Colin: 2238 books

The chess world has witnessed a great number of wonderfully gifted attacking players, geniuses who have dazzled the chess public with their brilliant masterpieces. Everyone has their own favourites, and in Chess Secrets: Great Attackers, Colin Crouch chooses three of his own: Garry Kasparov, Mikhail...

The history of African Americans begins in Africa, a continent that was home to people with different languages, traditions, histories, and religions. They called themselves Twi, Yoruba, Zulu, Ashanti, and Kumba, among other names. In the early sixteenth century Europeans turned to Africa for the...

Colin Palmer, one of the foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century British and U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean, here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. At the center of the story is Cheddi Jagan, who was the colony's first premier following the institution of universal...

A collection of deep and meaningful poetry. Over 40 poems and writings, written over a 45 year period, many written as lyrics for songs.

Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself. Classical pragmatists, such as John Dewey and...

Breezy McCready's habitual weekly visit to the launderette on the high street did not go to plan for the first time ever. However, from out of the depths of despair, a new opportunity arose to make him ten times the man that, for a lifetime, he never thought he ever could be.

Have you been looking for a more hands on way to take back control of your life, to learn how to love yourself? Something that gives you a deeper sense of self-worth; something that uses your own personal accountability to improve your life? Take a page out of the books of indigenous Hawaii with the...

Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore...

Before the Thai millions and Abu Dhabi billions, Manchester City was always a club that attracted fierce controversy. July 1965: Manchester City are on the scrapheap, managerless and languishing in Second Division mediocrity. Desperate to reverse the club's fortunes, the board turns to Joe...

There is no one set formula for why decent people come to consider suicide. Each comes to the edge of their personal cliff in their unique way. The journey a person takes from loss to suicide is for most people - especially for youth - the same down ward spiral. The trajectory is remarkably similar...

A great American crank, in the best sense of the word, Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) spent his life hunting down reports of "anomalous phenomena"—"damned" events such rains of frogs, cattle mutilations, and UFO sightings—and studying them from a true outsider's perspective, one that characterized...

Even though the Bible is the perennial best-selling book, many people have a difficult time understanding how to study it. Unlock the Bible in 30 Days is a wonderful tool to gain an overview of the Bible's amazing truths. Colin Smith unlocks the mystery of God's word in three stages: the Old Testament...

These are the stories of the `boys' of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment who served in World War II in Malaya and Singapore in the defence of Australia, and spent three and a half years of their lives as POWs.The gun crews’ task was to destroy Japanese tanks, which they did with distinction....

Un inquietante noir rural donde todos mienten y la muerte acecha Évelyne Ducat, una mujer rica y caprichosa, ha desaparecido. Encuentran su coche en la carretera a un pueblo rural, donde malvive una comunidad de campesinos, tan solos y olvidados como las montañas nevadas que los rodean. Alice y...