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8 produkter
Sex, Death and Football
Häftad, 2003
100 kr
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Alistair Findlay, author of the acclaimed Shale Voices, takes a measured look at those three most important facets of life - sex, death, and of course football.Football has never been a science so much as a heartbeat away from a sclaf, an unlucky bobble, catastrophe - a bit like Sex and Death - and …
100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems
Häftad, 2007
110 kr
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This is the first collection of Scots poetry devoted entirely to football. It includes many of 20th century Scotland's best known poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith and Jackie Kay. Spanning centuries and a wide variety of perspectives on the popular sport, this …
Shale Voices
Häftad, 2010
127 kr
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From local legend, newspaper reports and family history, Alistair Findlay has pieced together a comprehensive documentary of Scotland's shale mining industry; of the people, communities and generations of families involved, and the cultural and political impact of the industry. Enlivened throughout …
Dancing with Big Eunice
Missives from the Front Line of a Fractured Society
Häftad, 2010
111 kr
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Alistair Findlay's compilation of poems about social work shows the reader that the world they are living in is often shaped by poverty. Not much has been written about the stories that fill social worker's lives, and Findlay offers sad, sometimes absurd, insights. He creates poems for everyone who …
Never Mind the Captions
An Off-Beat Guide to Scotland's History and Heritage
Häftad, 2011
111 kr
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Join Alistair Findlay on an off-beat tour of Scotland, from museum artefacts to public pieces of art, where he captures the humorous, passionate, and sometimes biting voices of some of our national treasures.
Scotia Nova
Poems for the Early Days of a Better Nation
Av Tessa Ransford, Alistair Findlay
Häftad, 2015
113 kr
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there’ll be nae cries omiseryjist the creakin souno openin doorsRead these poems and be inspired.In the wake of the 1979 Devolution Referendum, followed by the impact of Thatcherite policies on Scottish society, many Scottish writers and intellectuals began articulating the distinctiveness of …
Mollycoddling the Feckless
Häftad, 2019
150 kr
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The Social Work Act of 1968 in Scotland set out to replace Victorian prisons, lunatic asylums and orphanages, and challenge the Poor Law mentalities which had built and sustained them for generations. With the aid of a wide professional career, football tactics, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the …
