Drawing from his experiences as a therapist, counsellor and teacher the author composed this collection of inspirational proverbs for meditation and renewal. The aphorisms contained in this book offer challenging insights for anyone undergoing the process of personal growth and change. Each of the sayings is accompanied by an abstract painting by ...
One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries--William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. Collins, author of the national bestseller "Sixpence House," takes up the strange quest for this white whale of precious books.
The author, his wife, and their baby son move from San Francisco to Hay-on-Wye, in Wales--partly because it's cheaper, partly because it's the used-book capital of the world. In the end, they return to American, but in between the two moves they encounter a good deal of local color. Collins, a writer, also has some trenchant observations to make ...
The author of "Sixpence House" travels the globe piecing together the missing body and soul of one of America's most enigmatic founding fathers: Thomas Paine.
On Christmas Eve, Thomas buys a magical candle that changes the way he views his fellow human beings and helps him feel charity for those less fortunate than he.
Each of these 13 profiles documents the hitherto lost personalities behind minor, once-famous (or infamous) achievements. Biographies of a 19th-century forger, the man responsible for the development of the Concord grape, an inventor of a language based on music, and many others are included. Some of the material collected here was initially ...
What were the leaders of the free world really doing during all those meetings? As the creators of Cabinet magazine reveal here for the first time, they were doodling. Our Founding Fathers doodled, and so did Andrew Jackson. Benjamin Harrison accomplished almost nothing during his time in the White House, but he left behind some impressive ...
This book draws on the therapeutical experiences of the author to compose a collection of inspirational proverbs for those undergoing the process of personal renewal and growth. The book includes meditations and proverbs designed to enhance and sustain the growth, change and self-acceptance that individuals have worked so hard to achieve. Each ...
The author, his wife, and their baby son move from San Francisco to Hay-on-Wye, in Wales--partly because it's cheaper, partly because it's the used-book capital of the world. In the end, they return to American, but in between the two moves they encounter a good deal of local color. Collins, a writer, also has some trenchant observations to make ...
American Defense Policy has been a mainstay for instructors of courses in political science, international relations, military affairs, and American national security for over 25 years. The updated and thoroughly revised eighth edition considers questions of continuity and change in America's defense policy in the face of a global climate beset by ...
In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: they didn't know any English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train ...
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 ...
A. In the past, the elite manipulated the population through a more mystical belief system. In particular, there was the institution of Sun worship (typified by deities such as Osiris and Set). However, as antiquity gave way to modern history, this system of control began to lose its effectiveness. During the sixteenth century, the ruling class ...
For those who believe that globalization is a purely modern phenomenon, this book holds a startling and absorbing lesson. "From Egypt to Babylon" immerses readers in a world of exotic empires and states as they waxed and waned and interacted in a period of extraordinary internationalism--all before the rise of the Persian Empire. The ancient ...
Welkin Quinn has always dreamed of setting foot on Earth. As an elite Skyborn teenager aboard a transport ship destined for Tau Ceti, all he knows of his home planet is what he has learned from the Elders as well as from a wealth of records and artifacts archived in the ship's memory. The creatures known as the Earthborn-brutish survivors of the ...
Historically There Has Been a Wide Gulf Between continental and Anglo/American thought on the philosophy of language. It is often difficult to find important continental works in English translation. Meaning and Textuality represents key elements of the groundbreaking new theory of signs and discourse that has come out of the continent in the last ...
What were the leaders of the free world really doing during all those meetings? As the editors of Cabinet magazine reveal here for the first time, they were doodling. Our Founding Fathers doodled, and so did Andrew Jackson. Benjamin Harrison accomplished almost nothing during his time in the White House, but he left behind some impressive ...
A controversial Australian Catholic priest reveals how the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith--one aspect of the inner workings of the Vatican--perpetrates a modern-day assault on intellectual freedom.
History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen 'losers' who achieved great heights in their lifetimes only to then meet crushing defeats. There is the man who discovered N ...
This useful new guide side-steps the uninspiring tasks of traditional genealogical research. Packed with use information and a common-sense approach, it advises on everything from websites to war records, how to organize research and the joy of knitting it all together.
After the crash of the ship "Colony," 14-year-old Welkin was left for dead on a ravaged Earth. Rescued by a gang of Earthborn, Welkin proves his value. With his knowledge of Skyborn ways, will he be able to aid his new family in the final assault between Skyborns and Earthborns?
The papacy is the greatest and longest-lasting institution in the history of the West. Paul Collins describes the evolution of the office of the papacy over the past two millennia, from St Peter to Pope John Paul II. Some recent histories of the papacy have treated it as a political or social phenomenon, this work examines the links between the ...
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