Martin: 12191 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....
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.
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...
Who We Be
A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.
During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black...
The Great Parade
Broadway's Astonishing, Never-to-Be-Forgotten 1963-1964 Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
It was the Broadway season when Barbra Streisand demanded "Don't Rain on My Parade" and Carol Channing heard the waiters at the Harmonia Gardens say "Hello, Dolly!". From June 1, 1963 through the final day of May 31, 1964, theatergoers were offered 68 different productions: 24...
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,...
Out of the Storm
The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
"Scores highly in thoroughness, clarity, and human sympathy. If you want a model of how to defy uncomprehending power . . . or a model of how to laugh at the Devil, Wilson has provided a reliable guide as to how Luther did it."
---Sunday Telegraph (UK)
Martin Luther changed...
Walk in My Shoes
Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young has been a witness to history and has made his own. During the cvil rights movement, he worked tirelessly as a strategist and negotiator during the campaigns that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and was at Martin...
Meditations on Middle-Earth
New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD
When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of two...
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....
My Two Elaines
Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Former governor of Wisconsin Martin J. Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer’s Caregiver,...
by Ian Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Ian Martin spent three years as a hospital orderly and kept a ward diary chronicling the sights, sounds and smells that assailed him. Based on this record, "Henry Fuckit's Nursing Notes" is an unflinching account of nursing the sick and dying.
Looking through the eyes of his disreputable...
by Chris Martin, Colin Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, Marc Márquez, and the rest of the superstars of the MotoGP World Championship are put under the microscope in this NFL-style scouting guide. Inside the SCOUT'S GUIDE TO MOTOGP 2016, the styles, strengths, and weaknesses of the world's most gifted and dedicated...