John Buchan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91991 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Buchan |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Buchan |
| ASSINATURA | BUCHAN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen Margaret University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3002-1075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1924 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Implementing effective cataract surgical coverage
Introduction The WHO has set a 2030 target to raise effective cataract surgical coverage (eCSC) by 30 percentage points in every country, requiring gains in surgical access and quality. Despite this mandate, evidence on how low- and middle-income health systems are implementing eCSC remains limited. Methods We conducted a qualitative comparative case study in Kenya and Nepal. 20 interviews were held with senior stakeholders from government, non-g…
Cataract services for all
Vision loss from cataract is unequally distributed, and there is very little evidence on how to overcome this inequity. This project aimed to engage multiple stakeholder groups to identify and prioritise (1) delivery strategies that improve access to cataract services for under-served groups and (2) population groups to target with these strategies across world regions. We recruited panellists knowledgeable about cataract services from eight worl…
The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health
There is extensive evidence showing that improving eye health contributes directly and indirectly to achieving many Sustainable Development Goals, including reducing poverty and improving work productivity, general and mental health, and education and equity. Improving eye health is a practical and cost-effective way of unlocking human potential. Eye health needs to be reframed as an enabling, cross-cutting issue within the sustainable developmen…
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The Biography of Adam Smith
Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps
This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875–1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935). Curiously, although all keep the theme of German espionage which will trigger a world war, none of them sticks at all closely to Buchan's original plot. This is the first of five novels in which Richard Hannay, formerly a mining engineer in colonial Af…
Scaling-up the medical workforce in Timor-Leste
The Iranian Revolution of 1979
There are plenty of myths about the causes of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The 1973-1974 rise in the price of crude enabled the Shah to finance his modernisation programme, but as it began to falter, dissent increased. The death of Khomeini's sons made things worse, but it was a fire in a cinema in Abadan which sparked major demonstrations. A new Prime Minister was installed but he failed to get a grip on the situation and Khomeini, by then in…
Iranian-Russian Encounters
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an `ordinary fellow’, is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whit…
Huntingtower
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower. This modern fairy-tale is also a gripping adventure story, and in it Buchan introduces some of his be…
The Second Battle of the Cruives
The military historian must often make shift to write of battles with slender data, but he can pad out his deficiencies by learned parallels. If his were the talented pen describing this, the latest action fought on British soil against a foreign foe, he...
Greenmantle
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps , travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the R…
The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
We reached Rustchuk on January 10, but by no means landed on that day. Something had gone wrong with the unloading arrangements, or more likely with the railway behind them, and we were kept swinging all day well out in the turbid river. On the...
The Gathering of the Missionaries
I wrote out a wire to Sandy, asking him to come up by the two-fifteen train and meet me at my flat. ‘I have chosen my colleague,’ I said. ‘Billy Arbuthnot’s boy? His father was at Harrow with me. I know the fellow—Harry used to...
Various Parties Converging on the Sea
A pink and blue June morning found me at Bradgate looking from the Griffin Hotel over a smooth sea to the lightship on the Cock sands which seemed the size of a bell-buoy. A couple of miles farther south and much nearer the...
Adventures of two Dutchmen on the Loose
The Germans, as Peter said, are a careful people. A man met us on the quay at Rotterdam. I was a bit afraid that something might have turned up in Lisbon to discredit us, and that our little friend might have warned his pals by...
A Bazaari Bonaparte
Huntingtower
xxxi, 229 p. : 20 cm
The thirty-nine steps
Health sector reform and human resources
The objective of the paper is to assess the human resource (HR) dimension of the National Health Service (NHS) reforms in the United Kingdom, and to highlight lessons for the health systems of countries undergoing reform or restructuring. Health sector reform in many countries in the 1980s and 1990s has focused on structural change, cost containment, the introduction of market mechanisms and consumer choice. This focus has inevitably challenged t…
Health Sector Reform and Trends in the United Kingdom Hospital Workforce
OBJECTIVES: The authors examine changing trends in the profile and patterns of employment of the workforce in hospitals in the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. The effect of the implementation of the NHS reforms is considered, with particular reference to the changing composition of the nursing workforce. The authors note that there are problems with establishing trend data because of altered information requirements as a resu…
Mississippi Dreaming
Nurse Mobility in Europe
The Nations of To-Day
The Nations of To-Day. Italy
The Last Secrets
The Romance of Exploration
Democracy and Leadership
Nurse Mobility in Europe
Mississippi Dreaming
Health Sector Reform and Trends in the United Kingdom Hospital Workforce
OBJECTIVES: The authors examine changing trends in the profile and patterns of employment of the workforce in hospitals in the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. The effect of the implementation of the NHS reforms is considered, with particular reference to the changing composition of the nursing workforce. The authors note that there are problems with establishing trend data because of altered information requirements as a resu…
Health sector reform and human resources
The objective of the paper is to assess the human resource (HR) dimension of the National Health Service (NHS) reforms in the United Kingdom, and to highlight lessons for the health systems of countries undergoing reform or restructuring. Health sector reform in many countries in the 1980s and 1990s has focused on structural change, cost containment, the introduction of market mechanisms and consumer choice. This focus has inevitably challenged t…
Huntingtower
xxxi, 229 p. : 20 cm
The thirty-nine steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an `ordinary fellow’, is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whit…
Huntingtower
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower. This modern fairy-tale is also a gripping adventure story, and in it Buchan introduces some of his be…
The Second Battle of the Cruives
The military historian must often make shift to write of battles with slender data, but he can pad out his deficiencies by learned parallels. If his were the talented pen describing this, the latest action fought on British soil against a foreign foe, he...
Greenmantle
In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps , travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan’s heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the R…
The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
We reached Rustchuk on January 10, but by no means landed on that day. Something had gone wrong with the unloading arrangements, or more likely with the railway behind them, and we were kept swinging all day well out in the turbid river. On the...
The Gathering of the Missionaries
I wrote out a wire to Sandy, asking him to come up by the two-fifteen train and meet me at my flat. ‘I have chosen my colleague,’ I said. ‘Billy Arbuthnot’s boy? His father was at Harrow with me. I know the fellow—Harry used to...
Various Parties Converging on the Sea
A pink and blue June morning found me at Bradgate looking from the Griffin Hotel over a smooth sea to the lightship on the Cock sands which seemed the size of a bell-buoy. A couple of miles farther south and much nearer the...
Adventures of two Dutchmen on the Loose
The Germans, as Peter said, are a careful people. A man met us on the quay at Rotterdam. I was a bit afraid that something might have turned up in Lisbon to discredit us, and that our little friend might have warned his pals by...
A Bazaari Bonaparte
The Thirty-Nine Steps
This spy story of 1915 by John Buchan (1875–1940) is an archetype of the genre, but may be better known today through its film and television versions (especially that of Alfred Hitchcock in 1935). Curiously, although all keep the theme of German espionage which will trigger a world war, none of them sticks at all closely to Buchan's original plot. This is the first of five novels in which Richard Hannay, formerly a mining engineer in colonial Af…
Scaling-up the medical workforce in Timor-Leste
The Iranian Revolution of 1979
There are plenty of myths about the causes of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The 1973-1974 rise in the price of crude enabled the Shah to finance his modernisation programme, but as it began to falter, dissent increased. The death of Khomeini's sons made things worse, but it was a fire in a cinema in Abadan which sparked major demonstrations. A new Prime Minister was installed but he failed to get a grip on the situation and Khomeini, by then in…
Iranian-Russian Encounters
Thirty-Nine Steps
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