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Historic Speeches: The Greatest Political Speeches of All Time

By Albert Jack

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9781532865640 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 21, 2016, cover price $25.00

Red Herrings & White Elephants: The Origins of the Phrases We Use Everyday

Product Description: The biggest selling non-fiction book of the decade..... Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from? From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered with hundreds of common idioms borrowed from ancient traditions and civilizations throughout the world...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781532861949 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 20, 2016, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The biggest selling non-fiction book of the decade.

Mysterious World: World Famous Mysteries Solved

Product Description: From the best-selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo. Albert Jack's Mysterious World is a collection of the world's most famous and puzzling mysteries...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781532729270 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 13, 2016, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From the best-selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo.

American History: Things That Even Your Teachers Didn't Know

Product Description: American History is the second âbest ofâ collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of. In fact, as one wise man suggested, it is the history of everything you didnât realise you wanted to know about, until you found out about it...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781523847402 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 3, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: American History is the second âbest ofâ collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of.

Urban Myths & Legends: The World's Famous Urban Legends

By Albert Jack

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9781523847693 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 3, 2016, cover price $12.99

Speaking English: Advanced English Words: Origins, History & Meanings

Product Description: From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling English Language Book - Red Herrings & White Elephants How To Speak English Like a Native The English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world. One of the reasons for this is that we have so many weird and wonderful ways of describing exactly the same thing: we can be as colourful or as plain with our language as we choose...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781522880486 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling English Language Book - Red Herrings & White Elephants How To Speak English Like a Native The English language is perhaps the richest and most expressive in the world.

Awesome Inventions: Innovators & Business Ideas That Changed the World

Product Description: Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781522880080 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2015, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation.

9/11 Conspiracy: Wtc: Twin Towers: September 11, 2001

Product Description: Albert Jack is a internationally bestselling author who has been successfully tackling some of the great World Mysteries for over twenty years. Using Occam's Razor he manages to shave away the theories, the improbable and the hysteria, hype and sensational to reveal only the known, probable facts...read more

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9781522879596 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Albert Jack is a internationally bestselling author who has been successfully tackling some of the great World Mysteries for over twenty years.

New World Order: The Bilderberg Conspiracy and the Last Man in London

Product Description: Historically, most Empires created by man have risen and fallen during a period of around 500 years. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, the Moors and the Ottomans all, in their turn, reigned supreme until apathy, arrogance and, laziness led to their downfall...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781519484451 | 2 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, November 23, 2015), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Historically, most Empires created by man have risen and fallen during a period of around 500 years.

Debt Freedom Program: The Ninety-minute Guide to Debt Survival

Product Description: The Debt Freedom Guide is an important book covering all of the information you need to rid yourself of worrying debt, either business or personal, in only an hour and a halfâs read. There are no long and boring legal sections just short, sharp impact information that will begin to lead you away from the misery of debt from the first few pages...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781514898406 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 9, 2015, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The Debt Freedom Guide is an important book covering all of the information you need to rid yourself of worrying debt, either business or personal, in only an hour and a halfâs read.

They Laughed at Galileo B Local

By Albert Jack

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9781472122742 | Gardners Books, May 27, 2015, cover price $15.20

They Laughed at Galileo: How the Great Inventors Proved Their Critics Wrong

By Albert Jack

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9781629147581 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, September 22, 2015, cover price $22.99

Thistle vs Rose: Scotland, England and 700 Years of Love, Hatred and Indifference

By Albert Jack and Susan Morrison

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9781473605015 | Sceptre, November 1, 2014, cover price $13.99

Last Man in London: And the New World Order

Product Description: Imagine a world with no countries, no religion and no democracy. Imagine the fall of the Great Western Empire. Historically, most Empires created by man have risen and fallen during a period of around 500 years. The Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, the Moors and the Ottomans all, in their turn, reigned supreme until apathy, arrogance and, laziness led to their downfall...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781494358433 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 16, 2013, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Imagine a world with no countries, no religion and no democracy.

The President's Brain Is Missing: And Other Urban Legends

Product Description: From stolen kidneys to phantom hitchhikers and the missing brain of JFK, we all love a good story (the more extreme the better), but sometimes they end suspiciously neatly, however much the teller swears they know the person it happened to...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781494490751 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 15, 2013, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: From stolen kidneys to phantom hitchhikers and the missing brain of JFK, we all love a good story (the more extreme the better), but sometimes they end suspiciously neatly, however much the teller swears they know the person it happened to.

Want to Be a Writer?: Then Do It Properly!

Product Description: Over the years I have often been asked by unpublished writers how they should go about finding a publisher. I am also often asked the question, âwhat should I write about.â And, whilst that is irritating; the chief reason being, âThatâs your job,â it is still a good question...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781484013526 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 3, 2013, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Over the years I have often been asked by unpublished writers how they should go about finding a publisher.

Money for Old Rope: The Big Book of Everything

Product Description: Money for Old Rope - Part 2 is the second âbest ofâ collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of. In fact, as one wise man suggested, it is the history of everything you didnât realise you wanted to know about, until you found out about it...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781490960104 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 10, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Money for Old Rope - Part 2 is the second âbest ofâ collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of.

9781484021842 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Money for Old Rope is essentially a âbest ofâ collection of best-selling books that reveal the origins and history of just about everything we can think of.

The Jam: Sounds from the Street

Product Description: âItâs great to finally have such an accurate record of what I was actually doing back then â Itâs pretty much exactly how I remember it.â Bruce Foxton The Jam emerged from the punk explosion of 1977, combining the energy of that movement and the musical values and styles of the previous generations mod icons...read more

By Albert Jack

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9781484007631 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: âItâs great to finally have such an accurate record of what I was actually doing back then â Itâs pretty much exactly how I remember it.

Phantom Hitchhikers and Other Urban Legends: The Strange Stories Behind Tall Tales

Product Description: Have you heard the one aboutâ¦â¢ Walt Disneyâs frozen body?â¢ Coca-Cola owning Santa Claus?â¢ Alligators living in New York City sewers?We all love a good story. But where do the urban legends, conspiracy theories, and old wivesâ tales we hear every day really originate? Albert Jack explores the best, strangest, and funniest of the tales so many of us take as gospel, and uncovers some eye-popping true stories that are even more far-fetched than their mythical counterparts...read more

By Albert Jack

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9780399161537 | 1 edition (J P Tarcher, February 5, 2013), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Have you heard the one aboutâ¦â¢ Walt Disneyâs frozen body?

It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words, from Anorak to Zombie

By Albert Jack and Ama Page (illustrator)

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9781847946690 | Random House Uk Ltd, November 1, 2011, cover price $24.95

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9780099562320 | Reprint edition (Arrow Books Ltd, July 1, 2012), cover price $16.95

What Caesar Did for My Salad: The Curious Stories Behind Our Favorite Foods

Product Description: Did you know... the term "hot dog" is believed to have been coined during a baseball game between the Yankees and the Giants in 1901? calzones get their name from their less-than-glamorous looks: calzone means "trouser leg" or "drooping sack" in Italian? the word "salary" comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? shrimp cocktail became popular in the 1920s as a safe way of "having a cocktail" during Prohibition? the Cobb salad was invented by Robert H...read more

By Albert Jack

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9780399536908 | Reprint edition (J P Tarcher, September 6, 2011), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Did you know.

Black Sheep and Lame Ducks: The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day