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  • Cover scan of Divided Scotland

    £11.04
    Divided Scotland: Ethnic Friction And Christian Crisis
    Tom Gallagher - Hardback - Argyll
    This study of Scotland's ethno-religious discord explores the origins and staying power of sectarian conflict and analyses the new tensions that have erupted since 2010, as well as the response of the state, the media, churches, the soccer world, and a range of civic groups.
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    Scottish Women: A Documentary History, C.1780-1914
    - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    The editors of this volume introduce topics and debates relevant to nineteenth-century women's everyday lives, using selected primary source material to demonstrate key points.
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    Motivational Interviewing
    - Paperback - Lennex Corp
  • Cover scan of Why Genes Are Not Selfish And People Are Nice
    Why Genes Are Not Selfish And People Are Nice: A Challenge To The Dangerous Ideas That Dominate Our Lives
    Colin Tudge - Paperback - Floris
    The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one battle; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA. This book argues that there's another way of looking at the world: that life is in fact cooperative.
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    Foucault's History Of Sexuality
    Mark G. E. Kelly - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    In the first volume of his 'History of Sexuality', Foucault weaves together the most influential theoretical account of sexuality since Freud. Mark Kelly systematically unpacks the intricacies of Foucault's dense and sometimes confusing exposition in a straightforward way, putting it in its historical and theoretical context.
  • Cover scan of Foucault's History Of Sexuality
    Foucault's History Of Sexuality
    Mark G. E. Kelly - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    In the first volume of his 'History of Sexuality', Foucault weaves together the most influential theoretical account of sexuality since Freud. Mark Kelly systematically unpacks the intricacies of Foucault's dense and sometimes confusing exposition in a straightforward way, putting it in its historical and theoretical context.
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    Annie's Loo: The Govan Origins Of Scotland's Community Based Housing Associations
    Raymond Young - Paperback - Argyll
    This title tells the story of how Scotland's community-based housing associations blossomed from small beginnings in Govan.
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    Take Back The Land: Land, Gentrification, And The Umoja Village Shantytown
    Max Rameau - Paperback - AK
    This is the story of the Umoja Village Shantytown told by its principal architect, Max Rameau. Addressing the issues of land, self-determination and homelessness in the Black community, Rameau explains the birth and development of the Umoja village day-by-day and outlines the larger strategy behind the Take Back the Land movement.
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    To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, And Influencing Others
    Daniel H. Pink - Hardback - Canongate
    Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills, in every area of our lives, and identifies the three personal qualities and four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes and analysis instead of exhortation, he builds on his own sales experience and on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople - and makes us look again at our own sales skills.
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    Global Solidarity
    Lawrence Wilde - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    Lawrence Wilde introduces the concept of global solidarity and explains how it relates to nationalism, gender, religion and culture. Looking to the future, he explores the politics of global solidarity and the conditions required for its development. Solidarity has been a mobilising word since entering the political vocabulary in the mid-19th century, and conjures images of united action in pursuit of social justice. But is solidarity among strangers is a meaningful aspiration in our globalising age?

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