Martin: 12406 books
Coal Wars
The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it provides....
Higher Ground
A Mountain Guide's Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Martin Moran has been a man of the mountains since youth. Famously, he made the first solo ascent of the Scottish Munros in the winter months, as described in his great book, The Munros in Winter (published by Sandstone Press). For decades now he has made his living as a mountain guide based in Strathcarron,...
Ghoul Brittania
Notes from a Haunted Isle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
INCLUDES THE THREE BEST GHOST STORIES EVER Who among us, lying in bed at night, listening to the noises of the house – that creak in the stairs, the clock ticking away in the empty hall – has not experienced a momentary chill, that first tremor of fear? What is it about Britain, asks...
by Morana Alac, Rachel Prentice, Michael Barany
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation.
Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in...
Death of the River Master
A Texana Jones Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Allana Martin's sixth color-filled mystery, set in a remote spot on the Mexican-American border, opens with an unexpected and terrible blow for trading-post owner Texana Jones. Her husband, Clay, a popular veterinarian with patients on both sides of the (almost dry) Rio Grande, has been arrested for...
Aerosmith
The Fall and the Rise of Rock's Greatest Band
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Aerosmith, Martin Huxley chronicles the fall and the rise of rock's greatest band. Read about the origins of mega rockstars Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer--from the group's near break-up to their path of success that would eventually lead to them to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
by Benjamin F. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s and the violent controversies that surrounded it appeared to pass two very different judgments on the France of the Third Republic. The outcome o the trial -- Captain Dreyfus convicted without guilt and the real traitor acquitted despite guilt -- demonstrated without...
by Guy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
'The maddest 12 months of my life. The journey starts with an oddball race up an American mountain and ends with me checking myself out of hospital with a broken back. Again …'
As Guy’s Latvian grandfather frequently reminded him, ‘When you dead, you dead’. So before it’s all over,...
Red Glory
Manchester United and Me
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The definitive insider’s story of life behind the scenes and within the corridors of power at the biggest football club in the world. When Martin Edwards became chairman of Manchester United in 1980, the club's estimated worth was £2 million. When he retired just over two decades later the club...
Any Other Business
Life in and Out of the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A warm, witty, and insightful perspective on the changing global business landscape over the past 20 years, from a respected *Spectator *financial columnist
Since 1992, the financial and business life of the UK has changed beyond all recognition. The culture of that change has been expertly...
Falklands Gunner
A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces’ successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.
Second...
The List
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Martin Fletcher has captivated television audiences for thirty-five years as a foreign correspondent for NBC News. Now, Fletcher combines his own family's history with meticulous research in this gripping story of a young Jewish family struggling to stay afloat after World War II.
London, October...
by Guy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
‘I was never going to sleep in and take it easy, there were worms to catch.’
Breaking records on the world’s biggest Wall of Death, cycling 2,745 miles across the length of the United States (while sleeping rough), attempting to be the fastest person ever on two wheels and travelling...
Music of Yes
Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Yes does not focus on personalities, but instead on musical structures, lyrical vision, and cultural and historical context. Bill Martin situates one of the most creative groups from the progressive rock period, Yes, within the utopian ideals of the sixties...