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Regional Identity and Economic Change - The Upper Rhine 1450-1600 (Hardcover, New): Tom Scott Regional Identity and Economic Change - The Upper Rhine 1450-1600 (Hardcover, New)
Tom Scott
R6,493 Discovery Miles 64 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The current debate about the best methods of European organization - central or regional - is influenced by an awareness of regional identity, which offers an alternative to the rigidities of organization by nation-state. Yet where does the sense of regionalism come from? What are the distinctive factors that transform a geographical area into a particular 'region'? Tom Scott addresses these questions in this study of one apparently 'natural' region - the Upper Rhine - between 1450 and 1600. This region has been divided between three countries and so historically marginalized, yet Dr Scott is able to trace the existence of a sense of historical regional identity cutting across national frontiers, founded on common economic interests. But that identity was always contingent and precarious, neither 'natural' nor immutable.

Structures of Protection? - Rethinking Refugee Shelter (Paperback): Tom Scott-Smith, Mark E. Breeze Structures of Protection? - Rethinking Refugee Shelter (Paperback)
Tom Scott-Smith, Mark E. Breeze
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement.

Structures of Protection? - Rethinking Refugee Shelter (Hardcover): Tom Scott-Smith, Mark E. Breeze Structures of Protection? - Rethinking Refugee Shelter (Hardcover)
Tom Scott-Smith, Mark E. Breeze
R3,017 Discovery Miles 30 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement.

The Early Reformation in Germany - Between Secular Impact and Radical Vision (Hardcover, New Ed): Tom Scott The Early Reformation in Germany - Between Secular Impact and Radical Vision (Hardcover, New Ed)
Tom Scott
R4,639 Discovery Miles 46 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an interest in the 'long' or 'delayed' Reformations, and the structure and operation of the Holy Roman Empire. Whilst this focus has resulted in many fascinating new insights, it has also led to the relative neglect of the early Reformation movement. Put together with the explicit purpose of encouraging scholars to reengage with the early 'storm years' of the German Reformation, this collection of eleven essays by Tom Scott, explores several issues in the historiography of the early Reformation which have not been adequately addressed. The debate over the nature and function of anticlericalism remains unresolved; the mainsprings of iconoclasm are still imperfectly understood; the ideological role of evangelical doctrines in stimulating and legitimising popular rebellion - above all in the German Peasants' War - remains contentious, while the once uniform view of Anabaptism has given way to a recognition of the plurality and diversity of religious radicalism. Equally, there are questions which, initially broached, have then been sidelined with undue haste: the failure of Reforming movements in certain German cities, or the perception of what constituted heresy in the eyes of the Reformers themselves, and not least, the part played by women in the spread of evangelical doctrines. Consisting of seven essays previously published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, together with three new chapters and an historical afterword, Scott's volume serves as a timely reminder of the importance of the early decades of the sixteenth century. By reopening seemingly closed issues and by revisiting neglected topics the volume contributes to a more nuanced understanding of what the Reformation in Germany entailed.

Lateral - 100 Fiendish Questions to Make You Think Differently (Paperback): Tom Scott, David Bodycombe Lateral - 100 Fiendish Questions to Make You Think Differently (Paperback)
Tom Scott, David Bodycombe
R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From hit YouTuber Tom Scott comes a new type of quiz book – but can you outsmart the questions?

Why do Australians with swimming pools always make sure there’s a float available, tied to a nearby tree? Where in London might you find a regularly scheduled passenger train that nobody will ever board? And why was the small Californian town of Yreka once famous for its local bread supplier?

Welcome to Lateral – where curiosity meets creativity and thinking differently is the only way forward. Each of the 100 questions enclosed within these pages isn’t what it seems at first, and has been designed to make you think outside the box in order to answer it.

Whether you’re in the mood for a solitary challenge, or you’re looking for the next big hit for game night, Lateral is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to think outside the box – or just enjoys a fascinating conversation.

Plant Regulation and World Agriculture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979): Tom Scott Plant Regulation and World Agriculture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
Tom Scott
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By the year 2000, the most critical world problem--as things stand now--will be sustaining the human race. The quality and the availability of food will continue to be central to this issue. However, since the beginning of the final quarter of the twentieth century, few attempts have been made to organize and integrate information applying our knowledge of the regulation of plant growth to the enhancement of the world's yield of food, forage, fiber, and other useful plants. It is appropriate, therefore, to approach a solution to future human needs by combining an area of basic science with a defined and needed application of it. The purpose of this NATO Advanced Study Institute--Plant Regulation and World Agriculture--is reflected in the content of this volume. It covers a wide range of physiological processes including photosynthesis, translocation, seed germination, source sink relationships, water relationships, flowering, fruiting, and adaptations to stress. The identification, chemistry, and bio chemistry of naturally occurring as well as known and new synthetic plant growth regulators are discussed in relation to productivity, growth retardation, and herbicidal activity. Other topics include plant breeding and genetics, tissue culture and its use in the improvement of and the increase in plant varieties, and ecological implications in agriculture. Chapter titles in bold print in the Table of Contents designate keynote presentations for the three major subtopics in Section II."

Thomas Muntzer - Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation (Paperback, 1st ed. 1989): Tom Scott, Albert Abane Thomas Muntzer - Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation (Paperback, 1st ed. 1989)
Tom Scott, Albert Abane
R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freiburg and the Breisgau - Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasant's War (Hardcover): Tom Scott Freiburg and the Breisgau - Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasant's War (Hardcover)
Tom Scott
R4,460 R1,867 Discovery Miles 18 670 Save R2,593 (58%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This regional study examines the declining fortunes of a craft town on the Upper Rhine from 1450 to 1530, in the context of its relations with the country communities around it. In the debate on the transition between feudalism and capitalism in this period, rival interpretations have focused on town and country in isolation from each other. Tom Scott has used the techniques of historical and economic geography to examine them as a totality, consciously writing regional history, but also contributing to the wider history and theory of revolution as he extends these techniques to analyse popular protest.

The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 - Hinterland, Territory, Region (Paperback): Tom Scott The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 - Hinterland, Territory, Region (Paperback)
Tom Scott
R1,373 Discovery Miles 13 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural achievements, above all in Italy. Much less attention has been devoted to the cities' territorial expansion: why, how, and with what consequences cities in the urban belt, stretching from central and northern Italy over the Alps to Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries, succeeded (or failed) in constructing sovereign polities, with or without dependent territories. Tom Scott goes beyond the customary focus on the leading Italian city-states to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of the Swiss city-states and the imperial cities of Germany. He criticizes current typologies of the city-state in Europe advanced by political and social scientists to suggest that the city-state was not a spent force in early modern Europe, but rather survived by transformation and adaption. He puts forward instead a typology which embraces both time and space by arguing for a regional framework for analysis which does not treat city-states in isolation, but within a wider geopolitical setting.

The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 - Hinterland, Territory, Region (Hardcover, New): Tom Scott The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 - Hinterland, Territory, Region (Hardcover, New)
Tom Scott
R3,291 Discovery Miles 32 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state, or else on their artistic and cultural achievements, above all in Italy. Much less attention has been devoted to the cities' territorial expansion: why, how, and with what consequences cities in the urban belt, stretching from central and northern Italy over the Alps to Switzerland, Germany, and the low countries, succeeded (or failed) in constructing sovereign polities, with or without dependent territories. Tom Scott goes beyond the customary focus on the leading Italian city-states to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of the Swiss city-states and the imperial cities of Germany. He criticizes current typologies of the city-state in Europe advanced by political and social scientists to suggest that the city-state was not a spent force in early modern Europe, but rather survived by transformation and adaption. He puts forward instead a typology which embraces both time and space by arguing for a regional framework for analysis which does not treat city-states in isolation but within a wider geopolitical setting.

Drawn Out (Hardcover): Tom Scott Drawn Out (Hardcover)
Tom Scott
R544 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary, and more...

On an Empty Stomach - Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief (Hardcover): Tom Scott-Smith On an Empty Stomach - Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief (Hardcover)
Tom Scott-Smith
R798 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but rather is profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions. Aid is often presented as an apolitical and technical project, but the way humanitarians conceive and tackle human needs has always been deeply influenced by culture, politics, and society. Txhese influences extend down to the most detailed mechanisms for measuring malnutrition and providing sustenance. As Scott-Smith shows, over the past century, the humanitarian approach to hunger has redefined food as nutrients and hunger as a medical condition. Aid has become more individualized, medicalized, and rationalized, shaped by modernism in bureaucracy, commerce, and food technology. On an Empty Stomach focuses on the gains and losses that result, examining the complex compromises that arise between efficiency of distribution and quality of care. Scott-Smith concludes that humanitarian groups have developed an approach to the empty stomach that is dependent on compact, commercially produced devices and is often paternalistic and culturally insensitive.

The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560 - Between Accommodation and Aggression (Hardcover): Tom Scott The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560 - Between Accommodation and Aggression (Hardcover)
Tom Scott
R2,612 Discovery Miles 26 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism. The heroic age of the Confederation in the fifteenth century is now seen as a turning-point as the Swiss polity achieved a measure of institutional consolidation and stability, and began to mark out clear frontiers. The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560 questions both assumptions. It argues that the administration of the common lordships by the cantons collectively gave rise to as much discord as co-operation, and remained a pragmatic device not a political principle. It argues that the Swiss War of 1499 was an avoidable catastrophe, from which developed a modus vivendi between the Swiss and the Empire as the Rhine became a buffer-zone, not a boundary. It then investigates the background to Bern's conquest of the Vaud in 1536, under the guise of relieving Geneva from beleaguerment, to suggest that Bern's actions were driven not by predeterminate territorial expansion but by the need to halt French designs upon Geneva and Savoy. The geopolitical balance of the Confederation was fundamentally altered by Bern's acquisition of the Vaud and adjacent lands. Nevertheless, the political fabric of the Confederation, which had been tested to the brink during the Reformation, proved itself flexible enough to absorb such a major reorientation, not least because what held the Confederation together was not so much institutions as a sense of common identity and mutual obligation forged during the Burgundian Wars of the 1470s.

Our American Injustice System - A Toxic Waste Dump Also Known as the World's Largest Crime Syndicate (Paperback): Brian... Our American Injustice System - A Toxic Waste Dump Also Known as the World's Largest Crime Syndicate (Paperback)
Brian Vukadinovich; Edited by Randy Schneider; Tom Scott
R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Real Estate Investor - Achieve Finance Freedom With Rental Property (Create Passive Income With Real Estate, Reits, Tax Lien... Real Estate Investor - Achieve Finance Freedom With Rental Property (Create Passive Income With Real Estate, Reits, Tax Lien Certificates and Commercial Apartment Rental Property Investments) (Paperback)
Tom Scott
R477 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This is Far Enough (Paperback): Tom Scott This is Far Enough (Paperback)
Tom Scott
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The CIA sends an American Homeland Security Agent on a special assignment to Italy to search for a shipment of smuggled surface-to-air missiles, and the ingredients for a dirty bomb.

A Land of Romance, the Border, its History and Legend (Hardcover): Jeanie Lang, Tom Scott A Land of Romance, the Border, its History and Legend (Hardcover)
Jeanie Lang, Tom Scott
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Emperor of The World - A DHS Agent Discovers His Faith, and a Murderous Plot to Overthrow the U.S. Government (Paperback): Tom... Emperor of The World - A DHS Agent Discovers His Faith, and a Murderous Plot to Overthrow the U.S. Government (Paperback)
Tom Scott
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Benjamin Stafford is a wise cracking former U.S. Army Ranger, who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was raised in Dothan, Alabama, where his parents still live. Stafford has followed in his stepfathers footsteps, and gotten a job with the Department of Homeland Security. As an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent, he works in Washington D.C., where he meets a fellow ICE agent named Frank Hernandez, who wants to be safe, and Beth St. James, who wants to reintroduce him to the God he pushed away years ago. While searching for the reasons behind a big decline in cocaine seizures along the Mexican border, Stafford learns that a fellow agent has been murdered. A U.S. Senator claims that he has proof the U.S. government is behind the deaths of thousands of Americans. Anti-government demonstrations are occurring all over the country. Politicians are calling for the President to resign. Stafford's superiors are trusting him to find out who murdered the agent, why the cocaine seizures have declined, why thousands of Americans are dying, and what part a retired Army General might have had in these crimes. Stafford must find the answers, and save America's future.

The Hawick Tradition of 1514 - The Town's Common, Flag, and Seal, Etc. [With Plates and a Map.] (Paperback): Matthew... The Hawick Tradition of 1514 - The Town's Common, Flag, and Seal, Etc. [With Plates and a Map.] (Paperback)
Matthew Robert Smith Craig, Adam Laing, Tom Scott
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Title: The Hawick Tradition of 1514: the town's common, flag, and seal, etc. With plates and a map.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Craig, Matthew Robert Smith; Laing, Adam; Scott, Tom; 1898. viii. 268 p.; 4 . 010370.g.6.

Riverside Rambles Of An Edinburgh Angler (1895) (Paperback): Duncan Fraser Riverside Rambles Of An Edinburgh Angler (1895) (Paperback)
Duncan Fraser; Illustrated by Tom Scott
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e

Riverside Rambles Of An Edinburgh Angler (1895) (Paperback): Duncan Fraser Riverside Rambles Of An Edinburgh Angler (1895) (Paperback)
Duncan Fraser; Illustrated by Tom Scott
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Carlowrie - Or Among Lothian Folk (Paperback): Annie S. Swan Carlowrie - Or Among Lothian Folk (Paperback)
Annie S. Swan; Illustrated by Tom Scott
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Carlowrie - Or Among Lothian Folk (Paperback): Annie S. Swan Carlowrie - Or Among Lothian Folk (Paperback)
Annie S. Swan; Illustrated by Tom Scott
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Tenga las Probabilidades Legales a Su Favor - Comprenda el Sistema Judicial Corrupto de los Estados Unidos-Protejase Ahora y... Tenga las Probabilidades Legales a Su Favor - Comprenda el Sistema Judicial Corrupto de los Estados Unidos-Protejase Ahora y Aumente las Posibilidades de Ganar Casos Mas Tarde (Spanish, Paperback)
Tom Scott; Foreword by Ron Paul; Edited by Noedmari De La Luz
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 (Paperback, Reissue): E. Kouri, Tom Scott Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 (Paperback, Reissue)
E. Kouri, Tom Scott
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 surveys the social and economic development of the German-speaking lands from the age of the Black Death to the eve of the Thirty Years War. It outlines the political geography of the German lands, the aristocratic character of the Empire as a constitutional polity based on a society of Estates, and the changes in society and economy in the wake of the late medieval agrarian crisis. It examines in detail divergent regional and economic trends, and the widening social gulf between the West German landlordship and the new seigneurialism east of the Elbe, and gives wide coverage of urban and rural revolts.

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