Colin: 2238 books
How to Make a Million Jobs
A Charter for Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In this timely and provocative book, social entrepreneur Colin Crooks makes startling revelations about the true scale and dispiriting depth of the workless problem in the UK. He shows, through unique and powerful personal insights, just how profound the challenges are for some of our most vulnerable...
Diary of a Decorator
The Story of FWA
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
The Story of FWA. Builders and decorators to the royal household, and probably the worlds most successful painting contractors. In the years after the Second World War Colin Douglas-Fairhurst turned the modest decorating business founded by his father into a national leader in the field. FWA, as it became...
Ive Just Seen a Place I Cant Forget
Walking in the Footsteps of The Beatles
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
I was fourteen when I got a job in a garage. I was that passionate about pop music I was always getting in trouble for switching customers' car radios on, to listen to the latest songs. For four years in the 1960s I went to the Oasis coffee bar in Manchester to listen to all the best bands and twice...
How to Be Alive
A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“This is the book where self-help turns into helping the world—and then turns back into helping yourself find a better life. Fascinating and timely!”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
What does it take to achieve a successful and satisfying life? Not...
Supernatural
Your Guide through The Unexplained, The Unearthly and The Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
It's the hot genre of the decade so far, and now Colin Wilson lends his weight to the subject of the Supernatural, in this far-reaching encyclopedia of whole spectrum of supernatural phenomena from ghosts and poltergeists to reincarnation, and from precognition and 'psychic detection' to magic and...
by Colin Fry
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Colin Fry is the acclaimed star of '6ixth Sense', and 'Psychic Private Eyes', and is UK TV's leading psychic medium. Not only are his viewing figures huge, he also tours the country speaking to massive audiences. So many people want to see him because he's the keeper of remarkable secrets:
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The Tree
A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future.
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that...
The People Speak: A History of Protest, Dissent and Rebellion
Democracy is not a Spectator Sport
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The idea was simple. Take the most impassioned speeches about the fight for what is right and bring them to life for a new generation. The reason why it's so powerful is because it's about everything that matters to us: love and life, sex and death, justice and freedom. We've found some amazing speeches...
The Occult
The Ultimate Guide for Those Who Would Walk with the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Colin Wilson's great classic work is a comprehensive history of mystery and "magic". His genius lies in producing a skilful synthesis of the available material; clarifying without simplifying, seeing the occult in the light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal....
by Colin Wilson, Colin Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
"Intelligent psycho-thriller . . . the plot is ingenious, well-turned and never facile. A compulsive damp Saturday afternoon read." - Observer
"Literate and enthralling . . . Far beyond the conventional mystery." - Hollywood Reporter
"I read with something...
by Colin Garrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
As most successful writers will tell you, one of the hardest things about writing is getting started. In this collection of articles, Writer, Musician, Hermit, Pie-Maker and Time-Traveller Colin Garrow explores ways of generating ideas, creating characters and developing stories. Using examples from...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
During his research for his major study of THE OCCULT, Colin Wilson became fascinated by three people whom he interviewed extensively. STRANGE POWERS compiles and analyzes the compelling stories of Robert Leftwich, a retired sales manager in Sussex with proven powers as a dowser who also is able to take...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider.
In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar....
by Colin Marks
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
A wealthy business man is dying, laying on his bed surrounded by his children. He reflects on his life and his relationship with his children in his final moments. This 2,700 word story is the third of three fast-paced intelligent short stories from British writer Colin Marks.