Colin: 2238 books
The Me 262 Stormbird: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It
From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and political difficulties, resulting in it not entering combat...
Marching Masters
Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery. Most Confederate soldiers were not slaveholders themselves,...
The German Aces Speak II
World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots.
When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heaton’s and Anne-Marie Lewis’s masterful command of interview-based...
Pen and Ink Witchcraft
Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,...
Knockout Game a Lie?
Awww, Hell No!
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The New York Times says the Knockout Game is a lie. USA Today says it is a myth, a product of white fear. This book settles that once and for all. This is the most complete collection of Knockout Game links and videos and stories ever assembled. "Knockout Game a Lie?" uses hundreds of links to videos...
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century,...
by Colin Janes
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Towards the end of World War II there is conflict in Crete between rival resistance groups. An Uneasy peace follows liberation, and in April 1947 civil war breaks out in parts of the island. Gendarme posts are attacked, road blocks are set up by rebels and soldiers desert their barracks. The Guerrillas...
The Scratch of a Pen : 1763 and the Transformation of North America
1763 and the Transformation of North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences as Indians and Europeans settlers and frontiersmen all struggled to adapt to new...
Whose Promised Land
The Continuing Conflict Over Israel and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost seventy years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem. Can it ever be resolved? If...
by Colin McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
**Assassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed.
'Shocking new details' - Herald Sun**
On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential motorcade through Dallas....
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From the bestselling author of THE OUTSIDER Colin Wilson, co-author of the bestselling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MURDER, has written a definitive volume on the world's major cases of violent murder. In doing so, he traces the history of violence from its beginnings. From Sawney Bean and his cannibal family to...
by Colin Norris
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
There are thousands of books claiming to show people how to become wealthy. Yet the more of them you read the harder it becomes to succeed. Faced with this dilemma, the author of this book decided to summarize all he had read to find essential truths that apply across the board. The result was the...
The Power of Movies
How Screen and Mind Interact
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power of Movies, a thoughtful,...
Basic Structures of Reality
Essays in Meta-Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics. Combining general philosophy with physics, he covers such topics as the definition of matter, the nature of space, motion, gravity, electromagnetic...