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  • A Nation in Want of a Grievance

    Essays From Turn-of-the-Century Scotland

    A Nation in Want of a Grievance takes its name from a 19th century editorial in the Times newspaper. It consists of a collection of 35 essays written in Scotland around the end of the 20th century and the start of the present 21st century. Some of these are directly concerned with Scotland, some are not. Some are documentary in character, others are fictional. The first essay is a memoir, in a ... Read more

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  • Highland Resistance

    The Radical Tradition In The Scottish North

    Highland Resistance takes as its subject the record of land-centred (and by implication culture- and nationality- centred) conflict in the Highlands of Scotland during the two and a half centuries since the Jacobite rising of 1745. The book tells the story of anti-landlord agitation and direct-action land-raiding from the great sheep-drives in Sutherland at the end of the eighteenth century, on ... Read more

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  • The Trial and Execution of George VI

    This novel is the first in a projected five-part series called The Second British Protectorate a series of high-concept, story-driven commercial fictions from the viewpoint of alternate history, supposing a sovietised post-war Britain formally modelled on Cromwell's 17th century Protectorate. The themes are both historical and modern. For instance what shape would a popular rising against such a ... Read more

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  • The Business of People

    Leadership for the Changing World

    The Business of People is purposefully focused on people. The book will assist you to develop and support yourself with your people leadership, knowledge, and skills. It is an opportunity to better manage yourself and lead others, including your organization, into the modern volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It is also a sequel to the top-selling book The Business of ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • The Glenfinnan Manuscript

    The Lass With The Siller Buckle

    This novel is the second in a projected five-part series called The Second British Protectorate a series of high-concept, story-driven commercial fictions from the viewpoint of alternate history, supposing a sovietised post-war Britain modelled on Cromwell's 17th century Protectorate. The themes are both historical and modern. For instance what shape would a popular rising against such a state ... Read more

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  • Mightier Than a Lord

    The Struggle for the Scottish Crofters' Act of 1886

    Near the end of the nineteenth century, the Gaelic-speaking crofters of the Scottish Highlands rose in revolutionary struggle against their English landlords for the right to live in security on their own ancestral clan lands. ... Read more

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  • A Girl Called Jake

    Two natives, one b*stard and a mighty bog... A Girl Called Jake draws on a translation from a hitherto secret archive to tell the story of a gigantic narcotics plant that’s built upon a mighty bog. But in a strange and distant land, a rising for liberty is crushed with vicious and unparalleled violence. And in the country of the book’s principal action an agitation grows - and grows. For here too ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Ways of Attending

    How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

    Narrated by Mike Fraser ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The World of Private Banking

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. These banks were usually partnerships, a form of organization which persisted as the role of private banking changed in response to the political and economic transformations of ... Read more

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  • Centres and Peripheries in Banking

    The Historical Development of Financial Markets

    Series series Studies in Banking and Financial History
    This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of financial markets, from their emergence in the early modern period to today's global financial and capital markets, the chapters investigate how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Environmental Economics

    Theory and Policy

    by Alfred Endres ...
    Translated by Iain L. Fraser ...
    This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or present every possible topic. Instead, there is a clear focus on the theory of environmental policy and its practical applications. Most of the applied parts of the book deal with the economics of ... Read more

    $80.79 CAD

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    The Master and His Emissary

    The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 15 min

    This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain—the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true?Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus