George Watson: 28 books

Book cover of Heresies and Heretics

Heresies and Heretics

Memories from the Twentieth Century

by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013

In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. Watson provides us with examples of 'true', original heretics, from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who asserted that...
Book cover of Interplanetary Tales
by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015

Twelve Science Fiction tales that span the galaxy; From a plague-ravaged London to the Galactic Core. A besotted husband who must share his wife with a long-lost spacefarer, a small town in a post-apocalyptic Oregon populated by ancient robots. A strange supermarket filled with horror where people...
Book cover of The Breakout Ship
by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2017

The Breakout Ship has haunted me ever since that day we found it near Pluto. Everyone is told that the Breakout Ship was an unoccupied alien spaceship found abandoned and drifting. But that’s just not true. I think the creatures on board would have given us all the technology they had, if we had...
Book cover of Empire Of The Green Sun
by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018

ScoutKaptain Drec of the heavy scoutship ‘Emperor Buntar IV’ looked at the planet below. It was mostly covered in water but inhabited by the most ruthless and bloodthirsty, semi-civilised beings they had yet encountered! He was ecstatic as he envisioned the rewards for finding Earth and the Humans! The...
Book cover of Robots From Earth
by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018

Through the streets of Seattle we marched in perfect synchronicity with each other, a feat achievable only because we were robots. From the Interstellar Navy Base we headed towards the distant shuttle field where we would be taken up to join the 18th Expeditionary Fleet on its first voyage to Core-Star...
Book cover of Coleridge the Poet
by George Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

First published in 1966. Despite the intense interest in Coleridge in the twentieth century, this book represents the first study of Coleridge’s poetry to be published in Britain. It is also the first to be based upon the conclusion that Coleridge’s greatness as a poet is a matter of achievement...
Book cover of The Digital Puritan - Vol.V, No.2
by Joel Beeke, George Whitefield, Thomas Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015

The Digital Puritan is a biannual digest of carefully selected Puritan works, providing a steady diet of sound Puritan teaching. The language has been gently modernised to render it more readable, while still retaining much of the flavour and character of the original text. Hundreds of helpful notes...
Book cover of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N.M. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

The most complete, authoritative technical guide to the FreeBSD kernel’s internal structure has now been extensively updated to cover all major improvements between Versions 5 and 11. Approximately one-third of this edition’s content is completely new, and another one-third has been extensively...
Book cover of Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability

Fast Innovation: Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability

Achieving Superior Differentiation, Speed to Market, and Increased Profitability

by Michael L. George Sr., James Works, Kimberly Watson-Hemphill
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005

“How can I create an innovation engine that will consistently deliver substantial organic growth?” This question is the number-one issue for most CEOs and senior executives today. Innovation is a critical driver of organic growth, yet based on the authors' research, only a small percent...
Book cover of SYNERGY 3

SYNERGY 3

Science-Fiction-Erzählungen

by George Zebrowski, Ian Watson, Paul Di Filippo
Language: German
Release Date: June 5, 2018

Synergy - Die Science-Fiction-Literatur der 1990er Jahre. Die Synergisten stellten sich Ende der 1980er Jahre die folgenden Fragen: Wie geht es weiter nach dem Cyberpunk? War die schicke Postmoderne das Ende der Science Fiction? Hat sie sich in die virtuellen Realitäten des Cyberspace...
Book cover of MRI/DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain
by Charles Watson, Evan Calabrese, Alexandra Badea
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

MRI/DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain offers two major enhancements when compared with earlier attempts to make MRI/DTI rat brain atlases. First, the spatial resolution at 25µm is considerably higher than previous data published. Secondly, the comprehensive set of MRI/DTI contrasts provided has enabled...
Book cover of The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan
by Jason T. Eberl, George A. Dunn, George A. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following and Memento, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his Dark Knight trilogy. His latest film, Interstellar, delivered the same visual qualities...
Book cover of Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
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