Colin: 2238 books

It can only be imagined that when the New Testament writers made their (albeit brief) comments on divorce and remarriage that they assumed they would be understood. So what has gone wrong? In the years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when Graeco-Roman culture was at its height,...

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths...

Savage Cuts is a contemporary story of a health service torn between political imperatives to close a local hospital, and a group of unlikely collaborators to keep it open. Stella Savage, has been appointed as chief executive to the Royal Infirmary with the secret task of closing the hospital,...

Second Officer John Blake can't believe his eyes when Dave Calloden meets him as he exits sleep mode aboard the star ship. Dave seems the same but for one thing, John was told by the computer that Dave had died earlier.

After G made the earth, he came down from Bliss (heaven) to bring life to his new creation. The first place on earth he visited was Belize, the shining jewel in the heart of Central America and the Caribbean. It was in Belize that he planted the first trees, made the first animals and fishes, and...

At fifty-three, Doctor Robus the health-nut-freak, Hnf for short, was the best testament to the powers of his own medicines, his almost one hundred percent vegetarian diet, and his rigorous exercise regimen. An impressive man, at first glance he looked like one born to carry sacks and sacks of corn...

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic screening, gene therapy and genome editing might be used to promote equality of opportunity, reproductive freedom, healthy aging, and the prevention and...

Peu après l’Empire romain, l’Éthiopie adopte à son tour le christianisme. Réduite d’abord à l’entourage royal et au milieu dirigeant, la christianisation touche bientôt en profondeur tout le Nord éthiopien, grâce à l’oeuvre missionnaire conduite à partir du milieu du Ve siècle...

This book is intended for all members of the health care team who look after elderly people with diabetes mellitus. This includes specialist nurses in diabetes and care of the elderly, other nurses who might be involved with elderly diabetic patients, hospital doctors, general practitioners, dietitians,...

The team from 'PrimeLine' TV have pretty well sewn up the 'jelly game', that dubious area of journalism featuring Elvis, aliens and sex scandals, but they're made for better things. When a new Japanese sponsor insists that they cover an important Antarctica ecology conference in New Zealand,...

Jack flies from London to New Zealand to find his estranged daughter, but of course that means meeting up with ex-wife Julia and Rex, the bastard who wrecked his life. All 3 were once members of 'Crackerjack', an avante garde theatre group...the best time of their life, perhaps. Jack is the catalyst to put them all in extreme danger deep in rugged bush. Not theatre this time, mate.

Raffi left more than Rome behind. Snipped by a bishop as a boy, he is bundled off to America when the Church takes shame. Forbidden to use his voice, he explores other gifts that steal him into the society of Boston’s gangsters, necromancers, and the wild crew surrounding the poet Amy Lowell as he...

So who runs Global Molasses exactly? Is it the management team? No....this is the 70's a time of political madness and overbearing union power! Sam Tayler, union rep and lowly blue collar worker runs the show...until the wind of change blows weeds on his immaculate lawn and the advance of Maggie Thatcher...

En déclenchant la guerre de libération, le 1 er novembre 1954, le FLN comptait employer tous les moyens nécessaires. L’argent, « le nerf de la guerre », n’était à coup sûr pas le moindre. On imaginera sans peine l’importance de la question du coût de la lutte armée, c’est-à-dire...