Paul Collins: 69 books
by Paul Collins
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2016
La velocidad es el factor más importante relacionado con la mejora del rendimiento en el deporte. En Entrenamiento de la velocidad en el deporte, que constituye una excelente fuente de información tanto para deportistas como para entrenadores, Paul Collins le asesorará paso a paso para aumentar...
The Modern Inquisition
Seven Prominent Catholics and Thier Struggle with the Vatican
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2002
The Inquisition ceased burning and torturing heretics in the 18th century; A milder punishment awaits the dissidents today, principally excommunication or banishment from official teaching positions. Paul Collins has discovered- through his own experience and extensive research that the impact of...
by Paul Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe
Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty...
The Trouble with Tom
The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
A Book Sense Fall 2005 History Channel Top Ten Pick
Paul Collins combines present-day travelogue with an odyssey down the forgotten paths of history as he searches for the physical remains of founding father Thomas Paine. Paine's missing body, like a saint's relics, has been scattered in pieces around...
by Paul Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
'The majestic beauty of Van Diemen’s Land as well as its tendency to foster grotesque violence is effectively captured in this narrative of notorious convict Alexander Pearce.’ Sydney Morning HeraldFor the convicts transported from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded...
Banvard's Folly
Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's...
by Paul Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
“Well-researched and beautifully written.… Collins knows how to build suspense.”—San Francisco Chronicle
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen...
Not Even Wrong
A Father's Journey into the Lost History of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, and beginning to see why he himself has spent a lifetime researching talented eccentrics, Collins shows how these stories are relevant and even necessary to shed light on autism.
by Paul Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Mack Max Dunstan has played Moses, Marc Anthony, Ben-Hur, President Andrew Jackson, and Long John Silver. He has starred in The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, El Cid, 55 Days in Peking, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man, and Soylent Green, to name a few. Sadly, in this age of social media, reality television,...
The Murder of the Century
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—Dave Eggers
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover...
The Birth of the West
Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark...
Absolute Power
How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority
In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered...
Speed for Sport
Build Your Fastest Body Ever
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Speed for Sport™ is an excellent source of information for athletes, coaches, parents and teachers alike. The Body Coach®, Paul Collins, Australia's Personal Trainer™ provides step-by-step coaching with over 100 of the latest speed training drills used by world class athletes and sporting teams...
Dragonfang
Book 2 in The Jelindel Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
The long-awaited sequel to Dragonlinks Five pentagram gems Two people want them Only one can have them
“Anyone who has read Dragonlinks will recognise Paul Collins as a writer who truly understands the power of high fantasy. It is the power to tease the imagination with worlds so exotic,...