Colin: 1066 books

Les Grecs et leurs dieux : mille cinq cents ans d'échanges entre les hommes et les femmes du monde grec et des dieux aux multiples fonctions et aux multiples noms. Ils nous parlent encore à travers les textes, les images, les monuments qui témoignent de cette civilisation. Ce livre s'attache plus...

Vingt ans après l'éclatement de l'URSS, l'espace postsoviétique semble loin d'être stabilisé. Si les quinze États (y compris les États baltes) nés en 1991 ont peu à peu trouvé leur place dans la communauté internationale, le processus de transition demeure fragile et contrasté.  Après...

Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. Long before historians added "the Great" to his name, Alexander stated, "I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one...

Papa John’s Pizza intentionally diverts its business practices away from its written core values. Its core values, though important, are only used as a duplicitous guile; a tool to squeeze as much utility and profit from every single employee, from every single customer, and from every single pizza....

A twelve year old boy is best friends with his next door neighbor who happens to be an alien.

A man called David Joyce has just come out of the asylum on day release. He managed to get away from his security guard, and is now wondering around the town. He believes he is invisible and that he can also create miracles. Two years ago he was involved in an incident which caused outrage and hilarity...

Coming out of sleep mode is chronic. It wasn’t just the headaches but the all-round feeling of nausea. Calloden didn’t even make it. He died as soon as we landed. They said our technology was infallible. Just relax and you will feel nothing they said. The drugs they gave him...

Dan Sherman had to take early retirement through bereavement. He started to have lucid dreams about a tall man who was beckoning him go to a certain place. He soon realized that this wasn't an everyday event. It was to be the start of a once in a lifetime chance to be a Space Guardian. How will he cope with powerful entities who will try to destroy him at every turn?

Mary Wilson makes an error of judgment when walking home alone with troubling consequences.   

On December 26, 1862, the United States Government hanged thirty-eight Dakota Indians in Mankato, Minnesota, for their participation in what is known as the U.S. – Dakota Conflict of 1862. This remains the largest mass execution in U.S. history. But the hangings and the depredations that preceded...

Bradley 3 had taken it upon himself to plant the device for the underground, but the information he had been given was wrong! Why had he been directed to this room? The plan had been gone over many times. He was supposed to meet Dillon 5 here, and access the control panel at precisely three o clock. Well,...

Throughout the nineteenth century the issue of tobacco smoking was an area of constant debate. In 1857 this debate became public through the pages of the British medical journal the Lancet in what is known as the Tobacco Controversy of 1857. The controversy in Great Britain initiated a thorough discussion...

The title of this book comes from the inevitable drum solos at rock concerts, the plastic bottles thrown in the air between acts at the Monsters of Rock festival and some of the many bands the author saw playing live around Scotland, at Castle Donington and in London between 1981 and 1999.This...

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...