George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets. Admired by many fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney and Douglas Dunn, his poems are deeply individual. This volume brings together all his poems.[...]

Harvey Mackay is a legend--and now he's back with the sum total of decades of sales know-how, teaching go-getters how to make the sale and hit the numbers, day in and day out. His advice is rooted in road-tested, real-world experiences and include new tips on the Web, LinkedIn and Facebook. As a lif[...]

Discusses effective hiring, defeating any objection, the difference between salespeople and entrepreneurs, advertising, and cash incentives, and includes the Mackay 66 customer profile program, in a new edition of the classic business management handbook. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]

In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws on local building traditions, materials and crafts; and strives to create a sense of community is not recent. Yet, the way it has evolved in the past few years in th[...]

Contains thirteen stories, and a selection of twenty-three more from author's previous collection, making it a delight for her existing admirers and the introduction to her work for beginners.[...]

Provides a framework for assessing the uncertainties associated with exploration risk from beginning to end. This book includes numerous examples with accompanying microcomputer algorithms which illustrate how to quantitatively approach economic risk. It compares detailed assumptions and models of e[...]

Solar Energy presents an introduction to all aspects of solar energy, from photovoltaic devices to active and passive solar thermal energy conversion, giving both a detailed and broad perspective of the field. It is aimed at the beginner involved in solar energy or a related field, or for someone wa[...]

Longlisted for both the CWA John Creasey Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues ar[...]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEANSTON SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead. Most [...]

The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expected that the first European settlers in North Amer[...]

Harvey Mackay, one of the world's best-selling motivational and business authors tells you why it isn't so. He reveals anecdotes and secrets from some of the best and brightest headliners in our world today. Their gripping accounts show that "no one" is immune to bad judgment or backstabbing. In col[...]

Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania." Fired by greed and fed by naivete, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of hist[...]