J J Martin: 509 books
Very Merry Christmas Bundle
20 Tales of Christmas Cheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!
Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy, science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will...
by Martin J. Best
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Malachi Hunter's abiding passion for the occult and supernatural has made him a loner and social misfit. Unfortunately, his lack of self-confidence has always prevented him from fulfilling his ambition to become a ghost hunter. That is until he meets Anna Spalding. In a misguided effort to impress...
A New England Prison Diary
Slander, Religion, and Markets in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In 1812, New Hampshire shopkeeper Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse, charged with defamation of a prominent politician. During the months of his incarceration, Joy kept a remarkable...
Corporate Ties that Bind
An Examination of Corporate Manipulation and Vested Interest in Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Twenty-four essays dare to take major corporations to task about their increasing power over government laws and public health issues.
In the twenty-first century, corporate influences have worked their way deep into government. As their power only increases, the arguments about their involvement...
Kalashnikov AK47 Series
The 7.62 x 39mm Assault Rifle in Detail
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Popularly known as the AK47 or just AK, the 7.62mm Avtomat Kalashnikov obrazets 1947g was accepted into service by the Soviet Army in 1947. Despite its widespread use by the Soviet armed forces, the AK only became known in the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when Soviet troops sent to...
Click
When We Knew We Were Feminists
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
When did you know you were a feminist? Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women-including Jessica...
Literature and Cartography
Theories, Histories, Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.
Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the...
Taming the Disorderly City
The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded...
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
by P.J. Matthews, Mr Martin McDonagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants...
Against the Storm & Wanted Woman
A 2-in-1 Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A TEMPEST UNLEASHED…
Maggie O’Connell, a well-known Houston photographer, is being followed. Desperate for help, she hires Trace Rawlins, a former army ranger turned private investigator. When Trace meets Maggie, he knows she’s trouble. He takes her case anyway, thinking it will be an...
With God in Russia
The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of an American-born Jesuit priest imprisoned for fifteen years in a Soviet gulag during the height of the Cold War—a poignant and spiritually uplifting story of extraordinary faith and fortitude...
by Martin J. Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
A compelling series of thought provoking and chilling paranormal thrillers, with a hard fantasy twist! Join Malachi Hunter as he investigates unorthodox hauntings, encounters hitherto mythical beings, and makes new friends and dangerous enemies along the way.