727 results for '"Colin Allen'

Journalist Mark Swabey is serving a prison sentence in connection with the death of Clara the Swallow, a circus acrobat with whom he fell in love. As the grief-stricken Swabey looks back on their...

A key anthology for students of English literature, featuring some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry...

Packed with striking photography, Eyewitness Reptile explores one of nature's most fascinating animal species. Become an eyewitness to how reptiles sense the world, move and use camouflage in this...

This book is primarily intended for student preparing for the intermediate Chartered Quantity Surveyor's examination, and is based on the syllabus of the Royal institution of Chrtered Surveyors. It...

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent...

Surveys the paranormal and supernatural fields, studying such topics as precognition, magic, alchemy, the Kabbala, possession, and astrology and concluding that we each possess a hierarchy of selves

Book by Thiher, Allen

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt...

The Spanish Aramda is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously. This new edition is based on a fresh examination of archival sources across Europe, combined...

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Enter the small,...

A noted and influential anthropologist surveys a broad spectrum of human societies to delineate the diversity and cultural richness surrounding passage through the stages of life in primitive cultures

Over the past several decades, civil and ethnic wars have undermined prospects for economic and political development, destabilized entire regions of the globe, and left millions dead. States,...

Coasts are some of the most rapidly changing places on earth. Understanding the natural adjustments that occur between coastal landforms and the processes that influence them is essential for the...