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A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music

By: John Wilson,John Scott Keltie,Thomas Maclauchlan

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A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music

By: John Wilson,John Scott Keltie,Thomas Maclauchlan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385533503

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9783385533509

Henry Clay and the War of 1812

By: Quentin Scott King

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Henry Clay and the War of 1812

By: Quentin Scott King

Any biography of Henry Clay's 46 year political career quickly becomes entangled with his monumental, though youthful, political leadership of the War Hawks in urging the Madison Administration to arm the United States for war with Great Britain. He continued to advise in the war's progress and ended by being one of the five distinguished Americans to treat for peace with a difficult team of mediocre British envoys. There has been no detailed treatment of his major role in this early American war until this present work.

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469

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McFarland

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0786478756

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9780786478750

Dynamics of Planetary Systems

By: Scott Tremaine

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Dynamics of Planetary Systems

By: Scott Tremaine

Celestial mechanics--the study of the movement of planets, satellites, and smaller bodies such as comets--is one of the oldest subjects in the physical sciences. Since the mid-twentieth century, the field has experienced a renaissance due to advances in space flight, digital computing, numerical mathematics, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos theory, and the discovery of exoplanets. This modern, authoritative introduction to planetary system dynamics reflects these recent developments and discoveries and is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers. The book treats both traditional subjects, such as the two-body and three-body problems, lunar theory, and Hamiltonian perturbation theory, as well as a diverse range of other topics, including chaos in the solar system, comet dynamics, extrasolar planets, planetesimal dynamics, resonances, tidal friction and disruption, and more. The book provides readers with all the core concepts, tools, and methods needed to conduct research in the subject.

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640

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Princeton University Press

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0691207127

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9780691207124

Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

By: Karen Scott

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Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

By: Karen Scott

Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict? This engaging new book reviews that question and its implications for public policy through a focus on indicators. It highlights tensions on the one hand between various constructs of wellbeing and sustainable development, and on the other between current individual and societal notions of wellbeing. It recommends a clearer conceptual framework for policy makers regarding different wellbeing constructs which would facilitate more transparent discussions. Arguing against a win-win scenario of wellbeing and sustainability, it advocates an approach based on recognising and valuing conflicting views where notions of participation and power are central to discussions. Measuring Wellbeing is divided into two parts. The first part provides a critical review of the field, drawing widely on international research but contextualised within recent UK wellbeing policy discourses. The second part embeds the theory in a case study based on the author’s own experience of trying to develop quality of life indicators within a local authority, against the backdrop of increasing national policy interest in measuring ‘happiness’. This accessible and informative book, covering uniquely both practice and theory, will be of great appeal to students, academics and policy makers interested in wellbeing, sustainable development, indicators, public policy, community participation, power and discourse.

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Routledge

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113628754X

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9781136287541

Unjust Enrichment in South African Law

Rethinking Enrichment by Transfer

By: Helen Scott

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Unjust Enrichment in South African Law

Rethinking Enrichment by Transfer

By: Helen Scott

Conventional thinking teaches that the absence of liability - in particular contractual invalidity - is itself the reason for the restitution of transfers in the South African law of unjustified enrichment. However, this book argues that while the absence of a relationship of indebtedness is a necessary condition for restitution in such cases, it is not a sufficient condition. The book takes as its focus those instances in which the invalidity thesis is strongest, namely, those traditionally classified as instances of the condictio indebiti, the claim to recover undue transfers. It seeks to demonstrate that in all such instances it is necessary for the plaintiff to show not only the absence of his liability to transfer but also a specific reason for restitution, such as mistake, compulsion or incapacity. Furthermore, this book explores the reasons for the rise of unjust factors in South African law, attributing this development in part to the influence of the Roman-Dutch restitutio in integrum, an extraordinary, equitable remedy that has historically operated independently of the established enrichment remedies of the civilian tradition, and which even now remains imperfectly integrated into the substantive law of enrichment. Finally, the book seeks to defend in principled terms the mixed approach to enrichment by transfer (an approach based both on unjust factors and on the absence of a legal ground) which appears to characterise modern South African law. It advocates the rationalisation of the causes of action comprised within the condictio indebiti, many of which are subject to additional historically-determined requirements, in light of this mixed analysis.

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384

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A&C Black

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1782251391

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9781782251392

The Market Makers

Creating Mass Markets for Consumer Durables in Inter-war Britain

By: Peter Scott

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The Market Makers

Creating Mass Markets for Consumer Durables in Inter-war Britain

By: Peter Scott

Inter-war Britain saw a boom in 'mass markets' for consumer durables, such as new suites of furniture, radios, and electrical and gas appliances, while items like refrigerators, telephones, and automobiles didn't reach the mass market until the 1950s. Peter Scott explores these 'market makers' and how US innovations influenced British markets.

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388

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Oxford University Press

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0198783817

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9780198783817

Book's by Scott Innes

A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music

A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music

Henry Clay and the War of 1812

Henry Clay and the War of 1812

Dynamics of Planetary Systems

Dynamics of Planetary Systems

Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

Measuring Wellbeing: Towards Sustainability?

Unjust Enrichment in South African Law

Unjust Enrichment in South African Law

The Market Makers

The Market Makers

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