Books by Ron Smith

From athletic events to family portraits to celebrations of historic scenes, Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery speaks with the stately music of complex witness....The drama of these poems is to convert physical life to words without losing touch with physical life.

An antique strongbox filled with a cache of Old West artifacts - and gold! Hidden in a place that time has forgotten. Tony Howard had once been a rock star, and the son of a Hollywood legend. That ride ended abruptly, and he became one of those celebrities whose names are always preceded by the phrase, "Whatever happened to?" Now, the hapless has-been is on the cusp of fame once again as he pursues an extraordinary treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains. With his grifter girlfriend, Tony will have to decipher a perplexing trail of clues, dealt out by an eccentric novelist with a colorful past of his own. Tony will have to outsmart a horde of other treasure hunters who are equally determined to claim the prize.In Treasure At Beaver Creek, Ron Smith spins a tale of adventure, subterfuge, and desperate people taking desperate measures. Set in the spectacular gold mine district of southern Colorado, Smith brings to life a cast of colorful characters and a bit of history that few have heard of.A true page-turner for action/adventure fans.

The title of Ron Smith's new collection comes from Yeats's observation that creators "must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes."

From the Mediterranean to the American West, the poems in Ron Smith's new collection move across time and place to find reliable truths through personal observation. Beyond his own experiences Smith draws from the lives of notable and diverse figures.

From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences "Via Appia" and "To Ithaca", Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel.

This book describes the heritage and development of the entire Piper Cherokee family; its safety and ownership characteristics; internal and external details; and a range of special variants from STOL modifications and new engines to seaplanes and tailwheel conversions. The hugely successful Piper PA-28 was produced and sold as a direct competitor to the Cessna 172. Initially produced with a rectangular wing planform and fixed undercarriage, it was available with installed powers ranging from 140 to 235 hp. A retractable undercarriage resulted in the Arrow series. The closely related PA-32 Cherokee Six, Saratoga and Six X are larger high performance aircraft. Versions of the PA-32 fitted with retractable undercarriages are the Lance and the sophisticated Saratoga II series.

Military power needs to be financed and economic development is often shaped by military conflict, thus the interaction of military and economy, power and money is central to the modern world. This book provides an accessible introduction to the economics of the use of organized force, with a wide range of historical and current examples.