Collins: 3183 books
by Gerald O'Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Much of what one sees or reads about Jesus is deliberately sensationalist or evasive. Producers and writers raise issues of merely historical interest, highlight trivial matters, or allege that "cover-ups" have hidden the "real truth" for many centuries. They will do anything but face the challenge...
The Theology of John Wesley
Holy Love and the Shape of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
A rich articulation of John Wesley's theology that is appreciative of the old and mindful of the new, faithful to the past and attentive to the present.
This work carefully displays John Wesley's eighteenth century theology in its own distinct historical and social location, but then transitions...
The Scripture Way of Salvation
The Heart of Wesley's Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Taking its title from one of John Wesley's most important sermons, The Scripture Way of Salvation explores the soteriological content of Wesley's entire literary corpus (sermons, letters, theological treatises, journals, and the notes on the Old and New Testaments). Fundamentally a doctrinal study,...
The Great Fire of Rome
The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For more than a week the fire spread, engulfing most of the city and nearly burning it to the ground. With its capital in ruins, Rome's powerful empire teetered on the edge of collapse as Nero...
by John Buchan, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Core blimey, mate! It’s British Mystery Multipacks Volume 11, a crackling cornucopia of classic cozy mysteries from across the pond:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, and its sequel The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective genre with these...
by Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
This story first appeared in Charles Dickens' magazine, “Household Words, ” volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's financial accounts.
Caliphs and Kings
Spain, 796-1031
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society - when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony - revealing a fuller, more complex picture of this fascinating period.
Presents new ideas and interpretations of a fascinating...
Sport and Social Exclusion
Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of any civilised social policy. In this meticulously revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of new evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how...
by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From the City of Light to the Suit of Lights with the authors of Is Paris Burning? as they trace the rise of matador El Cordobes from anonymous, impoverished boyhood to fame and multi-millionaire. Collins and Lapierre have again chosen a magnetic subject but this less complex story is less appropriate...
by K. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Clutter, both mental and physical, can eat away our productivity and our time. Clutter demands your attention. Instead of focusing on a task at hand, you might find yourself weighed down with feelings of guilt about your home not looking the way it should be. There are also times in our lives when...
Common Sense Training
A Working Philosophy for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Leadership is so much a part of the conduct of training that at times it is difficult to tell where one stops and the other starts. . . .
“The best book on military training from platoon to division level that has been published in any army.”—Army magazine
“His message is that...
Business Ethics
Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Business Ethics: Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations, Second Editionfocuses on how to create organizations of high integrity and superior performance. Author Denis Collins shows how to design organizations that reinforce ethical behavior and reduce ethical risks using his...
The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Romance
The Dance of Heart and Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Feng Shui, the study of arranging your environment to enhance your life, is all about happiness. And ultimately, what is happiness without the presence of romance? The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Romance is dedicated to bringing the allure of romance into your everyday life. In this book, bestselling...
99 to 1
How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Over the past thirty years, we’ve seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. Here, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging data to show exactly what the 99/1 percent divide means in the real world and the damage it causes...