Mary Collins has obviously spent time in an English classroom as the teacher. Her study guide questions are right on the mark. In the vocabulary section, her quote choices are almost exactly what I would have choosen. I have used several of Collins' lit plans, and without exception I have been pleased with them. They provide me with material that only needs a tweak to match my teaching style. The biggest problem of using Literature Circles in high school is the time needed to create materials for each novel to be included in the selection list. Mary Collins has solved that with these wonderful LitPlan units.

"Paul Collins has successfully created an apocalyptic action-packed nightmare, escalating some of our worst present day fears into the not so distant future." Nita Kambouris, Australian Book Review.

"Cyberskin is strangely compelling and enjoyable contemporary science fiction, built around an off-kilter view of a world we may already inhabit." Michael Shuttleworth, The Sunday Age.

"... Paul Collins deserves the title of 'Father of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction ... Cyberskin has a wicked satirical setting ... it's a blazingly-paced techno-noir adventure." Robert Jan, Zero G, 3RRR.

"Cyberskin is a highly creative - albeit at times disturbing - adventure that draws in the reader." Corinne Hotchkin, The Gazette.

"Action-packed, hard-edged and exciting, this is Travis McGee in cyberspace all the way." Terry Dowling, The Australian.

"It's got it all. Good plot, interesting characters and a morbidly fascinating setting. I'd certainly recommend it." George Ivanoff, Frontier.

"Overall, CYBERSKIN is a great read. It's all those things other reviewers have said about it ... Slick... inventive... hard-edged... disturbing... morbidly fascinating... a blazingly-paced techno-noir adventure." Peter McNamara on radio

Forthcoming reviews:

"Cyberskin is way cool: this is cyber-streetsmart fiction that zooms along at the speed of light. This is tough, incisive thriller fiction." Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald.

"Paul Collins' Cyberskin makes Bladerunner seem positively emaciated. Hard driving cyberpunk novel with a filmnoir backdrop". Colin Steele, The Canberra Times.

Past reviews

"Australia is not the science fiction capital of the world; in fact we are probably not even on the map. This unfortunate fact would change if we could produce more writers like Paul Collins". Michael Hanrahan, Australian Book Review.

"Edgy, strange, disconcerting, alarming, as speculative fiction is supposed to be. Collins writes the definitive well-crafted, dangerous story". Kerry Greenwood, The Age.

"Collins has a penchant for the hard-boiled hero, a lineage derived from Hammett and Chandler". Colin Steele, The Canberra Times.

This book is massive, but justifies its size by giving a thorough and comprehensive survey of one of the strangest and most incomprehensible books of the Bible. It covers every aspect that would interest the diligent Bible scholar. Beginners will find it very tough going! Collins believes that Daniel himself had no hand in writing the book, but that it was the product of the age of the Maccabean struggle. However, he presents all the evidence and arguments fully, being fair to those of a more conservative viewpoint. What you will not find in this book is an attempt to show that Daniel was successfully predicting events in the 20th century or even further in the future.

If you like anything and everything about Ireland, this book is an excellant addition to your collection. In the tradition of "Day in the Life of ...." books, this book is is a beautiful photographic montage of a culture and a people that has fascinated the world for centuries. You open the book to dawn of May 17, 1991 and enter the daily world of the lives of rural and city people throughout Ireland. Of parents getting ready for the workday, trying to get their kids off to school and the day off to a good start. The book travels through the day from dawn to dusk, unfolding the world of the Irish people and showing the Universal common thread of people around the world trying to live their lives and do an honest day's work. This book is a beautiful montage of color, humor and life and makes a excellant addition to the "Day in the Life..." books that been published in the past decade. Also a side note: The same time the publishers were organizing and executing the book, they also documented the work with a filmed documentary of the "Day in the Life of Ireland" for PBS. If you find a copy of this video, it will make a great companion to the book. You will take a great voyage as you journey through the book. Bon Voyage and Slainte!

If you've seen the movie, you'll be pleasantly surprised how this novel turns out!

The author takes the reader through the events that unfold, through the eyes of a reporter. All of the surviving victims are interviewed in the aftermath of the tunnel cave in.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys literary and cinematic disaster genres.

An exciting high-tech espionage novel about the SDI and the Cold War's struggle between the former Soviet Union( shortly before its collapsing in 1991) and the United States.
I highly recommend this fiction work.It would make a great topic for a movie. And it's well written prose kept me up all night.Undoubtedly a winner

These Literature units have allowed me to incorporate a series of Lit circles into my classroom. In the past trying to work up materials for a new novel took so much time that I rarely attempted more than one a semester. This year, with the help of these plans, I was able to have my students reading a novel of their choosing as part of small group work. The vocabulary exercises use quotes from the literature, and they are excellent examples of the novel. The study guides focus on exactly the parts of the novels that I want my students investigating. You can't go wrong with this purchase.

This is an elegant, insightful, thought-provoking look at, essentially, the struggle between two different ideas of the First Amendment: The rather narrow notion of the First Amendment as protecting only political speech or speech that enhances democratic debate versus the more free-wheeling idea that the First Amendment protects all speech, from pornography to offensive literature.

While I believe a truly free society must embrace the latter position, I find the authors compellingly present the views on both sides of the issue, and they do so via a playful, socratic dialectic rather than a dry rehashing of esoteric law review articles. I recommend this book for anyone who seeks to understand the pressure the first amendment is subjected to by our modern society.

"Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" is one reference work that is truly in a class by itself. The year 2000 edition continues Debrett's long tradition. This book is basically an exhaustive compendium of data on the British royal family and on the titled noble families of the United Kingdom. The book is divided into three separately paginated sections: a collection of introductory materials, the "Peerage" section, and the "Baronetage" section. Altogether, the book weighs in at more than 3,000 pages.

As a reference work, DP&B2K is fairly technical and might strike the average reader as a bit dry. But for specialists in genealogy, heraldry, and other fields, this book is an indispensible treasure chest of information. The bulk of the book consists of alphabetically organized entries on the noble houses of the UK. Drawings of the coats-of-arms of the noble houses are included.

DP&B2K also contains the following: data on individual members of the royal family; a guide to the wearing of orders, decorations, and other items with non-uniform dress; entries on the orders of knighthood and chivalry, together with drawings of their regalia; and information on the living descendants of Queen Victoria.

If you love to know things like the fact that the Earl of St. Germans' coat-of-arms has an elephant's head on top, or that the Dukedom of Leeds became extinct in 1964, or that HRH the Duke of Edinburgh is a Freeman and Liveryman of Fishmongers' Company, than this book is for you.

The authors provide the reader an excellent overview of equity derivatives and how they can be integrated into portfolio management. A great book for the novice and as a reference book for the more experienced professional. I find the way the authors describe the investment process and the derivatives process particularly useful and insightful.
The book is also easy to read and can be easily digested by the reader.