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The first of a new series in the Essential line featuring 2000
AD’s legendary war machine, Rogue Trooper! Rogue Trooper is the
last of the G.I.s – genetically-engineered infantrymen designed
to sustain/withstand the noxious atmosphere of Nu-Earth, a planet
ravaged by the conflict between Norts and Southers. A lone survivor
of the Quartz Massacre, equipped with the bio-chips of his fallen
clone brothers, he crosses the war-torn landscape in search of the
Traitor General, the man responsible for their deaths – and will
not rest until he has his revenge! The first volume in the
Essential series features stories by creators Gerry Finley-Day and
Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), with art by Colin Wilson (Judge Dredd) and
Cam Kennedy (Star Wars: Dark Empire).
Colin Wilson was born in Carlisle, Cumbria and educated at the
Creighton School in Carlisle, after which he completed his National
Service in the RAF in Singapore where he was a swimming champion
and water polo player following county honours at both sports. He
started his business career as a management trainee with Carr's of
Carlisle, the UK's oldest biscuit company, before making several
progressive moves up the management ladder, winning awards and
competitions on the way, finally becoming a director of Heart of
Midlothian football club. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute
of Marketing. His experiences are presented in a straightforward
way that offers valuable lessons to other businesspeople and
especially to those aspiring to climb the ladder of success. Colin
Wilson is now retired and living in the south of Spain and can be
contacted on 0034 952 48 5979 or by e-mail at
[email protected]
Jealousy, revenge and lust are among the oldest motives for murder.
When passions run high, spurned lovers can act without a thought
for the consequence. All it takes is a kitchen knife, a heavy
object from the mantelpiece or a gun from the bedside
cabinet..."Crimes of Passion" chronicles over 150 emotionally
charged cases in which the heart ruled the head, invariably with
fatal consequence. Some are spur-of-the-moment rages from betrayed
partners that have elicited sympathy from judge and jury; others
are more carefully planned acts of revenge and spite that have
shown and received no mercy. "Crimes of Passion" covers cases form
all over the world including Thompson and Bywaters, Snyder and
Gray, Ruth Ellis, Howard Jacobson, Lorena Bobbitt, Susan Smith,
Jane Andrews, Bertrand Cantat and Scott Peterson. The result is a
chilling and compelling insight into the tortured minds of some of
crime's most infamous characters.
The late Colin Wilson wrote a staggering 180 introductions,
forewords, prefaces and afterwords to other authors' books. Soon
after his now classic study The Occult appeared in 1971, he was
constantly sought out by writers and publishers to endorse their
work. He rarely refused. And, as this volume reveals, these were
not hurriedly written paragraphs, relying largely on his name as an
endorsement, but often significant and substantial essays.
Introducing the Occult brings together 17 of his best published
introductions chosen by his bibliographer Colin Stanley. Within
these covers you can read Colin Wilson on magic, witchcraft,
exorcism, ghosts, poltergeists, the Loch Ness Monster, the
afterlife, dowsing and much more.
THE ULTIMATE 2000 AD MIX-TAPE HAS ARRIVED! Best of 2000 AD is a
landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with our greatest
stories for a new generation of readers. Every Best of 2000 AD
contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the vault. In each
edition you'll find an explosive new Judge Dredd adventure, fresh
essays by prominent popular culture writers, a graphic novel-length
feature presentation by global legends and a vintage Dredd case. In
this volume: Judge Dredd hunts untraceable assassins firing Magic
Bullets by Al Ewing and Colin Wilson; even robots get the Red
Planet Blues from Alan Moore, Steve Dillon and John Higgins; not
even Mega City One's brightest can escape The Vampire Effect; join
the front line of the resistance against intergalactic bigots in
Gothic masterpiece Nemesis The Warlock! Boasting brand new covers
from an all-star line-up of artists including Becky Cloonan (The
True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys) and Charlie Adlard (The
Walking Dead) with designer Tom Muller (X-Men), Best of 2000 AD is
the essential gateway into the Galaxy's Greatest Comic.
This new edition of the Luath Scots Language Learner featuring
updated information is suitable as an introductory course or for
those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of
childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and grammar
books but this is the first-ever language course. The book assumes
no prior knowledge on the reader's part. Starting from the most
basic vocabulary and constructions, the reader is guided
step-by-step through Scots vocabulary and the subtleties of grammar
and idiom that distinguish Scots from English. An accompanying
audio recording conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially
important to readers from outside Scotland.
The global best-selling graphic novel series - over half a million
copies sold! Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files collects the
adventures of the iconic British character, presented in
chronological order, complete and uncut! He's judge, jury and
executioner - the lawman delivering justice to the mean streets of
far-future Mega-City One. This fifth blockbuster volume includes
the all-time classic mega-epic `The Apocalypse War'. Written by
comic legends John Wagner (A History of Violence) and Alan Grant
(Batman), with art by Carlos Ezquerra (Preacher), Brian Bolland
(The Killing Joke) and Mick McMahon (The Last American) and many
more! "If you want to sink your teeth into classic Judge Dredd, the
best place to start" - Mental Floss "Amazing and addictive" - io9
"What a collection it will be when it's complete." - Den of Geek
Sci-fi adventure based on the novel 'A Princess of Mars' by Edgar
Rice Burroughs which follows American Civil War veteran John Carter
(Taylor Kitsch) who finds himself on Mars. John wakes up on the
barren planet, known to its occupants as Barsoom, and soon learns
it is on the brink of war. He makes friends with Green Martian Tars
Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and falls for humanoid princess Dejah Thoris
(Lynn Collins), a Red Martian he saves from a hostile Tharks tribe.
With his strength and fighting skills enhanced because of the lower
level of gravity, he leads the Martians in a war against their
long-time enemy, the Zodanga state, and attempts to save them from
extinction when their air supply shuts down. Dominic West, Mark
Strong, Bryan Cranston and Ciarán Hinds co-star.
Colin Wilson revitalised existentialism with a completely new
approach to the philosophy. The six volumes of his 'Outsider'
series created an existentialism that is not paralysed by its own
nihilism. This book, first published in 1966, is a clear summary of
the ideas of the 'Outsider' cycle, and also develops them to a new
stage. Wilson's 'new existentialism' sees philosophy as an
intellectual adventure that aims at a real command and control of
human existence, and this book is its clearest exponent.
This audio recording, which accompanies the Luath Scots Language
Learner book, conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially
important to readers from outside Scotland. It is suitable as an
introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting
themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There
are dictionaries and grammar books but this is the first-ever
language course. The book assumes no prior knowledge on the
reader's part. Starting from the most basic vocabulary and
constructions, the reader is guided step-by-step through Scots
vocabulary and the subtleties of grammar and idiom that distinguish
Scots from English.
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. First published in 1965, this iconic
collection by a great philosopher contains essays on David Lindsay,
L.H. Myers, George Bernard Shaw, Ayn Rand & Henry Williamson,
among others. Wilson's eclectic style is displayed in essays that
range over John Cowper Powys and Ernest Hemingway, Nietzche and the
modern novel. In print again for the first time, this edition
brings to light new studies in existentialism from a great master.
For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for
everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws
they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to
include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that
this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded. He points to
another approach to the study and exploration of consciousness that
erupted into public awareness in the late 1800s. In this "secret
history of consciousness, " consciousness is seen not as a result
of neurons and molecules, but as responsible for them; meaning is
not imported from the outer world, but rather creates it. In this
view, consciousness is a living, evolving presence whose
development can be traced through different historical periods, and
which evolves along a path to a broader, more expansive state. What
that consciousness may be like and how it may be achieved is a
major concern of this book.
Lachman concentrates on the period since the late 1800s, when
Madame Blavatsky first brought the secret history out into the
open. As this history unfolds, we encounter the ideas of many
modern thinkers, from esotericists like P. D. Ouspensky, Rudolf
Steiner, and Colin Wilson to more mainstream philosophers like
Henri Bergson, William James, Owen Barfield and the psychologist
Andreas Mavromatis. Two little known but important thinkers play a
major role in his synthesis -- Jurij Moskvitin, who showed how our
consciousness relates to the mechanisms of perception and to the
external world, and Jean Gebser, who presented perhaps the most
impressive case for the evolution of consciousness.
'A major work ... an extraordinary tour de force, [this book] will
materially help to bring both sides (science and paranormal
studies) together in a way which could lead to real and important
advances in our view of the universe' - New Scientist First
published in 1978, Mysteries is the powerful and enlightening
sequel to The Occult, continuing Colin Wilson's investigations into
the paranormal, the occult and the supernatural. The experience of
his own panic attacks gave Wilson his insight into the concept of
the ladder or hierarchy of selves with which we are all associated.
In this book he fully explores this idea of multiple selves,
explaining how our lower, childish selves are linked to depression
and anxiety. The book offers an optimistic message to counteract
our contemporary tendency towards pessimism and nihilism:
purposeful activity will always allow us to call on our higher
selves and bring concentration, control and a sense of meaning into
life. Wilson uses the concept of the multi-personality to explain a
wide range of paranormal phenomenon, from dowsing and demonic
possession to precognition and spoon-bending, and he analyses the
work of all the big names in 20th-century supra-rational research
(from T C Lethbridge to Margaret Murray to Carl Jung) from this
perspective. The story ranges widely, from the stone circles to
1960s LSD adventures, and Wilson's analysis is woven with hundreds
of entertaining paranormal anecdotes and case studies taken from
throughout history, including his own experiences of dowsing at the
Merry Maidens stone circle and of visions and lucid dreaming.
The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind
'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN THE
OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first
published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front
rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalised the
psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative
thinking into a coherent theory of alienation, and defined those
affected by it as a type: the outsider. Through the works and lives
of various artists, including Kafka, Camus, Hemingway, Hesse,
Lawrence, Van Gogh, Shaw, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, Wilson explored
the psyche of the outsider, his effect on society and society's on
him. Nothing that has happened in the decades since has made THE
OUTSIDER any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this
most persistent of modern-day preoccupations.
The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. "An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament."—Philip Toynbee.
Colin Wilson's classic work is the essential guidebook to the
mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the 20th century. His
genius lies in producing a skillful synthesis of the available
material - clarifying without simplifying, seeing the occult in the
light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and
paranormal. It is a journey of enlightenment. He provides a
wide-ranging survey of the subject, a comprehensive history of
"magic" and an insightful exploration of our latent powers, and
brings his own refreshingly optimistic and stimulating
interpretation to the worlds of the paranormal, the occult and the
supernatural.
A Fascinating Look into the Psychology of Serial Killers and the
Men Who Hunt Them Down Colin Wilson opens this illuminating
psychological discussion with the development of the 1977
Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI, 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?
* Why do they not feel remorse? * How are they caught? Wilson
interviews FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler, coiner of the term
"serial killer" and one of the pioneers of criminal profiling, as
well as Ted Bundy and Charles Manson in order to figure out the
motives behind their grisly actions. In Hunting Serial Killers, by
tracking the BSU's development of psychological profiling and
genetic fingerprinting, Wilson reveals the forensic investigations
that caused the seizure and arrest of some of the most vile and
villainous people in the world, including Jeffrey Dahmer, William
Heirens, Peter Sutcliffe, John Duffy, Jerry Brudos, Wayne Williams,
and many more. As he divulges the details of each case, the
murderers' fantasy worlds, sadistic motives, and monstrous
psychological tendencies emerge. For anyone who wants to understand
the motives, investigations, and eventual arrests behind fifty
serial-killing sprees, Hunting Serial Killers will not disappoint.
The Venus Express spacecraft, which was launched in November 2005
and ceased activity in December 2014, has brought about a new
wealth of data on Venus's atmosphere, surface, and space
environment. Following the completion of this landmark mission, an
overview of the current state of scientific understanding of Venus
has been assembled into a single collection. The ten papers in this
book, written by an international team of specialists, are the
products of this effort. They review our knowledge of Venus's
interior structure, surface composition, and atmosphere in terms of
thermal structure, dynamics, composition, chemistry, clouds,
aeronomy, and interaction with the solar wind. Additionally, they
identify the questions and measurements that remain open for study
in ongoing and future research and exploration efforts. The
resulting volume is primarily intended for students and researchers
of planetary science. This book is a follow-up to the pioneering
book Venus, published in 1983, and its successor volume Venus II,
published in 1997, stood at their respective times as the most
authoritative single-volume works available on the planet.
Originally published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical
Collection "Venus III"
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