Product Description: This book explores the crisis in fossil fuels. Oil, gas and coal are precious resources that define modern life. Without them, mass-produced food and clothing, and international travel and cars, become rare or impossible. Yet our reliance on fossil fuels is responsible for massive environmental damage, and increasing economic and political instability...read more

Product Description: This text analyses the origins, development and impact of British army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenancy with an emphasis on tenant reactions to recruiting.