Dan Smith Books

Rooted in the rural Midwest, this collection of poetry reflects Daniel Smith's three decades of experience on his family's dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. It delves into themes of familial bonds to the land, the labor of farming, and the emotional turmoil that arises when that way of life becomes untenable. The poems vividly capture the transformations affecting agriculture and the rural communities, offering a poignant exploration of heritage and sustainability.

The ultimate guide for Sales Development Representatives, also known as SDRs. In this book you will learn the most advanced prospecting sales skills from recognized leaders in the sales profession. Covering everything from determining the right fit to going deeper and understanding what a customer's real pain is, The SaaS Sales Method for Sales Development Representatives: How to Prospect for Customers helps sales leaders, sales managers, and individual salespeople understand what it takes to succeed and provides step by step instructions.

Take your quizzing up a notch with the new Genius Edition of this bestselling adult activity book, a compendium of questions that will delight and infuriate - and the answers are all in the back, if you need them!

In the snow, death is not the coldest thing waiting for you...

This is the definitive guide to the vibrant and inventive language of the East End, featuring history, trivia, and anecdotes. Cockney rhyming slang originated as a secret code among the thieves of London's East End. Adopted by costermongers and market traders, it fast became a vibrant patois that defined a community, confused the police, and evolved to include ever more colorful rhyming phrases. Constantly updated and added to ever since, and fostered by Londoners citywide, it has long enlivened the streets of one of the world's most quirky and fascinating capitals. Cockney Rhyming Slang explores the origins and meanings of both commonly used and lesser-known phrases, taking in traditional slang as well as modern additions. Combining history, trivia, quotes, and anecdotes, it is the definitive guide to cockney rhyming slang for locals and language lovers alike.

Empty pipes and H2O entrepreneurs: boreholes, cart pushers, and "pure water" -- Problem has changed name": electric power and consumer citizenship -- Okadas and danfos: "public transportation" in Nigeria -- "Be what you want to be": cell phones and social inequality -- "They don't know what i have not taught them": the privatization of public schooling -- "Sleeping with one eye open": infrastructural insecurity.

When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure - just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings reek of secrets and at night strange screams come from the surrounding forest. Nobody knows what experiments took place at the institute during the war, so Pete and his friends make it their mission to find out. But the forest is hiding a sinister secret, and the trio could be in real danger... Are some mysteries best left undisturbed?

One night in 1941, the war comes to Peter when a German plane crashes into woods near where he lives. Peter rushes to the crash hoping to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is someone: a young and injured German airman in need of his help.

Animals behaving oddly, people falling suddenly ill - what's creeping around down at the farm? Crooked Oak's mystery-solving team return with another spine-tingling adventure.

This beautifully packaged and accessible guide is the perfect companion to learning the phrases of London's East End and the interesting origins behind Cockney Rhyming Slang - a language first invented as a secret code among the thieves of London's underworld. Organized thematically, rather than alphabetically, this book allows the reader to gain a full and comprehensive understanding of how to use a range of cockney phrases in each given scenario. Covering all the popular, traditional cockney phrases, as well as some more modern additions that aren't as well known, hundreds of sayings are featured and explained. So, if you're gagging to get your Hampstead Heath into popular reference at its most fascinating, pull up a Vanity Fair, pour yourself a cup of Rosie Lee and get stuck into this highly entertaining Captain Cook.