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Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx

A memoir of Irish Catholic culture that was both safe and claustrophobic describes adolescent escapades and grim parochial school discipline

By Michael Pearson

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9780815605614 | Syracuse Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A memoir of Irish Catholic culture that was both safe and claustrophobic describes adolescent escapades and grim parochial school discipline

Paperback:

9780815606369 | Reprint edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, March 15, 2016), cover price $16.95

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World

Product Description: Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Â Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean...read more

By Michael Pearson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781137564887 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 14, 2015, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean.

Port Towns of Gujarat

By Michael Pearson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9789384082161 | Primus Books, July 10, 2015, cover price $69.95

Michael Pearson's Traditional Knitting: Aran, Fair Isle & Fisher Ganseys

Product Description: "I think I was lucky in the timing — I learned to knit just when your book first came out. The other books on the subject seemed to be aimed at people who already knit. . . . and [it] is the only one I read for pleasure, not just for patterns...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9780486460536 | New exp edition (Dover Pubns, March 18, 2015), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "I think I was lucky in the timing — I learned to knit just when your book first came out.

Reading Life: On Books, Memory, and Travel

Product Description: A unique blend of memoir, literary appreciation, and travel narrative, Reading Life is a series of interrelated essays tracking the relationship between books and experience, dramatizing and reflecting on how stories lead us into the world, and how we transform that engagement with the world back into personal narrative...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9780881465211 | Mercer Univ Pr, March 16, 2015, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A unique blend of memoir, literary appreciation, and travel narrative, Reading Life is a series of interrelated essays tracking the relationship between books and experience, dramatizing and reflecting on how stories lead us into the world, and how we transform that engagement with the world back into personal narrative.

The Little Book of the Black Country

Product Description: The Little Book of the Black Country is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the regionâs most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, quirky history, famous sons and daughters, and literally hundreds of wacky facts...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9780752487830 | Trafalgar Square, December 1, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Little Book of the Black Country is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no one will want to be without.

Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

Product Description: The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads through it. And yet, despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy and the importance of the region in so many life stories, no previous book has provided a guide to the Black Country's history and to the documents and records that family historians can use in their research...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9781844159130 | Pen & Sword, August 30, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians.

The Ohio & Malta: The Legendary Tanker That Refused to Die

Product Description: During the dark days of World War 2, Malta became the lynchpin of the Allied campaign in the Mediterranean and North African theaters and a vital base from which to attack Axis convoys supplying Rommel's Panzer Armee in Libya. Malta was, however, extremely difficult to keep supplied, (particularly with oil), and by the summer of 1942 the Island was close to surrender; the Pedestal convoy of August that year was literally the last chance...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9781848845213 | Reprint edition (Pen & Sword, July 19, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: During the dark days of World War 2, Malta became the lynchpin of the Allied campaign in the Mediterranean and North African theaters and a vital base from which to attack Axis convoys supplying Rommel's Panzer Armee in Libya.

Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures and Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview 1788Â1967

Product Description: Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australiaâs pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia "ride on the sheepâs back" is no longer what defines Australians, yet it is largely their history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in their self-image as Australians...read more

By Jane Lennon and Michael Pearson

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9780643096998, titled "Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures and Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview 1788â1967" | Csiro, August 31, 2010, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australiaâs pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society.

End Game Burma: Slim's Master Stroke, Meiktila 1945

By Michael Pearson

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9781848841147 | Pen & Sword, July 19, 2010, cover price $39.95

Journeys into Staffordshire

Product Description: By bus, bicycle and boat, by road, rail and long distance footpath (Staffordshire Way), Michael Pearson explores the sometimes underestimated County of Staffordshire in such a way as to entertain and inform in equal measure. He leaves few stones unturned, inspiring affection and lighting fuses of enthusiasm which will have you itching to follow in the author's footsteps...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9780956277718 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2009, cover price $23.15 | About this edition: By bus, bicycle and boat, by road, rail and long distance footpath (Staffordshire Way), Michael Pearson explores the sometimes underestimated County of Staffordshire in such a way as to entertain and inform in equal measure.

Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas: Seventh-Day Adventism and Contemporary Ethics

Product Description: Technological developments on many fronts have created in our society some extremely difficult moral predicaments. Previous generations have not had to face the dilemmas posed by, for example, the availability of safe abortions, sperm banks and prostoglandins...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9780521365093 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $83.99 | About this edition: Technological developments on many fronts have created in our society some extremely difficult moral predicaments.

Paperback:

9780521091480 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 4, 2008), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Technological developments on many fronts have created in our society some extremely difficult moral predicaments.

Innocents Abroad Too: Journeys Around the World on Semester at Sea

Product Description: Most people don't get the opportunity to circumnavigate the globe. Michael Pearson has had the good fortune to do it twice. As a two-term professor in the Semester at Sea Program, Pearson journeyed by ship in 2002 and 2006 to such countries as Japan, China, Vietnam, India, Myanmar, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, and Cuba...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9780815609094 | Syracuse Univ Pr, October 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Most people don't get the opportunity to circumnavigate the globe.

The Indian Ocean

By Michael Pearson

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9780415445382 | 1 edition (Routledge, November 1, 2007), cover price $45.95

Red Sky in the Morning: The Battle of the Barants Sea 1942

Product Description: The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britainâs Russian allies. Convoy JW51B sailed in December 1942 with a small close escort of five destroyers, plus a reserve of two light cruisers, which shadowed the main convoy at a distance of seventy miles...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9781844154524 | Pen & Sword, April 19, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Arctic convoys that sailed through the cold malevolent waters of the Barents Sea ran the gauntlet of German air and sea attacks as they struggled to transport vital supplies to Britainâs Russian allies.

The Burma Air Campaign: December 1941-August 1945

Product Description: The scene is set with an overview of the respective states of the RAF and Japanese Air Force, and an explanation of how the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers) came to be in China.There is a concise description of air ops covering the Japanese invasion of Indo China, Malaya and Singapore, together with a close study of the sinking of the Prince of Wales and Repulse, which altered the air/sea power equation...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9781844153985 | Pen & Sword, April 15, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The scene is set with an overview of the respective states of the RAF and Japanese Air Force, and an explanation of how the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers) came to be in China.

Iron Road to Burns Country: A Travellers And Tourists Guide

A guide to the scenic railways and surrounding areas of South West Scotland, covering the lines from Carlisle-Dumfries-Kilmarnock-Glasgow-Paisley to Ayr, Stranraer and Largs. It also includes photographs, detailed maps, window-gazing commentary, and a gazetteer, giving local facilities, places of interest, and more.

By Michael Pearson

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9780954911645 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A guide to the scenic railways and surrounding areas of South West Scotland, covering the lines from Carlisle-Dumfries-Kilmarnock-Glasgow-Paisley to Ayr, Stranraer and Largs.

Iron Roads to the Broads & Fens: A Travellers & Tourists Guide to the Areas Covered by the Railways of the Norfolk Broads and Fens

Travellers and tourists guide to the areas, towns and cities covered by the scenic railway lines of the Norfolk Broads and Fens.

By Michael Pearson

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9780954538378 | Revised edition (Gardners Books, November 27, 2004), cover price $8.35 | About this edition: Travellers and tourists guide to the areas, towns and cities covered by the scenic railway lines of the Norfolk Broads and Fens.

Great Scenic Railways of Devon & Cornwall: An Iron Roads Guide for Travellers & Tourists

A guide to the scenic branch lines of Devon & Cornwall and their surrounding areas, with gazetteer and maps, colour photographs and entertaining text.

By Michael Pearson

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9780954538361 | Revised edition (Cordee, July 30, 2004), cover price $8.45 | About this edition: A guide to the scenic branch lines of Devon & Cornwall and their surrounding areas, with gazetteer and maps, colour photographs and entertaining text.

The Ohio and Malta: The Ohio and Malta

Product Description: By the summer of 1942 Malta was close to surrender due to the lack of supplies; the Pedestal convoy of August that year was literally the last chance. On entering the Mediterranean the convoy was subjected to prolonged ferocious air and submarine attacks and suffered terrific losses both in warship escorts and merchantmen...read more

By Michael Pearson

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9781844150311 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: By the summer of 1942 Malta was close to surrender due to the lack of supplies; the Pedestal convoy of August that year was literally the last chance.

Shohola Falls: A Novel

Orphaned after the disappearance of his father, teen Tommy Blanks struggles to make it on his own in the Bronx, experiences troubles with the law and a boy's home, and eventually finds a home with a Korean War veteran who helps him to discover a personal link to Mark Twain. (General Fiction)

By Michael Pearson

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9780815607854 | Syracuse Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Orphaned after the disappearance of his father, teen Tommy Blanks struggles to make it on his own in the Bronx, experiences troubles with the law and a boy's home, and eventually finds a home with a Korean War veteran who helps him to discover a personallink to Mark Twain.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Critical Debates

Product Description: This book brings a new approach to the subject of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, highlighting the current areas of controversy and debate. It addresses many of the key issues surrounding the diseases, its causes, clinical assessment and management...read more

By Michael Pearson (editor), Jadwiga Anna Wedzicha (editor) and Wisia Wedzicha (editor)

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9780632059720 | Blackwell Pub, July 16, 2003, cover price $212.95 | About this edition: This book brings a new approach to the subject of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, highlighting the current areas of controversy and debate.

Redsky Morning

By Michael Pearson

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9781840373394, titled "Redsky Morning: The Battle of the Barents Sea, 31 December 1942" | Crowood Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $24.95

Lenin's Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand

The author of The Sealed Train chronicles the life of political revolutionary Inessa Armand, who, in addition to being Lenin's mistress, worked as a tactician and organizer of the Bolshevik party, identifying her role during World War I and in the shaping of Russian history. 30,000 first printing.

By Michael Pearson

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9780375505898 | 1st edition (Random House Inc, March 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of political revolutionary Inessa Armand, who, in addition to being Lenin's mistress, worked as an organizer of the Bolshevik party, and identifies her role during World War I and in the shaping of Russian history.

Railway Holiday in Scotland: A Sequence of Journeys by Train, Stopping Off at Places of Interest and Bumping into People of Character

Eleven journeys through Scotland by train encountering people and places and Scots pies. An entertaining read for trainspotters and non-trainspotters alike.

By Michael Pearson

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9780907864905 | Gardners Books, October 26, 2001, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Eleven journeys through Scotland by train encountering people and places and Scots pies.

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