Martin Wilson: 29 books
by Martin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
JAMES AND ALEX have barely anything in common anymore—least of all their experiences in high school, where James is a popular senior and Alex is suddenly an outcast. But at home, there is Henry, the precocious 10-year-old across the street, who eagerly befriends them both. And when Alex takes up...
by Martin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Face on the Milk Carton meets The Impossible Knife of Memory in this ripped-from-the-headlines novel that explores the power of being an ally—and a friend—when a kidnapped boy returns to his hometown.
Sam Walsh had been missing for three years. His older sister, Beth, thought he was...
by Martin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The unbidden guest is ever a pest... Frank Grinder has retired from practice as a solicitor in Hong Kong and is now living in Cheltenham with his attractive, much younger Chinese wife, Winnie. He realises that he is bored and decides to write a book, recording the things that he finds irritating....
by Martin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The Little Book of Anger has been written as an antidote to the genre of inspirational books which aim to make the reader a better and happier person. It is a diatribe about many of the aggravating and irrational aspects of modern life, but done with much humour, a certain amount of research and a...
Alimentos Genéticamente Modificados: Cambiando la Naturaleza de la Naturaleza
Qué necesita saber para proteger a usted mismo, a su familia y a nuestro planeta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2003
Describe un mundo donde las papas a la francesa que usted están registradas como un pesticida. Donde las plantas de maíz matan a las mariposas monarca; las plantas de soya proliferan en dosis de herbicida que matarían a una planta normal. Donde las corporaciones multinacionales poseen las semillas...
The Great War in the Heart of Dixie
Alabama During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced? How did the...
The Long List Anthology Volume 2
More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the...
Delivering Effective Social Customer Service
How to Redefine the Way You Manage Customer Experience and Your Corporate Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Social Customer Service is new. Social Media is the biggest thing happening to the customer service industry since the mid 1960s when modern day call centres were born. It is taking customers and organisations into untested ways of relating: transparently, collaboratively, instantly. The consequences...
Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature
What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
• The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.
• 15,000 copies sold in the first six months.
• Includes new studies about the dangers of genetically engineered food.
• Refutes the "feed the poor" propaganda spread...
Homicide
Foundations of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only...
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
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...
The Archaeology of Slavery
A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...
by Dawn Beichner, Spencer E. Cahill, Martin Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal...