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Andrew Martin has written 47 work(s)
Product Description: "A fool and his words are soon parted," wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that "A wit and his words are rarely collected." Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the one-liners, quips, and observations from Ancient Rome, the Bible, and Chaucer right up to "The Simpsons...read more
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9781585678334 | Overlook Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A compilation of humorous remarks, quips, and observations includes examples from ancient Greece to the modern world, in a volume that is complemented by brief speaker biographies and is thematically arranged under such sections as food, sports, and education.
Paperback:
9781585679027 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, August 27, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "A fool and his words are soon parted," wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that "A wit and his words are rarely collected.
Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture as a way of understanding global security. Although only a decade ago, such a focus would have seemed out of place, the proliferation of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has transformed our knowledge of near and distant events so that it has become impossible to separate the politics of war, suffering, terrorism, and security from the practices and processes of the media.This book brings together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet.  The contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities, to the role that television programming plays as an interpretative frame for current events.Designed to promote strategic thinking about the relationships between media, popular culture, and global security, this book is essential reading for scholars of international relations, technology, and media studies.Â
Hardcover:
9780813538297 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 25, 2006, cover price $68.00
Paperback:
9780813538303 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 25, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture as a way of understanding global security.
Product Description: The hippopotamus, as every big game hunter knows, is a deceptively dangerous beast. And so, in the chess world, is the Hippopotamus Defense. To opponents unfamiliar with it, it looks awkward and unaggressiveâuntil it crushes the life out of their favorite openings...read more
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9780713489897 | B T Batsford Ltd, March 1, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The hippopotamus, as every big game hunter knows, is a deceptively dangerous beast.
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9781857443981 | Everyman Chess, November 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Andrew Martin studies this famous opening in a simplistic way, introducing the crucial initial moves and ideas and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them, something that has sometimes been neglected or taken for granted.
Product Description: The creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) marks a leap forward in European integration. Authority over monetary policy has moved from member states to the European Central Bank, an independent, supranational institution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780521835701 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 29, 2004, cover price $125.00
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9780521543637 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2004, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: The creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) marks a leap forward in European integration.
Product Description: Brussels 1986 was a ground breaking event in many respects. It was Kasparov's first tournament after his gruelling series of marathons against Anatoly Karpov for the world title, and it was the first major tournament televised by the BBC and containing commentary by the players themselves...read more
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9781843821304 | Hardinge Simpole Ltd, March 31, 2004, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Brussels 1986 was a ground breaking event in many respects.
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9781888710007 | Thinkers Pr Inc / Chessco, February 1, 2004, cover price $29.95
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9781857442472 | 2nd edition (Everyman Chess, January 1, 2004), cover price $13.95
This brilliantly original study uncovers a side to Napoleon Bonaparte which has hitherto been ignored by biographers - that of the aspiring novelist and man of letters. In this illuminating, witty and elegantly written book, Andy Martin reveals how this neglected aspect of Napoleon's remarkable life actually provides the key to understanding it. The French Revolution, Austerlitz and Waterloo all came second in Napoleon's life to a Discourse on Happiness, a Dialogue on Love and repeated attempts at a novel. Napoleon began as a would-be Rousseau and ended up on Saint Helena dictating his own confessions. The colossal rise and catastrophic fall of his empire are, Martin argues, anticipated in the obsessive and tragicomic pages of his voluminous writings. Napoleon emerges as an idealist, romantic, visionary, critic, a thinker with an epic imagination and an underdeveloped sense of reality, pushing his 'portable library' across Europe, Asia and the Orient, and always wrestling with the intricacies of language and literature. And, although Napoleon was denounced as a failure in an essay competition, Martin shows that he did indeed succeed in imposing himself as the archetype and inspiration of modern European culture. This provocative book will appeal to a wide general readership. It will also be of interest to students of literature, modern languages and European history. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780745625355 | Polity Pr, January 24, 2001, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This brilliantly original study uncovers a side to Napoleon Bonaparte which has hitherto been ignored by biographers - that of the aspiring novelist and man of letters.
Paperback:
9780745625362 | Polity Pr, January 24, 2001, cover price $29.95
Hardcover:
9780571192755 | Faber & Faber Ltd, December 1, 2000, cover price $34.95 | also contains Screams in the Dark
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9781901663440 | Natl Museums of Scotland, June 1, 2000, cover price $10.95
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9781571811684 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
Product Description: European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9781571811677 | Berghahn Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era.
Hardcover:
9780967056203 | Andrew Martin, January 1, 1999, cover price $49.95
Paperback:
9780965644648 | Ash Martin Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This second book by the author is a guide for working technical writers and editors.
Product Description: This anthology ranges from medieval poetry to 20th-century prose and covers the Borders in springtime, skating in Victorian Edinburgh, fishermen lashed by Hebridean gales, farmers harvesting in summer heat, the Brocken Spectre and a host of other experiences of Scotland's weather...read more
Paperback:
9780948636714 | Arthur Schwartz Sales Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This anthology ranges from medieval poetry to 20th-century prose and covers the Borders in springtime, skating in Victorian Edinburgh, fishermen lashed by Hebridean gales, farmers harvesting in summer heat, the Brocken Spectre and a host of other experiences of Scotland's weather.
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9781857440652 | Cadogan Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $19.95
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9780806125404 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $19.95
Product Description: What did Captain James Cook, Elvis Presley and the author of this book have in common? They all went to Hawaii to live a dream or die there. The North Shore on the island of Oahu is only twelve miles long but it has the magic and myth of Troy or Never Never Land...read more
Hardcover:
9780719549564 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, May 1, 1992, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: What did Captain James Cook, Elvis Presley and the author of this book have in common?
Product Description: This provocative new study contends that Jules Verne was indeed more than just a writer of science fiction or harmless fantasies for children. Placing him squarely within the center of a strong literary tradition, Martin convincingly shows that a recurrent narrative, describing the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs throughout Verne's Voyages extraordinaires...read more
Hardcover:
9780198157984 | Clarendon Pr, August 16, 1990, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: This provocative new study contends that Jules Verne was indeed more than just a writer of science fiction or harmless fantasies for children.
Library:
9780822513544 | Lerner Pub Group, May 1, 1977, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A brief survey of the development of aircraft from the Wright brothers' Flyer to the British and French Concorde
Hardcover:
9780527068509 | Periodicals Service Co, June 1, 1951, cover price $21.00
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