Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: union, rugby, english, history, social
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2009-03-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415476607
ISBN-13: 9780415476607

From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an

Authors:Tony C. K. Tham, John S. A. Collins, Roy Soetikno,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: emergencies, gastrointestinal
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-12-22
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 1405146346
ISBN-13: 9781405146340

The definitive reference guide for the management of gastrointestinal emergencies and endoscopic complicationsWhen you are caring for a patient with a gastrointestinal emergency – during a procedure or after emergency stabilization – you can count on this updated reference to supply the specific how-to guidance you need. Written and edited by leading international experts in the field, the second edition of Gastrointestinal Emergencies:now reflects the many diagnostic and therapeutic advances since publication of the first edition covers the full range of gastrointestinal emergencies encou

Authors:Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sports, routledge, series, reference, rural, traditional, british, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-08-09
List price: $220.00
ISBN-10: 041535224X
ISBN-13: 9780415352246

Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with particular emphasis on the social history and ’traditional’ aspects. It contains several hundred entries focusing on individual sports and others providing analysis of key concepts, themes and terminologies. The Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports is an invaluable reference t

Authors:Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Ruthefo
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: verse, chapter, genesis
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0312379560
ISBN-13: 9780312379568

The long-awaited, definitive story of one of the most creative and commercial rock groups of all time, Genesis One of the most imaginative, courageous, and unpredictable music acts ever, Genesis evolved from pioneers of progressive music in the 1970s to a global phenomenon, topping charts and selling over 150 million albums worldwide. The story of their band spans thirty years and thirty albums, and through all the changes in the band’s line-up and musical direction, the spirit of Genesis has remained constant and undimmed.  Genesis: Chapter & Verse is the ultimate addition to any fan

Authors:Lee Collins, Mary Collins, Frank Gillis, John W Miner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: collins, life, mary, music, american, lee, ramble, story, didn
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1989-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0252060814
ISBN-13: 9780252060816

Authors:Phillip Darrell Collins, Paul David Collins,
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: autocracy, century, epistemic, examination, scientific, dictatorship, ascendancy
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-02-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0595311644
ISBN-13: 9780595311644

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 managed to co-opt a relatively new methodology of truth discernment...science. Over the years, they would contaminate this institution with their own virulent strains of thought...metaphysical naturalism, radical empiricism, Malthusianism, Darwinism, be

Authors:Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins, Lapierr Collins,
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: burning, paris
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 1991-03-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0446392251
ISBN-13: 9780446392259

From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events--the drama, the fervor, and the triumph--that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris is timed to meet the demand for Dominique Lapierre books that will be generated by the March release of his compelling new Warner hardcover, Beyond Love.