Colin: 2238 books
by Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
For the first time since 1984, we have a new edition of the classic book that Field & Stream called “the Hiker’s Bible.” For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. Together, they...
by Colin J Platt
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
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,...
by Colin Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
From sash windows and ceramic tiles to barracks and warehouses, industrialized building has thrived since the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Yet architects have neglected this area of practical construction in favor of historical, theoretical, and artistic analyses, resulting in the emergence...
Making Better Sense
How Your Mental Models Define Your World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business (9780131425026) by Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Colin Crook with Robert Gunther. Available in print and digital formats. Understand...
Urban Green
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that...
by Colin Breen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer.
In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regular part of the day job. Working right at the heart of the conflict, police officers were often...
by Colin Mustful
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
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...
Scandal!
An Explosive Exposé of the Affairs, Corruption and Power Struggles of the Rich and Famous
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
What makes a good scandal? Money, politics and power, and a huge dose of media interest.
Scandal reigns in the world of politics, celebrity, business, religion, royalty and art, and this book covers it all - from Watergate to Michael Jackson, Diana to Oscar Wilde. Distinguished writer Colin...
Manhunters
Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they...
Information and Intrigue
From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.
In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how...
by Colin Archbold
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
In his life as a miner, Colin Archbold has seen many changes below ground in the coalmining industry. In his memoirs he describes the mines where he worked; the techniques, the unions, the bosses and the disasters.
He gives an insight into the mining community of Kurri Kurri, Australia where he grew...
Entrepreneur Success Recipe
Key ingredients that separate the Millionaires from the Strugglers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Entrepreneur Success Recipe was developed because of the sheer number of entrepreneurs that fail. Author Colin Sprake, having worked with 1,000s of them, saw the key ingredients that they were missing and knew that if entrepreneurs worked on those key ingredients, they would turn from strugglers into...
Orangutan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism—from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts—to tell the harrowing...
by Colin Devenish
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2000
1999 was quite a year for Limp Bizkit. Their album, "Significant Other," sat atop the Billboard album charts. Rolling Stone hailed them as the lone band that "redefined late-Nineties hard rock." Their Woodstock '99 set is routinely referred to as the hottest moment of the three...