Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland (Howard Penny McCall)(Pevná vazba)

Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland (Howard Penny McCall)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile environment. It shows how their lives are affected by capitalist forces in the markets they sell to,

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India (Breman Jan)(Pevná vazba)

Jan Breman analyses labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. Focusing on what has happened since Independence, he argues that colonial rule changed the country's agrarian economy. Capitalism has led to progressive inequality, lack of welfare and the exclusion of the

Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism (Pfannebecker Mareile)(Pevná vazba)

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic

Who Built Scotland - A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings (McCall Smith Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

In Who Built Scotland, the authors pick 25 buildings to tell the history of a nation. In vivid travelogues, they explore Scotland's social, political and cultural heritage, placing our people, ideas and passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is a story of how we shape

Astrology in the Workplace - The Zodiac Guide to Creating Great Working Relationships (Thornton Penny)(Pevná vazba)

Records Management at the Heart of Business Processes: Validate, Protect, Operate and Maintain the Information in the Digital Environment (Ott Florence)(Pevná vazba)

In the current digital environment, records and information management allows to face outstanding volumes of information, widespread dematerialization of business processes and the proliferation of legal and regulatory obligations. This book offers principles, standards, procedures and best

Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World (Campling Liam)(Pevná vazba)

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the

Labour and the left in the 1980s (Davis Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about

Working Lives - Essays in Canadian Working-Class History (Heron Craig)(Pevná vazba)

Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely

Dogs: Working Origins and Traditional Tasks (Loades Mike)(Pevná vazba)

Explains how environment and selective breeding for these tasks shaped the physiology of the breeds we see today.With his signature hands-on style, Mike Loades experiences what it is like to handle various dogs engaged in their traditional tasks. These adventures take him to the Jordanian desert,

A Narrow Sea: The Irish-Scottish Connection in 120 Episodes (Bardon Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The first history of the special relationship between Ireland and Scotland from acclaimed historian Jonathan Bardon, based on his BBC Radio series of the same name. A Narrow Sea explores the myriad connections, correlations, personalities and antagonisms that have, over the centuries, defined the

Romans at War: The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire (Elliott Simon)(Pevná vazba)

'Ground-breaking insights into the Roman military presented [in] a sumptuously illustrated package - this will make a glorious gift for Roman history aficionados.' - Love ReadingThe Roman military machine was preeminent in the ancient world, projecting power across the known world over a vast

Secret Life of the Cairngorms (Howard Andy)(Pevná vazba)

Andy Howard is a leading wildlife photographer located in the Scottish Highlands, whose principal subjects are mountain hares, otters, red squirrels and birds. This book follows him deep into the Cairngorms National Park and is illustrated with a stunning selection of his nature

On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to Ad 1500 (Cunliffe Sir Barry)(Pevná vazba)

For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea isunknown and

Class Theory and History - Capitalism and Communism in the USSR (Resnick Stephen A.)(Paperback / softback)

A ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union, presenting a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class

Sailor Song - The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas (Smyth Gerry)(Pevná vazba)

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside

The Hostile Environment: Students Who Bully in School (Carter Susan)(Pevná vazba)

The Hostile Environment examines the latest psychological and educational research providing evidence that anti-bullying programs and school-based interventions lack intensity and a strong behavioral focus. This book includes information on characteristics and risk factors of bully perpetrators and

Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground (Jensen Kipton E.)(Pevná vazba)

Although he is best known as a mentor to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Thurman (1900-1981) was an exceptional philosopher and public intellectual in his own right. In Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground, Kipton E. Jensen provides new ways of

Comrades in conflict: Labour, the trade unions and 1969's In Place of Strife (Dorey Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the 1969 attempt by Harold Wilson's Labour Government to bring about legislation to reform industrial relations, with the objective of establishing a clear legal framework for Britain's trade unions, as well as curbing unofficial strikes. Published in the 50th anniversary of this

Western capitalism in transition: Global processes, local challenges (Andreotti Alberta)(Pevná vazba)

Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is

People's Flag and the Union Jack - An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party (Hassan Gerry)(Pevná vazba)

An alternative history of the Labour Party which will have significant relevance and impact in the context of the ongoing debates on Scottish independence, the future of the British state and UK politics

Forever Chemicals: Environmental, Economic, and Social Equity Concerns with PFAS in the Environment (Kempisty David M.)(Pevná vazba)

Forever Chemicals: Environmental, Economic, and Social Equity Concerns with PFAS in the Environment provides the reader with an understanding of the complex and interwoven issues associated with per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) in our environment. The chapters provide in-depth perspective

Transformations on the Ground: Space and the Power of Land in Botswana (Griffiths Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms--local, international, legal, familial--affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use. In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as

The Invention of the Visible: The Image in Light of the Arts (Vauday Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate eliminating images altogether, but rather entreats us to see them in a different