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  • THE LAST SECRETS THE FINAL MYSTERIES OF EXPLORATION
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    THE LAST SECRETS THE FINAL MYSTERIES OF EXPLORATION
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Excerpt: "The first two decades of the twentieth century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved. This book contains a record of some of the main achievements. What Nansen said of Polar exploration is true of all exploration; its story is a "mighty manifestation of ...

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  • NURSES WORK
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    NURSES WORK
    JAMES BUCHAN / IAN SECCOMBE
    First published in 1998, this volume emerged in the context of rapidly developing nursing and health care fields and features contributions on areas in the NHS and private nursing including nurses’ pay and education, the gender balance in the nursing labour market, working patterns, employment contracts and turnover. It is part of a series of monographs offers up-to-date report...

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  • EMPIRE OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
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    EMPIRE OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
    BRUCE BUCHAN
    A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples. ...

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  • A SCOTTISH BALLAD BOOK (RLE FOLKLORE)
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    A SCOTTISH BALLAD BOOK (RLE FOLKLORE)
    DAVID BUCHAN
    The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people. This anthology, first published in 1973, is drawn from the richest ballad tradition in Britain, that of the Northeast of Scotland. It provides a fresh and original choice of songs that ranges from the old ballads like ‘Gil Brenton’ and ‘Willie’s Lady’ to the ...

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  • THE BALLAD AND THE FOLK (RLE FOLKLORE)
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    THE BALLAD AND THE FOLK (RLE FOLKLORE)
    DAVID BUCHAN
    The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically litera...

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  • SCOTTISH TRADITION PBDIRECT
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    SCOTTISH TRADITION PBDIRECT
    DAVID BUCHAN
    Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, i...

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  • GREENMANTLE
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    GREENMANTLE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The second installment in the electrifying adventures of Richard Hannay, Britain's greatest secret agent Major Richard Hannay, hero of  The Thirty-Nine Steps, is recovering from wounds sustained in the bloody Battle of Loos when his old friend Sir Walter Bullivant summons him to the Foreign Office. Hoping for a promotion, Hannay is asked instead to investigate rumors that a "st...

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  • MR. STANDFAST
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    MR. STANDFAST
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In the last of his World War I adventures, Richard Hannay undertakes his most dangerous assignment yet When England calls, Richard Hannay answers. Not yet forty and already a brigadier general, he has led the charge into some of the fiercest fighting of World War I: Loos, the Somme, Arras. There is no telling how far up the ranks he might climb if only the Foreign Office would ...

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  • THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
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    THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The novel of international intrigue and adventure that set the standard for the modern spy thriller One May evening in 1914, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Hannay receives word of an anarchist plot to assassinate the prime minister of Greece. A few nights later, the eccentric American who revealed the conspiracy is found stabbed to death in Hannay's flat. With only the dead...

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  • PERVASIVE ANIMATION
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    PERVASIVE ANIMATION
    SUZANNE BUCHAN
    This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new critical perspectives on animation, connects them to historical and contemporary ...

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  • THE SOCIAL CHILD
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    THE SOCIAL CHILD
    TONI BUCHAN
    What helps babies and young children develop proficient social skills? How do children's early relationships and social interactions influence their future emotional resilience and wellbeing?The Social Child thoughtfully discusses the key principles of children‘s social development alongside descriptions of everyday practice. It aims to provide the ...

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  • GREENMANTLE
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    GREENMANTLE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top-secret mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front. Hannay must journey to Constantinople through war-torn Europe, recruiting three loyal friends – Peter Pienaar, John S Blenkiron and Sandy Arbuthnot – to help him as he un...

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  • THE POWER HOUSE
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    THE POWER HOUSE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    The Power House is the first adventure of the classic Buchan hero, the prosperous Scots lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen, whose measured daily routine of ‘flat, chambers, flat, club’ is enlivened by the sudden disappearance of Charles Pitt-Heron, one of his Oxford contemporaries. Leithen steps up to the mark, coordinating efforts to thwart those responsible for his friend’s dep...

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  • THE THREE HOSTAGES
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    THE THREE HOSTAGES
    JOHN BUCHAN
    After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as clues, he is soon on the trail of Dominick Medina – a charismatic polymath but a man ‘utterly and consumedly wicked’. As Hanna...

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  • MR. STANDFAST
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    MR. STANDFAST
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in a spectacular climax above the battlefields of Europe. John Buchan’s inside know...

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  • HUNTINGTOWER
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    HUNTINGTOWER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Recently retired, grocer Dickson McCunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. Together they become embroiled in a dangerous plot to kidnap an exiled Russian princess. With the help of the local worthies and the Gorbals Die-Hards – a plucky, resourceful gang of boy...

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  • ESTIMATING FOR BUILDERS AND SURVEYORS
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    ESTIMATING FOR BUILDERS AND SURVEYORS
    R D BUCHAN / ERIC FLEMING / FIONA GRANT
    Written for students taking courses in building and surveying, 'Estimating for Builders and Surveyors' describes and explains the method used by the estimator to build up prices or rates for items described in the SMM7 format. Each chapter is a self-contained unit related to a particular element in the building. Worked examples throughout reflect both traditional and up-to-date...

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  • PRESTER JOHN
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    PRESTER JOHN
    JOHN BUCHAN
    After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent to South Africa to seek his fortune. A strange encounter on the voyage suggests that a tribal uprising is afoot, and David soon finds himself involved - at great risk to his life - with the charismatic leader, John Laputa. Prester John was John Buchan's first adventure story and is comparable in style and place to ...

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  • SICK HEART RIVER
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    SICK HEART RIVER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down a missing man who is literally 'sick at heart'. In the course of this epic journey, Leithen finds redemption for himself.  Si...

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  • EL NIÑO
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    EL NIÑO
    BRYAN BUCHAN
    A boy appears who seems able to give the world what humanity has always prayed for: an end to conflict, poverty, disease. Is he an illusion conjured up by mass hysteria, or is he the long-awaited messiah? Different narrators in various parts of the world, from a Protestant minister in New York to a young Hindu in Sri Lanka to a doctor in central Africa, tell their stories of th...

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  • THE THIRTY NINE STEPS
    THE THIRTY NINE STEPS
    BUCHAN
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    $330.00

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND
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    CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND
    JAMIE BUCHAN / SARAH ANDERSON / KATRINA MORRISON
    Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today. Highly attentive to procedural and institutional detail, this book is ...

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  • THE DANCING FLOOR
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    THE DANCING FLOOR
    JOHN BUCHAN
    A Scottish barrister gets entangled in a web of deadly superstition and danger on a small Greek island in this novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.   Though Sir Edward Leithen is not one to take superstition seriously, he is sympathetic to his friend Vernon Milburne, who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare since childhood. Now, as the two men embark on an Aegean ...

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  • THE POWER-HOUSE
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    THE POWER-HOUSE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    An international organization of anarchists threatens to overthrow civilization as we know it—and it's up to Edward Leithen to save the Western world A group of anarchists known as the Power-House sees all of civilization as a vast and sinister conspiracy, something to be overcome and destroyed. Standing up against the Power-House is Tory member of Parliament and lawyer Edward ...

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  • HUNTINGTOWER
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    HUNTINGTOWER
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Retired grocer Dickson McCunn embarks on the journey of a lifetime in John Buchan's classic adventure tale Dickson McCunn has led a respectable, if unremarkable, life. He's a grocer in Edinburgh and an esteemed member of the community. Still, he has a romantic spirit. For his entire life, all of his adventures have taken place in the pages of books, but he's always wanted to pl...

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  • CAPITAL OF THE MIND
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    CAPITAL OF THE MIND
    JAMES BUCHAN
    This "elegant portrait of Edinburgh in the age of Enlightenment" reveals a thriving city of artists, architects, scientists, and other pioneers ( Times Literary Supplement). In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest min...

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  • THE BLANKET OF THE DARK
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    THE BLANKET OF THE DARK
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In this classic historical adventure by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, a young monastic scholar is groomed to take the throne from Henry VIII. It is 1536, and powerful men reveal to Peter Pentecost that it is he, and not the tyrannical Henry VIII, who should be on the throne of England. Can they persuade him to risk everything in a treasonable rebellion against the throne...

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  • THE FREE FISHERS
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    THE FREE FISHERS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    In this classic thriller by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, an English professor is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St. Andrews University, leaves his hometown for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. ...

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  • JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
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    JOHN BURNET OF BARNS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    A young man must fight for his land and the woman he loves in 17th-century Scotland, in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. The turbulent "Killing Times" of the Covenanters is the backdrop to a desperate struggle between lifelong rivals . . . John Burnet of Barns, the last of an ancient line of Border Reivers, returns home from abroad to find himself d...

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  • A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
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    A LOST LADY OF OLD YEARS
    JOHN BUCHAN
    A young man's yearning for adventure draws him into jeopardy during the Jacobite Rebellion in this historical novel by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Once described as "a tale of adventure and betrayal on the long bloody road to Culloden Moor," A Lost Lady of Old Years is set in Scotland during the Rebellion of 1745. Young Edinburgh-born Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing f...

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