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Packed full of information, "Scottish Wild Flowers" is an ideal
guide for both visitors and residents of Scotland who wish to learn
about the fascinating wealth of wild flowers that can be found
there. Each species is illustrated in full colour with a
comprehensive description, plus the plant's English, Latin and
Gaelic names. For ease of use, the plants are grouped together by
the type of habitat in which they can be found, including
Highlands, Lowlands and Coasts. Habitats are arranged from those
most influenced by humans, progressing towards wilder and more
remote areas. The book includes a section with up-to-date details
about places of interest and the best sites for finding some of the
most attractive and special species of wild flowers in Scotland.
'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing. Michael Scott
celebrates the fusion of scholarship and adventure in a book full
of both.' DAN SNOW Uncovering the physical remains of our past is a
quintessential human itch; the pursuit of every society from the
ancients through to today. But the stories behind archaeological
exploration and discovery - what we look for when, what we end up
finding, and what we then do with it - tell us as much about
ourselves today as they do about the past. Through eight
sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces
the evolution of modern archaeology from colonial expeditions to
today's cutting-edge digs, unearthing traps, curses and buried
treasure along the way. We uncover why different periods and places
have caught our attention and imaginations at different times. We
meet the characters, some celebrated and some forgotten, who found
world-famous discoveries like the Rosetta Stone, the Terracotta
Warriors and Machu Picchu. We investigate ancient human footprints,
stunning shipwrecks, mythical princesses and surprising rituals as
keyholes to the wonders of past civilisations. And we unravel how
archaeological finds have often become emblems of modern
fascinations and dilemmas. Crossing millions of years, trekking
from the jungles of South America to the frozen highlands of
Central Asia, X Marks the Spot reveals how much the discovery of
our past is intertwined with the concerns of our present and why X
never, ever marks the spot.
The daring exploits of motorcycle race legends Valentino Rossi,
Barry Sheene, Casey Stoner and John Surtees are all gloriously
celebrated in MotoGP: The Illustrated History. Updated for 2023 and
packed with more than 150 stunning photographs, this authoritative
and long-overdue illustrated history celebrates high performance
motorbike racing since the start of the world championship in 1949.
Each racing decade is dissected and discussed, as are the big
incidents, top personalities and technological innovations. To
complete the book, motorcycle racing's greatest names – including
John Surtees, Giacomo Agostini, Kenny Roberts, Valentino Rossi,
Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez – provide exclusive personal
insights and accounts of what it is like to race at speeds of
200mph. MotoGP: The Illustrated History is a unique book which
brilliantly conveys the exhilarating spirit of this stunning sport.
This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of peacebuilding in
ethnic conflicts, with attention to theory, peacebuilder roles,
making sense of the past and shaping the future, as well as case
studies and approaches. Comprising 28 chapters that present key
insights on peacebuilding in ethnic conflicts, the volume has
implications for teaching and training, as well as for practice and
policy. The handbook is divided into four thematic parts. Part 1
focuses on critical dimensions of ethnic conflicts, including root
causes, gender, external involvements, emancipatory peacebuilding,
hatred as a public health issue, environmental issues, American
nationalism, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2
focuses on peacebuilders' roles, including Indigenous peacemaking,
nonviolent accompaniment, peace leadership in the military,
interreligious peacebuilders, local women, and young people. Part 3
addresses the past and shaping of the future, including a
discussion of public memory, heritage rights and monuments,
refugees, trauma and memory, aggregated trauma in the
African-American community, exhumations after genocide, and a
healing-centered approach to conflict. Part 4 presents case studies
on Sri Lanka's postwar reconciliation process, peacebuilding in
Mindanao, the transformative peace negotiation in Aceh and
Bougainville, external economic aid for peacebuilding in Northern
Ireland, Indigenous and local peacemaking, and a continuum of
peacebuilding focal points. The handbook offers perspectives on the
breadth and significance of peacebuilding work in ethnic conflicts
throughout the world. This volume will be of much interest to
students of peacebuilding, ethnic conflict, security studies, and
international relations.
This book engages with a range of questions about the nature of
faith. The authors defend a distinctive conception of faith
involving resistance to psychological, practical and epistemic
challenges, from which a novel account of the psychology and
epistemology of faith is developed.
We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation
of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home
or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about
and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael
Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and
archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different
ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of
Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies
thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and
created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts,
physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically
across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an
up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides
an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists.
This Companion examines contemporary challenges in Peace and
Conflict Studies (PACS) and offers practical solutions to these
problems. Bringing together chapters from new and established
global scholars, the volume explores and critiques the foundations
of Peace and Conflict Studies in an effort to advance the
discipline in light of contemporary local and global actors. The
book examines the following eight specific components of Peace and
Conflict Studies: Peace and conflict studies praxis
Structure-agency tension as it relates to social justice,
nonviolence, and relationship building Gender, masculinity, and
sexuality The role of partnerships and allies in racial, ethnic,
and religious peacebuilding Culture and identity Critical and
emancipatory peacebuilding International conflict transformation
and peacebuilding Global responses to conflict. It argues that new
critical and emancipatory peacebuilding and conflict transformation
strategies are needed to address the complex cultural, economic,
political, and social conflicts of the 21st century. This book will
be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies,
peace studies, conflict resolution, transitional justice,
reconciliation studies, social justice studies, and international
relations.
Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first
systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented
policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from
among the thousands of projects submitted for the Herman Goldstein
Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. The volume
describes in detail the case studies and explains the wider
significance of each for effective, efficient, and equitable
policing. This book explores a wide range of problems that fall
under five general categories: gang violence; violence against
women; vulnerable people; disorderly places; and theft, robbery,
and burglary. The case studies tell stories of how police, in
collaboration with others, successfully tackled real-world policing
problems fairly and effectively. The authors have also drawn out of
the case studies the cross-cutting themes and issues they
illustrate. The authors prove that the concept can work, bring to
life the context in which police and communities addressed these
vexing problems, and, ideally, will inspire future problem-oriented
police work that builds on these reported successes. Written in a
clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and
scholars of policing, criminology, and social studies; police
practitioners and crime analysts; and all those who are interested
in learning more about the reality of police problem-solving.
To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human
longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of
grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the
story of the Bible, helping us to see that there is a homemaking
God with wide arms of welcome-and a church commissioned with this
same work. "Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, if
ordinary, beauty of place," writes author Jen Pollock Michel.
"Perhaps we're reading along with Wendell Berry, falling in love
with Berry's small-town barber and Jayber Crow's small-town life. .
. . Or maybe we're simply reading our Bibles better, discovering
that while we might wish to flatten Scripture to serve our didactic
purposes, it rises up in flesh and sinew, muscle and bone: God's
holy story is written in the lives of people and their places."
Including a five-session discussion guide and paired with a
companion DVD, Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to
the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today with
our longings for our eternal home.
Scottish Wild Flowers - Pocket Edition, is an ideal pocket-size
guide to over 350 plant species found throughout Scotland. Packed
full of information, is a convenient guide for both visitors and
residents of Scotland who wish to learn about the fascinating
wealth of wild flowers that can be found there. Each species is
illustrated in full colour with a comprehensive description, plus
the plant's English, Latin and Gaelic names. For ease of use, the
plants are grouped together by the type of habitat in which they
can be found, including Highlands, Lowlands and Coasts. Habitats
are arranged from those most influenced by humans, progressing
towards wilder and more remote areas. The book includes a section
with up-to-date details about places of interest and the best sites
for finding some of the most attractive and special species of wild
flowers in Scotland.
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Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance.
Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all
grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports
emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective
sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic musicians. In
Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance, Michael Scott argues that
this revival arose from state policies and shows how the state
built market opportunities for popular musicians through
public-private partnerships and organizational affinity with
existing music industry institutions. New Zealand offers an
instructive case for the ways in which 'after neo-liberal' states
steer and co-ordinate popular culture into market exchange by
incentivizing cultural production. Scott highlights how these music
policies were intended to address various economic and social
problems. Arriving with the creative industries' discourse and
policy making, politicians claimed these expanded popular music
supports would facilitate sustainable employment and a sense of
national identity. Yet popular music as economic and social policy
presents a paradox: the music industry generates commercial failure
and thus requires a large unattached pool of potential talent.
Considering this feature, Scott analyses how state programs induced
an informal economy of proto-pop production aimed at accessing
competitive state funding while simultaneously encouraging
musicians to adopt entrepreneurial subjectivities. In doing so he
argues New Zealand's music policies are a form of social policy
that unintentionally deploy hierarchical structures to foster
social inclusion amongst growing numbers of creative workers.
In 1997, the Bar Council, which regulates the behaviour of
barristers, appointed Michael Scott, a recently retired soldier
with a distinguished war record but no legal experience, to head
its first Complaints Commission to deal with the public's
complaints against the legal profession. It was the sort of
minefield Scott had not encountered before. He had to deal with
murderers, gangsters, drug barons, paedophiles, bitter wives and
infuriated neighbours, all of whom believed they had been let down
by the legal profession. He found that the price of justice brought
him face to face with all kinds of hostility, from mockery to
threats of violence, appearances in court and of course, regular
scrutiny by journalists and consumer counsellors. But amongst the
stories of delusion, sadness and occasional tragedy, there are
moments of great hilarity - as the tin of Argentinian corned beef
and the thirty pierces of silver. This is a rich and enthralling
account of how human nature will tie itself in all kinds of knots
to get what it thinks it deserves - and how an experienced and
honest ex-soldier was up to all the tricks his complainants play on
him.
"Mountain flowers are the most romantic in our flora, exquisite,
enigmatic and, often, remote from human habitation. Michael Scott
has not only seen them all but has roamed every part of the hill
scenery of Britain and brings to his subject passion, learning and
hands-on experience. This is field botany at its best, engrossing,
exciting and full of wonder." PETER MARREN Britain's mountains and
exposed sub-arctic regions of the far north are home to a
remarkable range of specialist flowers, shrubs and ferns that are
able to thrive on our islands thanks to a combination of conditions
seldom found in mainland Europe. The peculiarities of their
occurrence here, at unusually low altitudes for typically alpine
species and uncommonly far south for arctic species, make their
ecology especially intriguing. In this invigorating journey from
the Lizard of Cornwall to Unst in Shetland, Michael Scott examines
Britain's richest upland sites, bringing an important 21st-century
perspective to our understanding of the flora along the way.
Lavishly illustrated, Mountain Flowers has much to offer wild
flower enthusiasts and botanists, including detailed profiles of
over 150 of the plants most characteristic of our montane regions.
It will prove an indispensable companion for hillwalkers and
climbers wanting to learn more about the enigmatic species that are
such an intrinsic part of the British mountain landscape. -
Featuring over 150 mountain plants, with 20 extended profiles for
the most enigmatic species - Illustrated with over 340 colour
photographs of plants and their spectacular habitats - Jacket
artwork by Carry Akroyd
Uncovering the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch; the pursuit of every society from the ancients through to today. But the stories behind archaeological exploration and discovery - what we look for when, what we end up finding, and what we then do with it - tell us as much about ourselves today as they do about the past.
Through eight sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces the evolution of modern archaeology from colonial expeditions to today's cutting-edge digs, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way. We uncover why different periods and places have caught our attention and imaginations at different times. We meet the characters, some celebrated and some forgotten, who found world-famous discoveries like the Rosetta Stone, the Terracotta Warriors and Machu Picchu. We investigate ancient human footprints, stunning shipwrecks, mythical princesses and surprising rituals as keyholes to the wonders of past civilisations. And we unravel how archaeological finds have often become emblems of modern fascinations and dilemmas.
Crossing millions of years, trekking from the jungles of South America to the frozen highlands of Central Asia, X Marks the Spot reveals how much the discovery of our past is intertwined with the concerns of our present and why X never, ever marks the spot.
Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first
systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented
policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from
among the thousands of projects submitted for the Herman Goldstein
Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. The volume
describes in detail the case studies and explains the wider
significance of each for effective, efficient, and equitable
policing. This book explores a wide range of problems that fall
under five general categories: gang violence; violence against
women; vulnerable people; disorderly places; and theft, robbery,
and burglary. The case studies tell stories of how police, in
collaboration with others, successfully tackled real-world policing
problems fairly and effectively. The authors have also drawn out of
the case studies the cross-cutting themes and issues they
illustrate. The authors prove that the concept can work, bring to
life the context in which police and communities addressed these
vexing problems, and, ideally, will inspire future problem-oriented
police work that builds on these reported successes. Written in a
clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and
scholars of policing, criminology, and social studies; police
practitioners and crime analysts; and all those who are interested
in learning more about the reality of police problem-solving.
Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance.
Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all
grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports
emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective
sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic musicians. In
Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance, Michael Scott argues that
this revival arose from state policies and shows how the state
built market opportunities for popular musicians through
public-private partnerships and organizational affinity with
existing music industry institutions. New Zealand offers an
instructive case for the ways in which 'after neo-liberal' states
steer and co-ordinate popular culture into market exchange by
incentivizing cultural production. Scott highlights how these music
policies were intended to address various economic and social
problems. Arriving with the creative industries' discourse and
policy making, politicians claimed these expanded popular music
supports would facilitate sustainable employment and a sense of
national identity. Yet popular music as economic and social policy
presents a paradox: the music industry generates commercial failure
and thus requires a large unattached pool of potential talent.
Considering this feature, Scott analyses how state programs induced
an informal economy of proto-pop production aimed at accessing
competitive state funding while simultaneously encouraging
musicians to adopt entrepreneurial subjectivities. In doing so he
argues New Zealand's music policies are a form of social policy
that unintentionally deploy hierarchical structures to foster
social inclusion amongst growing numbers of creative workers.
Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching:
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