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“gordon pearson”

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  • Remaking the Real Economy

    Escaping Destruction by Organised Money

    by Gordon Pearson ...
    Debunking the myths around the current economic belief systems, this book reveals how mainstream perspectives work for the benefit of the organised money establishment, while causing all manner of destructions, inequalities and frauds, all conspiring against the common good.Focused on the realities of organisational systems, Pearson offers a practical alternative to economic dogma.Written from a ... Read more

    Was $47.29 CAD Now $41.59 CAD

  • The Road to Co-operation

    Escaping the Bottom Line

    by Gordon Pearson ...
    This critical and informed protest against the absurdity and dishonesty of neoclassical economic theory as it has progressed through the 20th century down to the present, sheds new light on the predicament faced in 2012. In The Road to Co-operation, Pearson highlights the dangers of using unrealistic mathematical models of human, organisational and market behaviour to guide policy prescriptions. ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Management

    A Brief History of Practice, Theory and Context

    by Gordon Pearson ...
    Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has. Gordon Pearson, who has spent equal parts of his long career as a practising manager and a management educator, clarifies through rigorous historical review the difficult issues around management with which we ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Skull & Crossbones: 70 Pirate Adventures

    Seventy Classic Tales of Buccaneers, Mutiny, Treasure, Shipwreck, and High-Seas Adventure

    by Rafael Sabatini, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Le Gallienne, Daniel Defoe, Harry Collingwood, Walter Scott, B. Barker, Gilbert Parker, Joseph Conrad, Angus B. Reach, Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. M. Ballantyne, Bret Harte, Jack London, Frederick Marryat, Jeffery Farnol, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, William Hope Hodgson, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Alexandre Dumas, Harold MacGrath, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, W. H. G. Kingston, John C. Hutcheson, Bracebridge Hemyng, Richard Clynton, Edmund Lester Pearson, Frank R. Stockton, Gordon Daviot, Mayne Reid, Francis Lynde, T. Jenkins Hains, Louis Becke, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Emerson Hough, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Carter, Mór Jókai, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Maturin M. Ballou ...
    Skull & Crossbones: 70 Pirate Adventures surveys the enduring romance and terror of piracy across nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century popular fiction. Its sea chases, mutinies, treasure quests, island mysteries, and encounters with privateers range from historical romance and boys' adventure to detective-inflected suspense, imperial yarns, and imaginative fantasy. The volume places ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • 70 Pirate Novels

    A Sweeping Anthology of Sea Adventures, Treasure Hunts, Shipwrecks, Swashbuckling Romances, and Maritime Mysteries

    by Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Le Gallienne, Daniel Defoe, Harry Collingwood, Walter Scott, B. Barker, Gilbert Parker, Joseph Conrad, Angus B. Reach, Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. M. Ballantyne, Bret Harte, Jack London, Frederick Marryat, Jeffery Farnol, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, James Fenimore Cooper, Howard Pyle, William Hope Hodgson, William Henry Giles Kingston, G. A. Henty, Alexandre Dumas, Harold MacGrath, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, W. H. G. Kingston, John C. Hutcheson, Bracebridge Hemyng, Richard Clynton, Edmund Lester Pearson, Frank R. Stockton, Gordon Daviot, Mayne Reid, Francis Lynde, T. Jenkins Hains, Louis Becke, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Emerson Hough, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Carter, Mór Jókai, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Maturin M. Ballou ...
    70 Pirate Novels surveys the durable imaginative power of piracy across nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Ranging from maritime romance, imperial adventure, historical melodrama, detective-inflected mystery, and juvenile tale to fantasy and proto-science fiction, the volume charts the sea as a space of danger, freedom, commerce, and contested law. Shipwrecks, mutinies, ... Read more

    Was $4.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

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    The Farther Corner

    A Sentimental Return to North-East Football

    by Harry Pearson ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020'One of the funniest books I've read' Arthur Mathews, co-writer of Father TedWidely regarded as one of the best football books ever written, The Far Corner was a vivid portrait of the sport in the north-east and of the people who bring such passion to it. Now, a generation later, Harry Pearson returns to the region to discover how ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Slipless In Settle

    A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket

    by Harry Pearson ...
    Narrated by David Fleeshman ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    Slipless in Settle is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the clichéd lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This is hardcore cricket played in former pit villages and mill towns. Winner of the 2011 MCC Cricket Book of the Year, it is about the little clubs that have, down the years, produced some of the greatest ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    On the Road

    Adventures from Nixon to Trump

    by James Naughtie ...
    Narrated by James Naughtie ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.James Naughtie, the acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster, now brings his unique and inquisitive eye to the country that has fascinated him and drawn him across the Atlantic for half a century. In looking at America, from Presidents Nixon through to Biden, he tells the story of a ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    My Life in Football

    The bestselling autobiography of an English football legend

    by Kevin Keegan ...
    Narrated by Ric Jerrom ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    The extraordinary story of football legend, Kevin Keegan – the phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller‘The Pied Piper of Tyneside’ – Alan ShearerMy Life in Football is the unforgettable autobiography of one of the greatest players in English football history. It spans from Keegan’s humble beginnings at the Peglers Brass Works reserve team in Doncaster to helping Liverpool become the kings of Europe, ... Read more

    $23.96 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Conquistadors

    by Michael Wood ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 41 min

    Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern├ín Cort├®s, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of ... Read more

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    The Louder I Will Sing

    A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

    by Lee Lawrence ...
    Narrated by Lee Lawrence, Ben Bailey Smith, Candice Brathwaite ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020This audiobook includes an exclusive interview with Candice Brathwaite and Lee Lawrence'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight for justice are both inspiring and enraging. That it has taken this long for the story of the shooting of Cherry Groce to become properly ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Last Boy of ’66

    My story of England’s World Cup winning team

    by Sir Geoff Hurst ...
    Narrated by Sir Geoff Hurst, Rupert Farley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.FOUR FOR ENGLAND. THREE FOR HURST.'Images of us celebrating have taken their place in the nation’s photo album. Trophy aloft, smiling into our future.Banksy, George, Jack, Mooro, Ray, Nobby, Bally, Bobby, Martin, Roger. My ten teammates. My old friends. They’ve now all gone. Heroes from an era that is slipping into sepia.'**But it isn't all over. Not yet. One of them is ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook