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  • SAIL THIS WAY

    A plain guide to ocean sailing

    Written in a light hearted conversational style, Sail This Way is a book that answers many of the questions aspiring ocean voyagers will have before setting off. The author's years of sea going experience shine through and the various topics are covered in plain non- technical language with illustrative sketches.Essential reading that will inspire and re-assure those who dream of crossing oceans ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Way Home

    In his days as a young seaman Stuart MacDonald dreamt of sailing away on his own, but a career at sea and later in business got in the way. Finally at the age of sixty four he quit work and set off from Scotland. With no fixed idea of how long he would be away, or how far he would get, he reaches the Caribbean and decides to head through the Panama Canal into the Pacific and on to New Zealand. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Witches of Fife

    Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710

    Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by the harbour watching the fishing boats unload their catch and the pleasure boats rising with the tide.How could people do this to an old woman? ... Read more

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  • Leaving Christianity

    Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945

    Series Book 2 - Advancing Studies in Religion
    Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Tradition and Tension

    The Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1945–1985

    Series Book 102 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    In 1945 the Presbyterian Church was one of Canada’s largest and most culturally influential churches. This impressive standing, in the aftermath of a depression and a global war and just twenty years after much of its membership had departed to form the United Church of Canada, was a mark of the Presbyterian Church’s resilience and resourcefulness. Yet the denomination’s greatest challenges lay in ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Understanding Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations

    Series series Understanding series
    This compelling book provides a comprehensive overview of cultural diplomacy, examining history, theory, practice and real world examples from an array of spheres and institutions. Leading scholars and practitioners discuss the role of culture within international affairs, exploring how it can be used as a channel for addressing foreign policy issues.Organised into three parts, each of which ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation, and Prevent

    A vernacular approach

    This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand radicalisation, how they make sense of counter-radicalisation initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how ... Read more

    $91.49 USD

  • Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses

    Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses provides a unique examination of Islamic State’s online activity at the peak of its "golden age" between 2014 and 2017 and evaluates some of the principal responses to this phenomenon.Featuring contributions from experts across a range of disciplines, the volume examines a variety of aspects of IS’s online activity, including their strategic objectives ... Read more

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  • Designs on Democracy

    Architecture and Design in Scotland Post Devolution

    Whilst there are some studies of architecture in Scotland post-devolution, writings on design are largely non-existent. Designs on Democracy seeks to fill that gap and ranges over the debates concerning architecture, urbanism, design and the Creative and Cultural Industries and the policies, people and places that stimulate and animate them. The book also tells a story about Scotland's creatives - ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Terrorism Online

    Politics, Law and Technology

    Series series Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
    This book investigates the intersection of terrorism, digital technologies and cyberspace.The evolving field of cyber-terrorism research is dominated by single-perspective, technological, political, or sociological texts. In contrast, Terrorism Online uses a multi-disciplinary framework to provide a broader introduction to debates and developments that have largely been conducted in isolation. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Cyberterrorism

    Understanding, Assessment, and Response

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to cyberterrorism. It traces the threat posed by cyberterrorism today, with chapters discussing possible technological vulnerabilities, potential motivations to engage in cyberterrorism, and the challenges of distinguishing this from other cyber threats. The book also addresses the range of potential responses to this threat by ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Violent Extremism Online

    New Perspectives on Terrorism and the Internet

    Series series Media, War and Security
    This book explores the interface between terrorism and the internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent extremism online.The volume focuses on four issues in particular: terrorist propaganda on the internet; radicalisation and the internet; counter campaigns and approaches to disrupting internet radicalisation; and approaches to researching and understanding the role of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD