atlantic

Perils Of The Atlantic

History of Babylonia and Assyria

History of Babylonia and Assyria

Homer in Wittenberg

Homer in Wittenberg

A History of Christian Theology

A History of Christian Theology

Comeuppance

Comeuppance

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email