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  The Poor Had No Lawyers

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2015

  £14.99 £11.99

  Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the statistics of landownership in...

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  Riders on the Storm

  Paperback | Pub: 13 Aug 2020

  £9.99 £7.99

  Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global warming will be permanent, indeed catastrophic, without a massive shift in...

• The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

  Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £25.00 £20.00

  It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s...

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  Shredded

  Paperback | Pub: 09 May 2019

  £14.99 £11.99

  For a few brief months in 2007 and 2009, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the largest bank in the world. Then the Edinburgh-based giant – having rapidly grown its footprint to 55 countries and stretched its assets to £2.4 trillion under its...