Martin Paul: 140 books
The Healing Mind
The Vital Links Between Brain and Behavior, Immunity and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In The Healing Mind, Dr. Paul Martin, a renowned professor behavioral biology, asserts that Wolfe's words are closer to the truth than we might imagine. Long the stuff of poetry and folklore, there is increasing scientific evidence that the brain and the immune system are inextricably linked. Dr....
Progress and Confusion
The State of Macroeconomic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”?
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...
by Brice Martin, Bernard Durand, Jean-Paul Arveiller
Language: French
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Présentation de l'ouvrage : Le terme de « rétablissement », après avoir été imposé par les usagers qui s’opposaient à une certaine conception de la psychiatrie qu’ils récusaient, semble aujourd’hui pouvoir fédérer usagers et praticiens de toutes obédiences autour de projets communs...
The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection
Hasidism, Essays in Metaphysics, and The Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Explore the work of three great existential philosophers together in this collection.
Hasidism: Zionist philosopher Martin Buber shares the results of forty years of study and introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience. In this modern masterpiece, Buber interprets the ideas and...
Sanctioned Ignorance
The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of the Literatures of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"There is no such thing as 'the ivory tower.' Rather, there sit side by side numerous windowless towers of knowledge, each seeming to have only a small entrance and no discernable exit." -Paul Martin Multilingual, multicultural, and vast, Canada enjoys a rich diversity of literatures. So,...
Drinking from My Leg
Lessons from a Blistered Optimist
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
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...
Art School
(Propositions for the 21st Century)
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.
The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...
Counting Sheep
The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Does the early bird really catch the worm, or end up healthy, wealthy, and wise? Can some people really exist on just a few hours' sleep a night? Does everybody dream? Do fish dream? How did people cope before alarm clocks and caffeine? And is anybody getting enough sleep?
Even though we will...
Divided City
The Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the...
by Stephen-Paul Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Stephen-Paul Martin has been called "one of our great deadpan humorists," by Eric Basso and "North America's foremost master of the short story" by Vernon Frazer. Marjorie Perloff has described his writing as "wildly comic," and Fanny Howe has called his stories "magnificent and entertaining." In CHANGING...
by Stephen-Paul Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
An exhilarating collection about the limits of language, narrative, and identity.
The Possibility of Music is an imaginative reconstruction of America in the early 21st century. What would our post-9/11 society look like if it were viewed through a series of funhouse mirrors?
Each of...
by Stephen-Paul Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Stephen-Paul Martin’s The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which triggered World War I, and the mysterious circumstances that led Gavrilo Princip to shoot and...
Christen und Muslime
Verantwortung zum Dialog
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Der Dialog zwischen Muslimen und Christen hat in den letzten Jahren an Intensität und an Brisanz gewonnen. Austausch wie Streit, Gemeinsamkeiten wie Differenzen werden vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der internationalen Auseinandersetzungen und der anwachsenden Fundamentalismen wahrgenommen. Dieser...
Who Rules South Africa?
Pulling the strings in the battle for power
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this timely work, WHO RULES SOUTH AFRICA?, highly regarded authors Paul Holden and Martin Plaut analyse the political elites that battle daily for power in South Africa. They argue that power does not reside in traditional institutions such as Parliament or even the Cabinet. Rather, power lies...