J J Martin: 509 books
Ghost Hunter I
A Matter Of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Single mother Teena Maunder’s orderly life is abruptly turned upside down by a seemingly inexplicable haunting. Desperate for help, she turns to amateur paranormal investigator Malachi Hunter. Mal quickly finds himself battling with an unusually aggressive supernatural being, the situation complicated...
Ghost Hunter II
Of Gods and Ghosts
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
With its award winning cover, the third instalment in the ongoing Ghost Hunter series is a compelling and thought provoking supernatural thriller with a hard fantasy twist. Join Malachi, Teena, and Carolyn as they investigate a haunting that is anything but straightforward, and become embroiled in...
Ghost Hunter III
Blood Ties
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
With a foreword by the ‘Queen of Occult Horror,’ Sarah E. England, the fourth Ghost Hunter story is a compelling blend of supernatural terror and hard fantasy.
For Charles Chandler, early retirement seems like a dream come true. He moves his family to Devon, unaware that they are bringing...
Ghost Hunter IV
Remnants and Revenants
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Ray and Christa Brown have invested their life-savings in buying and restoring the Torre Mews guest house, only to find that they have an unwelcome tenant. Malachi Hunter and his team are called to investigate, and uncover more than they bargained for in a seemingly impossible haunting.
Will...
Commemorating and Forgetting
Challenges for the New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The...
by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal...
The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education
An International Assessment of New Research and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly...
Mr. Las Vegas Has a Bad Knee
and Other Tales of the People, Places, and Peculiarities of the Modern American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
For more than thirty years, journalist and author Martin J. Smith has traveled the American West, chasing offbeat stories that often are bizarre, always compelling, and at times profound. His journey through that oft-idealized and misunderstood landscape has made him a witness to some of the West’s...
Reconsidering Roots
Race, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...
Creating the American Century
The Ideas and Legacies of America's Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy Founders
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In his last work before his death in 2014, American historian Martin J. Sklar analyzes the influence of early twentieth-century foreign policy makers, focusing on modernization, global development, and the meaning of the 'American Century'. Calling this group of government officials and their advisors,...
Taming the Imperial Imagination
Colonial Knowledge, International Relations, and the Anglo-Afghan Encounter, 1808–1878
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Taming the Imperial Imagination marks a novel intervention into the debate on empire and international relations, and offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Anglo-Afghan relations. Martin J. Bayly shows how, throughout the nineteenth century, the British Empire in India sought to understand...
Earth's Deep History
How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for...
Scenes from Deep Time
Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1995
How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were...
City of Extremes
The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders—including real estate developers, large-scale property owners, municipal officials, and security specialists—has...