Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as 'a full back slower than your average prop', Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every point for his team on his debut in an historic victory over South Africa (and in so doing became the first Scottish full back to score a Test try) and defeated a star-studded England team to lift the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield in the 1970 Five Nations...

This book is a true story from my heart. As my life unfolds before you, I hope you will see the truth for yourself and discover an inner meaning for your life.My life has touched many lives, but as you will see, has not left a good impression of my past.If I could have changed anything, at the time it would have been to listen to those who loved me. In my own way, by telling this story, it's perhaps a way of saying I am sorry for all the pe...

Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World offers a vivid account of early European experience in these islands, through material evidence offered by the archaeological record. As European exploration in the 1770s gave way to sealing, whaling and timber-felling, Pākehā visitors first became sojourners in small, remote camps, then settlers scattered around the coast. Over time, mission stations were established, alongside farms, businesses and industries, and eventually towns and government centre...

A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally combative sleuth.World-renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson Bledsoe is returning from a party celebrating his latest honor when he e...

In July 2007, Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7,634 per cent, deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment.Months later, on 20 November 2007, Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule and the dangers that he believed it would bring to his country.Ian Smith was a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions i...

Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. This far-reaching study shows that significant parts of Shakespeare's texts have been elided, misconstrued or otherwise rendered invisible by readers who have ignored the presence of race in early modern Engl...

The amount of medical information available on the Internet is mindboggling, if not mind-numbing. And what do you find once you wade into these cyberwaters is often so contradictory, confusing, or suspect that it is easy to feel more addled than assisted by the plethora of articles, advertising, and medical reports. Dr. Ian Smith's Guide to Medical Websites bring order to this chaos. As medical correspondent on NBC's Today show and a regular columnist for Time, Dr...

Smith’s Elements of Soil MechanicsThe revised 10th edition of the core textbook on soil mechanicsThe revised and updated edition of Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics continues to offer a core undergraduate textbook on soil mechanics. The author, a noted expert in geotechnical engineering, reviews all aspects of soil mechanics and provides a detailed explanation of how to use both the current and the next versions of Eurocode 7 for...

Ever wondered how to overcome sin? Do you feel like giving up Christianity? You need not despair. There is hope. In fact, the Bible offers you the answer to all of life's problems. One of the greatest questions ever asked is, "how does a man gain the victory over every sin and how can man be perfect in God's eyes? There is no need to panic. The way to and of salvation has been made plain in the Word of God.There are many who conclude that it is impossible to live a righteous and ho...

Good assessment focuses mainly on improvement and is used to support progress. It helps learners to know how well they have learned and provides feedback on how they can do better; it encourages learners to support and help each other; it builds self-motivation, self-confidence and self-reliance. Sound familiar? These are the principles of formative assessment. They're at the heart of the national Assessment for Learning initiative and they form the core of the "Assessment & Learning Pocke...

From the bestselling author of ShredThe Take-Control Diet aims to make you the expert on your body.Dr. Ian Smith delivers the final word on dieting for the fad-weary reader who wants the truth about permanent weight loss. The Take-Control Diet explains the real science of how your body manages energy, why crash diets and trendy programs sabotage your chances of success, and how you can get off the yo-yo ride foreve...

In over 30 years of BDSM writing, Ian Smith has created many memorable female characters. In "The Slaves of Ian Smith", he revisits some of these characters in new stories and fresh adventures and challenges for them. Characters including Ali, Selina, Nicky, Barbara and recent newcomer Leah all finds themselves in new situations with new issues to cope with and often endure.In the author's own words, writing about girls being coerced into slave acts makes for good dramatic tension,...