J J Martin: 509 books
Norse Myths
Viking Legends of Heroes and Gods
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The stories of Thor, Odin and Loki are familiar to most of us. Many people know that the Norse gods fought against giants and were ultimately betrayed by Loki the trickster. The end of the world and the death of the gods in a grim battle called Ragnarok has also found its way into popular culture. Ideas...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
Against the Law & Twelve-Gauge Guardian
A 2-in-1 Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
THE CALL OF THE SIREN
Former US Army Ranger Devlin Raines is mostly retired from his investigation business-and definitely retired from getting involved with beautiful women. But when Lark Delaney asks him to find her four-year-old niece who was put up for adoption as a baby, Dev can't say...
by J. A. Cuddon, M. A. R. Habib, Matthew Birchwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.
Written in a clear and highly readable style
Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day
Broad intellectual and cultural range
Expands...
Pynchon's Against the Day
A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after...
Straw Men
A Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
“An engrossing mystery with a wonderfully unique sleuth [who] tackles the most mysterious setting of all: the Bermuda Triangle of human memory” (Barbara Seranella, author of the Munch Mancini Novels).
Eight years ago, Brenna Kennedy defended Carmen DellaVecchio. He was a loner, a freak,...
Transgender Communication Studies
Histories, Trends, and Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges...
The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...
The Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering
Volume 2: Reservoir Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book covers the fundamentals of reservoir engineering in the recovery of hydrocarbons from underground reservoirs. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the topic, including discussion of recovery processes, material balance, fluid properties and fluid flow. It also contains details of...
Basketball in America
From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels!
Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan’s Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysis of the history of basketball and its effect on popular culture from the 1970s to today....
by Frank Hoffmann, Frederick J Augustyn, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Keep the information you need on playthings and pop culture at your fingertips!
The Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture is an A-to-Z reference guide to the playthings that amused us as children and fascinate us as adults. This enlightening-and entertaining-resource, complete...
A Philosophy of Sacred Nature
Prospects for Ecstatic Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
A Philosophy of Sacred Nature introduces Robert Corrington’s philosophical thought, “ecstatic naturalism,” which seeks to recognize nature’s self-transforming potential. Ecstatic naturalism is a philosophical-theological perspective, deeply seated in a semiotic cosmology and psychosemiosis,...
by Walter Demel, Andreas Rose, Susanne Lachenicht
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ist fraglos eines der zentralen und bis heute umstrittensten Themenfelder der Neueren Geschichte. Die europäischen Rivalitäten, das imperiale Ringen um überseeische Besitzungen und die zunehmende Bedeutung der eigenen Öffentlichkeit für das außenpolitische...
Broken Bones, Broken Bodies
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Approaches for Accumulative Trauma and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in...