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  • Taiwan Archaeology

    Local Development and Cultural Boundaries in the China Seas

    by Richard Pearson ...
    In Taiwan Archaeology: Local Development and Cultural Boundaries in the China Seas, Richard Pearson describes the archaeology of the island, outlining the major discoveries of the past fifty years. These date from roughly 200,000 years ago to the pivotal seventeenth century AD, the time of Dutch and Spanish contact and the entry of Taiwan into global trade markets. The book focuses on some forty ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Driven to Extinction

    The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity

    by Richard Pearson, American Museum of Natural History ...
    Could more than a million species disappear in the 21st century?Written by a leading scientist in the field, Driven to Extinction draws upon fascinating case studies from around the world, providing balanced and well-reasoned insight into the potential impacts of climate change on the diversity of life. Richard Pearson focuses on the science of the issue, revealing what has happened––as well as ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Boys of Shakespeare's School in the Second World War

    by Richard Pearson ...
    "The story of the King Edward VI grammar school in Stratford-upon-Avon and its sacrifice in the Second World War . . . a heavy price for just one school." — War History OnlineLike the Great War generation before them, the Old Boys of King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, (known as Shakespeare's School) answered the Nations call to arms in 1939. Over the next six years, no less than fifty-two ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boys of Shakespeare's School in the First World War

    by Richard Pearson ...
    Like many young men of the time, the boys of King Edward VI School saw the outbreak of the First World War as an opportunity for bravery and excitement. By the time the Armistice was signed in late 1918, thirty-one old boys and one Master had been killed. For such a small grammar school the cost was significant, as too were the number of awards for gallantry, including a Victoria Cross. Set ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • W.M.Thackery and the Mediated Text

    Writing for Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

    by Richard Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Thackeray's "minor writings" remain caught in a debate about what constitutes "literature" and whether magazine writing and journalism might be construed as such. This debate was present during the inception of the mass periodical press in the 1830s when Thackeray began his career and forms part of the context of, reasoning within, and techniques of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Audiobook

    L.P Hartley: The Go- Between, & More

    Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations & Readings

    by L. P. Hartley ...
    Narrated by Richard Pearson, Sian Phillips, Martin Jarvis, Denys Blakelock, Robert Lang, Full Cast, Robert Glenister, Eleanor Bron, Clive Swift, Lockwood West ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    Four of L. P. Hartley's finest novels adapted for BBC radio, plus bonus short storiesAn acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic, Leslie Poles Hartley is best known for his 1953 novel The Go-Between, which won the W. H. Heinemann Award and was adapted as a BAFTA-winning film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates. Included here is a radio dramatisation of that classic tale, alongside ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • The Bluebird and the Dead Lake

    The Classic Account of how Donald Campbell broke the World Land Speed Record

    by John Pearson, Richard Williams ...
    Series series Sports Classics
    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...even an Aboriginal curse. WIth death shimmering on the horizon before ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography

    Edited by Stuart Pearson, Jane L. Holloway, Richard Thackway ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Drawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia. Here, ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

    Volume VI - The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray by Lewis Melville

    Edited by Richard Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
    First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This sixth volume contains the work of Lewis Melville, one of the most productive biographers and critics of Thackeray at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Pearson’s helpful introduction not only provides additional information on the biographer himself, but also ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

  • The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

    Volume III - Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

    Edited by Richard Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
    First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope’s volume on Thackeray from John Morley’s series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray’s move to perceived respectability, placing him as part of the literary establishment, alongside writers such as ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

    Volume I - Early Fiction and Journalism

    Edited by Richard Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
    First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This first volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray’s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

    Volume IV - The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray by Charles Plumptre Johnson & Thackeray: A Study by Adolphus Alfred Jack

    Edited by Richard Pearson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library
    First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume contains Charles Plumptre Johnson’s The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Adolphus Alfred Jack’s Thackeray: A Study. While Johnson’s work signifies a landmark in Thackeray scholarship, recognizing his lesser-known work for magazines and ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD