Martin: 12406 books
by Martin Wells Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Martin W. Knapp was born in 1853 in a log cabin in southern Michigan. With $50 received from selling a calf, Martin enrolled at a Methodist college in Albion, Michigan at the age of 17. He continued his work on the family farm while balancing a rigorous schedule at school. Knapp’s first pastorate...
Revanche
Der zehnte Fall für Bruno, Chef de police
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Martin Walkers Romane spielen im geschichtsträchtigen Périgord mit seinen herrlich trutzigen Burgen. Von einer davon, Commarque, brachen im Mittelalter die Tempelritter zu Kreuzzügen nach Jerusalem auf. Tausend Jahre später nimmt das einstige Morgenland eine späte Revanche in der Person einer...
by Martin Suter
Language: German
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Nicht nur Gefällig-Harmloses lässt sich in edles Porzellan gießen, sondern auch Deftig-Anzügliches in vollendeter Kunst. Allmen und Carlos geraten an einen geheimen Schatz wertvoller Porzellanfigürchen für Liebhaber der expliziten erotischen Darstellung. Ein Fall, der sie gehörig ins Schwitzen...
by Ian Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
A prominent businessman is murdered in an apparent hijacking. For Matt Dreyer the death of his father seems like murder most foul. This disturbed Hamlet of the 21st century sets off on a tortuous and bloody hell ride to track down his father’s killers. Ian Martin's POP-Splat looks at today’s South...
On the Future
Prospects for Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes—good...
Our Cosmic Habitat
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What interests me most is whether God could...
Brown Gold
Milestones of African American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even...
by Martin Esslin
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Having spent most of his career working with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Martin Esslin appraises American TV with the eyes of both a detached outsider and a concerned insider. "American popular culture," writes Esslin, "has become the popular culture of the world at...
by Roger Martin du Gard
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Van de schrijver van de veelgeprezen romancyclus De Thibaults
In Afrikaans geheim noteert Martin du Gard de ontboezeming die hij van een medepassagier hoorde op een boot van Noord-Afrika naar Marseille. Boekhandelaar Leandro biecht de auteur in een zoele nacht op zee een kwellend geheim op....
Die 21
Eine Reise ins Land der koptischen Martyrer
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Im Frühjahr 2017 reiste Martin Mosebach nach Ägypten. Er besuchte im Dorf El-Or die Familien der 21 koptischen Männer, die zwei Jahre zuvor von IS-Terroristen an einem Strand in Libyen ermordet worden waren. Er saß in Empfangszimmern, durch die die Schwalben flogen, und machte sich ein Bild: von...
Opera at the Bandstand
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now, George W. Martin surveys the role of concert bands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in making contemporary opera popular. He also chronicles how in part they lost their audience in the second half of the twentieth century by abandoning operatic...
The Man Behind the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Life and Letters of Edward Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam is one of the best known poems in the English language. Its lines and verses have become part of the Western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and...
Bin ich hier der Depp?
Wie Sie dem Arbeitswahn nicht länger zur Verfügung stehen
Language: German
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Von der Kunst, nicht ständig zur Verfügung zu stehen
Überlastung, angehäufte Überstunden und keine Chance, sie jemals abzubauen – muss ich mir das wirklich gefallen lassen? Das fragen sich Millionen Mitarbeiter jeden Tag aufs Neue. Der Karriereberater und Bestsellerautor Martin Wehrle...
The Call of the Mild
Misadventures in Africa, Hollywood, and Other Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Responding to the Lion's Roar
Join comedian, actor, and writer Torry Martin as he shares his latest outlandish misadventures!
Whether he's dealing with pythons in South Africa, pickpockets in Ireland, or grizzlies in Alaska, Torry shares his blunders and the life lessons they've taught...