Jim Paul

Reclusive David Huntington writes rigorously meaningless poetry to great acclaim. But he lives fearfully, sleeping and working with earplugs, rarely going outside, drawing his life more closely around him every day. A wild parrot, a gift from his father, becomes the breach in the Little Wittgenstein has a jungle shriek, fierce eyes, and a beak that wreaks havoc. David finally throws the bird out t

An €œenormously entertaining€ (Smithsonian), €œclever, subtle, and adroit€ account (Wall Street Journal) of how the author and his friend constructed a medieval siege engine in a San Francisco backyard. €œSo funny that I could not put it down€ (Los Angeles Times).

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all—his fortune, his reputation, and his job—in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad fina

Jim Paul muses on Western philosophy and the medieval mind as he makes his way through a harried weekend in Los Angeles, yielding a “delightful...humorous” book (Bloomsbury Review) whose every “sentence bursts with information, gorgeously put” (New Yorker).

In the dark forests of Northern Europe at the end of the last millenium, runes - ancient symbols of the natural world- were respected and feared as messages from gods and humbly consulted for divine guidance and predictions. Carved on jewelry, tools, weapons, and inscribed on boundary stones and markers, runes served as signs and talismans in a mysterious time.Originally written in Anglo Sax

New York:: Villard,, (1993.). Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An account of his own attempt to win the love of a woman as they travel in Paris and throughout France interspersed with other tales of men famous for their romantic passion. Bibliography. 275 pp.

On her twenty-second birthday, Shannon Maguire spies a leprechaun in the back yard. Intent on making contact with the leprechaun, she rushes out the back door. As she steps onto the back porch, she falls into the Devil’s Tomb. With the help of the leprechaun, they escape and land in the parallel world of Muirnin. In a day filled with surprises and frightening changes, Shannon learns she is the Cro

This book describes how to avoid divorce in your 40s, get connected with your spouse, do things together and remain faithful in your relationship.

The banana tree is a amazing plant, imparting severa fitness benefits beyond its delicious fruit. Rich in fiber, it aids digestion and regulates bowel movements, merchandising gastrointestinal health. Its leaves, a staple in many cuisines, are packed with vitamins like nutritional vitamins A, C, and B6, vital for immunity and average well-being. Additionally, banana tree sap has medicinal properti