Bøger af Michael Collins

A special updated anniversary edition of the classic account of the Apollo 11 trip to the moon.

Presenting a colorful panorama of ingenuity, "Art Education Uncovered: Creative Teaching Techniques" is a Special Report that shines a spotlight on the innovative methods that are shaping the future of art education. This exhilarating dive into an ocean of creativity is not just an insightful report, it's a transformative adventure for any art educator, trainer, or enthusiast.Begin your journey with Michael Collins, a seasoned art educator and passionate story weaver, who guides you through vibrant landscapes of pedagogical innovation. Michael's understanding of art and its potent role in education forms the heart and soul of this unique report. His narrative propels readers across continents, cultures, and classrooms, distilling decades of experience and passion into a readable, accessible guide. Explore the foundations of art education in new, groundbreaking ways. Challenge conventional norms and dive headfirst into creative courage. Delve into the emotional impact of art, its role in cognitive development, and its influence on personal growth. Discover fresh strategies to guide young artists through their creative blocks and connect historical contexts in engaging ways. Understand the continually evolving role of digital art in teaching and the exciting intersection of art and technology.Art pedagogy is more than just a profession - it's a tapestry of life experiences painted with colors of creativity. Ready to elevate your teaching to a new level? Grab this Special Report today and let's ignite the spark of creativity in the classroom!

A young girl discovers an old book while out shopping with her mother. The book offers her a wish and a doorway to another world filled with knights, love, and horror. In return, all the book wants is her soul. The book is a promise made to an ancient soul trapped in a purgatory made for him and his parents. The book is populated with the souls of those who found the book. Some were tricked into hell while others earn their way.A mysterious force controls both purgatory and the book with its agenda. The force watches over Kaylee as she transitions from a young girl hiding behind a window, watching others to a dominant force in her high school and the world within the book. Can Kaylee keep her soul, or will she be unable to turn away from temptation?

An old GMC box truck raced across the desert Along the New Mexico border at night with its lights off. The engine was running hot, and the cargo hold was boiling. Wendy and a man named George watched the truck as it made its way from Mexico to the United States. She looked through an infrared camera seeing the engine, driver, and passenger with six to nine people in the box. Wendy wages war her way against the dealers and smugglers along the Mexican American border. Her past with the serial killer David Warren and a young woman named Alice made her into a killer. As Wendy contemplates her actions and future, another team moves in using terrorist tactics that could help or bring about a violent end for Wendy and her family.Wendy's War offers a different view of the Dealing Justice stories spanning from the beginning of the ranch after the fall of David.

How did Christianity get shared around the world? And how has Christian belief changed over the last 50 years? Providing some of the answers to these and many other questions, this overview charts the 2,000-year-long history of the world's largest religion. A History of Christianity covers everything from the world of the Old Testament to Christianity in the 21st century, including topics such as the early martyrs, the birth of the monasteries, the Crusades, the Reformation, and the rise of the Church in the Americas and Africa. Explore the wide-ranging beliefs and doctrines found within the Church and the role Christianity plays in people's lives. Discover the key events, figures, and movements that helped shape the Church, with a fresh and highly visual approach. In this Christianity book, you can find: - An accessible illustrated guide to the key events and thinkers of the last 2,000 years of Christianity- Detailed contextual illustrations, maps, and annotated works of art- Insightful quotes from Christian thinkers and the Bible- Chapters outlining different elements of Christianity and important moments that shaped beliefs including: The Roots of Christianity, Challenges to the Early Church, The Renaissance, Social Issues & Activism, and moreBeautifully illustrated, clearly presented, and written in an accessible style, this guide is the ideal companion for those who want to know about the history of the Church. This is a great guide for readers looking for a clear and accessible introduction to Christianity.

The following is a combination of two books. The Story of Alice is the story of a girl named Jennifer, who was born into a broken family. Her mother suffers from depression and her father from addiction after an accident. When her life takes a turn for the worse, Jennifer becomes Alice and starts on an adventure of love, family, and murder. Along the way, she meets a boy named Colin, who takes the name Max, a young girl caught up in sex trafficking called Ying and the man who would be her second father. David was her protector and destroyer; he taught her to trust others and kill. David used his ranch to wage war on drug dealers using the members of his cult as a weapon. Out in a desert town in the middle of nowhere, Alice and Max try to build a life for themselves after the fall of the ranch. As life returns to normal, an old enemy reappears, looking to regain his reputation. Alice and Ying return to Dealing Justice to dealers and those "Johns" who once paid to rape the young Ying. Will revenge ruin their new lives? Will David win?

All seems normal for Alice (Jeffifer) as she and her husband Max make a life for themselves in a small town, but at night, Alice goes back to her old ways of dealing justice to dealers and pedophiles. While she hunts, an old adversary hunts her and anyone who can keep him from keeping the legacy he killed to achieve.

A lone rider rode into the small town of Hester's Spring just as the sunset. From a distance, the rider looked like a young man of maybe sixteen or seventeen, but that's what she wanted people to see. A young woman traveling by herself out into the territories would draw the kind of attention Willie was trying to avoid. Wilhelmina Patricia O'Shea went west, seeking adventure away from her past. She didn't want the typical role of a young girl or woman. She wanted to be an outlaw, a gang leader with a reputation that would outlive her making her immortal. In her way was a west fresh from the civil war and an up incoming conflict between the native peoples and the United States Government on just who will control the west. She finds love, heartbreak, gunplay, and a family she never had back in Alabama. But can she escape her past, will her dreams of The O'Shea Gang lead to her death?

First and foremost, despite the cover, this is not a children's book. It is a fun, feel good book for all ages, full of craic, food and music, seasoned with a little mystery, intrigue and bedevilment. Why would a group of people and technological iShillelaghs, from a mysterious town in Ireland called Eirestown, be travelling towards a volcano in the South Pole, on board a high altitude hot air balloon known as The Eirestown POP? The answer is simple: They are trying to save the world from a man-made disaster. Not since Noah and his ark has the earth faced a flood of such biblical proportions. And all because William McCoy The Third decided to create a planetary housing boom. The Irish Taoiseach's response to the impending crisis is almost as comical as the American President's. While the President promises the world all the help his great nation can muster, before heading to safety in the mountains, the Taoiseach promises everyone in Ireland a free drink, initiating the biggest party the world has ever known. But the Prime Minister of England has more pressing concerns, as Prince Phillip paddles down the Mall with Queen Elizabeth II beside him in a rubber dinghy, trying to make Scotland before nightfall. Now that William has implemented phase one of his project - which was to engineer a global, environmental disaster on a par with the meteor strike which wiped the dinosaurs out 60 million years ago - the earth, and the existence of humanity itself, balances on a knife edge. Are we really to believe that the simpletons of Eirestown, as William calls them, can outwit him? Or will other forces play a part in the final showdown? Welcome to the first Eirestown Féile (pronounced fay-la) which is Gaelic for a festival of words.

The train was about three miles outside of town. From a distance, Hope seemed like a large train depot with the large train yard obscuring the town. It seemed like all her life Joleen was told about this town and how the railroad was its lifeblood. From here, it seemed the blood took over the body. Joleen watched as the town grew as she came closer. She knew her life was about to speed up. This would be an adventure. Her mother had an experience on a trip. She met someone she fell in love with and left with a better understanding of life. But that was then, and this is her adventure. She wants to live her life her way. Her father was the sheriff of this town and died to protect it. Joleen wants to live to serve justice. This is her story. Joleen goes back to where her family's story began to make a life for herself away from the society who's trying to make her fit into their norms. For a woman in the late 1800s, freedom, and adventure could only be found in an untamed west. But nothing lasts forever.

UNA OBRA QUE TE HARÁ PENSAR EN EL VERDADERO SENTIDO DE LA EXISTENCIA Carol encuentra a un extraño en la playa de Altea, provincia de Alicante, España. Ella está escuchando música, en la paz de la noche estrellada, ajena a lo que pronto va a ocurrirle.Juan es un guerrero de la luz, un lobo estepario, un rebelde con causa.Y cuando sus caminos se cruzan algo muy misterioso ocurre.

The legendary Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was known to be an avid reader during his brief career he set up a few underground newspapers. Collins also found time to write essays, which are collected in this work. In his essays, Collins distills his political thoughts and offers his unique insights into Ireland's troubled history.

My name is Jack Pressler, I run a special security service. To most, we are mercenaries. Paid thugs with guns and no morals. The people who work for me will attest that we have plenty of morals. We keep them in your wife's nightstand. We don't take jobs for drug cartels, terrorists, oppressive governments, or the girl scouts, but the girl scout one is a longer story. Most of the people working for me are former military or police. Most didn't see any action. My second and head of operations is a woman named Tima Cocks. Most people call her TC. She's about six foot three with deep ebony skin and long twisted multi-colored braids she calls a Senegalese twist. The following are a series of short tales chronicling my life behind the gun.

How did Christianity get shared around the world? And how has Christian belief changed over the last 50 years? Providing some of the answers to these and many other questions, this overview charts the 2,000-year-long history of the world's largest religion.A History of Christianity covers everything from the world of the Old Testament to Christianity in the 21st century, including topics such as the early martyrs, the birth of the monasteries, the Crusades, the Reformation, and the rise of the Church in the Americas and Africa.Explore the wide-ranging beliefs and doctrines found within the Church and the role Christianity plays in people's lives. Discover the key events, figures, and movements that helped shape the Church, with a fresh and highly visual approach.In this Christianity book, you can find: - An accessible illustrated guide to the key events and thinkers of the last 2,000 years of Christianity- Detailed contextual illustrations, maps, and annotated works of art- Insightful quotes from Christian thinkers and the Bible- Chapters outlining different elements of Christianity and important moments that shaped beliefs including: The Roots of Christianity, Challenges to the Early Church, The Renaissance, Social Issues & Activism, and moreBeautifully illustrated, clearly presented, and written in an accessible style, this guide is the ideal companion for those who want to know about the history of the Church. This is a great guide for readers looking for a clear and accessible introduction to Christianity.

This book is not an academic treatise. It is a concise story that tells what America's multinationals did to the U.S. economy and how they did it. It is an applied and actionable book which includes many suggested solutions that function as steps the reader can take in their company.This book is based on a promise made by multinationals in 2018 when 181 CEOs signed a commitment letter to lead their companies not just for the benefit of their investors, but for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders.During the last 40 years, the American dream has been dismantled by the policies and decisions of the multinational corporations (MNCs). Instead of benefitting all stake holders, they chose to favor their shareholders over all stake holders and short-term profits over society and country. To begin this process of change to achieve these new commitments, they must first understand what corporations did wrong since 1980 that didn't benefit the other stakeholders.This book will provide managers a detailed summary of the problems and obstacles they will need to address and overcome if they are going to make good on their commitment to meet the needs of all stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, communities, and an economy that serves all Americans. It also offers many solutions that will help them improve their job performance.It is in the interest of America's multinationals to find ways to protect their technologies, reduce outsourcing, and shift their focus to playing in a long-term economic game if they want to be competitive in the future.

Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events-technical and spiritual-of our lifetime.In Carrying the Fire, Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the Air Force, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 space walk, presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, light, and movement from someone who has seen the fragile earth from the other side of the moon.

The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the Truth, the moribund local paper. Compulsively readable, The Keepers of Truth startles both with its insights and with Collins's powerful, incisive writing.

For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, halted at the last moment by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition.

Haunted by the deaths of his parents and uncle, Frank Cassidy journeys north to dispute a cousin's claim to the family farm, where he meets a stranger who might resolve mysteries about Frank's past. A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year'.

Told from moving cars, the journeys of Norman Price and Nate Feldman converge toward unexpected mysteries and revelations that uncover not so much lies as understandings of life that no longer hold under the scrutiny of the present.

A novel of maturity and rare beauty - by an author shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize

The first collection of stories from a Booker Prize shortlisted author

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000, The Keepers of Truth is the highly-acclaimed new novel from a rich and unpredictable talent.

An original and wicked first novel set in the post-War years - by an author shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize.