Martin Martin: 12406 books
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...
Mediators
Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture...
The Urban Apparatus
Mediapolitics and the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that...
Avant Rock
Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In Avant Rock,, music writer Bill Martin explores how avant-garde rock emerged from the social and political upheaval of the sixties. He covers the music from its early stages, revealing its influences outside of rock, from musicians such as John Cage and Cecil Taylor, to those more closely related...
Opium Fiend
A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery.
A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure,...
The Inextinguishable Symphony
A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Advance Praise for the Inextinguishable Symphony "A Fascinating Insight into a Virtually Unknown Chapter of Nazi Rule in Germany, Made all the More Engaging through a Son's Discovery of His Own Remarkable Parents." -Ted Koppel, ABC News "An Immensely Moving and Powerful Description...
by Chris Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The modern history of SEAL Team Six did not begin with the killing of Osama bin Laden, nor did it end there. Once mired in controversy and doubt, ST6 has blossomed into one of the most accomplished fighting units the world has ever known.
Having taken down the highest of high-value targets,...
Night Trains
The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background...
Alfalfa to Ivy
Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Joseph B. Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised...
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls....