David Martin: 306 books
by David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2002.Christian Language in the Secular City offers a series of meditations by the internationally renowned sociologist, David Martin. Martin presents a distinctive angle of vision on key issues of Christian faith, dividing the book into three clear sections: the Liturgical...
by David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
"Spiders, by David Martin, is infused with paranoia bought about by the combined effects of job losses, bomb scares and hangovers.The trace of horror gradually becomes something more palpable, as Martin satirises the violent ecosystem of business cost-cutting and downsizing, making for an effectively...
Ally Betrayed
The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
David Martin, a distinguished journalist, political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, first published his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946. Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich, Martin’s book asks the crucial questions:
Why did...
by David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Free the Genius. Free YOUR Genius.
There is untapped brilliance in you. Genius, in fact. It’s tangible, available talent and skill that lies dormant for most people. What about you?
The world needs more of your genius, now. Not a genius defined by IQ, but that brilliance you know you...
Secularisation, Pentecostalism and Violence
Receptions, Rediscoveries and Rebuttals in the Sociology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this book David Martin brings together a coherent summary of his many years of ground-breaking academic work on the sociology of religion. Covering key and contentious areas from the last half-century such as secularisation, religion and violence, and the global rise of Pentecostalism, it presents...
On Secularization
Towards a Revised General Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
'Secularization' has been hotly debated since it was first subjected to critical attention in the mid-sixties by David Martin, before he sketched a 'General Theory' in 1969. 'On Secularization' presents David Martin's reassessment of the key issues: with particular regard to the special situation...
by David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
"These pages represent the accumulated wisdom of more than thirty years that David Martin has spent as a writer, teacher, editor, and inspiration. Fine Lines (a literary journal) has been his gift to the world, a champion of literacy and lyricism, a 'lighthouse' to countless writers of all ages,...
Religion and Power
No Logos without Mythos
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
There are few more contentious issues than the relation of faith to power or the suggestion that religion is irrational compared with politics and peculiarly prone to violence. The former claim is associated with Juergen Habermas and the latter with Richard Dawkins. In this book David Martin argues,...
The Future of Christianity
Reflections on Violence and Democracy, Religion and Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined...
Wilderness of Mirrors
Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
At the dawn of the Cold War, the world’s most important intelligence agencies—the Soviet KGB, the American CIA, and the British MI6—appeared to have clear-cut roles and a sense of rising importance in their respective countries. But when Kim Philby, head of MI6’s Russian division and arguably...
The Hooligan's Table
The Rugby Player’S Cookbook: How to Eat, Drink, Think and Entertain Like a Rugby Player
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
After playing rugby, one of the most physically challenging games you can play, both sides shake hands and walk off the field togetherand then sit down to a pint and a meal.
The Hooligans Table showcases the spirit of camaraderie for which rugby is known around the world and across the table....
Ruin and Restoration
On Violence, Liturgy and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
To suppose that God has a providential plan based on a special covenant with Israel and realised in the atonement presents us with a moral problem. In Ruin and Restoration David Martin sketches a radical naturalistic account of the atonement based on the innocent paying for the sins of the guilty...
by David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
When their father is held captive inside a military academy guarded by vicious teenage cadets, three young girls who have been training in martial arts and combat their entire lives must use their skills to rescue him. As the girls go further into the academy to reach their father, their opponents...
The Dark Issue 40
The Dark, #40
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
"A Prayer to the Many-Eyed Mother" by Eliza Victoria
"Things...