Colin: 2238 books
This Cold House
The Simple Science of Energy Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Does turning the thermostat down on a winter's night offset the costs of reheating the house in the morning? What will best prevent energy loss: new windows or insulation in the attic? Is heating oil cheaper than natural gas?
Blending science with anecdote and example, Colin Smith answers questions...
by Colin Maggs, MBE
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
It was a railway just waiting to be made. The capital, London, was in the east; Bristol, second city in the land, 110 miles to the west or a sea journey of 672 miles. By the late 1820s, technology had improved to a state where the very latest form of transport, a steam railway, could make a far superior...
Genealogy as Critique
Foucault and the Problems of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation....
by Colin Hay
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Politics was once a term with an array of broadly positive connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and accountability. Yet today it is an increasingly dirty word, typically synonymous with duplicity, corruption, inefficiency and undue interference in matters both public and private....
Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945
Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From 1933 during the Nazi era when Hitler refashioned the German judicial system in line with his oppressive regime, many crimes became capital offences which led to a drastic increase in the number of executions. In 1936, the Reich Minister of Justice, Franz Gurtner, acting upon Hitler’s direction,...
The American Revolution in Indian Country
Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1995
This study presents a broad coverage of Indian experiences in the American Revolution rather than Indian participation as allies or enemies of contending parties. Colin Calloway focuses on eight Indian communities as he explores how the Revolution often translated into war among Indians and their...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
In The Age of Defeat, the third volume of the internationally acclaimed Outsider Cycle, Colin Wilson introduces his New Existentialism as the basis for the revolution in thought that we need to bring about; a revolt against insignificance and ordinariness. The New Existentialism is a practical and...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2018
What is cannabis? How does it affect us medically? What is its economic significance and where do governments stand on this topic? “Cashing In On Cannabis” takes you on an intricate journey which covers basically every important topic that makes this plant a source of controversy. From medical...
Aleister Crowley
The Nature of the Beast
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Poet, Magician, Mountaineer, Polemicist and Pornographer, Aleister Crowley was the most famous, or infamous, name in twentieth century occultism. With his usual flair and style, Colin Wilson brings this complex and enigmatic figure to life and provides an engrossing portrait of the self-styled Great...
Deadly Justice
A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman...
G.I. Gurdjieff
The War Against Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Presents the life and work of one of the most influential psychological theorists of modern times, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. This examination of a psychologist and teacher of genius also provides an introduction to the philosophy of Gurdjieff. This work presents the life and work of one of the...
Sigma 7
The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments. This continues the Pioneers in Early Spaceflight series, the...
Totalled
Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that capitalism encompasses the totality of our societal relations, weaving deep into the fabric of all that it means to be human. He shows how it is a system that totalises and which has upended the modernity project by industrialised warfare,...
by Colin Maggs, MBE
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The branch lines of Dorset, shared almost equally between the GWR and LSWR, varied from lightly built, rural railways carrying a low volume of traffic, to the Swanage branch, which at times carried main line express locomotives. Fortunately this line has been preserved and can still be enjoyed today....