Pearce: 510 books

From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second in a series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s. The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances while...

Attlee is undoubtedly one of the key figures in modern British history. An important figure in Churchill's War Cabinet, and premier of the first majority Labour Government, he created the Welfare State, nationalised a substantial part of industry and secured the independence of India. Yet his political...

Step in to a world of medieval knights, mischievous fairies and beautiful bayaderes within this book of tales from eleven of the worlds most favored ballets. The timeless themes of these classic ballets resonate so strongly with audiences that they are still performed to this day.These enduring...

Barcelona, 1912. A city still recovering from the dramatic incidents of the so-called 'Tragic Week' when Catalonian conscripts bound for the unpopular war in Spanish Morocco had rebelled at the city's dockside against the royalist forces. In the fighting, many were killed, and afterwards, even more...

The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearces Dead Man series. Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to somewhere so exotic as North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there something for the local police? Well, yes and no. The local police are answerable to the International...

Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five...

This book is a fine introduction into the age-old philosophical debate as to whether we have free will, or whether we live determined lives. Pearce approaches the subject in a lively manner, explaining terms clearly and using anecdotes to break down some of the heavier philosophy so that it is available...

According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Ideas are understood as pure phenomenal 'feels' which are momentarily had by a single perceiver, then vanish. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to sell this idealistic philosophical system as...

The Protestant Reformation began five hundred years ago, accompanied by an age of turmoil and secularism we can recognize even in our own time. Rather than shrinking from the crisis, the Catholic Church responded with even deeper, and more genuine, reform. We can do the same today.This Catholic...

Stress-Free Self-Publishing Have you ever thought about self-publishing a book, but are unsure where to start or feel overwhelmed by conflicting information? Then this book is for you! Stress-Free Self-Publishing gives independent authors a no-nonsense guide to taking control...

Finché ho te sarò felice è l'attesissimo seguito del bestseller “Felice perché ho te” di Hazel Pearce. "Di una sola cosa ero certa in quel momento e cioè che io, senza Alessandro Alinovi, non potevo esistere." Il mondo di Aurora sembra distrutto. Dopo la burrascosa fine della più...

Concise and easy-to-understand, this book provides an introduction to what attachment means and how to recognise attachment disorder in children. Colby Pearce explains how complex problems in childhood may stem from the parent-child relationship during a child's early formative years, and later...

Thoughts are powerful. When we take personal responsibility for our thoughts and their consequences, we can reject destructive patterns. Replacing them with quality values brings order to our inner world. As we submit to Jesus Christ through the Word of God, the dynamics of Holy-Spirit-controlled thinking...

Recounting the fenoterol epidemic—a major medical controversy that took place more than 15 years ago—this narrative explores the involvement of the asthma drug that caused numerous asthma deaths. Although the epidemic occurred in New Zealand, its shocking discoveries and subsequent consequences...