Martin Martin: 12406 books
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...
The Boys from Old Florida
Inside Gator Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In The Boys from Old Florida, Buddy Martin takes the reader beneath the surface of Florida football as, without bias or sugar coating, he skillfully excavates the truths behind “The Gator Nation.” In this book, Martin, a Florida native, has chronicled the real stories of Gator coaches and players...
by John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as 'New.' What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s...
by May Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
The last of 6 eBook-only shorts from star of The Great British Sewing Bee and doyenne of the Women’s Institute, May Martin, including fabulous tips for making those difficult sewing techniques easy to master. May has been teaching sewing for over 40 years. From hems to facings May simplifies some...
Snowflakes on Silver Cove
A festive, feel-good Christmas romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Come and spend a picture perfect romantic Christmas at White Cliff Bay
Libby Joseph is famous for her romantic Christmas stories. Every December, readers devour her books of falling in love against the magical backdrop of the Christmas season. If only Libby believed in the magic herself…
Struggling...
by Natalie Zemon Davis, Martin Guerre, Arnault Du Tilh
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1984
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du TiIh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the noted historian who served as a consultant for the film, adds new dimensions to this famous legend.
The Wild Duck Chase
Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
THE WILD DUCK CHASE is the basis for “The Million Dollar Duck,” a documentary feature film, directed by Brian Golden Davis and written by Martin J. Smith, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival in January 2016. The book takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it...
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Very Private Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.'John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet...
by Gerald Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez.
Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary...
by Juan Martin Guevara, Armelle Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fifty years on, his younger brother, Juan Martin, breaks...
The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self
An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies,...
The Litvinenko File
The Life and Death of a Russian Spy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
On December 7 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service....
The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection
Hasidism, Essays in Metaphysics, and The Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Explore the work of three great existential philosophers together in this collection.
Hasidism: Zionist philosopher Martin Buber shares the results of forty years of study and introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience. In this modern masterpiece, Buber interprets the ideas and...
by Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1517, Martin Luther challenged the Catholic Church, and ultimately altered the course of European history, when he nailed his "95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. At the time, Renaissance humanists were beginning to oppose the reign...