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Port Towns and Urban Cultures: International Histories of the Waterfront C.1700-2000

Product Description: Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges...read more

By Robert James (editor)

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9781137483157 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 19, 2016, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks.

The Parrots Song at Twilight: A Memoir of a Soul Divided: Richard Tancreous 1976 - 2011

Product Description: Poetry, it has been said, is little more than the musings of the soul, a trickle of sub-consciousness, a vision of an inner existence as seen through a glass darkly or with cut crystal clarity. If so, then this book presumes to be but a soulâs memoir, an unconscious biography, a re-vision of things past, filled with dim lucidity and blinding...read more

By Robert James

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9781505629415 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 26, 2015, cover price $10.66 | About this edition: Poetry, it has been said, is little more than the musings of the soul, a trickle of sub-consciousness, a vision of an inner existence as seen through a glass darkly or with cut crystal clarity.

The Company of Chaos 1.1

Product Description: D&D might be a game of heroes, but for us itâs a game of dysfunction. Itâs a place where we deceive our friends, backstab our allies and sacrifice the good of the company for the benefit of ourselves. And we wouldnât have it any other way...read more

By Robert James

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9781502905642 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 19, 2014, cover price $5.38 | About this edition: D&D might be a game of heroes, but for us itâs a game of dysfunction.

Next!: The Search for My Last First Date

Product Description: â. . .readers will be sure to identify with the many awkward, hilarious, and just plain weird tales of twenty first century dating collected here in Next!â Red City Reviews âFinally, a book on dating from a man's perspective, as warped as that may be...read more

By Robert James

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9781499022049 | Xlibris Corp, May 28, 2014, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: â.

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9781499022056 | Xlibris Corp, May 28, 2014, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: “.

Product Description: This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working classes, Robert James’ landmark study combines rigorous historical analysis with a close textual reading of visual and written sources to appraise the role of popular leisure in this fascinating decade...read more

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9780719080258 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 15, 2010, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain.

Product Description: This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working classes, Robert James' landmark study combines rigorous historical analysis with a close textual reading of visual and written sources to appraise the role of popular leisure in this fascinating decade...read more

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9780719095528, titled "Popular Culture and Working-class Taste in Britain, 1930â39: A Round of Cheap Diversions?" | Manchester Univ Pr, April 24, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain.

The Public Eye: Ideology and the Police Procedural

Product Description: The Public Eye: Ideology and the Police Procedural explores the complex role which this subgenre plays in mass culture. The police procedural often creates an illusion of social harmony by reshaping the potentially destructive impulses of individualism into successful participation in a corporate structure, the police squad...read more

By Robert James

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9781349222933 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Public Eye: Ideology and the Police Procedural explores the complex role which this subgenre plays in mass culture.

Speaking Dogese: A Non-dog Person's Guide for Living With Dogs

Product Description: If you are perusing this, you are either a non-dog person under pressure to own a dog, a dog person pressuring a non-dog person to own a dog, an unbridled dog lover who reads all things dogs or someone who is desperately killing time...read more

By Robert James

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9781494986810 | 1 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, January 11, 2014), cover price $5.45 | About this edition: If you are perusing this, you are either a non-dog person under pressure to own a dog, a dog person pressuring a non-dog person to own a dog, an unbridled dog lover who reads all things dogs or someone who is desperately killing time.

Friday 4 Pm: The Metrics and Viability of Sales Calling Late on a Friday Afternoon

By Robert James

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9781494458522 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 11, 2013, cover price $9.95

I Weren't Always a Pitcher

Product Description: You donât have to know a lot about baseball to love this book! Filled with humor and heartwarming nostalgia for a time when the local sandlot was the stage where dreams were born and built, I Werenât Always a Pitcher becomes a metaphor for any dream of success anyone has ever had...read more

By Robert James

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9781492275848 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 28, 2013, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: You donât have to know a lot about baseball to love this book!

My Poems

Product Description: Book by Bandito, Robert A.

By Robert James

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9781469194738 | Xlibris Corp, May 21, 2012, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Book by Bandito, Robert A.

Charade

Product Description: Replacing the âwar heroâ Captain RJ, the Will Traveller tries to stay alive, while peeling back the onion-skin-like conspiracies surrounding his boss Georgio and the life and death game that he and his compatriots are playing...read more

By Robert James

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9781461190714 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 21, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Replacing the âwar heroâ Captain RJ, the Will Traveller tries to stay alive, while peeling back the onion-skin-like conspiracies surrounding his boss Georgio and the life and death game that he and his compatriots are playing.

Divine Deception

By Robert James

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9781463537173 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 10, 2011, cover price $20.00

The Room With Views

Product Description: In a world where everyone is being watched by someone almost all the time, the Will Traveller replaces supervising technician Rob Redone, one of those in charge of all this watching. Though apparently ordered and quite prosperous, it doesnât take the Will Traveller long to find the rot in this squeaky clean society...read more

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9781463537210 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 10, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In a world where everyone is being watched by someone almost all the time, the Will Traveller replaces supervising technician Rob Redone, one of those in charge of all this watching.

My Dog!: A Kids' Guide to Keeping a Happy and Healthy Pet

By John Gordon (contributor), Robert James (illustrator), Michael J. Rosen and Will Shively (photographer)

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9780761158417 | Spiral-bound edition (Workman Pub Co, October 5, 2011), cover price $13.95

Clan Birth

Product Description: The arrival of the Will Traveller, as the long foretold Essene Robert De La Rouge, in a very ancient highland society, acts as the key to unlocking endless intrigues among those that rule each Clan. Right from the very first peace conference, the drums of war begin to sound even louder, as lust, greed and jealousy combine to threaten the very existence of their peoples...read more

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9781461190660 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 7, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The arrival of the Will Traveller, as the long foretold Essene Robert De La Rouge, in a very ancient highland society, acts as the key to unlocking endless intrigues among those that rule each Clan.

Paradise Reclaimed

Product Description: The Will Traveller, in the guise of the God Trebor, returns to a Pacific Island nation called Setavirp, in order to fulfil the thousand year old prophesies of the Trebortian Charters. Despite delightful distractions, Trebor's mission is to protect this environmentally wise, but defenceless Nation from violent invasion by the technology-based and resource-hungry Orgga...read more

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9781461190622 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 16, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Will Traveller, in the guise of the God Trebor, returns to a Pacific Island nation called Setavirp, in order to fulfil the thousand year old prophesies of the Trebortian Charters.

Return to Nightmare O

Product Description: In this first book of the epic Will Traveller Chronicals, the Will Traveller âdrops inâ on the State of Georgetown as the long foretold of âLion Manâ, where author George Orwellâs book âBig Brother 1984â is believed to be a Bible! With their lethal, though futile, attempts to eradicate what they see as a threat to their absolute power, the Directors force the Lion Man and his tiny band of newly converted freedom fighters to attack the Stateâs main citadel of power, Orwell Towers...read more

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9781460917336 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 26, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In this first book of the epic Will Traveller Chronicals, the Will Traveller âdrops inâ on the State of Georgetown as the long foretold of âLion Manâ, where author George Orwellâs book âBig Brother 1984â is believed to be a Bible!

South East Sometime: A Novel

Product Description: A Panoramic Novel About A Very Possible Future Set a hundred years after civilization as we know it has been obliterated, this is the story of two powerful and farsighted men, who each created their own brand of post apocalyptic dynasties...read more

By Robert James

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9781456536930 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 28, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A Panoramic Novel About A Very Possible Future Set a hundred years after civilization as we know it has been obliterated, this is the story of two powerful and farsighted men, who each created their own brand of post apocalyptic dynasties.

Papertoy Monsters: 50 Cool Papertoys You Can Make Yourself!

Product Description: A breakthrough paper-folding book for kids―paper airplanes meet Origami meets Pokemon. Papertoys, the Internet phenomenon that’s hot among graphic designers and illustrators around the world, now comes to kids in the coolest new book...read more

By Brian Castleforte, Robert James (illustrator), Netta Rabin (contributor) and Workman Publishing (corporate author)

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9780761158820 | Csm edition (Workman Pub Co, December 29, 2010), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A breakthrough paper-folding book for kids―paper airplanes meet Origami meets Pokemon.

Penelope

Product Description: Penelope¿s story starts in Ireland, moves to mainland Greece and then on to Cyprus, Egypt and England. She was the youngest of the three daughters born to an Irish father and a Greek mother; both of whom had died by the time she was ten...read more

By Robert James

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9780755202775 | Authors Online Ltd, April 30, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Penelope¿s story starts in Ireland, moves to mainland Greece and then on to Cyprus, Egypt and England.

Tales from a Briefcase

Product Description: The sequel to 'Tales from a Kitbag', which recounted stories from the author's time as a regular soldier serving in the Korean War and Malayan Emergency. 'Tales from a Briefcase' follows Robert James' adventures after leaving the army, starting as a junior supervisor working in a factory in Hammersmith in the mid-fifties, adjusting to civilian life in a London itself awaking to a new phase in the post-war era...read more

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9780976844761 | Swanstone Wynot, December 30, 2005, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The sequel to 'Tales from a Kitbag', which recounted stories from the author's time as a regular soldier serving in the Korean War and Malayan Emergency.

Barbie Fairytopia: Stencil Book

By Robert James

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9781741502626 | Gardners Books, August 1, 2005, cover price $12.55

Tales From A Kitbag

Product Description: During the fifties, the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency committed thousand of young men, regular soldiers and conscripts, to fight communist armies far from home. They faced their task with stoicism and bravery, eventually accomplishing their mission - stemming the tide of communism in the Far East...read more

By Robert James

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9781904181439 | Writersworld Ltd, November 30, 2004, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: During the fifties, the Korean War and the Malayan Emergency committed thousand of young men, regular soldiers and conscripts, to fight communist armies far from home.

For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women, in a remarkable, long-lost first novel by the late master of speculative fiction. Reprint.

By Robert A. Heinlein, Robert James and Spider Robinson

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9780743259989 | Scribner, December 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: After crashing his car in 1939, Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes.

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9780743491549 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, November 30, 2004), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: After crashing his car in 1939, Naval Airman Perry Nelson awakens to find the radically different world of 2086, one marked by a United Europe, the destruction of Manhattan island by two helicopters in 2003, and other changes in the economy, legal system, and the relationships between men and women, in a remarkable, long-lost first novel by the late master of speculative fiction.

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