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Do you feel like weâre 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 time,
these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a
cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor
policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening
inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global
co-operation. They shared their fears and frustrations. And the
more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes
had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a
brighter future exists. Informed by their different perspectives,
they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our
fractured world. This book is the product of that thinking. Â
At the heart of todayâs permacrisis are broken approaches to
growth, economic management, and governance. While these approaches
are broken, they are not beyond repair. An explanation of where
weâve gone wrong, and a provocative, inspiring plan to do nothing
less than change the world, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured
World, written with Reid Lidow, sets out how we can prevent crises
and better manage the future for the benefit of the many and not
the few. The longer a problem goes unresolved, the worse it will
get; thatâs what happens in a permacrisis â and thatâs why we
must act now.
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Bloody Scotland (Paperback)
Lin Anderson, Chris Brookmyre, Gordon Brown, Ann Cleeves, Doug Johnstone, …
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WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER In Bloody Scotland a selection
of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the
country's built heritage in stories that are by turns gripping,
chilling and redemptive. Stellar contributors Val McDermid, Chris
Brookmyre, Denise Mina, Ann Cleeves, Louise Welsh, Lin Anderson,
Doug Johnstone, Gordon Brown, Craig Robertson, E S Thomson, Sara
Sheridan and Stuart MacBride explore the thrilling potential of
Scotland's iconic sites and structures. From murder in an ancient
broch and a macabre tale of revenge among the furious clamour of an
eighteenth century mill, to a dark psychological thriller set
within the tourist throng of Edinburgh Castle and a rivalry turning
fatal in the concrete galleries of an abandoned modernist ruin,
this collection uncovers the intimate - and deadly - connections
between people and places. Prepare for a dangerous journey into the
dark shadows of our nation's buildings - where passion, fury,
desire and death collide.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'His vision, ideas and passion
shine through on every page' Ed Balls 'Compelling, challenging,
inspiring and very timely' Piers Morgan 'Immensely powerful and
persuasive...I found it exhilarating throughout' Joanna Lumley When
the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an
unprecedented impact. But out of such disruption can come a new way
of thinking, and in this superb book, updated to include the latest
events in Ukraine and at COP26, former UK prime minister Gordon
Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we face now and in the
future. In the book, he states that there are seven major global
problems we must address: global health; climate change and
environmental damage; nuclear proliferation; global financial
instability; the humanitarian crisis and global poverty; the
barriers to education and opportunity; and global inequality and
its biggest manifestation, global tax havens. Each one presents an
immense challenge that requires an urgent global response and
solution. All should be on the world's agenda today. None can be
solved by one nation acting on its own, but all can be addressed if
we work together as a global community. However, Brown remains
optimistic that, despite the many obstacles in our way, we will
find a path to regeneration via a new era of global order. Yes,
there is a crisis of globalisation, but we are beginning to see the
means by which it might be resolved. Crises create opportunities
and having two at once shouldn't just focus the mind, it might even
be seen as giving greater grounds for hope. In Seven Ways to Change
the World, Brown provides an authoritative and inspirational
pathway to a better future that is essential reading for policy
makers and concerned citizens alike.
In the years between about 1810 and 1840, Edinburgh-long and
affectionately known as 'Auld Reekie'-came to think of itself and
be widely regarded as something else: the city became 'Modern
Athens', an epithet later turned to 'the Athens of the North'. The
phrase is very well-known. It is also much used by those who have
little understanding of the often confused and contradictory
messages hidden within the apparent convenience of a trite or
hackneyed term that conceals a myriad of nuanced meanings. This
book examines the circumstances underlying a remarkable change in
perception of a place and an age. It looks in detail at the 'when',
the 'by whom', the 'why', the 'how', and the 'with what
consequences' of this most interesting, if extremely complex,
transformation of one city into an image-physical or spiritual, or
both-of another. A very broad range of evidence is drawn upon, the
story having not only topographical, artistic, and architectural
dimensions but also social, cerebral, and philosophical ones.
Edinburgh may well have been considered 'Athenian'. But, in
essence, it remained what it had always been. Maybe, however, for a
brief period it was really a sort of hybrid: 'Auld Greekie'.
Gordon Brown is a BCU Level 5 sea coach based on the Isle of Skye,
Scotland. He shares his knowledge with you in his own succinct
humorous style and very visual approach. In this book, Gordon
covers topics of kayaking history, physiology, boat and paddle
dynamics, seamanship and navigation, safety and rescue, weather
forecasting, caves, rockhopping and tidal races, expeditions and
overnighting, as well as a wealth of tips and resources for the sea
paddler. Over seventy photographs and illustrations help to make
this an essential modern manual for the sea kayaker.
Following on from his hugely successful book Sea Kayak, Gordon
Brown brings his vast experience and unique style to this latest
publication Sea Kayak Safety and Rescue. Each chapter begins with a
real-life incident which sets the scene and helps to emphasise what
follows. The underlying principles are highlighted, practical
lessons learnt and the hard skills explored in detail. Numerous
colour photos complement and illustrate the text. This book is
essential reading for any sea kayaker, and will be enjoyed and
valued by both novice and experienced paddlers alike.
This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street
systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly
preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding
Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic
transactions. Real property has been instrumental in forming urban
settlements for 5000 years, but virtually all urban form
commentary, theory and research has ignored this reality. The
result is an incomplete and flawed understanding of cities. Real
property became a means of arranging spatial patterns caused by
millennia of human evolutionary and historical developments with
respect to access and movement. As a result, access to resources of
all types became a regulatory mechanism controlled, at least in
part, by real property ownership. The effects of real property on
urban spatial patterns are currently best seen by examining
American urban space, which has changed significantly over the past
200 years. This change, which began in the 1840s and established
path dependence through a combination of design thought,
sentimental pastoralism and financial prowess resulted in an urban
regime shift that diminished economic resilience. This book offers
a rethinking of how real property relates to real space, examines
the thought of form promoters, links space, property, neurological
evolution and settlement form, shows access is measurable and
describes the plusses and minuses of functionalism, rent seeking,
general purpose technology, grid-form street systems and what the
American Founding Fathers thought about urban form.
This title was first published in 2001. This volume contains Allan
Ramsay's "Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace's
Sabine Villa". It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More,
Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and country house in 18th-century
British thought, and the archaeology of the Licenza Valley. The
aims of the editors are three-fold: to print the text as Ramsay
would have wished to, had he been able; to publish the related
illustrations by Hackert, More and Ramsay; and to provide some
basic background facts and commentary. They hope to help the
contemporary reader understand the antiquarian context in which
Ramsay was writing and to appreciate Ramsay's contribution to our
understanding of the site conventionally known as Horace's Villa.
This special issue of the International Journal of Psychology had
its origins in the Quebec 98 Conference on Short-Term Memory, held
in Quebec City, Canada, in June 1998. Following this conference,
participants were invited to submit contributions based on, and
expanding upon, their presentation at this conference. The
enthusiastic response made it possible to collect the exciting
selection of articles that you will find herein. It must be noted
that because of the finite journal space available, the editors and
reviewers were faced with the difficult problem of selecting only a
limited number of the excellent articles that were submitted. The
outcome of this process is this special issue, which we believe
provides an up-to-date overview of current research on
short-term/working memory, including the challenges, controversies,
and recent theoretical advances in this field.
This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street
systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly
preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding
Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic
transactions. Real property has been instrumental in forming urban
settlements for 5000 years, but virtually all urban form
commentary, theory and research has ignored this reality. The
result is an incomplete and flawed understanding of cities. Real
property became a means of arranging spatial patterns caused by
millennia of human evolutionary and historical developments with
respect to access and movement. As a result, access to resources of
all types became a regulatory mechanism controlled, at least in
part, by real property ownership. The effects of real property on
urban spatial patterns are currently best seen by examining
American urban space, which has changed significantly over the past
200 years. This change, which began in the 1840s and established
path dependence through a combination of design thought,
sentimental pastoralism and financial prowess resulted in an urban
regime shift that diminished economic resilience. This book offers
a rethinking of how real property relates to real space, examines
the thought of form promoters, links space, property, neurological
evolution and settlement form, shows access is measurable and
describes the plusses and minuses of functionalism, rent seeking,
general purpose technology, grid-form street systems and what the
American Founding Fathers thought about urban form.
This title was first published in 2001. This volume contains Allan
Ramsay's "Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace's
Sabine Villa". It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More,
Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and country house in 18th-century
British thought, and the archaeology of the Licenza Valley. The
aims of the editors are three-fold: to print the text as Ramsay
would have wished to, had he been able; to publish the related
illustrations by Hackert, More and Ramsay; and to provide some
basic background facts and commentary. They hope to help the
contemporary reader understand the antiquarian context in which
Ramsay was writing and to appreciate Ramsay's contribution to our
understanding of the site conventionally known as Horace's Villa.
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. Factors such as tribal
organization and changes of it to aid administration are discussed
as well as particular details relating to Hehe marriage and divorce
are also examined. With regard to the political organization of the
tribe the position of the headmen came under scrutiny as did the
existence and basis of local loyalties. A close study of the native
judicial system resulted in many mis-understandings between the
District Office and the tribal authorities.
Do you feel like weâre 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 time,
these friends found their pandemic Zooms increasingly focused on a
cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor
policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening
inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global
co-operation. They shared their fears and frustrations. And the
more they talked, the more they realised that while past mistakes
had set the world on this bumpy course, a better path leading to a
brighter future exists. Informed by their different perspectives,
they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our
fractured world. This book is the product of that thinking. Â
At the heart of todayâs permacrisis are broken approaches to
growth, economic management, and governance. While these approaches
are broken, they are not beyond repair. An explanation of where
weâve gone wrong, and a provocative, inspiring plan to do nothing
less than change the world, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured
World, written with Reid Lidow, sets out how we can prevent crises
and better manage the future for the benefit of the many and not
the few. The longer a problem goes unresolved, the worse it will
get; thatâs what happens in a permacrisis â and thatâs why we
must act now.
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. Factors such as tribal
organization and changes of it to aid administration are discussed
as well as particular details relating to Hehe marriage and
divorce.
This book presents rich source material; it makes no claim to being
academic, though referring whenever possible to works available to
the authors (the bibliography more or less stops with Ian
Gordon-Brown's death in 1996). However, those interested in
Transpersonal Psychology as an academic discipline will be able to
avail themselves of the wealth of original material here and take
it into the world of comparative study. Its origins could be traced
back way beyond Jung, Frankl, Maslow and Assagioli to Far Eastern
and Aboriginal sources, to Greek and later Western teaching, to
other great transpersonal pioneers of the twentieth century and
forward into the twenty-first.
Speeches, 1997-2006, will collect all Gordon Brown's major speeches
on a broad range of topics ranging from Britishness and fairness,
through the economy and public services, to child poverty and
environmental issues. They reflect a formidable and widely read
intellect trained in the analytic skills of the historian but also
- and far more importantly - inspired by a vision of what the
political process can achieve for our society and our nation. The
book traces the development of Gordon Brown's thinking on a wide
range of subjects and is aimed at a specialist audience of
political commentators, researchers and academics, and anyone
interested in the political process. All royalties are being
donated to the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory within the
University of Edinburgh's Research Institute for Medical Cell
Biology.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'His vision, ideas and passion
shine through on every page' Ed Balls 'Compelling, challenging,
inspiring and very timely' Piers Morgan 'Immensely powerful and
persuasive...I found it exhilarating throughout' Joanna Lumley When
the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an
unprecedented impact, greater than the aftermath of 9/11 or the
global financial crisis. But out of such disruption can come a new
way of thinking, and in this superb new book former UK prime
minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we
face in 2021 and beyond. In the book, he states that there are
seven major global problems we must address: global health; climate
change and environmental damage; nuclear proliferation; global
financial instability; the humanitarian crisis and global poverty;
the barriers to education and opportunity; and global inequality
and its biggest manifestation, global tax havens. Each one presents
an immense challenge that requires an urgent global response and
solution. All should be on the world's agenda today. None can be
solved by one nation acting on its own, but all can be addressed if
we work together as a global community. However, Brown remains
optimistic that, despite the many obstacles in our way, we will
find a path to regeneration via a new era of global order. Yes,
there is a crisis of globalisation, but we are beginning to see the
means by which it might be resolved. Crises create opportunities
and having two at once shouldn't just focus the mind, it might even
be seen as giving greater grounds for hope. In Seven Ways to Change
the World, Brown provides an authoritative and inspirational
pathway to a better future that is essential reading for policy
makers and concerned citizens alike.
In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the
Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo -
wheat and barley, coal, gun powder, cement and gravel. These
remarkable craft were worked by a crew of two - skipper and mate.
Here, the shipmate tells his story.
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