Martin: 12406 books

Un recueil de nouvelles relatant l'atrocité de la Première Guerre mondialeCe 16 avril 1917, nous voici à nouveau dans les entrailles de l’enfer. Nous attendons le coup de sifflet pour monter à l’assaut. J’ai conjugué le verbe attendre à tous les temps. J’ai attendu sans angoisse la lettre...

In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle East. He also offers a forensic exploration of...

Comment Luther, père de la Réforme, voyait-il Marie ? Écrit à une des époques les plus tourmentées de la vie de Luther, ce commentaire du Magnificat (paroles de Marie à sa cousine Élisabeth) est précieux à plusieurs titres. Il permet d’abord une initiation globale et pourtant profonde...

In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal...

From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6. Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other...

He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz...

The gripping story of post-Mao China and the harrowing fate of the artist and activist Ai Weiwei In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. In April 2011, he was arrested and held for more than two months in terrible conditions. The most famous...

Inquiry Into Political Parties in the United States Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States (1782-1862) This ebook presents «Inquiry Into Political Parties in the United States», from Martin Van Buren. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to...

Twenty-five years old, fresh out of college, Paul Martins life took a major turn. In 1992, as a result of a car accident, Martins left leg was amputated five inches below the knee. His future plans hadnt included a prosthetic leg. But after returning to his workout routine, Martin realized he was...

The Unification of Italy in the nineteenth century was the unlikely result of a lengthy and complex process of Italian ‘revival’ (‘Risorgimento’). Few Italians supported Unification and the new rulers of Italy were unable to resolve their disputes with the Catholic Church, the local power-holders...

In this sequel to The Haunting of America, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes bring up to the present the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In unearthing the roots of America's fascination with the ghosts, goblins, and...

A new book on the social history of the Port Phillip District between 1839 and 1854, depicted by following in detail the lives of two early pioneers - Dr George Playne and Daniel Jennings. The book throws new light on medicine in the 1840s, and on the endeavours to improve squatters’ conditions and...

WAS THE UNIVERSE MADE FOR MAN?Is our universe the only one of its kind or are there others? Is it just a coincidence that life evolved on Earth or are the remarkable and unusual set of circumstances that brought about the emergence of humankind part of some deeper mystery that reveals an as...