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Francis Bacon, the State and the Reform of Natural Philosophy
Why was it that Francis Bacon, trained for high political office, devoted himself to proposing a celebrated and sweeping reform of the natural sciences? Julian Martin's investigative study looks at Bacon's family context, his employment in Queen Elizabeth's security service and his radical critique of the relationship between the Common Law and the monarchy, to find the key to this important question. Deeply conservative and elitist in his political views, Bacon adapted Tudor strategies of State management and bureaucracy, the social anxieties and prejudices of the late Elizabethan governing elite, and a principal intellectual resource of the English governing classes - the Common Law - into a novel vision and method for the sciences. Bacon's axiom that 'Knowledge is Power' takes on far-reaching implications in Martin's challenging argument that the reform of natural philosophy was a central part of an audacious plan to strengthen the powers of the Crown in the State.
Divorcees Beware: Detective "Shortstop" Canners solves a murder in Coney Island

Divorcees Beware: Detective "Shortstop" Canners solves a murder in Coney Island

Julian Martin

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Murder raises its head in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. Detective "Shortstop", Leslie G. Canners, together with a variety of other Brooklyn police characters sort through the murder, linking it to others. They make their way through a fascinating collection of local characters and as expected, do get their murderer in the end. Along the way you will meet an interesting assortment of characters with personalities that add interest and excitement as our heroes find their way through the tangled web that eventually leads to the murderer.
Morgantown to San Francisco

Morgantown to San Francisco

Julian Martin

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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These are some of my memories of years in Morgantown, West Virginia (1954-59, 1964-1968) and San Francisco (1968-1972). The two cities are connected by a poison hemlock encounter, Kiyoshi Ohama's flee to Okinawa, and my driving and hitch-hiking. A Senator is demonstrated against for his racism. Two hundred foreign students. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), a poverty banquet and the day they closed International House vie for your attention in Morgantown. In San Francisco you will meet a street hustler, and Delores Huerta of the Farmworkers Union. You will climb with me to the top of Yosemite Falls, ride in my Taxi, avoid the Zodiac Killer and witness a murder. We will go to Cuba when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. There are hell's angels, Crowe Farm of back to the landers, and Take Me Home Country Roads.
Sales Made Simple: A 4-step method for selling anything to anyone that always gets results.
Combine a natural gift for communication with enthusiasm, confidence and energy and you have a powerful driving force. Add that to a sales environment and you create a revenue-making machine.That pretty well sums up JULIAN MARTIN and his 30-year sales career. As a Sales Manager and Director, Martin realised that the art of salesmanship wasn't easily conveyed to others. In order to grasp the science of it, he has taken the best overall sales practices and broke them down into 4 concise steps to create a powerful method called Sales Made Simple.The Sales Made Simple method is simple and easy to learn yet incredibly effective. It is a complete sales process, and flexible enough to be applied to any product or service.If you adopt just one of the sales made simple steps your technique will improve; apply all four and you revolutionise your sales ability.
Damn Yankee Buttons: Short Stories and Essays

Damn Yankee Buttons: Short Stories and Essays

Julian Martin

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Short Stories and Essays, including: Appalachian People; Hollows, Peepers and Highlanders; A Worker's Concentration Camp; Overpopulated; Uncle Harold Lost in Detroit; Truman and Me; Grandma; Tastes Like Chicken; Omelets and Sociopaths; Polio; Colored People; Cesco Estep, My Cousin; Sounds, Smells and Sights; Economics; Vietnam and Me; 1968; Censorship; Four-letter Words; The Mother of All War Crimes; Robert Byrd and Me; Seneca Rocks; Weston to Charleston; Taming Religion; Heroics on Our Front Lawn; The Army; Gus Mastroguieseppe.
The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

Peter Lang AG
2016
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The book focuses on Heidegger’s thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger’s interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian philosophy. «The book deserves a wide reception among scholars who are interested in the Presocratics, Heidegger and contemporary philosophy.» Dr. Katherine Morris (University of Oxford) «Prof. Korab-Karpowicz (…) develops a consistent reading of Heidegger’s historical studies, thereby significantly contributing to a new approach for the study of Heideggerian philosophy.» Dr. Michal Bizon (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Julian of Norwich’s Teabag

Julian of Norwich’s Teabag

Martin Wroe

WILD GOOSE PUBLICATIONS
2022
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‘My trip is this teabag, giving up its love This perforated planet, in my steaming mug’ Every day is a poem. From the first cup of tea in the morning as the recycling lorry trundles down the street to those final random thoughts before we drop off at night. As the children grow up and someone we love dies; as we rage against life and love brings us home. ‘Dear Life, Dear All, Dear Me, Dear You A prayer, a sign, some shy synchronicity Some days all we ask for is some kind of clue’ Martin Wroe lives with Meg, a painter, in North London where their devotion to each new day begins with tea. At one time on staff at The Independent and later The Observer and a former chair of the Greenbelt Arts Festival, Martin is an associate member of the Iona Community and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.