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1	Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist In the early eighteenth century, Edinburghwas a filthy backwater synonymous with poverty and disease, and recently famous for religious persecution. When this small walled-off city surrendered to a handful of Highlanders in 1745, things had never looked bleaker. Yet by century's end, the ancient Scottish capital had become the marvel of modern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions
2	The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist Celebrated author James Buchan breathes new life into the legacy of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) and the beginnings of modern economics in this engaging biography. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Frozen Desire: The Psychology of Money more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist Money, James Buchan contends, is civilization's greatest invention. All manner of things can be called money, almost all human beings have a vivid sense of what money is, and virtually every culture has given money an ideal existence. He explains what he calls the "strangeness of money" in this wise and epigrammatic book, the fruit of his long ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
4	The Persian Bride more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist John Pitt, an Englishman in Iran, falls in love with a 17-year-old girl, and they secretly marry. But Pitt has married not only a woman but her entire culture, and when Iran erupts in revolution and anarchy, he loses her--and sets out on a long and dangerous quest to get her back. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Prince more books like this by Hushang Golshiri, James Buchan (Translator) add to wishlist Set in the mid 1920s in Iran. In a crumbling house in a provincial town, the last survivor of a deposed dynasty is slowly dying from tuberculosis. The old prince's domain has been reduced to his domestic household, where the former glories of his ancestors haunt him. Drifting in and out of reality, the prince relives episodes of his forebears' ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.63! \| SVS
6	Heart's Journey in Winter more books like this by Jaan Kross, James Buchan add to wishlist A novel from the author of A PARISH OF RICH WOMEN, which combines a love story within a thriller, set in 1983, when the last battle of the Cold War is about to begin, the secret battle for the divided heart of Germany. see all copies from $2.53! first editions
7	Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist How - in the eighteenth century - did a notoriously poor, alcoholic, violent and smelly town, consisting of just two long streets and 40,000 inhabitants, make such an impression on its age and on ours? So that Voltaire wrote with a dash of malice that 'today it is from Scotland that we get rules of taste in all the arts, from epic poetry to ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $13.70! \| first editions
8	The Gate of Air more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist When mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse, he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalized in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour. Intrigued, Jim abandons his customary ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $10.12! \| first editions
9	Davy Chadwick more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist This literary thriller is set in southern Italy where an English family, the Chadwicks, are living when their five year old son is kidnapped. The author's first novel, "A Parish of Rich Women" won several literary prizes including the Whitbread Prize for the Best First Novel of 1984. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
10	The Glenbuchat Ballads more books like this by David Buchan (Editor), James Moreira (Editor), Robert Scott, Rev. (Compiled by) add to wishlist Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of the ballad collections produced during the Scottish Romantic Revival were eventually ... see all copies from $33.60! new only from $40.00! \| SVS
11	The golden plough : a novel more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.28! \| first editions
12	The expendable Mary Slessor more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist see all copies from $15.90! first editions \| SVS
13	Frozen desire : an inquiry into the meaning of money more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist The author examines money from a psychological perspective in this book. He asks how men and women feel about money, about its acquisition, possession, loss, and absence. He seeks to show how money has colonized the world from the materialist and idealistic points of view. see all copies from $7.55!
14	Frozen Desire: Meaning of Money more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist "The best single book I have ever seen on the history, sociology, literature, cultures and philosophy of money. This learned book is my pick of the year for any intelligent and broadly curious reader". -- "Worth Magazine". see all copies from $9.10! new only from $9.10! \| SVS
15	Thatched Village more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist see all copies from $13.84!
16 view cover	Heart's Journey in Winter more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist Germany, 1983. The last battle of the Cold War is about to begin - a struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States for territorial supremacy in Europe, a power struggle between individual politicians and embassies but, above all, a secret battle for the divided heart of Germany. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Supernatural Tales more books like this by John Buchan, James C Greig (Editor) add to wishlist Scottish Supernatural Tales sees John Buchan ''s best ghost stories and tales of the supernatural brought together for the first time in one volume. ' see all copies from $14.25!
18 view cover	Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist The Scottish Philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was long ago adopted as the father of a neo-conservative ideology of unregulated business and small government. Politicians such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promoted Smith's famous 1776 book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" as the bible of Anglo-Saxon ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.21! \| first editions
19 view cover	A Parish of Rich Women more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist This is the story of two societies at the point of collapse: an England clinging desperately to the wreckage of its history and Beirut under bombardment. Adam Murray, a young British journalist, returns from assignment in the Middle East to find his old world has disintegrated. Stunned and embittered by the change in his friends, and their aimless ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.14! \| first editions
20 view cover	High Latitudes more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist It is the autumn of 1987 and Jane Haddon, at the age of 30, is at the pinnacle of her career. As managing director of Associated British Textiles, she has scaled, without any evident exertion, the peak of British finance. When the stock market crashes, so does Jane's life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.80! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	High Latitudes: A Romance more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist Jane Haddam is in her mid thirties, at the pinnacle of her career as Managing Director of Associated British Textiles and the most highly remunerated woman in Britain. Some wish her success and some long to see her fail. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Look, I Can Talk! : Student Notebook in French by Blaine Ray; Greg Buchan; James T. Asher add to wishlist see all copies from $81.46! new only from $93.24!
23 view cover	A good place to die more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist John Pitt, drop-out from university, has arrived in Iran as a naive English teacher. It is 1974 and in Iran the forces of religious conservatism and of liberal reform are at collision point. Amidst all this, John falls madly, irresponsibly and uncontrollably in love with one of his students. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Nurses Work: An Analysis of the UK Nursing Labour Market more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist Providing an overview of the UK nursing force and a profile of the UK nursing labour market, this work is intended to inform the debates on the "right" number of nurses to train and employ, on nurses pay, morale and labour market behaviour. It establishes the current profile of the UK nursing labour market, identifies key trends in nurse labour ... see all copies from $23.86! new only from $110.14!
25	Jeddah Old & New more books like this by James Buchan add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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