Martin: 12406 books
Mediators
Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture...
The Urban Apparatus
Mediapolitics and the City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that...
Avant Rock
Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In Avant Rock,, music writer Bill Martin explores how avant-garde rock emerged from the social and political upheaval of the sixties. He covers the music from its early stages, revealing its influences outside of rock, from musicians such as John Cage and Cecil Taylor, to those more closely related...
Opium Fiend
A 21st Century Slave to a 19th Century Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A renowned authority on the secret world of opium recounts his descent into ruinous obsession with one of the world’s oldest and most seductive drugs, in this harrowing memoir of addiction and recovery.
A natural-born collector with a nose for exotic adventure,...
The Inextinguishable Symphony
A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Advance Praise for the Inextinguishable Symphony "A Fascinating Insight into a Virtually Unknown Chapter of Nazi Rule in Germany, Made all the More Engaging through a Son's Discovery of His Own Remarkable Parents." -Ted Koppel, ABC News "An Immensely Moving and Powerful Description...
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,...
Night Trains
The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background...
Alfalfa to Ivy
Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Joseph B. Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised...
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls....
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…
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