Michael Martin: 221 books

John Green meets Stephen King in this original take on the zombie apocalypse by author T. Michael Martin, which ALA Booklist called "the best of the undead bunch" in a starred review. Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in...

In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this approach were opposed by positivists who stressed...

Want to be a successful trader? It's not enough to master generic trading strategies: you must first know yourself. You must understand your own emotional predilections and psychological tendencies. You must learn how to match your strategies to your own personality. You must choose strategies that...

Each of the figures examined in this study”John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead”is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern...

Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what—if anything—awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of books...

Ratgeber und detaillierte Anleitung: Der Weg zur finanziellen Unabhängigkeit Finanzielle Unabhängigkeit steht ganz oben auf der Wunschliste der meisten Menschen, wenn sie gefragt werden, was für sie zu einem glücklichen und sorgenfreien Leben gehört. Aber wie kann man dieses Ziel realistisch erreichen?...

FOUND IN SPACE... Jennifer may be the luckiest grad student ever. The PhD-to-be is part of a scientific team that made an amazing discovery on Mars with a tool she helped design. What the discovery means for us Earthlings looks huge. A harmless microbe she nicknamed “Crimsy,” it...

Super 8 meets Friday Night Lights in this smart and action-packed coming-of-age novel from the author of The End Games, T. Michael Martin. Benji’s lived his whole life in the same sleepy midwestern town—the same town his father grew up in, and his grandfather. But he wants nothing more...

Examines the facts of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, and provides a new critical analysis and conclusionsWithin hours of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created and over time, emerged as the "truth" of the incident. Throughout...

★ Publishers Weekly starred review Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in...

When a rich and greedy couple decide to leave their blighted and bloated home plant of Conima, where better to go than Provender with its fascinating peasant population and plant and animal life. Everything is edible; and everyone eats and or is eaten with relish (or chutney or pickle) regardless...

What happens to our loved one's after they die? Are they trying to send me a sign? Do they have a message they are desperately trying to get me to hear? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? What is an ADC or after death communication? Are they COMMON......or if I've had one, am...

70s UK: nationalised industries run the country and Unions run them into the ground: sometimes into the sea. Xmas 1971 approaches and a brand new Island ferry is due to replace the unreliable old ferry, but keep the same unreliable, self destructive crews. Meanwhile, wealthy local riverside property...

When Richard Pakehurst’s distraught grandson, Hugo, visits him in his beautifully situated, crumbling mansion house on the banks of Beaulieu River, he is forced to confront his own past: the bad blood of the family, the curses brought on by past misdeeds: cursed forever by violating the Old Gods,...