J Martin: 509 books
Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte Heft IX/1 Frühjahr 2015
Lange Leitung
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Die Frühjahrsausgabe der Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte nimmt unsere globalifizierte Welt in den Blick - ohne dem jüngsten transnationalen Hype aufzusitzen: "Lange Leitung". Wie lässt sich ein zeitgemäßer Kosmopolitismus in Methode und neue Fragestellungen übersetzen? Das Heft spürt...
The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America
From the Nazis to the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
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...
What I Am Living For
Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."—Thomas Merton
Some of today's most popular spiritual...
Modern Security Analysis
Understanding Wall Street Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A legendary value investor on security analysis for a modern era
This book outlines Whitman's approach to business and security analysis that departs from most conventional security analysts. This approach has more in common with corporate finance than it does with the conventional approach....
In 100 Years
Leading Economists Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this book, ten prominent economists—including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates—offer their ideas about what the future might hold in 100 years.
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers....
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 Haunting of America
From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America: From The Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini, the only book to tell the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events....
by Joel Martin, William J. Birnes
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In this companion volume to The Haunting of America and The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America, national bestselling authors William J. Birnes and Joel Martin explore today's intellectual and spiritual awakening—one that is challenging traditional belief systems.
Birnes and Martin show...
The Faculty Factor
Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession...
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Money Makes Me Crazy
How I Squandered Millions of Dollars Building The FUBU Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
FUBU co-founder and entrepreneur J. Alexander Martin shares his compelling story about how he helped build a neighborhood business into a billion-dollar international brand. Teaming with behavioral finance expert and author Ted McLyman, they present an easy to understand and useful road map for success...
by John Joseph Adams, George R. R. Martin, Robert J. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
From STAR TREK to STAR WARS, from DUNE to FOUNDATION, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies.
The stories in FEDERATIONS will continue that tradition, and herein...
Speaking of the Fantastic III
Interviews with Science Fiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Darrell Schweitzer interviews seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D....