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  • Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795
    Joseph Priestley / Thomas Cooper / William Christie
    Delve into the extraordinary life of Joseph Priestley, the renowned 18th-century British chemist, through his compelling 'Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley,'. This essential historical document offers unparalleled insight into a pivotal figure in the history of science and 18th-century Great Britain. The work uniquely combines Priestley’s own firsthand account of his life, though...
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    23,13 €

  • Jail Journeys
    Philip Priestley
    First published in 1989, this title presents the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. First-hand accounts of life ’inside’ chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of the loneliness, the despair, the squalor, the fights, the friendships, the sex, the humour. ...
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    55,87 €

  • Justice for Juveniles
    Denise Fears / Philip Priestley / Roger Fuller
    The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s. Discussion had been strong on opinion and short on facts; this book, originally published in 1977, supplied some much-needed evidence, based on the results of a research project funded by the Home Office Research Unit. ...
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    56,21 €

  • Social Skills in Prison and the Community
    David Flegg / James McGuire / Philip Priestley
    ’Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. The primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to describe and promote social-skills-based methods for helping offenders cope better with the problems they face in the community. ...
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    55,87 €

  • Benighted
    J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
    A dark night in the Welsh countryside. A group of stranded travelers seeking refuge from a storm. An isolated house offering shelter, but concealing a terrifying secret. J.B. Priestley’s 'Benighted' masterfully blends suspense and horror in this gripping tale.As the storm rages outside, tensions rise within the ancient walls. Each guest harbors their own anxieties, but a shared...
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    20,09 €

  • Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy Particularly Including Chemistry
    Joseph Priestley
    'Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry' by Joseph Priestley encapsulates the essence of Enlightenment-era scientific inquiry and education reform. Joseph Priestley, a pioneering figure in experimental philosophy, delivers insightful lectures that explore the principles of chemistry and scientific methodology. In this seminal ...
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    12,23 €

  • Soul Man
    Howard Priestley
    Whether you look over the sea of love or find yourself walking along the dock of the bay, you may drive down the highways of my life heading for the valley of the lonely or wander towards the dark en of the street.The story charts the rise and fall of key players in Soul city, USA. A city whose streets and districts reflect soul music by their names, culminating in the progress...
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    26,64 €

  • Experiments And Observations On Different Kinds Of Air
    Joseph Priestley
    Joseph Priestley wrote a scientific book titled 'Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air,' which was published in the late 1700s. Priestley’s revolutionary studies on gases, especially oxygen and its function in respiration and combustion, are chronicled in this book. Priestley’s experiments established the basis for our knowledge of gases and their characteristi...
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    13,70 €

  • Quit Smoking
    Daryl Priestley
    QUIET QUITTING is the ultimate and long-awaited handbook. This detailed plan will allow you to take a necessary break, distance yourself from the disorder, and embrace a more satisfying life. This guide instructs you on suppressing the detrimental internal dialogue that impedes your progress. It will demonstrate that giving up is not indicative of feebleness but rather a bold d...
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    25,44 €

  • Art and Soul
    Howard Priestley
    Soul music was born around the same time as the American Civil Rights movement and in many ways travelled the same routes around America. This new music was created by unique musicians, innovative producers and writers as well as unequalled singers. Along the way Soul also found inspiration in local culture and traditions giving every City its own identity. In 1966 Ben E. King ...
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    30,64 €

  • Scorecard Marketing
    Daniel Priestley
    BUSINESS SUCCESS STARTS WITH LEAD GENERATIONThe first step towards gaining customers, increasing profit, driving growth, and attracting investors is your ability to secure warm leads. Scorecard marketing is the perfect tool to achieve this, attracting a steady stream of qualified leads and engaging with the right people.Read Scorecard Marketing and learn how to:Predictably gene...
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    17,59 €

  • Papers from Lilliput
    J. B. Priestley
    Papers from Lilliput, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors’ or...
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    22,86 €

  • What I needed to know when I first went to school
    Philip Priestley
    This book is written to help any young person who wants to succeed in school and in life.Philip Priestley switched from neighbourhood policing to education in 2019. Mentoring and coaching countless young people in several schools over the last four years, he has identified 12 core fundamental issues that he commonly assists and supports students with. This book seeks to explain...
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    14,72 €

  • Communication
    Krzysztof Priestley
    Are you prepared to learn the effective tools and techniques for surviving and thriving after traumatic experiences?Communication encompasses the exchange of information, contact, and so on. Therefore, communication is an integral part of the modern world and contemporary society as a whole. Numerous individuals ponder the nature and purpose of communication.Communication is al...
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    10,47 €

  • Benighted
    J. B. Priestley
    An immersive novel, Benighted easily captures the reader’s attention with both psychological insight and dark humor. Forces of nature drive five travelers to a crumbling mansion to wait out a storm. The residents of the mansion are far from welcoming, and their manners are ominous. The stranded 'guests' begin the long evening getting familiar with each other through conversatio...
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    16,42 €

  • The Evil that We Do
    Natalia Huckle / Philip Priestley
    Cara is a shy and unassuming 15 year old girl in an average secondary school who becomes drawn into the whirlwind of the County Lines organised crime phenomenon. Falling for a good looking and popular school peer - Jack - Cara becomes an exploited teenager battling against the pressure to keep up with the hard drinking toxic masculine culture that surrounds her.Aiden is an inte...
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    22,82 €

  • The Civil War Abroad
    Charles Priestley
    The impact of the Civil War was felt far beyond American shores. Many sites associated with the war remain in Britain and France--the two countries most affected--and traces of it can still be found in such unlikely places as Sweden and Turkey. Both Union and Confederate agents sought support overseas, aided by local sympathizers. Some Victorian Britons, despite their disdai...
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    58,56 €

  • Blackout in Gretley (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Humphrey Neyland is a middle-aged Canadian engineer recruited by British Intelligence to go undercover in the industrial city of Gretley, where aircraft essential to the war effort are being produced and where it is feared Nazi agents and saboteurs are lurking. Almost everyone he meets in Gretley seems to have a double life and a secret agenda, and it doesn’t take long before N...
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    25,40 €

  • Jenny Villiers
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Once passionate about the theatre, playwright Martin Cheveril is now disillusioned and contemplating a change of career. His new play, a bitter and cynical piece, is about to premiere when something strange happens. After stumbling upon an old pamphlet about a talented young actress named Jenny Villiers who died in 1846, Cheveril dozes off and finds himself somehow transported ...
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    22,96 €

  • Love Factory
    Howard Priestley
    2022 Winner of the Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research - Association of Recorded Sound Collections ARSC It has long been acknowledged that Berry Gordy Jr and his Motown Empire put Detroit on the International musical map but it was the creative genius of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland who would take the sound into uncharted territory. In t...
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    27,83 €

  • Closing the Analytics Talent Gap
    Jennifer Priestley / Robert McGrath
    Organizations recognize that universities are rich resource for closing their analytical talent gaps. The book addresses the benefits and challenges of working with university analytics and data science programs at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. ...
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    80,61 €

  • Beating County Lines (and other things to do before lunch)
    Phil M Priestley
    This title offers the reader an ambitious overview of the entire problem of the child criminal exploitation and ’County Lines’ drug dealing epidemic in the United Kingdom.Organised criminality has evolved to target children and young people at younger and younger ages - making profit from their false expectations, their early life trauma, and from their vulnerability.The illega...
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    18,44 €

  • County Lines - A Young Person’s Guide
    Philip M Priestley
    County Lines - A Young Person’s Guide is a book written to help you navigate your way through the risks posed and presented to you during your teenage years.It could be argued that organised crime - and the networks that supply controlled drugs specifically - are targeting people from the age of 13 and upwards in a way that previous generations never had to become aware of. Whi...
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    16,28 €

  • How To Raise Entrepreneurial Kids
    Daniel Priestley / Jodie Cook
    Are you raising entrepreneurial kids?Every parent wants their kid to have a happy and successful future. The problem is they aren’t sure how to prepare them for this rapidly evolving world.Life used to be easy. Go to school, pass your exams, get a good job and the rest flows from there. Today it’s not so simple. The concept of work is changing. Chances are, your kid won’t get a...
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    19,83 €

  • Socrates And Jesus Compared
    Joseph Priestley
    When two of history’s greatest thinkers meet across the centuries, the result is a dialogue that still stirs the mind. Socrates And Jesus Compared by Joseph Priestley is a masterful philosophical comparison book, exploring the lives and teachings of Socrates and Jesus with clarity and depth. Priestley, a leading Enlightenment thinker, offers a rigorous religious philosophy anal...
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    26,30 €

  • Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just eighteen and longed to enter the seemingly magical world of the glamorous Alington family and its three lovely daughters. Replaying the event...
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    24,96 €

  • Try It Again
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    In the drawing room of a house in the country three women are arguing over a man. The man is Colin, and the argument is heated, for one of the women is his mother, another his wife Clare, and the third his mistress Helen. All four allow their tempers to get out of control, and painful truths are told. Colin, a weak man, is on the point of leaving when there is an unexpected int...
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    13,90 €

  • BRIGHT SHADOW
    J.B. Priestley
    The retired Colonel, his niece Lesley, and his friend the Major - a retired army medical officer - are living, to all intents and purposes, a happy, quiet life together in the Colonel's country home. The play opens as they are having tea with a close friend of the Colonel's daughter, Diana, who died apparently from an overdose of drugs three years previously. The Colone...
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    18,61 €

  • DESERT HIGHWAY
    J.B. Priestley
    During a campaign in the Middle East, six men are lost in the Syrian desert, owing to the breakdown of their tank. They are Ben Joseph, the thoughtful Jewish sergeant; Donnington, a university man and a cynic; the Cockney, Elvin, an old soldier; Shaw, a solemn Yorkshireman; Hughes, an excitable Welshman; and young George, from a farm. A German plane spots them and sprays them w...
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    18,48 €

  • A Glass of Bitter
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    A quiet, domesticated couple, Fred and Norah, live in a London suburb. They have married later in life than most people and are devoted to one another. It is Fred’s practice to go out for a glass of bitter in the evenings and on this particular occasion, while he is away, Norah has a visitor - a flash-looking young woman, Evie and Norah is faced with a decision difficult to mak...
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    13,87 €


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