Martin Press imprint: 3373 books
Mountain to Mountain
A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a nonprofit and committing her life to advancing education and opportunity for women and girls. Focusing on the war-torn country...
The Southern Tiger
Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos provides a fascinating glimpse inside his country's meteoric rise on the world stage. A leader in the underground resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet and his Dirty War, Ricardo Lagos burst onto the national stage in 1988 when he gave a speech denouncing...
Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary
A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to human equality." - Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Though...
The Shadow Emperor
A Biography of Napoleon III
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians.
Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon)...
The Mayor of Mogadishu
A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"This is a triumph of a book: surprising, informative, and humane." —Alexander McCall Smith
"Stunning." **—**Foreign Affairs
"Pieces together Nur's astonishing biography and follows him when he became mayor in 2010 and tried to restore confidence and bring...
The Kennedy Legacy
Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream Fulfilled
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy's individual stories can be seen as essentially one, each successive brother striving to fulfill the interrupted promise of the brother before. The closing of Ted Kennedy's chapter in America's political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real...
Conversations with Power
What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us about Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Fresh out of college, and frustrated with own generation's political apathy, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. To his surprise, they were eager to talk, and he soon found himself discussing everything from energy to terrorism to nuclear disarmament with the...
The Harding Affair
Love and Espionage during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair,...
I Believe in ZERO
Learning from the World's Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF
In I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, an organization known for its decades of charity...
The Men We Became
My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
For over twenty years Robert Littell was John F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest confidant. Now, in a beautiful and moving memoir, Littell introduces us to the private John. A story of laughter and sorrow, joy and heartbreak, The Men We Became is an unforgettable memoir.
Rob Littell was a freshman at...
Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs
The Making of a Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger,...
How We Do Harm
A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical...
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
A riveting true story of sisters who were identical, until the voices began
Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms...
by Kitty Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking’s biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist’s life and scientific theories.
This updated edition of Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind looks at one of the most remarkable...