Pearson: 793 books
Radical Hope
Education and Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
Up from the Mission
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures. This is writing of great passion and power, which introduces a fascinating man and a compelling writer. Many of the pieces...
by Justin Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
As an adolescent, Justin Pearson moved with his mother from Shit Creek Phoenix, AZ” to sunny San Diego after his father was murdered on Halloween. There, he fell in with a subculture of young musicians playing some of the most original and brutal music in the world. Turns out the chaos of Pearson’s...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Two: 1948-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. In the second volume of his memoirs, he provides a first-person account of the busy and challenging decade that followed his entry...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume Three: 1957-1968
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. This third and final volume of his memoirs follows him from his years of triumph as a Canadian diplomat to his retirement from politics...
Mike
The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume One: 1897-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
One of Canada’s most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a Methodist preacher to his decision to enter politics in...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and...
by Robert Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
R.S. Pearson, the founder of Telical Books and Creative Virtue Press, is a writer/composer influenced studies of modern art movements, philosophy and spirituality. He is the creator of the popular ParaMind Brainstorming Program and the Virtuism art theories. R.S. Pearson's main concern is to...
Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope
Education & Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...
God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The author of The Gospel of Inclusion continues to rouse organized religion as he raises controversial issues and provides enlightening answers to the deepest questions about God and faith.
What is God? Where is God? Who is the one true God? Questions such as these have driven a thousand human...
by Michael Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In this first full-length study of McPhee, Michael Pearson argues that the writer successfully employs the techniques of fiction writing in his journalistic art while honoring his obligation to fact. In exceptionally lucid and entertaining prose, Pearson approaches his subject thematically, examining...
The Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain
Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the practical and ideological factors that shaped ideas of ’good’ children’s literature...
by Joseph Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
As Joseph Pearson poetically puts it in this rich look at one of Europe’s most fascinating cities: Berlin is a party in a graveyard. Europe’s youth capital, Berlin is also beset by sustained guilt for the atrocities that were ordered by its Nazi officers during the Third Reich. Built and rebuilt...
Washington Merry-Go-Round
The Drew Pearson Diaries, 1960-1969
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
For most of three decades, Drew Pearson was the most well-known journalist in the United States. In his daily newspaper column—the most widely syndicated in the nation—and on radio and television broadcasts, he chronicled the political and public policy news of the nation. At the same time, he...