Jeff Pearce
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They say that executing a murderer won't bring your loved one back. But now it can. Scientists have developed a new technology that has terrifying repercussions. The Karma Booth can execute a murderer and return their victims to life. But at what cost? Ethics consultant Timothy Cale is hired by the US government to investigate this earth-shattering breakthrough and makes a startling discovery. The returned victims possess disturbing abilities. When...
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Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could walk he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich, which he sold down the markets. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he embarked on an extraordinary journey, and found himself, before the age of thirty, a...
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"The West will begin to understand Africa when it realizes it’s not talking to a child - it’s talking to its mother.”
So writes Jeff Pearce in the introduction to his fascinating, groundbreaking work, The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World.
We learn early on in school how Europe and Asia gave us important literature, science, and art, and how their nations changed the course of history. But what about Africa?...
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Prometheus Books
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[2021]
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English
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"Real-life Indiana Jones meets Lawrence of Arabia in Winged Bull, the first biography in half a century to tell the story of Henry Layard and his daring adventures. While you may not know his name, you likely have seen his work. The winged bulls, lions and priceless treasures of art and jewelry that he found make up permanent collections in institutions such as the British Museum, Britain's National Gallery and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art"--...