Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial...

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...

Martha Shoebridge has the best job in the world: she helps women give birth. But when this workaholic obstetrician meets the handsome senator from Delaware, William Sheridan, her heart...

Who are they? Where do they come from? Why do they do it? Serial killers are the headline-grabbing criminals of the modern world. With the body count rising, and shallow graves giving up their secrets,...

Colin Wilson is the bete-noir of the Oxbridge literary establishment. He never went to university, let alone Oxbridge, yet wrote The Outsider, a brilliant account of the pain of being alive today, when...

The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN'Exhaustive, luminously intelligent' OBSERVERTHE OUTSIDER was an instant literary...

Creatively and intellectually there is no other species that has ever come close to equalling humanity’s achievements, but nor is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are...

A collection of the most shocking, horrifying accounts of true crime ever.Evil knows no boundaries. In 1614, Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory died, sealed in a tiny closet in her castle. Her crimes?...

Over fifty of the most fascinating accounts of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries.Did werewolves roam the countryside of fifteenth century France? What exactly is El Chupacabra, a creature whose name...

What makes a good scandal? Money, politics and power, and a huge dose of media interest. Scandal reigns in the world of politics, celebrity, business, religion, royalty and art, and this book covers it...

As the number of serial killers worldwide has risen steadily - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the need...

Un trésor caché de la BD de science-fiction Sur le vaisseau-monde de Genesis Project, Raël, Mantell et Alia sont tous les trois prisonniers d’un tyran qu’ils vont tenter de renverser. Voici le pitch de...

Tradotto in oltre trenta lingue dal suo primo apparire in Inghilterra nel 1956 (in Italia fu pubblicato da Lerici nella traduzione di Aldo Rosselli ed Enzo Siciliano e da allora, a differenza di quanto...

Now available in one tremendous volume is a compelling and remarkable history spanning over two thousand years of the greatest unsolved mysteries known to mankind, including:Atlantis the Bermuda Triangle...

Dangerous madmen or divinely inspired prophets? From murdering religious sects like the Assassins and the Thugs, to the orgies of the little known Khlysty and the self-mutilations of the Skloptzi; including...

Le esperienze di picco – o di “coscienza aumentata” – sono state una costante in letteratura, nella storia dell'arte e nella filosofia. Dopo una ricerca durata quarant’anni, in questo libro Colin Wilson...

What were the achievements of the ’angry’ writers who emerged in the fifties? Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s-Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week...

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...

Inspired by the revelation that the Sphinx had been weathered by water and not by wind-blown sand and was, therefore, thousands of years older than the oldest civilisation known to man, Colin Wilson sets...

Taking the most famous 'prophet' of recent times, David Koresh, as a starting point, this is an analytical look at the troubled history of charlatan messiahs around the world. But Koresh was neither the...

Tradotto in oltre trenta lingue dal suo primo apparire in Inghilterra nel 1956 (in Italia fu pubblicato da Lerici nella traduzione di Aldo Rosselli ed Enzo Siciliano e da allora, a differenza di quanto...

Le esperienze di picco, o di "coscienza aumentata", ricorrono nella storia dell'umanità: questo genere di eventi straordinari ha influenzato arte, letteratura, filosofia nei secoli. Colin Wilson, autore...