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Think Global
Charles Rennie Mackintosh is a household name both
in Scotland and across the world, famous for creating an instantly recognisable
style of art. In The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh (HBK £16.99), John
Cairney considers the man behind the art, whose life is just
as intricate and complex. By no means saintly, Mackintosh was a mortal
man like any other - with tendencies to charm, drink, argue and sulk.
All artist, and all man, Cairney explores the internal struggles of a
creative genius.
Patrick
Geddes was the forward-thinking polymath - biologist,
landscape architect, town planner, sociologist and educator, celebrated
for conserving and restoring the Royal Mile in Edinburgh - who coined the
mantra for our times, Think Global, Act Local. Better known in
France, Israel, India and Japan, it is now time for him to receive the
long-awaited recognition he deserves in his native Scotland. As a result, Walter
Stephen, chairman of the Patrick
Geddes Memorial Trust, has edited Think
Global, Act Local (PBK £12.99), chronicling Geddes's life
and examining his legacy, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death.
Both these books are available now from Luath Press.
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