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Wild: The Biography of Jack Nicholson
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Product Description: Jack Nicholson is the most popular film actor since Marlon Brando, and as he swaggers well into his seventh decade, he shows no sign of losing any of his astonishing star power. Here, drawing on interviews with many of Nicholson’s Hollywood associates, John Parker pieces together a complex portrait of the star—his tangled and tumultuous childhood, his wives and high-profile romances, his brilliant film career, and his Oscar-winning triumphs in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Terms of Endearment, and As Good as It Gets...read more
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9781844541362 | John Blake, August 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Jack Nicholson is the most popular film actor since Marlon Brando, and as he swaggers well into his seventh decade, he shows no sign of losing any of his astonishing star power.

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Desert Rats: From El Alamein to Basra: the Inside Story of a Military Legend
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Product Description: In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armored Brigade—bearers of the Desert Rats insignia—was engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting and ultimately took Basra for the Allies. The war in Iraq revived public focus on the Desert Rats, whose famous battles of World War II helped turn the tide of German dominance...read more
By John Parker
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9780755312894 | New edition (Headline Book Pub Ltd, May 23, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armored Brigade—bearers of the Desert Rats insignia—was engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting and ultimately took Basra for the Allies.

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Arise Sir Sean Connery
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Product Description: Sean Connery has more box–office clout today than he did four decades ago as the young James Bond, but the man himself remains a mystery. John Parker’s biography sheds new light on the life and career of this intensely private star.
By John Parker
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9781844540846 | John Blake, January 30, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sean Connery has more box–office clout today than he did four decades ago as the young James Bond, but the man himself remains a mystery.

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R. L. Moore Mathematician And Teacher
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Product Description: R. L. Moore: Mathematician & Teacher presents a full and frank biography of a mathematician recognized as one of the principal figures in the 20th Century progression of the American school of point set topology. He was equally well known as creator of the Moore Method (no textbooks, no lectures, no conferring) in which there is a current and growing revival of interest and modified application under inquiry-based learning projects in both the United States and the United Kingdom...read more
By John Parker
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9780883855508 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, December 15, 2004, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: R.

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Secret Hero: The Life And Mysterious Death Of Captain Robert Nairac
By John Parker
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9781843581000 | Metro Books, October 31, 2004, cover price $14.99

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Desert Rats: The Inside Story of the Desert Fighters
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Product Description: In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armoured Brigade, bearers of the Desert Rats insignia, was immediately engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting, ultimately taking Basra for the Allies. The war in Iraq revived public focus on the Desert Rats, whose famous battles of World War II helped turn the tide of German dominance...read more
By John Parker
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9780755312887 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, October 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armoured Brigade, bearers of the Desert Rats insignia, was immediately engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting, ultimately taking Basra for the Allies.

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Task Force: Untold Stories of the Heroes of the Royal Navy
By John Parker
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9780755312023 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $35.00

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9780755312030 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.99

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The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770
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Product Description: Jonathan Carver’s Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 became a bestseller in London in the 1780s, and arguments over its author’s accuracy and honesty have raged ever since. This book published for the first time the well-known explorer’s original account of his expedition...read more
By John Parker (editor)
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9780873514927 | Minnesota Historical Society Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Jonathan Carver’s Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 became a bestseller in London in the 1780s, and arguments over its author’s accuracy and honesty have raged ever since.

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Gwoppy
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Product Description: Michael Ellis has just moved with his parents and baby sister from London to a rambling Victorian house in Yorkshire. Not being able to sleep on his first night, he goes down to get a glass of water from the kitchen, where he makes the most amazing discovery...read more
By John Parker
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9781413707953 | Publishamerica Inc, January 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Michael Ellis has just moved with his parents and baby sister from London to a rambling Victorian house in Yorkshire.

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Social Theory: A Basic Tool Kit
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Product Description: This accessible text introduces social theory as a set of flexible and practical concepts that can be used to reflect on and make sense of social behavior. It encourages the reader to critically assess social explanations and to construct their own as active theorists in their own right...read more
By John Parker (editor)
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9780333962114 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, May 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This accessible text introduces social theory as a set of flexible and practical concepts that can be used to reflect on and make sense of social behaviour.

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9780333962121 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 6, 2003, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: This accessible text introduces social theory as a set of flexible and practical concepts that can be used to reflect on and make sense of social behavior.

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The Story of Britain's Best Buildings
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Product Description: Britain is home to an extraordinary array of impressive and historic buildings. They are outstanding architecturally and hold fascinating secrets within their walls. Durham Cathedral has long been celebrated for the bold simplicity of its architecture and great beauty...read more
By Dan Cruickshank and John Parker (photographer)
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9781552977484 | Firefly Books Ltd, February 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Britain is home to an extraordinary array of impressive and historic buildings.

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Strike Command
By John Parker
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9780755310586 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $35.00

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Silent Service
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Product Description: One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service, which entered the fray of World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict, and the sinking of the Belgrano, to modern-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defense...read more
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9780747237921 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, December 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray of World War I with 100 underwater craft.

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9780747238058, titled "The Silent Service" | Headline Book Pub Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service, which entered the fray of World War I with 100 underwater craft.

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The Paras
By John Parker
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9781843580041 | Metro Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.99

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Killing Factory
By John Parker
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9781856851213 | Robert Smith Literary Agency, December 1, 2001, cover price $55.01
9781856851213 | Robert Smith Literary Agency, December 1, 2001, cover price $55.01

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Total Surveillance
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Product Description: This text investigates how in the the 21st century, the lives of ordinary individuals, businesses, and criminals are being recorded in every detail. The book explores the implications of CCTV, listening operations and their spies and examines the effect that computer technology has had on privacy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780749920333 | Piatkus Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This text investigates how in the the 21st century, the lives of ordinary individuals, businesses, and criminals are being recorded in every detail.

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Structuration
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Product Description: This text provides an introduction to this central debate in social theory and helps to explain the historical processes producing the structures that shape human social life. few would dispute that social reality is produced by creative human agents operating in pre-existing structural contexts, but social; theorists are divided over how structure and agency are related...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780335203956 | Open Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This text provides an introduction to this central debate in social theory and helps to explain the historical processes producing the structures that shape human social life.

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9780335203949 | Open Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: * How is structuration central to the social sciences?

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Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra
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Product Description: Making the Town is the social history of a West African urban community, the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, from the 1860s to the 1920s. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Parker
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9780325001913 | Heinemann, September 18, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Making the Town is the social history of a West African urban community, the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, from the 1860s to the 1920s.
9780852556931 | James Currey Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $55.01

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9780325001906 | Heinemann, September 18, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Making the Town is the social history of a West African urban community, the Ga people of Accra, Ghana, from the 1860s to the 1920s.
9780852556436 | James Currey Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $55.01

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Commandos: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Elite Fighting Force
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Product Description: From the author of The Gurkhas comes an in-depth investigation of the history and exploits of the hard men of the Marines - the Commandos.
By John Parker
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9780747270089 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: From the author of The Gurkhas comes an in-depth investigation of the history and exploits of the hard men of the Marines - the Commandos.

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The Gurkhas: The Inside Story of the World's Most Feared Soldiers
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Product Description: This book goes beyond the normal boundaries of military history. Travelling extensively in Nepal, John Parker has met many Gurkhas to investigate the background to their traditional service to Britain and the threat that this is now under...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780747275770 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This goes beyond the normal boundaries of military history: travelling extensively in Nepal, Parker has met many Gurkhas to investigate the background to their traditional service to Britain and the threat that this is now under.

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9780747262435 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This book goes beyond the normal boundaries of military history.

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Inside the Foreign Legion: The Sensational Story of the World's Toughest Army
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By John Parker
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9780749918569 | Not Applicable, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.95

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9780749919924 | Piatkus Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $12.95

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The Paras: The Inside Story of Britain's Toughest Regiment
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By John Parker
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9781900512893 | Metro Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $35.00

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Death of a Hero: Captain Robert Nairac, Gc and the Undercover War in Northern Ireland
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Product Description: Captain Robert Nairac was a brilliantly successful undercover operative in the British Army, with a string of intelligence coups in the war against the IRA. But until this book, the nature of his operations and the story of his betrayal and murder have remained shrouded in mystery...read more
By John Parker
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9781900512527 | Metro Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Captain Robert Nairac was a brilliantly successful undercover operative in the British Army, with a string of intelligence coups in the war against the IRA.

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9781900512756 | Metro Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Captain Robert Nairac was a brilliantly successful undercover operative in the British Army, with a string of intelligence coups in the war against the IRA.

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Bruce Willis: The Unauthorised Biography
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Product Description: A biography of the Hollywood actor Bruce Willis. Following the life of the star from his first success in the TV show MOONLIGHTING, his spell of drug and alcohol abuse and a number of box-office flops to the resurrection of his career...read more
By John Parker
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9780753502754 | Virgin Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Hollywood actor Bruce Willis.

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A Formal and Historical Sociology of Western Picture-Making With Special Reference to J.M.W. Turner: Power, Space, and Light
Product Description: This study of innovation in the Western European practice of picture-making using framed pictorial space integrates Wollheim's substantive aesthetics with Durkenheimian and Pragmatic social theory to theorize arts as embodied and fully sociable practices.
By John Parker
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9780773484832 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This study of innovation in the Western European practice of picture-making using framed pictorial space integrates Wollheim's substantive aesthetics with Durkenheimian and Pragmatic social theory to theorize arts as embodied and fully sociable practices.

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