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A Good Place To Die (Paperback): James Buchan A Good Place To Die (Paperback)
James Buchan
R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Pitt has arrived in Iran as a naive English teacher. It is 1974 and Iran is changing, with the forces of religious conservatism and liberal reform at collision point. Amidst all this, he falls in love with one of his students, Shirin.

Nurses Work - An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market (Paperback): James Buchan, Ian Seccombe Nurses Work - An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market (Paperback)
James Buchan, Ian Seccombe
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 reports of recently completed research projects in the fields of nursing and health care. The aim of the series is to report studies that have relevance to contemporary nursing and health care practice. It includes reports of research into aspects of clinical nursing care, management and education. The series is of interest to all nurses and health care workers, researchers, managers and educators in the field.

Nurses Work - An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market (Hardcover): James Buchan, Ian Seccombe Nurses Work - An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market (Hardcover)
James Buchan, Ian Seccombe
R2,998 Discovery Miles 29 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 reports of recently completed research projects in the fields of nursing and health care. The aim of the series is to report studies that have relevance to contemporary nursing and health care practice. It includes reports of research into aspects of clinical nursing care, management and education. The series is of interest to all nurses and health care workers, researchers, managers and educators in the field.

A Street Shaken by Light - The Story of William Neilson, Volume I (Paperback): James Buchan A Street Shaken by Light - The Story of William Neilson, Volume I (Paperback)
James Buchan
R235 R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 Save R47 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'An epic voyage well worth taking ... Exhilarating' Marianka Swain, Telegraph One of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William Neilson. In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe, first sailing to Rotterdam and then on foot to Paris, where he meets and is immediately employed by the banker John Law. A day later he is in the Bastille, but not before he has encountered a young woman of surpassing beauty to whom Neilson will be devoted for the rest of his life. Imprisoned in the Bastille, he has no possibility of seeing or communicating with his beloved. When at last he recovers his freedom, he is despatched at once to sea, bound for the Indies. He will be shipwrecked, become an equerry on the Île-de-France, anon command a disorderly legion in Persia, become a linguist able to hold his own in diplomatic and mercantile circles, all the while anticipating a summons from the Stuart king in exile in Rome, until he is sent back to France, and thence to Scotland in the service of the Young Pretender. This is brilliant, irresistibly entertaining fiction. A whole world of adventure and romance comes alive in the hands of one of our most ingenious storytellers, one of our finest writers.

A Street Shaken by Light - The Story of William Neilson, Volume I (Hardcover): James Buchan A Street Shaken by Light - The Story of William Neilson, Volume I (Hardcover)
James Buchan
R528 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R98 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

One of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of William Neilson. In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe, first sailing to Rotterdam and then on foot to Paris, where he meets and is immediately employed by the banker John Law. A day later he is in the Bastille, but not before he has encountered a young woman of surpassing beauty to whom Neilson will be devoted for the rest of his life. Imprisoned in the Bastille, he has no possibility of seeing or communicating with his beloved. When at last he recovers his freedom, he is despatched at once to sea, bound for the Indies. He will be shipwrecked, become an equerry on the Ile-de-France, anon command a disorderly legion in Persia, become a linguist able to hold his own in diplomatic and mercantile circles, all the while anticipating a summons from the Stuart king in exile in Rome, until he is sent back to France, and thence to Scotland in the service of the Young Pretender. This is brilliant, irresistibly entertaining fiction. A whole world of adventure and romance comes alive in the hands of one of our most ingenious storytellers, one of our finest writers.

A Chalice Argent - The Story of William Neilson, Volume 2 (Hardcover): James Buchan A Chalice Argent - The Story of William Neilson, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
James Buchan
R579 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R111 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The astonishing story of William Neilson continues. New Year's Eve, 1746. A castle in the depths of France. A thunderstorm. A pair of lovers in a hay-loft. A wounded soldier toppling from his horse. So begins the second instalment of the life of William Neilson, Scottish soldier in French service and Jacobite agent against his will. Around his neck, William carries the most precious jewel on the surface of the earth, but it is not his, and he must carry it to the exiled King of England, Scotland and Ireland in Italy. Before that, he wishes to see for a last time the woman he has loved for more than half his life. The scene shifts from the wastes and marshes of the Sologne, to the disorderly houses and prisons of the Most Serene Republic of Venice and the desolate court-in-exile of James Stuart in Rome. Along the way are sword-fights, love stories, intrigues, assassinations, blasphemies, kidnappings, musical performances, and treacheries.

Capital of the Mind - How Edinburgh Changed the World (Paperback): James Buchan Capital of the Mind - How Edinburgh Changed the World (Paperback)
James Buchan
R416 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In the early 18th century, Edinburgh 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 minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economies - all of which continues to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned "The Wealth of Nations". James Boswell produced "The Life of Samuel Johnson". Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of an historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being.

The Authentic Adam Smith - His Life and Ideas (Paperback): James Buchan The Authentic Adam Smith - His Life and Ideas (Paperback)
James Buchan
R524 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R68 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small government. His "invisible hand" has become a commanding shorthand for politicians promoting laissez-faire economics, but Smith never used it in reference to free-market capitalism. Smith was a deeply moral man who considered himself a philosopher, not an economist. Drawing on twenty-five years of research, James Buchan renders an Adam Smith untainted by political and economic interests. This compelling narrative uncovers Smith's passionate commitment to develop an ethical theory essential to his vision of a just commercial society.

The Persian Bride (Paperback, 1st Mariner Books ed): James Buchan The Persian Bride (Paperback, 1st Mariner Books ed)
James Buchan
R562 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R64 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran, THE PERSIAN BRIDE is unflinching in its vision of twentieth-century chaos. In 1974, the young Englishman John Pitt follows the hippie trail to Isfahan, where he encounters the enchanting Shirin Farameh. These two young people fall desperately in love and marry, despite their cultural differences and the political upheaval surrounding them. When they are tragically separated, John sets off in search of his wife on a nightmare journey that takes him from the corrupt court of the shah to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.


John Law - A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback): James Buchan John Law - A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
James Buchan 1
R473 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some GBP80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined.

Days of God - The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences (Paperback): James Buchan Days of God - The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences (Paperback)
James Buchan 1
R412 R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Save R41 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history. The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare, but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God James Buchan lives each moment of the revolution through the eyes of ordinary people as he tries to answer his own troubling question: why did his friends, with their peculiar Iranian dreaminess and charm, act the way they did?

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