Colin: 2238 books
by Colin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).
by Gregory Hine, Robyn Reaburn, Judy Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Technology plays a crucial role in contemporary mathematics education. Teaching Secondary Mathematics covers major contemporary issues in mathematics education, as well as how to teach key mathematics concepts from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. It integrates digital resources via Cambridge...
Reclaiming the Game
College Sports and Educational Values
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In Reclaiming the Game, William Bowen and Sarah Levin disentangle the admissions and academic experiences of recruited athletes, walk-on athletes, and other students. In a field overwhelmed by reliance on anecdotes, the factual findings are striking--and sobering. Anyone seriously concerned about...
Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice
A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA; that the universe is just stuff, for us to use at will. These ideas are seen as emerging from...
Out of Water
From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
From cities to biofuels, competition for water is accelerating. Climate change threatens to intensify the onset and severity of the water crisis in several regions of the developing world: this is already happening throughout much of Asia, the Mediterranean, southwestern Australia, and the southwestern...
13 Journeys Through Space and Time
Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through 13 of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain over the last 200 years. Started at the Royal Institution (Ri) in 1825 by Michael Faraday, the Christmas Lectures have been broadcast on television...
Theistic Evolution
A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...
Bones, Stones and Molecules
"Out of Africa" and Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins. The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution...
Teacher Leadership
New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers....
The Quran: A New Interpretation
In English with Arabic Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This new rendering of the Holy Quran into the English language is the first of its kind, since it is a combination of translation and exegesis in which the author 'opens out' the verses of the Holy Book to reveal some of the layers of meaning expounded by the Prophet and transmitted through the ages...
by Colin Dickey
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges’ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, and so forth” - each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint.
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Dangerous madmen or divinely inspired prophets? From murdering religious sects like the Assassins and the Thugs, to the orgies of the little known Khlysty and the self-mutilations of the Skloptzi; including modern day killers like the vicious Manson Family and the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan - this book shows how cults and fanatics had such a powerful effect on the world.
Bedeviled
Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
The Screwtape Letters**The Lord of the Rings
AD 33
The Year That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
AD 33 was the year when an obscure religious teacher died a criminal's death in an outpost of the Roman Empire, an event which had world-changing consequences in the form of the beginnings of Christianity. What was the world like in that momentous year? In this breathtaking book, events in the Roman...