Brian Martin: books and booklets

 


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Books

Brian Martin. Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). The backfire model explained with many case studies, including Sharpeville, Dili, Dharasana, Rodney King beating, whistleblowers, dismissal of Ted Steele, environmental disasters, invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, torture technology, and terrorism. Available direct from Rowman & Littlefield (also via Customer Service, toll free phone (800) 462-6420, fax (800) 338-4550, email custserv@rowman.com).

Brian Martin and Wendy Varney. Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating against Repression (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2003).

Brian Martin. Nonviolence versus capitalism (London: War Resisters' International, 2001). Full text available.

Brian Martin. Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001). Full text available.

Lyn Carson and Brian Martin. Random Selection in Politics (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999). Full text available.

Brian Martin. The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister (Charlbury, UK: Jon Carpenter; Sydney: Envirobook, 1999). Full text available.

Brian Martin. Information Liberation (London: Freedom Press, 1998), 192 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin. Tied Knowledge: Power in Higher Education (http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98tk/, 1998). Full text available.

Brian Martin. Suppression Stories (Wollongong: Fund for Intellectual Dissent, 1997), 171 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin. Social Defence, Social Change (London: Freedom Press, 1993), 157 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin. Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), 266 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin. Uprooting War (London: Freedom Press, 1984), xi+298 pages. Revised edition published in Italian as La Piramide Rovesciata: Per Sradicare la Guerra (Molfetta: Edizioni La Meridiana, 1990). Full text available.

Brian Martin. The Bias of Science (Canberra: Society for Social Responsibility in Science (A.C.T.), 1979), 100 pages. Full text available.

 

Edited books

Brian Martin (ed.) Technology and Public Participation (Wollongong: Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, 1999), 263 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin (ed.) Confronting the Experts (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), 210 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell and Cedric Pugh (eds.), Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986). Full text available.

 

Booklets

Brian Martin, Sharon Callaghan and Chris Fox, with Rosie Wells and Mary Cawte. Challenging Bureaucratic Elites (Wollongong: Schweik Action Wollongong, 1997), 55 pages. Full text available in html and pdf.

Brian Martin. Strip the Experts (London: Freedom Press, 1991), 69 pages. Published in Italian as L'esperto è nudo!, translated by Roberto Ambrosoli (Milan: Elèuthera, 1993). Full text available.

Jacki Quilty, Lynne Dickins, Phil Anderson and Brian Martin. Capital Defence: Social Defence for Canberra (Canberra: Canberra Peacemakers, 1986), 68 pages. Published in Italian as Un Modello di Difesa Populare Nonviolenta (Molfetta: Edizioni la Meridiana, 1987). Published in Dutch as Sociale Verdediging voor Canberra (Utrecht: Opleiding Sociale Vredesdienst, 1989). Full text available.

Brian Martin. Nuclear Knights (Canberra: Rupert Public Interest Movement, 1980), 88 pages. Full text available.

Brian Martin. Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), 84 pages. Full text available.