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The Real Deal

The Autobiography of Britain’s Most Controversial Media Mogul

By: Richard Desmond

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The Real Deal

The Autobiography of Britain’s Most Controversial Media Mogul

By: Richard Desmond

From the age of five, when he helped his deaf father negotiate advertising contracts, Richard Desmond has always had an eye for business. In The Real Deal he offers a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary career that has taken him from cloakroom attendant at a north London club to billionaire media owner. En route he tells of his early life as a rock and roll drummer, his first steps in the world of magazine publishing as a purveyor of leisure and top-shelf titles, and finally, after decades of paying his dues building smaller brands, his arrival in the big league with the launch of OK! magazine and the acquisition of Express Newspapers, his purchase and sale of Channel 5, and his £80 million investment in the Health Lottery, combining business innovation with help for good causes. Along the way, he imparts many of the secrets of his astounding success, as well as giving his forthright opinion (and he always has one) on such diverse subjects as politicians, religion, and the similarities between being a rock and roll drummer and running a business – as well as his views on a cast of characters ranging from Alan Sugar to Victoria Beckham and from Simon Cowell to Jennifer Aniston. Often controversial, frequently revelatory, always entertaining, The Real Deal is the brilliantly frank account of a life spent at the sharp end.

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Random House

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1473518547

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9781473518544

Ireland under the Tudors

Volume 3

By: Richard Bagwell

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Ireland under the Tudors

Volume 3

By: Richard Bagwell

Reproduction of the original: Ireland under the Tudors by Richard Bagwell

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386

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752349239

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9783752349238

The Gleeful Banker

By: Richard Fairsing

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The Gleeful Banker

By: Richard Fairsing

Dave is a successful middle aged banker who has grown indifferent to the needs of his wife of 20 years. He spends most of his time successfully selling mortgage back securities to unsuspecting clients located around the world. Its 2007 and things are very good for Dave and his bank. Then suddenly its 2008 and his world and the banks begin to shudder. Dave must change his ways or both him and the bank, he works for, will end up in the rubble created by the financial crisis of 2008.

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103

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Balboa Press

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1504334558

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9781504334556

The Twilight Lords

Elizabeth I and the First Irish Holocaust

By: Richard Berleth

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The Twilight Lords

Elizabeth I and the First Irish Holocaust

By: Richard Berleth

A gripping chronicle of the ferocious twenty-year struggle between the English monarch and the feudal lords of Ireland, The Twilight Lords describes the first authentic colonial venture in English history, a venture that held captive a whole generation of the best that Ireland and England could muster. By the time the last and the greatest of the "rebels" surrendered, Elizabeth was dead, two waves of English settlers had been exterminated, and the southern part of Ireland had become a barren wilderness.

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359

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Roberts Rinehart

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1461733472

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9781461733478

McALISTER'S WAY - FREE Serialisation vol. 02

By: Richard Marman

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McALISTER'S WAY - FREE Serialisation vol. 02

By: Richard Marman

MCALISTER’S WAY FREE Weekly Serialisation Vol. 02 – Chapters 2 and 3 A Young Adult Action and Adventure story Danny gets into big trouble in Chapters 2 & 3. I’m not going to give you a synopsis, you can download it for FREE and read it for yourselves. However, a couple of things inspired parts of these chapters. Chapter 2 My RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) buddy, Wing Commander ‘Trackless’ Millsom, restored a 1940s Buick from a bare chassis and it was the inspiration for the get-away car in this chapter. I remember the floor in Trackless’ two spare bedrooms covered with chrome-plate parts for ages. His missus, Cherril, was very patient. Chapter 3 Burning sugar-cane prior to harvest no longer occurs in Australia, but I’ve stood next to a cane-fire south of Townsville and it’s an awesome experience. The noise, heat and flames are truly daunting. I flew passenger jets up and down Eastern Australia and the cane-fires were a spectacular sight at night. The setting for this chapter came from those images. Richard Marman, Author ============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: McAlister’s Way, action, adventure, Zach, Danny, military, helicopters, choppers, soldiers, airmen, boarding school, priests, child abuse, attack, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney, Merimbula, plane, flight, fly, Young Adult, YA, explore, discover, , altar, Arty, Brisbane, Buick, cane-cutting, car, chapel, Colin, Danny, Desmond, disappear, embankment, freight, Gertrude, Giovanni, Gulf of Carpentaria, Lenny, Mackay, Monsignor, night, Noemi, Northern Rattler, plantation, police, railway, Ricci, river, Rockhampton, School, Signor, Sister, snakes, St. Ursicinus, Statue, sugar cane, town, train, water

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Abela Publishing Ltd

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882956494X

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9788829564941

Surgeon At Arms

By: Richard Gordon

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Surgeon At Arms

By: Richard Gordon

Surgeon at Arms continues the story of the much-admired surgeon, Graham Trevose, who first appeared in The Facemaker. He is hailed for his surgical skills, but his rather unorthodox private life begins to make him enemies. In the rise and fall of this surgeon, Richard Gordon presents the achievements and disappointments of the entire nation.

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House of Stratus

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0755147189

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9780755147182

Paladin

or The Throne, Book 4: Time out of Heart

By: Richard J. Sutcliffe

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Paladin

or The Throne, Book 4: Time out of Heart

By: Richard J. Sutcliffe

Paladin is the conclusion of The Interregnum Series (Book 7), continuing its account of Hibernia's royalty from 1473 to date. After being discharged, half-burned and lacking memories, Lilian Morgan emerges at the Dublin City Dump. She knows only that she must keep the repentant Cain (Samadeya) on task with his millennia-old assignment of thwarting the enemy Pelik--alternate and unrepentant continuation of Cain--in his agenda of death and destruction. Discipline is swift and brutal when she departs from the mission. Lilian also shares one of the Cain curses: returning after death to some reorganised portion of her body. Paladin also completes The Throne Series (Book 4), re-telling in interleaved chapters the First Battle of Glenmorgan and the destruction of Manse Devereaux. Interregnum characters approach a new battle at Glenmorgan that will decide the outcome of Tara's civil war. Conflict and treachery at Tara threaten one Earth civilization with extinction. Pelik schemes for power over two other worlds...and springs a trap.

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1190

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Writers Exchange E-Publishing

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1925191583

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9781925191585

Generally Speaking

The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

By: Richard Rohmer

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Generally Speaking

The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer

By: Richard Rohmer

A commander of the Order of Military Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Richard Rohmer's military career began in World War II, where he flew over the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, one of a tour of 135 missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. It was this service as a pilot that led to a unique meeting with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Sixty years later Rohmer was appointed the Chair of the Canadian government's D-Day Commemoration Advisory Committee. From negotiating the agreement that led to the McMichael Art Gallery, to lobbying the federal government to develop Canada's north, to re-organizing the militia, Rohmer has been at the centre of many diverse and wide-ranging events in the last half-century. He has flown with President John F. Kennedy, welcomed Queen Elizabeth to Juno Beach on the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day, and written biographies of E.P. Taylor and Peter Munk.

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Dundurn

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155002518X

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9781550025187

Shutter Man

By: Richard Montanari

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Shutter Man

By: Richard Montanari

Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline, as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family. While Billy stalks Philadelphia, Detective Kevin Byrne is assigned to a series of bizarre home-invasion cases and is joined by his former partner-turned-assistant district attorney, Jessica Balzano. Their investigations circle Byrne's childhood neighborhood of Devil's Pocket, and they find themselves revisiting a crime from Byrne's past that has haunted him for decades. What Byrne witnessed as a child in Devil's Pocket jeopardizes the Farren family -- which makes him the next target on Billy's hit list. A multigenerational story of hardship, guilt, and redemption, Shutter Man is Byrne and Balzano's most tense and personal case to date. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016

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353

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Mulholland Books

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0316244783

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9780316244787

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

By: Richard Conniff

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The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

By: Richard Conniff

The story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth. Beginning with Linnaeus, a colorful band of explorers made it their mission to travel to the most perilous corners of the planet and bring back astonishing new life forms. They attracted followers ranging from Thomas Jefferson, who laid out mastodon bones on the White House floor, to twentieth-century doctors who used their knowledge of new species to conquer epidemic diseases. Acclaimed science writer Richard Conniff brings these daredevil "species seekers" to vivid life. Alongside their globe-spanning tales of adventure, he recounts some of the most dramatic shifts in the history of human thought. At the start, everyone accepted that the Earth had been created for our benefit. We weren't sure where vegetable ended and animal began, we couldn't classify species, and we didn't understand the causes of disease. But all that changed as the species seekers introduced us to the pantheon of life on Earth—and our place within it.

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480

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393080560

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9780393080568

Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem

Person-Centred Dialogues

By: Richard Bryant-Jefferies

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Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem

Person-Centred Dialogues

By: Richard Bryant-Jefferies

This book uses narrative to describe powerfully what is happening, interspersed with the counsellor’s thoughts and reflections. Sessions of supervision are also described and linked to what is occurring in the therapy. The first part of the book focuses on a client struggling to cope with her son who has mental health and drug problems. The second part describes the son’s experience of entering into a therapeutic encounter after having reached a crisis point. Cultural differences are also explored. Included in this volume is material to inform the training process of counsellors and many others who seek to work with people experiencing these relational dynamics. It is intended as much for experienced counsellors as it is for trainees. It provides real insight into what can occur during counselling sessions. The book will also be of value to the many healthcare and social care professionals who, whilst they may specialise in other areas, will find that the issues dealt with in this volume have impact on the work they are doing. For them, the text demystifies what can occur in therapy, and provides useful ways of working that may be used by professionals other than counsellors. Potential clients will also gain an insight into the process.

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CRC Press

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1498799825

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9781498799829

The Builder

By: Richard J. Sutcliffe

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The Builder

By: Richard J. Sutcliffe

Mara Meathe's engagement is the first domino in a string of events leading to her disgrace at court, her defection to the clan MacCarthy, the unravelling of the MacCarthy plot to destroy Tara, and her discovery of the truth about her father's death. Elbon, known as The Builder on Meta, but as John Dominic on Tirdia, relocates to the Earth generated in the latest nexus, but it becomes lost in the Timestream. Roger Hyland, the engineer responsible for rebuilding modern Tara rejects spiritual realities, despite his friends' earnest pleas. From Metan Manuscripts, the initial three critical historical nexus points are revealed, as are details of the first Builder and his age-old nemesis who plots time and again to either rule the earths...or destroy them.

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Writers Exchange E-Publishing

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1921636572

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9781921636578

To Serve Canada

A History of the Royal Military College Since the Second World War

By: Richard A. Preston

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To Serve Canada

A History of the Royal Military College Since the Second World War

By: Richard A. Preston

In To Serve Canada, [Preston] takes up the story of RMC (Royal Military College) as one of Canada's three military colleges and examines its development through the uncertain years of the Cold War, through the vagaries of public indifference towards defence, through the evolution of degree-granting status and the moves towards institutional bilingualism, and through the frequent Ottawa-directed re-evaluations of their roles. By chronicling the development of RMC and its sister colleges from the post-Korea period to the present, Dr Preston has provided a valuable and entertaining addition to the historical literature of this country"--Foreword, page vii-viii

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776603272

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The Real Deal

The Real Deal

Ireland under the Tudors

Ireland under the Tudors

The Gleeful Banker

The Gleeful Banker

The Twilight Lords

The Twilight Lords

McALISTER'S WAY - FREE Serialisation vol. 02

McALISTER'S WAY - FREE Serialisation vol. 02

Surgeon At Arms

Surgeon At Arms

Paladin

Paladin

Generally Speaking

Generally Speaking

Shutter Man

Shutter Man

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem

Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem

The Builder

The Builder

To Serve Canada

To Serve Canada

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