Martha: 1810 books
The Ships of Air
The Fall of Ile-Rien
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Known for her lush, intricate worlds and complex characters, acclaimed author Martha Wells has delighted readers with her extraordinary fantasy novels of daring and wit. With The Wizard Hunters she launched her most ambitious undertaking yet -- the return to the beloved world of the Nebula Award-nominated...
Seringenmeisjes
het lot van drie vrouwen verandert voorgoed wanneer de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitbreekt
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Martha Hall Kelly schreef met Seringenmeisjes een meeslepende en aangrijpende debuutroman over drie vrouwen en hun strijd voor vrijheid, gerechtigheid en tweede kansen. 1939. Het lot van drie vrouwen verandert voorgoed wanneer Hitler Polen binnenvalt. Caroline Ferriday is een hardwerkende vrouw die...
Charleston
An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most storied cities of the American South. Well known for its historic buildings and landscape, its thriving maritime culture, and its role in the beginning of the American Civil War, many consider it the birthplace of historic preservation. In Charleston,...
Walks of a Lifetime
Extraordinary Hikes from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Walk the World’s Greatest Trails
To walk is to discover, from those first halting steps as a child to walking the world’s greatest long-distance trails. Experience breathtaking coastlines, mountain ranges, historic landscapes, wilderness areas, religious pilgrimages, great cities, and iconic...
by Denis Ledoux, Martha Blowen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
A Sugary Frosting / A Memoir of A Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage and How I Survived Being a Preacher's Kid This memoir reveals an underside of being the preacher's kid, a public role that is rife with challenges of supporting your minister father and your minister's-wife mother and of becoming yourself,...
Through a Screen Darkly
Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods—but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the sophisticated propaganda of...
Rules for the World
International Organizations in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental...
by Martha Finnemore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological institutionalism to develop a systemic approach to state...
by Martha Hodes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners...
Before the Oath
How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
It’s one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing president heeds the will of the people and hands the keys to power to a successor. The transition from one administration to the next sounds simple, even ceremonial. But in 2009, as President George W. Bush briefed...
The Monarchy of Fear
A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.
For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books...
by Carolyn Hope Smeltzer, Martha Kiefer Cucco
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
Lake Geneva was originally called Kishwauketoe by the Oneota tribe, a name meaning clear or sparkling water. Carved out by a glacier, this same crystal water has attracted residents and tourists for centuries, and continues to be a retreat for many in every season. Through a collection of vivid vintage...
by Martha Brill Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Tajikistan teeters on the brink of failure. This mountainous and landlocked country, the poorest in Central Asia, confronts the challenges of good governance and economic survival. These domestic struggles become even more problematic as international forces prepare to withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan,...
Race You to the Fountain of Youth
I'm Not Dead Yet (But parts of me are going fast)
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
**The men are on one side.
The women on the other.
They're ready -- they're set -- they're off!...
Well...maybe not.**
Seasoned comedy writers Martha Bolton and Brad Dickson take an unconventional, refreshing look at the over-forty race to the Fountain of Youth. Instead...