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6 Minute Stories for 6 Year Olds by Paul Collins, Meredith Costain
Category: Early Reader
An ice-cream-eating dinosaur, a big, bad smell, a lifesaving dog, zombies playing soccer, a ghost in the garden, pets who get lost and found again, trouble with losing a tooth, seven helpful robots, a knight-slaying dragon, and much, much more in this collection of six-minute stories.
Absolute Power : How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Paul Collins
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 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 across ...Show more
Athletic Abs: Build Your Strongest Core Ever by Paul Collins
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Includes 10 exercises of using body weight, medicine balls, fitness balls and strength training drills through various planes of motion. This title provides a critical function in daily movement, sport and physical activity by helping improve posture, motor control of deep stabilizing muscles and the ab ...Show more
Awesome Abs by Paul Collins
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: Body Coach
"Awesome Abs" is packed with over 70 easy to follow exercises using your own body weight as well as fitness balls, medicine balls and abdominal machines that will give you leaner abs, a stronger lower-back, better posture and a trimmer waistline.From athletes looking for that extra something and fitnes ...Show more
Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins
Category: History
History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins: they succeeded in changing the world, and the world has repaid them by enshrining their names. But what of those others with similarly revolutionary and groundbreaking ideas who plummeted into oblivion? They are gone and forgotten, until n ...Show more
Believers - Does Aust Catholicism by COLLINS Paul
Category: Australian History
World Youth Day 08 and the visit of Pope Benedict XVI provide an opportunity to analyze the state of the Catholic Church in Australia. Believers does just that, offering a comprehensive account of everything that is right and wrong with Catholicism in Australia and asking whether it is really in decline ...Show more
Birth of the West by Paul Collins
Category: History
"Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering.” --Stephen O’Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) "A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe.... Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fash ...Show more
Blood and Ivy - The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins
Category: True Crime
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 that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered heft ...Show more
Borderlands Riding the Slipstream by Paul Collins (ed.)
Category: Fiction
A smorgasbord of original stories, poems and art by leading Australian authors, poets and illustrators Age range 11+Borderlands — Riding the Slipstream is an anthology for readers young and old.Featuring over forty short stories and poems by some of Australia’s best-loved authors — including Ursula Dubo ...Show more
Burn: Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia by COLLINS Paul
Category: Australian History
With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in Australia. In Burn, Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushifire in Australia, drawing on accounts of the most de ...Show more
Burn : The epic story of bushfire in Australia by Paul Collins
Category: Australian History
Powerful and moving personal stories of loss and survival - this is the compelling story of bushfire in Australia since European settlement. Collins challenges many of the accepted environmental pracitses about bushfire control.