Tom Holland: 23 books
by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Though prayer is 'the Christian's vital breath' it raises many questions: if God is in control of everything what's the point of praying? how is prayer related to healing? what about 'unanswered' prayer?
In this remarkable bookTom Holland uses a series of conversations between a pastor and...
Beat the Gym
Personal Trainer Secrets--Without the Personal Trainer Price Tag
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“Tom Holland is the supportive and informative coach, the motivational voice and the personal touch that you crave when you start any workout regimen.”
—Lucy Danziger, Editor-in-Chief, SELF magazine
Tom Holland was voted one of the Top 10 Trainers in America by Women’s Health magazine...
The Marathon Method
The 16-Week Training Program that Prepares You to Finish a Full or Half Marathon at Your Best Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Get Ready to Run!A complete guide to training for a half or full marathon in sixteen weeks, this book follows the format of Tom's previous book The 12-Week Triathlete with simply the best advice on how to run your fastest race while staying injury-free. Whether you are a first-time marathoner, trying...
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)
The Making of England
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria...
Dynasty
The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors.
Dynasty...
Dynastie
opkomst en ondergang van het huis van Julius Caesar
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Toen het Romeinse rijk eenmaal een wereldrijk was kwam er een einde aan de republiek. Rome baadde in bloed. De burgeroorlogen waren zo gewelddadig geweest dat het volk blij was met een alleenheerser die vrede bracht. Hij noemde zichzelf Augustus: ‘de door God begunstigde’.
De lugubere roem van...
by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist...
Rubicon
The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account...
The Forge of Christendom
The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
A grand narrative history of the re-emergence of Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire. At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the...
by Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver...
by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia,...
by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Paulie bought the voodoo doll from the peddler as a goof. Make a wish, he said, any wish and it will come true. Paulie didn't believe him, the dollwas just a way of blowing off steam, so when he wished Tina, his bitch of a wife, would just disappear, he didn't expect anything to happen. And then it began.
by Tom Holland
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
All they talked about in the Barrio was The Boy. He touched you and you were rid of whatever ailed you. Audie Cardozo thought he was just a legend, until, he grabbed a strange kid off the street. He was deaf and dumb, but he looked the part. Audie thought he could use him in a scam, only to find out...
Swim, Bike, Run--Eat
The Complete Guide to Fueling Your Triathlon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
It’s race day and you have your quick-closure running shoes, sleek suits, bikes, goggles, and watches, but if you haven’t been training with the proper nutrition, you’ll be left in the dust in the third mile.
Enter Swim, Bike, Run—Eat to guide you through day one of training...
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