Martel: 223 books
The High Mountains of Portugal
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize–winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . ....
by Yann Martel
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Yann Martel, de succesauteur van Het leven van Pi, bewijst zich met De hoge bergen van Portugal andermaal als een magische meesterverteller. In deze grootse roman verweeft Martel met bravoure de levens van drie mensen die op het eerste gezicht niets met elkaar te maken hebben: de jonge Tomás, een...
Subverting the Leviathan
Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader.
Martel demonstrates...
Global gay
Cómo la revolución gay está cambiando el mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Una investigación sin precedentes alrededor del mundo sobre la cuestión gay.
De una esquina a otra del planeta, la revolución gay está en marcha. De la resistencia contra la represión en China, Cuba o Irán al activismo a favor del matrimonio para parejas del mismo sexo en Estados Unidos...
Textual Conspiracies
Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which...
Tales and Trails: Adventures for Everyone in the Canadian Rockies
Adventures for Everyone in the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Since moving to the Rockies of western Canada in 1984, Lynn Martel has spent countless hours and days exploring the mountain wilderness with her many experienced friends as well as some of the best known and well-informed professional guides in the outdoor adventure business. Waking up in tents and...
Not This Time
Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Drugs are part of every society, consumed for ritual or religious purposes, for pleasure, to enhance athletic performance, or as a means to relieve pain. Throughout the twentieth century, however, an arbitrary and shifting distinction was made between legal drugs that were prescribed and administered...
by James R. Martel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Although Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its call, demanding rights that were not meant for them. This failure of the French state to address only its desired subjects is an example of the phenomenon James R. Martel labels...
by Frédéric Martel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 22, 2011
La cultura que gusta a todo el mundo... en todo el mundo.
¿Por qué triunfan Avatar, Shakira, Spielberg, Mujeres desesperadas, Slumdog Millionaire, Disney, Michael Jackson o MTV? ¿Cómo se fabrican los best sellers, los discos superventas y los grandes éxitos de taquilla? ¿A qué se debe...
by Matilda Martel
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Bruno Larsen's just inherited the care of his 3-month-old niece, Lina after the tragic death of her parents and needs a full time live in nanny, preferably one that can breastfeed- since poor little Lina does not want to drink her formula.
He is referred to the very young and beautiful...
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present.
Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether...
Light Therapies
A Complete Guide to the Healing Power of Light
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A comprehensive guide to the therapeutic benefits of light and color and how they affect our physical and psychological well-being
• Shares scientific research on how different wavelengths of light influence our cells, brain function, sleep patterns, and emotional stability
• Examines...
by Matilda Martel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Tabitha Lux is a student at Columbia who has been reluctantly taken out of school and dragged to DC by her father, a longtime CIA veteran and her uncle, a longtime NSA veteran to run a Honey Trap on a married Senator they once suspected had a crush on her.
Young Tabitha's been secretly in love...
by Matilda Martel
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2018
Young and innocent Cara is stalked, blackmailed and then knocked up by a hot professor who wants to bully her into marrying him.
Cara comes from a big family and depends on her scholarship money to get her through every semester. She's worked hard to keep her GPA up and has never had any problems...