J Martinez: 64 books
Public Purpose in International Law
Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations...
Full of Heart
My Story of Survival, Strength, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
An inspirational journey from tragedy to triumph
In 2003, nineteen-year-old Private J.R. Martinez was on a routine patrol when the Humvee he was driving hit an antitank mine in Iraq, resulting in severe injuries and burns on his face and more than one-third of his body. Out of that tragedy...
The Safety of the Kingdom
Government Responses to Subversive Threats
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The horrendous events of September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of terrorism unlike all but a handful of major catastrophes in American history. Like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, 9/11 is a date forever enshrined...
Through It All
A Life Story of Defeats and Victories
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Life brings its share of problems and needs. There are times when the church looks upon its leaders as if they have no problems, but leaders are far from exempt from difficulties. Author J. D. Miera Martinez has written Through It All to offer his thoughts on ministering to leaders and pastors. Some...
by J. Michael Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry
Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity
"Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New...
Political Assassinations and Attempts in US History
The Lasting Effects of Gun Violence Against American Political Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The long, dark history of political violence in the United States.
Violence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political murders, such as when Julius Caesar was felled...
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans...
Unfit For Marriage
Impotent Spouses On Trial In The Basque Region Of Spain, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Catholic Church of early modern Europe intended the sacrament of matrimony to represent a lifelong commitment, and it allowed few grounds for the dissolution of an unhappy marriage. One was nonconsummation owing to the sexual impotency of one of the partners. Even then, an annulment was granted...
A Long Dark Night
Race in America from Jim Crow to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was...
by M.E. Cunningham, Julie Wetzel, Kelly Risser
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
FATED DESTINATIONS: A Contemporary, Paranormal, and Science Fiction Romance Boxed Set
Escape from the every day with this set of 7 all-new travel-based romances from award-winning authors. These exciting stories span the globe (and beyond!) to spin tales of love and intrigue in exotic locations. Take...
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...
by J. Michael Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Many constitutional protections that Americans take for granted today—the right to exclude illegally obtained evidence, the right to government-financed counsel, and the right to remain silent, among others—were not part of the original Bill of Rights, but were the result of criminal trials and...
Heredities
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through...
by G.G. Grabenbauer, E.L. Jones, C.A. Meeuwis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The use of hyperthermia in radiation oncology is well established. Many publications cover the whole field of possibilities and problems of this therapeutic modality. The new development of interstitial and intracavitary hyperthermia, however, is not well known: there are only a few relevant publications...