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  • Braver Men Walk Away

    by Peter Gurney ...
    First published in 1993 and now available as an ebook. The bestselling story of one man’s fight against terrorism.Extraordinary courage, steely professionalism and ruthless determination are vital for the bomb-disposal man who risks his life daily to save others. Peter Gurney MBE, GM & Bar is such a man. In this compelling account of a career on the front line of the fight against crime and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • National Service Life Stories

    Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain

    by Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley ...
    National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a process aided subsequently by professional historians who have been reluctant to assess its longer-term influence on British ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain

    by Peter Gurney ...
    CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD WINNER 2018It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians vie with each other to fashion their appeal to 'citizen-consumers'.When and how did these profound ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Wanting and having

    Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70

    by Peter Gurney ...
    Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more material things, masses of the population were wanting even the basic necessities of life during ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Self-Esteem in Children with Special Educational Needs

    by Peter W. Gurney ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
    First published in 1988. The mounting concern in schools over widespread failure in academic achievement, greater disaffection in children and the lack of confidence in many school leavers are highlighted by the difficulties experienced by children who have special educational needs. Within this group the importance of the child’s evaluation of him or herself – i.e. self-esteem – is a neglected ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

    by Luke Cascarini, Clare Schilling, Ben Gurney, Peter Brennan ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Now in its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery has been fully updated to reflect current guidelines, with new images and annotated x-rays to support the text. Split into sections based on clinical areas, vital knowledge is distilled into bullets and summary boxes for quick and easy reference. Covering all common complaints likely to arise in everyday duties ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism

    Edited by Peter Gurney ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Resources
    This second volume considers various socialist impulses and developments after the collapse of the Owenite movement in Britain. Interventions by some leading Christian Socialists will illuminate one important tendency; publications by O’Brien another less vital strand. Central to this volume, however, will be far less well-known pamphlets, book extracts and articles in the periodical press by ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Night Before Christmas

    by Clement Clarke Moore ...
    Narrated by Peter Linz ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    The magical, classic poem that no Christmas can be without! "Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…" When Clement Moore wrote a Christmas poem for his children about a magical visit from Saint Nicholas, he had no way of knowing that it would become the best-known and loved holiday poem of all time. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday

    by Megan McDonald ...
    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Judy Moody & Stink

    Unabridged

    53 min

    Judy Moody is making a list and checking it twice, but all her brother, Stink, wants this year is snow.It hasn't snowed on Christmas in Virginia in more than a hundred years, so what are the chances that that will change? Enter the new mailman, Mr. Jack Frost, who not only looks like a jolly old elf but also seems to know a lot about weather patterns, has a fondness for the cold, and works ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Kissing Christmas Goodbye

    An Agatha Raisin Mystery

    by M. C. Beaton ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...
    Series Audiobook 18 - The Agatha Raisin Mysteries

    Unabridged

    5 hours 48 min

    Unlike quite a number of people, Agatha has not given up on Christmas. To have the perfect Christmas had been a childhood dream while surviving a rough upbringing in a Birmingham slum. Holly berries glistened, snow fell gently outside, and inside, all was Dickensian jollity. And in her dreams, James Lacey kissed her under the mistletoe, and like a middle-aged sleeping beauty, she would awake to ... Read more

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    The Skin Map

    by Stephen Lawhead ...
    Narrated by Simon Bubb ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Bright Empires

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    It is the ultimate quest for the ultimate treasure. Chasing a map tattooed on human skin. Across an omniverse of intersecting realities. To unravel the future of the future.Kit Livingstone’s great-grandfather appears to him in a deserted alley during a tumultuous storm. He reveals an unbelievable story: that the ley lines throughout Britain are not merely the stuff of legend or the weekend hobby ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Junie B. Jones #25: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)

    by Barbara Park ...
    Narrated by Lana Quintal ...
    Series Audiobook 25 - Junie B. Jones

    Unabridged

    1 hour 15 min

    Meet the World's Funniest First Grader—Junie B. Jones!Ho, ho...uh-oh! With over 50 million books in print, Barbara Park's New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, is a classroom favorite and has been keeping kids laughing—and reading—for over 20 years! In the 25th Junie B. Jones book, it’s holiday time, and Room One is doing lots of fun things to celebrate. Like making elf ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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