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Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation and Physical Properties
Springer 2011; US$ 1,299.99Excel Programming with VBA Starter
Packt Publishing 2012; US$ 5.00Get started with programming in Excel using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). more...
Hero of the Heartland
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 15.95"Robert F. Martin demonstrates nicely that, beneath all of Billy Sunday's flamboyance, the orphan-turned-baseball player-turned-evangelist embodied the tensions of his age. Martin's prodigious research has yielded a wealth of anecdotal material that adds flavor and spice to his keen analysis." ... more...
The College Cost Disease
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00College cost per student has been on the rise at a pace that matches - or exceeds - healthcare costs. Unlike healthcare, though, teaching quality has declined, and rapidly rising costs and declining quality are not trends easily forgiven by society. The College Cost Disease addresses these problems, providing a behavioral framework for the chronic... more...
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 21.86'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.' John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature.... more...
Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry
University of Iowa Press 1998; US$ 35.00In this expanded edition, Robert Martin sketches an account of American gay male poetry since the 1970s, including an overview of works by Rafael Campo, Mark Doty, Marlon Riggs, and Reginald Shepherd. more...
The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman
University of Iowa Press 1992; US$ 28.95The most protean and elusive of all American poets, Walt Whitman is everywhere and nowhere at once. An unavoidable presence, he still arouses anger, envy, love, and debate one hundred years after his death. To honor this anniversary, Robert Martin has invited the most invigorating and innovative of Whitman's new readers and critics to respond not... more...
With Friends Possessed
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 21.86'[Edward] FitzGerald (1809-1883) won a small piece of immortality with his translation-adaptation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ... but in every other way he seems to have successfully avoided fulfilment. A godless Epicurean, he lived in permanent virginity, never pressing his homosexual desires beyond a number of sentimental crushes... The son... more...
Government by Dissent
NYU Press 2013; US$ 49.00"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming.Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuableeven those who dissent from his views!" Rogers M. Smith, Christopher... more...
Reading Science
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 59.95Reading Science looks at the distinctive language of science and technology and the role it plays in building up scientific understandings of the world. It brings together discourse analysis and critical theory for the first time in a single volume. This edited collection examines science discourse from a number of perspectives, drawing on new rhetoric,... more...









