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Product Description: Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, this account provides unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in the most rarefied of environments: test match rugby. Drawing out innumerable humorous anecdotes and heart-warming memories from Russell Bruce and Frank Coutts in the 1940s as well as present-day players, these interviews uncover the heart and soul of Scottish rugby and recount the ecstasy of victory and the despair of defeat...read more

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9781841586533 | Birlinn Ltd, October 1, 2010, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in that most rarefied of environments - Test match rugby.

Paperback:

9781909715035 | Birlinn Ltd, November 1, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, this account provides unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in the most rarefied of environments: test match rugby.
9781780271163 | Birlinn Ltd, June 1, 2013, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: White Gold is a study of how and why England, the biggest and wealthiest rugby country on the planet, had never dominated the game it invented on a global scale – until Clive Woodward took charge from 1997 to 2004. It’s a study of his influences and how he turned the way the England team was run, and the way they played, on its head, and it examines how they won despite a domestic structure in England that is counter-intuitive to the success of the international team...read more

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9781909715080 | Birlinn Ltd, December 1, 2013, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: White Gold is a study of how and why England, the biggest and wealthiest rugby country on the planet, had never dominated the game it invented on a global scale – until Clive Woodward took charge from 1997 to 2004.

This introductory text explains how anthropology is integral to the study of tourism dynamics. Starting with an overview of the development of anthropology as a social science, the author uses a wealth of international examples, including the UK, USA and Australia, to bring practical relevance to complex theories. With its lucid writing style, summaries, sample questions and suggestions for further reading, this book will be an invaluable teaching resource in this area.

Hardcover:

9780415186261 | Routledge, July 1, 1999, cover price $198.00 | About this edition: This introductory text explains how anthropology is integral to the study of tourism dynamics.

Paperback:

9780415186278 | Routledge, July 1, 1999, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: This introductory text explains how anthropology is integral to the study of tourism dynamics.

Miscellaneous:

9780203201510 | Routledge, July 13, 2003, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: In the past forty years, Curtis Mayfield's music and poetry have grown into an impressive and truly individual body of work. Complete with full discography and interviews with his contemporaries, this is the definitive account of his life and career.

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9781860744570 | Sanctuary Pub Ltd, May 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the past forty years, Curtis Mayfield's music and poetry have grown into an impressive and truly individual body of work.

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Product Description: This book is the result of a comparative investigation that contrasts micro-systems of innovation in several regions of China and Australia - two vastly different countries in terms of traditions, industry structures, political systems and economic organisation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Burns (editor), Sam Garrett Jones (editor), Xielin Liu (editor) and Tim Turpin (editor)

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9781840645088 | Edward Elgar Pub, January 1, 2003, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: This book is the result of a comparative investigation that contrasts micro-systems of innovation in several regions of China and Australia - two vastly different countries in terms of traditions, industry structures, political systems and economic organisation.

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Product Description: Celtic's 7-1 victory over their arch-rivals Rangers in the 1957 Scottish League Cup final was one of the greatest moments in their history. Based on interviews with fans and players, this book tells the story of that match and commemorates Celtic's players and supporters of 40 years ago...read more

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9781840181319, titled "Oh, Hampden in the Sun . . ." | Mainstream, September 1, 1998, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Celtic's 7-1 victory over their arch-rivals Rangers in the 1957 Scottish League Cup final was one of the greatest moments in their history.
9781851589111 | Mainstream Pub Co Ltd, September 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Celtic's 7-1 victory over their arch-rivals Rangers in the 1957 Scottish League Cup final was one of the greatest moments in their history.

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By Peter Burns (editor) and Peter Doyle

Hardcover:

9780814623862 | Subsequent edition (Liturgical Pr, April 1, 1997), cover price $24.95

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