Colin Wilson

This "immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages" tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia (The Times, London). This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass slaughter by the armies led by Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Ivan...

Bestselling author Colin Wilson has long pursued the nature of Peak Experiences, and here are the results of his 40-year investigation. Through a wealth of engaging anecdotes, he reveals how the Peak Experiences of such historical figures as Yeats, Blake, and Sartre, among others, influenced their work. Plus, he offers clues to unlocking this spiritual power in our own lives.

Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 — 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and his purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism". In this compelling lecture from the 1980's, Mr. Wilson discusses the role...

Relates purportedly true accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, phantom animals, and other supernatural wonders and discusses research on such phenomena.

"Holden Carver is a double agent without a choice. Spymaster John Lynch, the only man who knows his mission, lies in a coma. Tao, the criminal mastermind whose organization Carver has infiltrated, is growing suspicious...or maybe just playing a particularly cruel game of cat and mouse. Holden is torn between his original mission and new loyalties toward the cabal he's infiltrated. What's a spy to do when no one knows he's been left out in the cold?"--...

Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.

A decade has passed since John Connor helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives 'off the grid' with no home, credit cards, cell phones or a job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X, Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet....

It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations clash after Paris, a Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power and sets off for Troy with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks. With the help...

With her father presumed dead, Lara must race to recover an ancient artifact that can alter space and time if not destroyed. She finds the key that will unlock the two sections that must be put together in order for the artifact to work. She must fight her nemises in order to restore harmony and all before the planets and sun align.