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    Bastions and Barbed Wire: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict

    A collection of the latest work in Conflict Archaeology. General theme is confinement, with concentration camps and siege sites, and defensive structures covered. Also includes other papers on battlefield archaeology…

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    Past Tense: Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict

    This special issue of the Journal of Conflict Archaeology serves as an introduction to the journal and the field. 13 essays deal with battlefield remains in Europe, Africa, North American…

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    The Quarry

    Iain M Banks

    Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from highly gifted at one end, to nutter at the other. At least Kit knows who…

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    Transition

    Iain M Banks

    A torturer, a hedge fund manager, and a reluctant assassin are among the strange characters found in Transition, a work described by the London Times as unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful…

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    The Hydrogen Sonata

    Iain M Banks

    Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, a Lieutenant Commander must complete one last mission: find the oldest person in the Culture, a man more…

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    Matter

    Iain M Banks

    This eighth novel of the Culture series centers on three siblings: Ferbin and Oramen, the misfit heirs of conquering King Hausk of the Sarl, and their exiled sister, Djan, now…

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    Use of Weapons

    Iain M Banks

    Originally published: Great Britain: Macdonald & Co., 1990.

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    Surface Detail

    Iain M Banks

    Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared…

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    Look to Windward

    Iain M Banks

    This "sophisticated space opera" (The New York Times), filled with suspense and humor, masterfully explores the horrors of war--from the acclaimed author of The Wasp Factory. The Twin Novae battle…

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    Inversions

    Iain M. Banks

    Originally published: London: Orbit, 1998.

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    Consider Phlebas

    Iain M Banks

    The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Within the cosmic conflict, there was an individual crusade: deep within a fabled labyrinth lay a fugitive…

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    The Player of Games

    Iain M Banks

    A seminal novel in Banks’s acclaimed series about the universe of the Culture. Gurgeh is the best, the champion of the ancient, all-embracing Culture in which there is no disease…

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    The Culture

    Iain M Banks

    This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST…

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    Look To Windward

    Iain M. Banks

    It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred…

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    Matter

    Iain M. Banks

    The dazzling new Culture novel from one of the most exciting science-fiction writers of modern times - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.

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    Against A Dark Background

    Iain M. Banks

    A science fiction novel whose heroine, a former warrior-spy faces a threat to her life from a religious cult.

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    Feersum Endjinn

    Iain M. Banks

    A science fiction novel in which the chief scientist in an alien castle receives an urgent summons on the day that his master dies.

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    The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction

    Simone Caroti

    Presents a history of Iain M. Banks’ Culture series from its inception in the mid-1970s to the last novel, The Hydrogen Sonata. Included in this history are Banks’ origins as…

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    Against A Dark Background

    Iain M. Banks

    A stunning new reissue edition of Against a Dark Background - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction, Iain M. Banks

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    Three Novels of Iain Banks: Whit, The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory: (Scotnotes Study Guides)

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    The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further…

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    Township to Farmsteads: Rural Settlement Studies in Scotland, England and Wales

    Based on a conference held in Glasgow in 1997 on “Medieval or Later Rural Settlement’, the 27 papers in this volume approach the subject from an inter-disciplinary perspective, including historical…

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    The Culture of The Culture: Utopian Processes in Iain M. Banks’s Space Opera Series

    Joseph S. Norman

    The Culture of The Culture defines Banks’s creation as culture: autopian way of doing, of being, of seeing: an approach, an attitude and alifestyle that has enabled, and is evolving…

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    Tourism in Africa: harnessing tourism for growth and improved livelihoods

    Iain Christie,World Bank

    Tourism is a powerful vehicle for economic growth and job creation that benefits both host populations and travellers. It is growing faster in the world’s emerging and developing regions than…

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    Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon

    Iain M Banks,Stephen Baxter

    An anthology featuring some of the biggest names in British genre fiction, including rare, previously uncollected stories by Iain M. Banks, Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Justina Robson, Paul McAuley…

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    Market-Based Banking and the International Financial Crisis

    This edited volume offers a study of national banking systems and explains how banking developed in the years preceding the international financial crisis that erupted in 2007. Its analysis of…

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    The World of Private Banking

    Youssef Cassis,Philip Cottrell,Iain L. Fraser,Iain L. Fraser

    Offers an account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam…

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    The World of Private Banking

    Youssef Cassis,Philip Cottrell,Iain L. Fraser

    Offers an account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam…

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    Centres and Peripheries in Banking: The Historical Development of Financial Markets

    Even Lange,Ulf Olsson,Iain L. Fraser

    Presents an investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. This book focuses on the historical development of financial markets, and investigates how local, national and…

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    Centres and Peripheries in Banking: The Historical Development of Financial Markets

    Even Lange,Ulf Olsson,Iain L. Fraser

    Presents an investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. This book focuses on the historical development of financial markets, and investigates how local, national and…

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    Applied Economics and Public Policy

    Iain Begg (South Bank University, London),Brian Henry (London Business School)

    Economists assess the role of applied economics in informing public policy.

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    Banking supervision and regulation: 2nd report of session 2008-09, Vol. 1: Report

    Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Economic Affairs

    2007 and 2008 saw the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s. Banks looking for better yields from plentiful, cheap money made much more use of complex financial instruments, without fully…

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    Banking supervision and regulation: 2nd report of session 2008-09, Vol. 2: Evidence

    Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on Economic Affairs

    2007 and 2008 saw the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s. Banks looking for better yields from plentiful, cheap money made much more use of complex financial instruments, without fully…

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