Blaikie: 19 books

Thomas Blaikie, botaniste et jardinier écossais, entreprend la rédaction de son Journal en 1775, lorsqu'il quitte Londres pour étudier la flore des Alpes françaises et suisses. Dans un style naïf et plein de verve, il note les péripéties de son voyage, puis ses herborisations dans les montagnes,...

Bill Blaikie has a unique insider's perspective on political life in Canada. As a United Church minister reflecting on three decades in the House of Commons, he tells the too-often-overlooked story of Canada's Christian left and, in particular, of the New Democratic Party's roots in the social gospel...

Your friends neglect to RSVP to your party invitation . . . co-workers munch their pungent meals near your office . . . pedestrians shout into their cell phones and practically knock you to the pavement. Wishing that friends, family, colleagues, and oblivious strangers would mind their manners...

Following the success of ‘You Look Awfully Like the Queen’, this is a second anthology of hilarious and touching royal anecdotes, collected by Thomas Blaikie. An unfortunate culture clash occurred when a Geordie councillor was invited to one of the Queen’s informal lunches. As is the old-fashioned...

The life of David Livingstone by W. Garden Blaikie is mostly from his unpublished journals and correspondence in the possession of his family and contains over 40 illustrations. The purpose of this work was to make the world better acquainted with the character of Livingstone. His discoveries and...

What basic knowledge and skills do novice researchers in social science require? How can students be helped to over-come `symbol phobia' or `figure blindness'? This generous and constantly insightful book is designed for social researchers who need to know what procedures to use under what...

About thirty years ago the Guardian first published two amusing anecdotes about the Queen Mother. Readers reeled to see stories actually printed in a national newspaper that until then had had only an underground existence in certain circles. After that, tales about the royal family became respectable;...

For fans of the ‘Windsors’ and ‘Now we are Sixty’: a beautifully illustrated collection of amusing and affectionate stories from inside the royal family. Arriving at the theatre, the Queen and the Queen Mother appeared to be having words. ‘Who do you think you are?’ demanded the Queen...

This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for it – and to do so requires research with 'eyes...

Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and distilling – placing...

With a purely historical book like Joshua before us, it is of importance to keep in view two ways of regarding Old Testament history, in accordance with one or other of which any exposition of such a book must be framed. According to one of these views, the historical books of Scripture, being given...

All of them focus on the sociology-economic, political and cultural relationships of specific deprived groups with the rest of the society, in the context of their national and local social history.

This book on Canadian Politics describes some of the things that are wrong with this country politically, economically and socially. Some of it is quite controversial; some of it is esoteric. It is a good read for anyone interested in the future of this country.

This book arose out of a research project funded by the Ministry of Overseas Development in the United Kingdom to investigate the economic and social effects of the building of three roads in West-Central Nepal.