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November 2005 marks the tenth anniversary of the conviction of Rose West, currently serving ten life sentences for her part in the Cromwell Street murders. This book tells for the first time the story from a police perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham Gardner, he reveals the full story of how the West's...
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Ballet is for some a passion, their love or obsession-a way of making a living perhaps, For others it is a pleasant evening out and for some it is what their hard-earned money is spent on for children to attend ballet classes,
This book attempts to draw together the interesting facts-facts which are not widely known-and answers questions which might not have even been thought of, There is a medical perspective (the author is a surgeon) but with help...
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Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London's East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into four centuries of history to chronicle the crimes, their perpetrators, and the circumstances that made the East End an ideal breeding ground for illegal activity. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...
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Gurdjieff first introduced the enneagram to his pupils in 1916. It was, presented as a universal symbol for understanding how a process in time could become, organized to become an evolutionary event. Such a process is no longer "in" time but creates its own time and becomes relatively immortal as a living structure. Compiled from conversations that took place between John Bennett and his students at the International Academy for Continuous Education...
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The central theme of this book is the difference between "work from the mind" and "work from the essence." Work from the mind produces skillful prisoners of illusion, but prisoners all the same. Work from the essence is the way to be free. It is, centered in the heart. This book is, compiled from conversations that took place between Bennett and his students, and includes several sections from previously unpublished notes that were to be, used in...
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Compiled from conversations between John (J.G.) Bennett and his students at the International Academy for Continuous Education in England from 1971 to 1974. Next to survival, sex is one of the most powerful forces in our lives, yet many people don't understand it. It is, used for procreation and for pleasure, but it also has an impact on personal transformation. In this lucid exposition, JG Bennett deals with questions that are being, asked by spiritual...
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Bennett first read Beelzebub's Tales in 1948. He regarded it as a work of superhuman genius, containing expressions of reality, which, by their very nature, were bound to make severe demands on any reader. With Gurdjieff's approval, he undertook a series of lectures in London focusing on the essential meaning of Beelzebub's Tales. More than commentaries, these "talks" are an invitation into the deeper meanings of Gurdjieff's enigmatic "tales." This...
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"'You ask for a story, I will tell you one, fact for fact and true for true...' So begins 'Crook-neck Dick,' one of twenty-three stories in this beguiling collection of Charleston folk tales. Derived from African-American legends, these haunting fables have entertained generations of Charlestonians with their storytelling magic." -- Back cover.