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(0)Paul Collins
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
"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...
2) The murder of the century: the Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 484 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth, of the emergence of our civilization...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 289 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed historian Paul Collins' remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued -- a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done.
5) Peter Pan
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Platinum ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fantastic adventures await Wendy Darling and her brothers when Peter Pan whisks them away to the magical world of Never Land. After following Peter and his feisty sidekick Tinker Bell, they explore the island and Peter's secret hideout with the Lost Boys and leap into high-flying battles with swashbuckling pirates and the infamous Captain Hook.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 366 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 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 Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished. In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries--a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. The book: William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. This "travelogue" follows the trail of the Folio's remarkable journey and Shakespeare's cross-cultural future as Asian buyers enter their Folios into the electronic ether.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. The author melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent...