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Slugboy Saves the World (Paperback): Mark A. Smith Slugboy Saves the World (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith; Illustrated by Darren Gate
R215 R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Save R39 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Thanks to an unfortunately tasty-looking radioactive garden slug, eleven-year-old Murdo McLeod is now the world's worst superhero. His two powers are pretty unique: the first is sliding up walls. Quite slowly. The second is secreting slippery slime from his skin. (Yes, just as disgusting as it sounds.) In a Scotland full of awesome superheroes, Slugboy has a lot to prove. No one wants help fighting bad guys from someone with a horrible habit of (quite literally) messing things up. He's so underrated, in fact, that when an evil mastermind devises a plan to capture all the other superheroes, Slugboy isn't even on his list. Now, Slugboy has to use his not-so-super and oh-so-gross abilities to free the other superheroes and save the world. Let's hope he doesn't slip up.

American Business and Political Power (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Mark A. Smith American Business and Political Power (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Mark A. Smith
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together--such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability--also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs.
Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

The Right Talk - How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society (Paperback): Mark A. Smith The Right Talk - How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
R763 R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Save R63 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades. How did the GOP transform itself from a party outgunned and outmaneuvered into one that defines the nation's most important policy choices?

Conventional wisdom attributes the Republican resurgence to a political bait and switch--the notion that conservatives win elections on social issues like abortion and religious expression, but once in office implement far-reaching policies on the economic issues downplayed during campaigns. Smith illuminates instead the eye-opening reality that economic matters have become more central, not less, to campaigns and the public agenda. He analyzes a half century of speeches, campaign advertisements, party platforms, and intellectual writings, systematically showing how Republican politicians and conservative intellectuals increasingly gave economic justifications for policies they once defended through appeals to freedom. He explains how Democrats similarly conceived economic justifications for their own policies, but unlike Republicans they changed positions on issues rather than simply offering new arguments and thus helped push the national discourse inexorably to the right.

"The Right Talk" brings clarity, reason, and hard-nosed evidence to a contentious subject. Certain to enrich the debate about the conservative ascendancy in America, this book will provoke discussions and reactions for years to come.

Withdrawal (Paperback): S V Byrnes Withdrawal (Paperback)
S V Byrnes; Illustrated by Trestudios; Mark A. Smith
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R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Broken Promises - Jesus & The Second Coming (Paperback): Mark A. Smith Broken Promises - Jesus & The Second Coming (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cover Me Movement Challenge - 10 Week Small Group Study Guide (Paperback): Mark A. Smith Cover Me Movement Challenge - 10 Week Small Group Study Guide (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales of Dohrya - The Southern War (Paperback): Mark A. Smith Tales of Dohrya - The Southern War (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
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R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Public Speaking Basic Course - Spirit Speaking Advanced Course (Paperback): Mark A. Smith Public Speaking Basic Course - Spirit Speaking Advanced Course (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
FREE WILL Plus (Paperback): Mark A. Smith FREE WILL Plus (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preparedness - The Basics and Beyond (Paperback): Mark A. Smith Preparedness - The Basics and Beyond (Paperback)
Mark A. Smith
R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mark A. Smith knows his stuff. The former firefighter, security specialist, and Marine not only has lived the Prepared Lifestyle, he currently is a consultant to private companies and individuals about preparedness. This comprehensive and detailed book provides a concise guide to the skills and tools of preparedness -- all offered in an easy-to-read conversational style. Smith covers the basics -- food storage, water purification, health, and housing -- with tips that beginners and even seasoned preppers will find useful. He also addresses more advanced levels of preparedness, including a discussion of bug-out-vehicles and defensive firearms. In addition, he offers a detailed questionnaire to help readers intent on improving home security. The book includes pros and cons of various types of alternative power sources, lists of items to include in medical kits and bug-out-bags, a glossary of preparedness terms, 10-codes, and a set of online resources. From preparedness basics to advanced levels of knowledge, this book is ideal for the beginner, as well as the skilled prepper looking to improve his or her capabilities.

Secular Faith - How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics (Hardcover): Mark A. Smith Secular Faith - How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics (Hardcover)
Mark A. Smith
R873 Discovery Miles 8 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Pope Francis recently answered "Who am I to judge?" when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of this kind are actually common in the history of Christian groups. Within the United States, Christian leaders have regularly revised their teachings to match the beliefs and opinions gaining support among their members and larger society. Mark A. Smith provocatively argues that religion is not nearly the unchanging conservative influence in American politics that we have come to think it is. In fact, in the long run, religion is best understood as responding to changing political and cultural values rather than shaping them. Smith makes his case by charting five contentious issues in America's history: slavery, divorce, homosexuality, abortion, and women's rights. For each, he shows how the political views of even the most conservative Christians evolved in the same direction as the rest of society-perhaps not as swiftly, but always on the same arc. During periods of cultural transition, Christian leaders do resist prevailing values and behaviors, but those same leaders inevitably acquiesce-often by reinterpreting the Bible-if their positions become no longer tenable. Secular ideas and influences thereby shape the ways Christians read and interpret their scriptures. So powerful are the cultural and societal norms surrounding us that Christians in America today hold more in common morally and politically with their atheist neighbors than with the Christians of earlier centuries. In fact, the strongest predictors of people's moral beliefs are not their religious commitments or lack thereof but rather when and where they were born. A thoroughly researched and ultimately hopeful book on the prospects for political harmony, Secular Faith demonstrates how, over the long run, boundaries of secular and religious cultures converge.

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