Wilson: 5374 books

Book cover of The Anatomy of England

The Anatomy of England

A History in Ten Matches

by Jonathan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010

Having invented the game, everything that has followed for England and its national football team has been something of an anticlimax. There was, of course, the golden summer of 1966, and the great period of English dominance on the world stage, which fell roughly between 1886 and 1900, when England...
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Ripped to Shreds

A True Story of Domestic Abuse in a Small Town

by Ann Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

Ann Wilson offers her readers her searing personal story of domestic violence. Ann was born and raised on a farm in Mississippi and served as a Major in the Army Nurse Corps as a registered nurse. But her military career was interrupted when she was shot by her husband three times with a .45 Magnum,...
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Let's Talk About Love

Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste

by Carl Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled...
Book cover of Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problem of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
by Nelly Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Bernard-Lazare (1865-1903) was a French Jewish writer and a prime mover in the Dreyfus Affair. After being involved in the Symbolist and anarchist movements, he took up the cause of Dreyfus in his brochure “Une erreur judiciaire” which anticipated Zola’s “J’accuse” by three years. He was...
Book cover of 人類存在的意義:一個生物學家的思索
by 愛德華‧威爾森(Edward O. Wilson)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 2, 2017

  人類從原始生物開始一路演化,這個過程本身就是一部壯闊的史詩, 但時至今日,科技的進展已讓人類面臨有史以來最大的道德困境, 讓人類對自身存在的意義陷入迷惑,人類的未來將往哪裡去? 我們的生命是否有其發展的目的? ** ** 兩度獲得普立茲獎的當代科學大儒、眾所公認的全球生物學家及自然歷史學家翹楚, 愛德華**•**威爾森(Edward...
Book cover of My First Hundred Years in Show Business
by Mary Louise Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015

Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her career—including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardens—have been enviably celebrated and varied. ...
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by Jacqueline Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008

CHOOSING BETWEEN PARENTS AND FRIENDS Candyfloss is the perfect introduction to Jacqueline Wilson. When Floss's mother and stepfather announce they are moving to Australia for six months, Floss has to decide whether to go with them or stay home with Dad--inept, but loving and always lots of fun. And...
Book cover of Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Alien Dawn is the most comprehensive bird's eye view of the subject ever undertaken, and the conclusions Wilson draws are of overwhelming significance to us all. Here Wilson describes what he found as he set out to piece together this vast, complex jigsaw puzzle, whose components include poltergeists,...
Book cover of Alien Dawn

Alien Dawn

A Classic Investigation into the Contact Experience

by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010

In this classic book on UFOs, bestselling author Colin Wilson, a renowned authority on the paranormal, examines the evidence and develops a definitive theory of the alien contact phenomenon. Alien Dawn covers Wilson's investigation into documented evidence of strange and unexplained phenomena,...
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Beyond the Occult

Twenty Years' Research into the Paranormal

by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

Colin Wilson has explored the paranormal universe ever since he researched his first highly successful work, The Occult: "the most interesting, informative and thought-provoking book on the subject."* Now, 20 years later, he offers an even wider examination of the mystical and paranormal....
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Supernatural

Your Guide through The Unexplained, The Unearthly and The Unknown

by Colin Wilson
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...
Book cover of What's Important Is Feeling
by Adam Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house. And...
Book cover of IDEALS OF THE SAMURAI

IDEALS OF THE SAMURAI

Writings of Japanese Warriors

by William Scott Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

Blockbuster movies and top-selling novels, such as ShŌgun and Musashi, may try to give us a picture of the Japanese warrior and the principles that guided him through life. But those portrayals are, essentially, outsiders’ views, and although perhaps valid in their own right, do not come from the...
Book cover of The Defence Of Lucknow, A Diary Recording The Daily Events During The Siege Of The European Residency
by Thomas Fourness Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny] Originally published anonymously as by a “Staff Officer”, Captain Thomas Wilson’s memoirs are as gripping and vivid as any that a British officer wrote of the...
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