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  • Adam and Evolution

    A Look at Life and All Our Yesterdays

    by William Pearson ...
    Let us start with the obvious. Living matter, having once emerged from obscure beginnings on this planet Earth - the home selected for it in the Universe - has continued to exist in countless different forms right to the present time. As a means to cope with the enormous diversity involved, natural scientists have created a comprehensive classification system. This enables one to get a grasp of ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Beowulf the Jute; His Life and Times

    Angles, Saxons and Doubts

    by William Pearson ...
    The epic poem "Beowulf" has been explored by many scholars, but personal acquaintance revealed that some important aspects always seem to have been overlooked. This book's intention was to correct such omissions, but discrepancy turned out to be widespread. Rather than being solely a contribution to Scandinavia's history, the material mainly illustrates aspects of English origins as viewed by one ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Erik Bloodaxe

    His Life and Times (A Royal Viking in his Historical and Geographical Settings)

    by William Pearson ...
    William Pearson is a retired design engineer who for much of his life has been an amateur historian and archaeologist. Articles by him on these subjects have appeared in the journals of various societies in the north-east of England. He is a former Member of the Institute of Linguists and currently a member of the English Place-Name Society, the Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society and the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Erik Bloodaxe: His Life and Times

    A Royal Viking in His Historical and Geographical Settings

    by William Pearson ...
    Erik Bloodaxe and Egil Skallagrimsson came to the fore, both for their narrative possibilities and examples of how events of the Viking period have come to be distorted and misunderstood. The eventual result is this book. The life of Erik begins with his background and career in Norway followed by his overseas adventures. After seizing power in northern England, he met a violent death there. Also ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Not Quite Trite

    Poetry, Some Pleasant

    by William Pearson ...
    These poems range from the nonsensical, through reflections on personal experiences, to comments on the state of the planet upon which we all live. During a long lifetime, diverse interests or specific events—either in the author’s personal life or in the wider world—have led to an emotional artistic outlet being sought in the composition of poetry. The work leads off with a limerick. This is ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Many Lives of the Batman

    Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media

    Edited by Roberta Pearson, William Uricchio ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, The Many Lives of the Batman is a serious academic exploration of the cultural phenomenon called Batman. Marketing savvy alone did not build the Batman’s extraordinary success; it encompasses a variety of audiences who have embraced the hero through a collage of different media manifestations during his long history. Batman’s overlapping lives are illuminated in this ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Project G and They Came from Beyond

    by Scott Pearson, William Leisner ...
    Series Book 2 - Tales of the Weird World War
    Since the first incidents shortly after World War II (as told in The Big Dark & Meet John Doe: Tales of the Weird World War, Volume 1), encounters with monsters in human form have grown increasingly common—and increasingly difficult for the authorities to keep under wraps. Governments around the world are struggling to decide on a response to the growing threat, even as they try to discover the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Many More Lives of the Batman

    Edited by Roberta Pearson, William Uricchio, Will Brooker ...
    The Many Lives of the Batman (1991) was a pioneer within cultural and comic book scholarship. This fresh new sequel retains the best of the original chapters but also includes images, new chapters and new contributions from the Batman writers and editors. Spanning 75 years and multiple incarnations, this is the definitive history of Batman. ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Steel Trapp: The Academy

    by Ridley Pearson ...
    Narrated by William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 21 min

    Steven "Steel" Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there's a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn't long before the two realize that this is not your normal boarding school. It seems a select few ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

  • The Big Dark & Meet John Doe

    by Scott Pearson, William Leisner ...
    Series Book 1 - Tales of the Weird World War
    Los Angeles, 1948. World War II may be over, but a new war is on the horizon. People are seeing monsters—not on Hollywood’s silver screens but in real life—and the authorities are trying to keep it under wraps.In Scott Pearson’s novella The Big Dark, private detective Henry Shaw is in trouble with his former partner on the police force, Bob Neville. Shaw has a knack for run-ins with these horrific ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Returning to Love: A Journey of Riches

    by John Spender, Robin Seeger, Julie Williams, Annie Pearson, Beth Ranchez, Debi Beebe, Marie Crawford, Suzanne Rushton, Ryan Doherty, Mia Paul ...
    How do you see love? Do you believe that you are worthy of the love of another and deserve it? Or do you see it as something that happens to someone else?It is unlikely that many of us have never experienced any form of love in our lives. As human beings, we are naturally loving and caring. Of course, there are those few individuals who seem to have no love to show or share, but even the worst of ... Read more

    $4.74 CAD