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Brother David: A Long Journey Home

By John Pearson

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9781518677144 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 5, 2015, cover price $6.75

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By John Pearson

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9780008150280 | Mti edition (Harperpress, August 13, 2015), cover price $14.99

Biggles: The Authorized Biography

Product Description: For over fifty years James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C., has flown the skies. The mythical ace to end all flying aces, the fearless pilot of everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world...read more

By John Pearson

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9781448208005 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 20, 2013, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: For over fifty years James Biggles Worth, D.

The Diary Fragments, Mind Bending Adventures and Mysterious Disappearance of Honest John

By John Pearson

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9781484081334 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 11, 2013, cover price $10.00

Bodies, Brains, People and Machines

Product Description: This outline introduction for general readers explores human brain development and function as it controls virtually all bodily activities while providing us with consciousness, memory, thought, emotions and pleasures. Our brains provide us with some degree of choice as we develop values and morality...read more

By John Pearson

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9781483993942 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 11, 2013, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This outline introduction for general readers explores human brain development and function as it controls virtually all bodily activities while providing us with consciousness, memory, thought, emotions and pleasures.

Arena: The Story of the Colosseum

Product Description: In the Year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction...read more

By John Pearson

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9781448207992 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 23, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In the Year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history.

The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

Product Description: He was a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness...read more

By John Pearson

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9780671631536 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1991, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A portrait of Winston Churchill describes his ruthlessness and genius, his quest for power, his depression, and the burden of being a Churchill

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9781448208074 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 23, 2013, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: He was a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts.

9780671792169 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A portrait of Winston Churchill describes his ruthlessness and genius, his quest for power, and the burden of being a Churchill

Golf

Product Description: This title reveals the history of golf, from its invention in Scotland and patronage by Stuart monarchs, through its rising popularity in Victorian and Edwardian England, to the development of famous golf clubs, open championships and international competitions, with the battle between British and Americans for golfing supremacy in the twentieth century...read more

By John Pearson

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9780747812296 | Shire Pubns, April 23, 2013, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This title reveals the history of golf, from its invention in Scotland and patronage by Stuart monarchs, through its rising popularity in Victorian and Edwardian England, to the development of famous golf clubs, open championships and international competitions, with the battle between British and Americans for golfing supremacy in the twentieth century.

Edward the Rake

Product Description: Growing up in the supreme moral rigour of Queen Victoria's court, young Bertie was always going to find it hard to live up to his parents' expectation. He was far from a brilliant student, and though charming, his carnal inclinations were widely rumoured to have sped up his Father's decline, with Prince Albert dying a mere two weeks after Bertie spent three nights with an actress who had been smuggled into his military camp...read more

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9781448208036 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 25, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Growing up in the supreme moral rigour of Queen Victoria's court, young Bertie was always going to find it hard to live up to his parents' expectation.

The Life of Ian Fleming

By John Pearson

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9781448208067 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 25, 2013, cover price $20.99

The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor

Product Description: In recent times the British monarchy has become an 'ultimate family' of international superstars, their adventures and personalities transmitted round the globe like episodes in the world's most popular soap opera.The process began with Queen Mary's transformation of the family into symbols of middle-class morality, but accelerated greatly with the televising of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation and the euphoric sense of a 'new Elizabethan age' about to begin in gloomy post-war Britain...read more

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9781448208081 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 25, 2013, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In recent times the British monarchy has become an 'ultimate family' of international superstars, their adventures and personalities transmitted round the globe like episodes in the world's most popular soap opera.

Barriers Within

By John Pearson

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9781441581679 | Xlibris Corp, March 23, 2013, cover price $15.99

Standard Work: An Anachronism?

Product Description: This book investigates whether one of the basic norms underlying contemporary labor law in the EU - standard work has been subject to drastic changes. Standard work, usually defined as full time permanent employment with a single employer, has traditionally been the most common form of work structure, and various legal obligations and protections are strongly associated with it...read more

By Jan Buelens (editor), Raluca Dimitriu, John Pearson (editor) and Ferran Camas Roda

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9781780681320 | Intersentia Uitgevers N V, February 19, 2013, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: This book investigates whether one of the basic norms underlying contemporary labor law in the EU - standard work has been subject to drastic changes.

Notorious

Product Description: The Krays: gangsters, extortionists, murderers, celebrities. John Pearson's "The Profession of Violence", the groundbreaking and bestselling official biography of the Kray twins, was penned more than forty years ago and sparked off in the author and the country at large an obsession with the notorious pair...read more

By John Pearson

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9781846051524 | Gardners Books, September 2, 2010, cover price $18.85 | About this edition: The Krays: gangsters, extortionists, murderers, celebrities.

Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa

By John Pearson

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9781587298240 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $29.95

A Catechetical Analysis of the Creed: Founded on the Exposition of Bishop Pearson

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By John Pearson

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9781120218650 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 15, 2009, cover price $36.95

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9781120110862 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 15, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The Church and the Ministry: Containing Three Theological Determinations

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By John Pearson

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9780559611773 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9780559611742 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

Information Security Objectives and Practices: An Exploratory Study

Product Description: Information security is a management problem, not a technology one. Experience indicates that technology cannot provide all the answers to the problems posed by people in the context of information security management (ISM). Although many different frameworks and guidelines have been proposed by researchers, practitioners, consultants, government and organizations, current information security objectives and practices are inconsistent or misleading to practitioners...read more

By John Pearson

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9783639040937 | Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K, September 30, 2008, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Information security is a management problem, not a technology one.

Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Nonprofit

Product Description: In the most practical, humorous and fast-moving chapters youâve ever read on business and non-profit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission...read more

By John Pearson

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9780830745944 | Baker Pub Group, April 30, 2008, cover price $19.99

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9780830767366 | Baker Pub Group, May 1, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In the most practical, humorous and fast-moving chapters youâve ever read on business and non-profit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission.

James Bond: The Authorised Biography

Talking about James Bond, this biography deals with amazing adventures, situations and incidents only hinted at in Ian Fleming's books. It presents the story of Bond's life, the Bonds of Glencoe; the night he lost his wallet and his virginity in Paris - and found his first love; his first assignment - to save the bank at Monte Carlo; and more.

By John Pearson

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9781846051142 | Gardners Books, October 4, 2007, cover price $34.25 | About this edition: Talking about James Bond, this biography deals with amazing adventures, situations and incidents only hinted at in Ian Fleming's books.

Learn Me Good

Product Description: Jack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job. Now, as a teacher, he faces new challenges. Conference calls have been replaced with parent conferences. Product testing has given way to standardized testing...read more

By John Pearson

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9781411665897 | Lulu.Com, June 30, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Jack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job.

Train Doors Slamming

Product Description: A story based on true characters set in the Second World War. This book is dedicated to the members of the Bomber command and their victims, who died in this war

By John Pearson

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9781904181460 | Writersworld Ltd, February 28, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A story based on true characters set in the Second World War.

The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays

In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years. Pearson revisits the twins criminal past and lays bare the truth behind the legend. Drawing upon a mass of interviews and private information, he recounts the untold story of the Twins.

By John Pearson

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9780752847948 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, June 20, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography.

Bluebird and the Dead Lake: The Classic Account of How Donald Campbell Broke the World Land Speed Record

Product Description: In 1964, in Australia's remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, Donald Campbell set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history. Things went wrong from the start: unseasonal rains, a sodden lake bed in which every high-speed run slewed dangerously, money running short...read more

By John Pearson

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9781781311721 | Reprint edition (Aurum Pr Ltd, October 1, 2013), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1964, in Australia's remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, Donald Campbell set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history.

9781854108364 | Aurum Pr Ltd, May 1, 2002, cover price $17.99

The Guide to Iowa's State Preserves

By Ruth Herzberg, Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources (corporate author) and John Pearson

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9780877457749 | Univ of Iowa Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.00

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