A Martin: 352 books
A Visual Guide to Gospel Events
Fascinating Insights into Where They Happened and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As the inspired authors of the Bible relayed the story of salvation, they frequently mentioned place names that contributed to the story. Yet readers who are separated from the texts by thousands of years and thousands of miles are often unable to fully understand or appreciate those references. In...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures
New Directions in Research and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology.
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...
Gender at Work in Victorian Culture
Literature, Art and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction to important issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture. 'Work,' Danahay argues, was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period...
by A. Lynn Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Traditional Europe had high levels of violence and of alcohol consumption, both higher than they are in modern Western societies, where studies demonstrate a link between violence and alcohol. A. Lynn Martin uses an anthropological approach to examine drinking, drinking establishments, violence, and...
Entryways to Criminal Justice
Accusation and Criminalization in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways to Criminal Justice analyzes the thresholds that distinguish law-abiding individuals from those who may be criminalized. Contributors to the volume adopt social, historical, cultural, and...
Disrupted Economic Relationships
Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse.
Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after...
Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring - E-Book
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Evaluate intrapartum and antepartum fetal status with this portable, practical guide! Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring, 7th Edition provides a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach model that's ideal for use in the clinical environment. It offers a single definitive source on fetal heart...
Environmental Criminology
Evolution, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
The field of environmental criminology is a staple theoretical framework in contemporary criminological theory. With this book, Martin Andresen presents the first comprehensive and sole-authored textbook on this influential and compelling school of criminological thought. He covers a wide range of...
Very Merry Christmas Bundle
20 Tales of Christmas Cheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!
Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy, science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will...
Smoke Signals
A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
A bestselling author of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story— a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world’s most controversial plant.
Martin A. Lee traces the dramatic social history of marijuana...
A Most Disorderly Court
Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In the 1970s, justices on the Florida Supreme Court were popularly elected. But a number of scandals threatened to topple the court until public outrage led to profound reforms and fundamental changes in the way justices were seated.
One justice abruptly retired after being filmed on a high-roller...
by Martin A. Moe Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Do you believe in God? If the answer is Yes, you probably haven’t really thought much about it. If the answer is No, you probably have thought about it a good bit, but may be rejecting a cultural construct as much or more than the presence of a supernatural deity. I’ve been thinking about it for...
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...