Collins: 3183 books

This book shows how to use yoga to bring calm and focus (and exercise!) to kids with special needs. Childhood is a time filled with new motor challenges and hurdles; and this is doubly true for kids with autism and other special needs. The motor challenges kids face require strength, coordination, and...

A child's sensory system affects their ability to learn, play, socialize, and function. Maybe a child isn't able to sit still in class because his shirt tag is bothering him, or isn't able to play with other children because his balance is off and other kids make him feel dizzy. Britt Collins,...

From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic...

Making your own wedding cake is easy when you've been shown the right materials and techniques, and this is the only book to teach you. It is full of step-by-step guidance and advice, with plenty of tips to help a novice create something stunning and inspirational. This visually enticing step-by-step...

For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924–2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise...

WRITER takes you from conception to completion, covering everything an author needs to know. Have a story you want to tell? Don't know where to start? What is it that writers do? Where do ideas for stories come from? What about universal building blocks? Are these the questions you are asking?...

A new religion based entirely on science is brought to life using a fictional tale of a Jesus-like figure, a science-minded and deeply spiritual man, whose teachings ended the strife that still divides our world.

This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and informal gay sexual labor. Malate...

Book 3 of The Technology of Success Series. ***Have you ever wondered which of the trillion things you do for your kids contributes to their success? In these demanding hectic times we don't have time to do what doesn't matter, but most people spend hours a day doing just that. They work longer and...

Four women of three generations wrote, and stored for years, the heartspeak of their lives. In advance review it has been praised as, "..a small miracle...a remarkable book." This poetry tells of their joys, loves, families, nature, and choices each made. The voices are distinctly personal...

‘I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.’ – Christy Mahon On the first night of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) the audience began protesting in the theatre; by the third night the protests had spilled onto...

Eternal life is bestowed by grace. Everybody has three component parts: outward personality, inward personality and a controlling spirit. Your body is dust. Your Hypostatic Chip or demon must return to base but the real you comprising spirit and soul has three eternal destinations: New Jerusalem,...

La jeune Anne Sylvester est la fille de l'épouse déchue d'un gentleman anglais. Anne est recueillie par la meilleure amie de sa mère quand celle-ci décède, et devient la préceptrice de sa fille, Blanche. Une amitié très forte lie les deux jeunes...

Une nuit, Walter Hartright, jeune professeur de dessin, porte secours à une mystérieuse « dame en blanc » que semble poursuivre une obscure menace. La jeune femme, parmi des propos incohérents, laisse entendre qu'elle est familière d'un lieu où il doit prochainement se rendre - le manoir de...