Clarkson: 164 books
by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...
Thought X
Fictions and Hypotheticals
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Featuring leading scientists acting as consultants on the stories, and writing scientific afterwords, bringing the theory featured in the stories to life, including Prof. Sarah Bridle (Jodrell Bank), Prof. Jonathan Wolff and Prof. Frank Jackson (the inventor of the 'Mary's Room' thought experiment).
Science...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Scotland's Merlin
A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
From the year 1787, when I began to devote my labours to the abolition of the slave trade, I was thrown frequently into the company of the people, called Quakers, these people had been then long unanimous upon this subject. Indeed they had placed it among the articles of their religious discipline. Their...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Cocaine Confidential
True Stories Behind the World's Most Notorious Narcotic
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network? The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, and, ultimately, the dealers...
In the Name of Satan
A True Story of Human Sacrifice, Devil Worship, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A lovely teenage girl's final goodbye...
"I love you and I'm going to bed," were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents. But she would never dream again, for the pretty blond 15-year-old was about to begin a walking nightmare that would end in her grisly stabbing murder.
Three...
Beating the Bullies
Twenty Inspiring True-Life Stories of Triumph Over Violence, Intimidation and Bullying
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Bullying can ruin people's lives, and in some extreme cases, lead to self-harming, suicide, and even murder. This book brings together some of the most profoundly moving stories of people whose lives were on the brink of ruin but who fought back against all odds and beat their bullies. For some, the...
by Thomas Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Secret Life of Glenn Gould, The
A Genius in Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Long after his death, Glenn Gould still lures new listeners to his piano, connecting with them on a haunting, personal level. “He feels and you feel,” says young New York writer Nicole Spectre. “I can feel his pain and joy — it touches me. He speaks directly to me.”
But when he was...
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison,...
Legal Highs
Inside Secrets of the World's Newest and Deadliest Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan valleys, Afghan hills and the...
by Wensley Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Gang Wars of London charts the development of organised crime in the capital since 1945, from the post-war street gangs to the drug barons, cyber criminals and terrorists that threaten our safety today.The underworld has thrived for more than half a century but it appears the capital has now entered...