Remember how to make a spool tank? How to whip apples? What to do with a discarded umbrella? Whether "pennies" comes before or after "spank the baby" in mumbly-peg? And your kid never knew any of these things in the first place, to forget in the second place? Robert Paul Smith remembers, and he has [...]
Collins Complete Guide to British Muchrooms and Toadstools allows everyone to identify mushrooms found in Britain and Ireland. The book is illustrated with beautiful photographs throughout, featuring the species you are most likely to see.[...]
A comprehensive and heavily illustrated guide to every species of British wildlife, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for nature enthusiasts.[...]
The essential photographic field guide to all mammals, reptiles and amphibians in the British Isles and surrounding seas.[...]
The essential photographic guide to Ireland's wildlife.
It's midnight, and the guinea pigs are not in their cage! In this humorous story, two guinea pigs stray from their cage to a park before returning home again in time for breakfast. Their night-time adventure is told through a series of illustrations with very simple repetitive text.[...]
Hippo wants to play on the see-saw. But who will play with him? In this humorous story a hippo wants to go on a see-saw, but no other animal is heavy enough to get hippo off the ground. It takes a group of animals to do it - and in the end, it is a tiny mouse that makes the difference.[...]
"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floatin[...]
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage," Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists," and Samuel Johns[...]
Between the ninth and seventh centuries BC the small kingdom of Assyria in northern Iraq expanded through conquest to dominate the region from Egypt to Iran. The power of the Assyrian kings was reflected in the creation of a series of magnificent palaces in which the walls of principal rooms and cou[...]
The ancient Egyptians, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Hittites, Canaanites, Hurrians, Aramaeans, Israelites, Urartians, Mannaeans, Assyrians, Phygians, Kassites, Chaldeans, Elamites, Scythians, Medes and Persians. An evocative list of peoples: but who were they? Where did they come from, and how did they inte[...]
Covering all aspects of the syllabus, "Crash Course" offers you a fast way to recap on all you need to know to get through the exams with ease! Styled in an easy-to-follow, readily accessible format, each book has been prepared by senior medical students or junior doctors - under faculty supervision[...]
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 stor[...]
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty [...]
Alexander Pearce and seven of his fellow convicts escaped from gaol in 1822 into one of the most unique and beautiful places on earth - the Tasmanian wilderness. This classic Australian story details the men's attempt to free themselves from the most isolated of penal settlements in the world, only [...]
This user-friendly volume is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to achieve a stronger, leaner, and more flexible body. It provides expert advice on one of the most widely used pieces of gym/fitness equipment in the world - the fitness ball. "Fitness Ball Drills" presents step-by-step illustrated i[...]
"Power Training" is a superbly illustrated, easy-to-follow guide to drills, test, and training routines - used by Olympic and other world-class athletes - that will help improve power and performance.Packed with more than 80 exercises, this superb volume will become an invaluable tool enabling reade[...]
This latest cutting edge training regime with its breakthrough 'Cavity Based Training Approach' and Core-in-Motion Method[trademark] delivered in a 4-Phase Progression. The Body Coach Paul Collins, Australia's Personal Trainer, provides another major breakthrough in fitness with his revolutionary 'C[...]
Develop core-strength, power and a rock hard mid-section to help drive your athletic performance to a new level. "Athletic Abs" works like magic to strengthen your core as The Body Coach[registered] Paul Collins, Australia's Personal Trainer[trademark], takes the guesswork out of training and guides[...]
Every good exercise program starts with a method by which training principles are based upon. In Kettlebell Conditioning, Coach Collins has developed the 4-Stage BodyBell(R) Training SystemA' that allows you to learn the basic strength and swing pattern drills before more complex power orientated mo[...]
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. [...]
The authors draw on their combined experience to create an exciting model of congregational leadership that understands congregations as relational systems. Learn how relational processes can liberate members for ministry and mission in the world and release pastors for appropriate leadership.[...]