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  • This Strange Loneliness

    Heaney's Wordsworth

    by Peter Mackay ...
    This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and as a model for the fortifying power of poetry itself, which offers the fundamental lesson that "it is on this earth 'we find our ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Advances in Financial Risk Management

    Corporates, Intermediaries and Portfolios

    by Jonathan A. Batten, Peter MacKay ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. Three broad perspectives are considered: financial risk in non-financial corporations; in financial intermediaries such as banks; and finally within the context of a portfolio of securities of different credit quality and marketability. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Scotland and the First World War

    Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn

    by Fran Brearton, Michael Brown, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Robert Crawford, Stefan Goebel, David Goldie, Margaret R. Higonnet, Peter Mackay, Graeme Morton, Carol Symes, Catriona M.M. MacDonald ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Scenario Thinking

    A Historical Evolution of Strategic Foresight

    by R. Bradley MacKay, Peter McKiernan ...
    Series series Elements in Business Strategy
    This Element infuses established scenario planning routines with an exploration of cognitive reasoning, by contextualising scenario thinking within the wider human endeavour of grappling with future uncertainties. A study of ancient civilisations shows that scenario thinking is not new, but has evolved significantly since ancient times. By de-coupling scenario thinking from scenario planning, it ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse

    Edited by Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Peter Mackay ...
    The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse is a timeless collection of Scottish poetry. It contains over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the twenty-first century, and paints a full-colour portrait of Scotland’s poetic heritage and culture.Edited and introduced by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay, and including poems by Robert Burns, Carol ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • 100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn

    100 Favourite Gaelic Poems

    Edited by Peter MacKay, Jo MacDonald ...
    A collection of 100 favourite Gaelic poems and songs – love poems and hymns, sea ditties and war poems, lullabies and elegies – many translated into English for the first time. Selected by Peter Mackay and Jo MacDonald, and including public nominations, these poems give a multi-layered taste of the full richness of Gaelic literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.Cruinneachadh de 100 dàn ... Read more

    $14.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Dry Cellar

    Lessons in Military Logistics from the Afghanistan War

    by John Conrad ...
    Timeless insights into military logistics sprang out of the hardship and sacrifices of Canadians who fought in Afghanistan.Good battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Military logistics in the Canadian Armed Forces have long suffered in a dry cellar, as the under-appreciated bottom heap of the institution. Yet Canadian logistic soldiers were called upon mightily in ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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    A Brief Global History of the Left

    by Shlomo Sand ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    The Left seems to be dying a slow death. While many commenters have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the most unexpected ways. Nevertheless, we are witnessing today a global decline in organized movements on the Left, and while social struggles and rebellious citizens continue to challenge dominant political regimes, these efforts ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Global Carbon Pricing

    The Path to Climate Cooperation

    Edited by Peter Cramton, David JC MacKay, Axel Ockenfels, Steven Stoft ...
    Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Dystopia from the Rock

    by Ellen Curtis, Erin Vance, Jed MacKay, Peter J Foote, Jon Dobbin, Ali House, Matthew LeDrew, Lauralana Dunne, Brad Dunne, John Haas ...
    Series series From the Rock
    #1 Short Fiction Bestseller!What happens when our world -- and everything in it -- goes wrong?Explore that question in thirty-two short stories written by a diverse mix of the best authors in Canada, including award-winning veterans of their craft, and brand new talent.Featuring the early work of superstar Marvel Comics author Jed MacKay (Avengers, X-Men, The Amazing Spider-Man, Moon Knight, Black ... Read more

    $2.20 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

    Edited by Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton ...
    The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • The Glendale Bards

    A Selection of Songs and Poems by Niall Macleoid (1843-1913), 'The Bard of Skye', His Brother Iain Dubh (1847-1901) and Father Domhnall nan Oran (c.1787-1873)

    by Meg Bateman, Anne Loughran, Norman Macdonald ...
    This book marks the centenary of Neil MacLeod's death in 1913 with the republication of some of his work. It also publishes for the first time all of the identifiable work of his brother, Iain Dubh (1847 - 1901), and of their father, Domhnall nan Oran (c.1787 - 1873). Their contrasting styles mark a fascinating period of transition in literary tastes between the 18th and early 20th centuries at a ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus