Martin Martin: 12406 books
by Jayne Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Whether she’s talking about loss of privacy in the Internet age, “Gone are the days when people only knew things about me that I wanted them to know. Now I can be Googled – and without benefit of lubrication,” or growing up Catholic, “Sticking a symbol of a brutally murdered dead guy over...
Railroads Triumphant
The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1992
In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was...
Fixing the Game
Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it’s getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we’ve seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a...
by David R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
A step-by-step guide to Puerto Rico's economic renaissance.Corporate attorney David R. Martin proposes a transformational economic development plan for Puerto Rico.Critical of Puerto Rico's use of tax exemptions to promote manufacturing, Mr. Martin argues that the Island must...
Golden Boy
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet. His father was posted there in 1952, and this memoir is his telling of that youth, a time when he had access to the corners of a colony normally closed to a "Gweilo," a "pale fellow" like him.
His...
by Martin Bayne
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Martin Bayne on Learning to Turn the Stream of Compassion Within looks with a soulful heart and a scholar’s mind at one of Mankind’s most difficult challenges: the ability to love oneself unconditionally. The author, a literary journal publisher who is a former Soto Zen Buddhist monk, journalist,...
Marathon Quest
Revised & Updated
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
An engaging and incredible true story detailing the early days of Martin Parnell's dream to share the healing power of sport with disadvantaged children around the world.
In 2005, during a four-month cycling trip through Africa, Martin Parnell was struck by the power of sport and its ability...
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
Pharo Martin Bolze
Rendezvouz mit meinem Ich
Language: German
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In diesem Buch lernen Sie den echten Menschen Martin Bolze kennen, der seit über 35 Jahren sich mit der "Magie" des Unterbewusstseins auseinander setzt und hier eine Auseinandersetzung mit seinem Innersten und mit seinen Erinnerungen und Erlebnissen eingeht. Mit vielen Ereignissen wird...
by Ricky Martin
Language: German
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Während einer fast drei Jahrzehnte umspannenden Karriere hat Ricky Martin sein inneres Wesen und sein öffentliches Image strikt voneinander getrennt. Seine intimsten Gefühle behielt er stets für sich. Nun erzählt der ganz private Ricky Martin erstmals von sich und schildert, wohin ihn das Leben...
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters
The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
"Why does every one of my friends have an eating disorder, or, at the very least, a screwed-up approach to food and fitness?" writes journalist Courtney E. Martin. The new world culture of eating disorders and food and body issues affects virtually all -- not just a rare few -- of today's young women....
by Martin Dies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In this shocking book leading anti-communist Martin Dies reveals the revelations that he uncovered in his quest to rid American of socialism.
“In the seven years during which I headed the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, the so-called Dies Committee,...
An American Triptych
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism both inspired and restricted Dickinson, and feminism...
by Martin Buber
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Edited by Profesor Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr
“No matter how brilliant it may be, the human intellect that wishes to keep to a plane above the events of the day is not really alive,” wrote Martin Buber in 1932. The correspondence of Martin Buber reveals a personality passionately...