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Glasgow, 1974 - a time of power cuts, strikes and the three-day week. Twelve-year-old Ginger Bannerman is playing in the local woods when he stumbles across a gunman in hiding. The man has incriminating evidence of police corruption and forces Ginger to steal a tape recording from a major criminal's flat. But when Ginger discovers that his dad, a police constable, is mentioned on the tape, his world is turned upside down. With both the gunman ...

Three of our leading public intellectuals come together to offer an urgent way to escape our current permacrisis.

An insightful playbook for getting out of the permacrisis we seem mired in’ - Walter Isaacson‘A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world’ - Sheryl SandbergDo you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world. Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence certainly did. Three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our t...

Three of our leading public intellectuals come together to offer an urgent way to escape our current permacrisis.

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In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh (known as Auld Reekie) came to be regarded as the Athens of the North. Why was this? How was the notion invented? What were its consequences? Topography, architectural development, literary and social history are all examined in a quest to give meaning to an epithet known by many but understood by few.

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FATE HINGES ON THE CHOICES WE MAKE It's 1982 and sixteen-year-old Catherine Day has been abandoned for good by her mother in their Glasgow home. Alone, in trouble, and desperate for money, Catherine is quickly ensnared by local criminals. In an attempt to escape a life of crime, she joins a local rock band. She battles hard to succeed in the fickle music world, aided by a mysterious, and ever-present guardian angel - a man who has connecti...

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A powerful and important critique of the dangers of nationalism, and how important it is for the UK and for other nations to find answers to its appeal

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the key issues facing us all in 2021, from Covid to climate change and the crisis of capitalism

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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the key issues facing us all in 2021, from Covid to climate change and the crisis of capitalism

The long-awaited memoir from Britain's former Prime Minister and longest-serving Chancellor. Gordon Brown has played a hugely influential role in shaping Britain and bringing left-wing politics into the mainstream. In this book he offers unique insights into his life in politics and our extraordinary times as a whole.

The 11th edition of Business Law with UCC applications presents an up-to-date teaching-learning system that is written in an easy-to-understand style and provides comprehensive information about all facets of business law. Material is presented in nine sections, which include relevant case studies featuring excerpts from the court's opinion. Content has been updated to reflect the many recent changes in the legal field and color photos through...

Originally published in 1935, when the province of Iringa in what is now Tanzania was still under British administrative control, this book is inevitably a product of its time, but nonetheless it represents an important project in collaboration between an anthropologist and a government official.

Awareness is critical in every situation. Success and failure are determined by the choices we make. The smartest among us possesses limited awareness of time, space, materiality and other people that affect those choices. We routinely miss the ripple effects that we send into the world as consequences of those choices.Hidden in the background is God's plan for each life. He knows our thoughts, words, and deeds and their contributions to etern...