Colin: 2238 books
by Colin Devenish
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2001
Rage Against The Machine is one of the most prominant and politically active bands on the music scene today. Music Journalist and Biographer Colin Devenish delves into the interworkings of the band to discover what makes them so successful with their diverse fan base. They sell millions of copies...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...
Negro with a Hat
The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin,...
by Colin Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
The title of this book comes from the inevitable drum solos at rock concerts, the plastic bottles thrown in the air between acts at the Monsters of Rock festival and some of the many bands the author saw playing live around Scotland, at Castle Donington and in London between 1981 and 1999.This...
Dazzling Stranger
Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
The guitarists' guitarist and the songwriters' songwriter, the legendary Bert Jansch has influenced stars as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Donovan, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Bernard Butler, Beth Orton and Laura Marling. Unassuming, enigmatic and completely...
The American Soccer League
The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1998
It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic,...
The Oxford Inklings
Lewis, Tolkien and their circle
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings, the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed...
Alien Dawn
A Classic Investigation into the Contact Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
In this classic book on UFOs, bestselling author Colin Wilson, a renowned authority on the paranormal, examines the evidence and develops a definitive theory of the alien contact phenomenon.
Alien Dawn covers Wilson's investigation into documented evidence of strange and unexplained phenomena,...
Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Hauntings
A Classic Study in Destructive Hauntings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Crashing noises and disembodied voices coming from nowhere and everywhere at once. Invisible tormentors slapping and pinching and pulling hair. Fires starting spontaneously pools of water materializing out of thin air pots and pans and knives and knick-knacks flying through the room. These are the...
Beyond the Occult
Twenty Years' Research into the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Colin Wilson has explored the paranormal universe ever since he researched his first highly successful work, The Occult: "the most interesting, informative and thought-provoking book on the subject."* Now, 20 years later, he offers an even wider examination of the mystical and paranormal....
Afterlife
An Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Is the near-death experience a defense mechanism of the brain or have people actually been on the threshold of another world? Colin Wilson assesses the evidence that includies mediumship, paranormal activity, spirit sightings, and spirit communications. Above all, he includes the striking case histories...
Looking for Orthon
The Story of George Adamski, the First Flying Saucer Contactee, and How He Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with extraterrestrials-including a long-haired youth from Venus named Orthon-in the California desert.or so he claimed. He offered photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have...
by Colin Ward, David Goodway
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The ups and downs of the anarchist movement during the last century is discussed in this introduction to anarchist thought. Of all political views anarchism is the most ill-represented. For more than 30 years, in more than 30 books, Colin Ward has been patiently explaining anarchist solutions to everything...
by Colin Woodard
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Heres the true story of the British Royal Navys struggle with the greatest pirate gang of all time. Drawing on archives in Great Britain and the United States, award-winning journalist and author Colin Woodard separates fact from fiction, revealing the real motivations and struggles of Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, Calico Jack Rackham, and more.