Colin G: 36 books
by Colin G. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The mysteries of bee life are illuminated for beekeepers, entomologists and students of natural history in general. The complex and wonderful organisation of the honeybee has fascinated many naturalists and writers, but the New Naturalist is fortunate in securing for its library what is undoubtedly...
Promoting walking and cycling
New perspectives on sustainable travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for...
by Colin G Hales
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book discusses two main cultural problems behind the failure of machine consciousness and artificial general intelligence (AGI) projects over many decades.
The first problem recognizes that building a conscious AGI means building an artificial scientist. The book identifies the responsible...
by Colin G. Jamieson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A Good Way to Go considering self-determination, mercy & self-termination. tackles the difficult subjects of living, dying, suicide and euthanasia but concentrates on the care that can be given. The book is aimed at the general public not so much to be authoritative as provide original thoughts,...
Rural Development in China
Insights from the Beef Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural people. Achieving this requires that the rural economy in general, and rural industries in particular, transform rapid growth into sustained development....
A Mobile Century?
Changes in Everyday Mobility in Britain in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
For most people in the developed world, the ability to travel freely on a daily basis is almost taken for granted. Although there is a large volume of literature on contemporary mobility and associated transport problems, there are no comprehensive studies of the ways in which these trends have changed...
Mobility, Migration and Transport
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book provides an innovative perspective on migration, mobility and transport. Using concepts drawn from migration history, mobilities studies and transport history it makes the case for greater integration of these disciplines. The approach is historical, demonstrating how past processes of travel...
by Colin G. Jamieson
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Spiders Treasure Box of Stories is a collection of storiesmyths, fables, parables, and original work by Jamieson, collected over several decades and have been well loved by children. They come close to the old cautionary tales.
The book is aimed at all those who love stories and would like...
by Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
This is the first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema. Film critic and author Gönül Dönmez-Colin explores the role of women as spectators, images and image constructors in the cinemas of the countries where Islam is the predominant religion, focusing on Iran...
Turkish Cinema
Identity, Distance and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Films often act as a prism that refracts the issues facing a nation, and Turkish cinema in particular serves to encapsulate the cultural and social turmoil of modern-day Turkey. Acclaimed film scholar Gönül Dönmez-Colin examines here the way that national cinema reveals the Turkish quest for a...
Saints-fondateurs du christianisme éthiopien
Frumentius, Garimā, Takla-Hāymānot, Ēwosṭātēwos
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Peu après l’Empire romain, l’Éthiopie adopte à son tour le christianisme. Réduite d’abord à l’entourage royal et au milieu dirigeant, la christianisation touche bientôt en profondeur tout le Nord éthiopien, grâce à l’oeuvre missionnaire conduite à partir du milieu du Ve siècle...
Theistic Evolution
A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Many prominent Christians insist that the church must yield to contemporary evolutionary theory and therefore modify traditional biblical ideas about the creation of life. They argue that God used—albeit in an undetectable way—evolutionary mechanisms to produce all forms of life. Featuring two...
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
Enduring Motives
The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.
Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts,...