Ken Smith

Examines the misuse and decay of the English language and analyzes the current dependence on euphemisms and jargon, such as the use of the word "consumer" to replace "people" or "person."

Junk English

Eric Tangborn

Chess Combinations of the World Champions

Roy DeVault

Test Your Opening, Middlegame and Endgame

Anthony Edward Santasiere

Vienna Game and Gambit

"Both authors are chess teachers. As they were taught when they were learning, their pupils have been schooled with Vladimir Vukovic's "The Art of Attack" (Pergamon) ... In the 1950s a new generation emerged. starting with the daring play of Mikhail Tal. He and his contemporaries are where we begin this book, taking the reader through the 1980s. Now the author's pupils, as well as you, have a reference to this exciting era."--Page 4

Modern Art of Attack

The Brewery History Society

The Brewery History Society provide an illustrated history of the brewing industry in Britain.

An Illustrated History

Brewing in Britain

Perhaps the greatest story ever written is the story of man and his best friend the dog. Its pages abound with tales of adventure, courage, and loyalty – pages that continue to be written every day by both man and dog. Cookie Crumbs is the story of the author’s dog, Cookie, a female black Labrador retriever. Her life was spent adventuring into the great outdoors and the great indoors. In her thirteenth year, Cookie set off on her adventure into the great unknown. Native legend tells us that the Milky Way is where the spirits and souls of animals go after they pass away from their life here on earth. From the Milky Way, Cookie is calling. She is calling to all of us to help end animal neglect and abuse. Answer her call. Report animal neglect and abuse to your local animal control or law enforcement agency; adopt a shelter dog; volunteer your time and effort at your local animal shelter; contribute a tax deductible monetary donation to your local Humane Society or the ASPCA. Answer Cookie’s call. Help save the lives of Man’s Best Friend.

Recipes for Canine Fun

Cookie Crumbs

Accompanied by Tan's complete libretto for the opera, an intriguing study follows the process of translating Amy Tan's best-selling novel, The Bonesetter's Daughter, into a new opera to debut in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera, examining the entire creative process, the collaboration between Tan and composer Stewart Wallace, and more.

Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace, and the Making of The Bonesetter's Daughter

Fate! Luck! Chance!

Jack Barth

Doug Kirby

and Mike Wilkins

A trivia-filled odyssey across America that tells the reader, for example, where to see the world's largest twine ball and how to locate the Lawrence Welk museum.

Roadside America

Collected Poems

This is the story of Lord W.G. Armstrong of Cragside (1810-1900) inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong Gun.

Lord Armstrong of Cragside

Emperor of Industry

The author of Mental Hygiene and Ken's Guide to the Bible traces the damage done to English by infomercials and advertising, revealing those "junk" words, phrases, and tendencies that have made the language euphemistic and vague. Original.

Junk English 2

Floy Smith

Learning to Be a Family

The Joined-up Writing

Ken Smith's latest book ranges round a turbulent world, from Dresden to Bosnia, by way of Weymouth Harbour. Its methods, serendipity and chance encounters, things heard in the street, produce these urgent messages, spoken by masks, worked out in these poems. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Tender to the Queen of Spain

Ken Smith''s wanderings take him further and further out, among the wastelands of Eastern Europe after Co mmunism, and again to North America, where his as-if counter part Eddie lives his imaginary lives. '

Wild Root

The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest single engagement of the Second World War, resulted in the coming-of-age of the Royal Canadian Navy. By 1945, the Canadian Navy had transformed from a small force of 3,500 personnel and 13 vessels into the third-largest naval power in the world. As German U-boats threatened to weaken the Allied war effort, the Canadian Navy was put to work protecting convoys across the Atlantic and hunting for submarines off the coast of Atlantic Canada. War at Sea uses first-hand accounts from the veterans who survived, as well as a detailed catalogue of the technology, weapons, and ships, to describe the history of this pivotal conflict. Author Ken Smith emphasizes the contribution of Atlantic Canadians, who worked in areas vital to the war effort while under constant threat from U-boats, sabotage, and spies.

Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic

War at Sea

An exploration of more than 40 disasters that have hit Atlantic Canada in the past 250 years.

The Worst Storms, Accidents, and Conflagrations in Atlantic Canada

A History of Disaster

Judi Benson

This international anthology has been assembled in a matter of days as an immediate if inadequate response to the suffering in Bosnia. What else is there to say about Bosnia? What more can anyone do?KLAONICA is the poets' attempt to do or say something. It includes poems by many leading writers, some already published in The Independent's series Bosnia Poems. The poems are baffled, helpless, heartfelt, heartbreaking, angry, tender, grieving. Useless too: except that readers should ﬁnd some comfort, some hope, in this book. And the book is published to raise funds for Bosnian relief.The writers come from Britain, Ireland, Europe, North America and Bosnia. They include Annemarie Austin, Joseph Brodsky, Gillian Clarke, David Constantine, Ivor Cutler, Maura Dooley, Ian Duhig, Gavin Ewart, Roy Fisher, Linda France, Rebecca Hayes, Adrian Henri, Ted Hughes, Nicki Jackowska, Kathleen Jamie, Medbh McGuckian, Ian McMillan, Glyn Maxwell, Christopher Middleton, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrian Mitchell, Andrew Motion, Josip Osti, Ruth Padel, Brian Patten, Patricia Pogson, Peter Porter, Simon Rae, Peter Reading, Tadeusz Rózewicz, Carole Satyamurti, Jo Shapcott, Abdulah Sidran, Ken Smith, Heather Spears, Mario Susko, R.S. Thomas, Stevan Tontic and John Hartley Williams.KLAONICA is the Serbo-Croat word for slaughterhouse, abattoir, butchery, shambles, and describes conditions in that doomed country after over a year of vicious warfare that includes massacre, rape, pillage, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, the destruction of towns and villages, churches and mosques, and ultimately of a state and a whole society. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this conﬂict - and there are more wrongs than rights to it - it amounts to genocide, in Europe, here at the end of the twentieth century. The Bosnians are starving. They have planted no crops, they have used up all their stores and savings, they have no fat left, and winter is coming. Over and above the depredations of a three-sided war, they need food and medicines. All proceeds from the sale of this book will be given to Feed the Children and other organisations seeking to alleviate the suffering in Bosnia.

Ken Smith

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