Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2006
ISBN 10: 1905222556 ISBN 13: 9781905222551
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. With both his parents dead, his aunt Mary is his only remaining blood link. He leaves the fast-paced life of the city for the Outer Hebrides, where traditional values and beliefs are adhered to and respected. It is a life he neither belongs to nor understands. When she goes he will be the last of the family line and he couldn't care less. Family and history are just bonds to tie him down. Reluctantly, he sets out to do his duty and stumbles across questions that challenge everything he ever knew about himself and the people from whom he came. In the days between his aunt's death and funeral he is drawn into the role of genealogy detective. In a place where everyone knows everything about everybody, Cal finds that secrets are buried deep. Mairi, a young widow, knows far more than she is willing to tell. Kate Anna, his aunt's lifelong friend, avoids his questions. And what of Finlay, who lays claim to the house? Cal begins to understand that Aunt Mary was not the woman he knew and the secret she kept hidden for so long means he might not be the person he thought he was. "Last of the Line" is a story that explores the part in all of us that wants to know who we are and where we are from. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10: 0946487928 ISBN 13: 9780946487929
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Come and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year's journey. Travel across Scotland with poet Valerie Gillies and photographer Rebecca Marr: share their passion for a land where wild men can sometimes be tamed and tame beasts can get really wild. Among the wild men they find are a gunner in Edinburgh Castle, a Highland shepherd, a ferryman on the River Almond, an eel fisher on Loch Ness, a Borders fencer, and a beekeeper on a Lowland estate. The beasts portrayed in their own settings include Clydesdale foals, Scottish deerhounds, Highland cattle, blackface sheep, falcons, lurchers, bees, pigs, cashmere goats, hens, cockerels, tame swans and transgenic lambs. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906307695 ISBN 13: 9781906307691
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Symptoms: the initial signs of a problem. Diagnosis: analysis of the problem. Treatment: suggested solutions. Henry McLeish, former First Minister of Scotland and Tom Brown, one of Scotland's leading political commentators, are joined by eminent psychologist Anne Ellis as they follow on from their politically provocative Scotland: the Road Divides by putting Scotland on the therapist's couch. They assess what in our past has led to a present nation that is such a strange clamjamfry. Light and dark, brash but with a constant chip on its shoulder, Scotland's Jekyll and Hyde nature is shown to have had led to serious social and political problems including anti-social behaviour, and borderline or real poverty. The first part of the book asks us 'tae see ourselves as ithers see us' and the remainder deals with how Scotland should see itself. It asks the difficult question: Scotland - who are we? We ourselves are typical Scots, conscious that we have our fair share of the flaws examined in this book. Recognising our failings is the first step. We warmly encourage readers - be they policymakers or otherwise - to engage in these issues. In this complex modern world there are no easy answers. But we have to keep asking the questions. - TOM BROWN and HENRY McLEISH. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2013
ISBN 10: 1908373776 ISBN 13: 9781908373779
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Maybe it had just been a matter of time: had we had more time, what we would or could have achieved, together. Had we actually met that first time round, how different things might have been. The world we would have painted. Had we really loved each other, we would never have separated. It was a long hot summer A chance encounter on a ferry leads to a lifetime of regret for misplaced opportunities. Beautifully written and vividly evoked, The Girl on the Ferryboat is a mirage of recollections looking back to the haze of one final prelapsarian summer on the Isle of Mull. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2013
ISBN 10: 1908373938 ISBN 13: 9781908373939
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The story begins with the foxs journey from the Borders and her arrival in Edinburgh, at the end of the Tattoo. She hears about the event but doesnt know what it is and throughout the book asks other characters to tell her. As she settles in to life in Edinburgh she has several adventures and meets a sniffer dog, a wise cat and a dog fox with whom she settles in to the den and has a family. The family watch the tattoo every night and after the final performance the tattoo fox follows the soldiers out of the castle, her tail in the air. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2014
ISBN 10: 1910021474 ISBN 13: 9781910021477
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. After joining the soldiers marching in the Tattoo, the Tattoo Fox and her friend Castle Cat accidentally end up aboard a truck and have to find their way back to Edinburgh. Upon her return, Tattoo Fox is reunited with her kits and continues to explore the capital of Scotland, witnessing even more fantastic sights like at the zoo, the Funfair, Murrayfield, Craigmillar Castle and the Thistle Parade. On their journey back through Edinburgh, the Tattoo Fox makes several new friends, including a dog fox, a border terrier, a squirrel and a hare. The Fox's adventures once again end at the Tattoo, where she must save the day in order to take her place in the procession, this time with her kits by her side. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN 10: 0946487804 ISBN 13: 9780946487806
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This is an independent and thoroughly researched book full of historical anecdotes and practical information on pubs in Edinburgh and Leith. Over 200 pubs are featured, along with 12 pub trails and maps, with a brief guide to Scottish beers and whiskies. The book also features the Man from Fife's wry take on many of the pubs, and it is aimed at anyone interested in Edinburgh and Scotland's rich cultural heritage. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2015
ISBN 10: 1910745200 ISBN 13: 9781910745205
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Dewar, Bob Ilustrador. A collection of diary entries from the dean of the fictional St. Andrew's College, Edinburgh. Longsuffering and cantankerous, he documents the comings and goings of eccentric professors, academic triumphs and failures and the disastrous outcome of a physics departments experiment resulting in the magnetisation of the number 42 bus. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2016
ISBN 10: 1910021962 ISBN 13: 9781910021965
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. In The Tycoon and the Bard, well-known Scots actor and Burns expert John Cairney tells the story of how the richest man in the world was inspired by Scotlands greatest poet. Cairney concentrates on the life of Scottish American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, arguing that the ideas of the romantic Scottish poet Robert Burns formed a strong influence on Carnegie from his early education to the end of his life. The Tycoon and the Bard shows the connections between these two great Scots, revealing unexpected aspects of each mans life and drawing out the chain of influence that Burns poetry had on Carnegies social beliefs about fortune, fate and fairness. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 1998
ISBN 10: 0946487286 ISBN 13: 9780946487288
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Ralph Storer's exploration of the lure of the hills is underpinned by hard-won experience - he has climbed extensively in the British Isles, Europe and the American West, though his abiding love is the Scottish Highlands. In 'The Joy of Hillwalking', he cheerfully tells all. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2013
ISBN 10: 1908373156 ISBN 13: 9781908373151
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is one of the worlds greatest legends. Everyone knows the story of the boy who pulled the sword from the stone, who was mentored by the great wizard Merlin, who broke the sword and retrieved it from the Lady of the Lake, who was finally betrayed by Guinevere, leading to his final battle and his death on the Isle of Avalon. Yet little is known of the truth behind the great story. This book enters the realm of conjectural history the blurred middle ground between fact and fiction. Recorded events are linked to more shrouded possibilities and then compared to imprints on the landscape the aim being to create a starting point for archaeological investigations, and to finally discover the real man known as Arthur. The book includes detailed itineraries and maps, allowing readers to visit the locations and discover the clues for themselves. It is part of a project to develop an Arthur trail across Scotland, including the intention to build working recreations of 6th century settlements and lifestyle. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2013
ISBN 10: 1908373962 ISBN 13: 9781908373960
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. While working for the BBC on a feature programme on Irish folk singer Dolores Keane, Mike Harding found himself in Clifden and in an estate agents window found what would become his Irish home, a traditional cottage that had lain empty for almost twenty years with a rotted corrugated iron roof and neither doors nor windows. The view out over Cleggan Bay however was stunning. Two years of hard work turned it back into a home and it was in that home, while looking out over Clegan Bay that much of his latest book of poems, The Connemara Cantos, was written. Not all of these poems are about Connemara, they are also about Irish immigrants on building sites in Manchester, pubs in London and the beauty of Irish traditional music; but all the poems in this book were either written in or inspired by the very special place that is Connemara not a county, not a political entity but perhaps something much wider a state of the soul. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2012
ISBN 10: 1908373563 ISBN 13: 9781908373564
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Jeremy Duncan chronologically traces the history and changes of the city of Perth throughout the 20th Century. He pays special attention to local politics, the history of crime, health, schooling and religion. Duncan also highlights the fascinating transitions in arts, fashion, sport, transport and the city buildings. Alongside plenty of images, both archive and modern, Duncan provides a thoroughly researched account of the history of Perth which takes the reader on a revealing journey from past to present. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2005
ISBN 10: 1905222009 ISBN 13: 9781905222001
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. The campaign for a Scottish Parliament was ongoing for centuries. Lamented in prose and championed in print. Petitioned for, marched in support of and voted upon. Dear to the hearts of many and whose absence broke the hearts of a few. It has now reconvened after nearly 300 years. A Devolved Legislature but a Parliament all the same. Unable to address all issues but able to make a difference in many areas. It is for the Scottish Parliament to shape and mould the future of Scotland. But, what should that future be? This is a series of contributed articles from politicians, academics and Civic Scotland. They outline opportunities and future directions for Scotland across a range of areas socially, economically and politically. This is an Agenda for a New Scotland. Visions of what Scotland can be 2020. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2005
ISBN 10: 1842820990 ISBN 13: 9781842820995
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Meet Gussie. Twelve years old and settling into her new ramshackle home on a cliff top above St Ives, she has an irrepressible zest for life. She also has a life-threatening heart condition. But it's not in her nature to give up. Perhaps because she knows her time might be short, she values every passing moment, experiencing each day with humour and extraordinary courage. Spirited and imaginative, Gussie has a passionate interest in everything around her and her vivid stream of thoughts and observations will draw you into a renewed sense of wonder. Gussie's story of inspiration and hope is both heartwarming and heartrending. Once you've met her, you'll not forget her. And you'll never take life for granted again. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2006
ISBN 10: 1905222068 ISBN 13: 9781905222063
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The map of the United States is peppered with Scottish place-names and Americas telephone directories are filled with surnames illustrating Scottish ancestry. Increasingly, Americans of Scottish extraction are visiting Scotland in search of their family history. All over Scotland and the United States there are clues to the Scottish-American relationship, the legacy of centuries of trade and communication as well as that of departure and heritage. The experiences of Scottish settlers in the United States varied enormously, as did their attitudes to the lifestyles that they left behind and those that they began anew once they arrived in North America. Scots in the USA discusses why they left Scotland, where they went once they reached the United States, and what they did when they got there. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2014
ISBN 10: 1910021326 ISBN 13: 9781910021323
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Caledonian Dreaming examines the state of contemporary Scotland, the independence referendum, and its wider consequences. In this short, accessible book, Hassan challenges the myths that define modern Scotland and its place in the United Kingdom. He forensically examines the shortcomings of Scottish society from the missing Scotland of voters disconnected from public life to the collusion of Labour and SNP on most issues bar independence. He argues that Scotland has the potential to become a modern, progressive, democratic country aided by the creative energies and passions unleashed by the independence question. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2005
ISBN 10: 190522222X ISBN 13: 9781905222223
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. In 2000, the NVA arts organisation created The Path: a light and sound event that attracted 5,000 people and stunned audiences. The Path was a night-time walk through Perthshire's Glen Lyon where music, light and international performances created an intense sense of pilgrimage that aimed to enhance the participants' sense of the power of the natural landscape and rediscover what we may have forgotten about the world around us. Now this unforgettable event is to be taken to one of Europe's most hauntingly beautiful landscapes - the high cliffs of Coire Faion and The Storr on Skye. Around midnight, groups, equipped with head torches and walking sticks, will be guided through this inspiring landscape as the words of Skye's legendary poet Sorley MacLean echo down from the mountain. This book of essays and photographs from the storr event will capture what promises to be one of the greatest single site-specific environmental artworks ever to be staged in Britain. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804250929 ISBN 13: 9781804250921
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. Paperback. This innovative book provides a new perspective on Basic Income - a regular, unconditional payment to every citizen of the country. This comprehensive book has been rigorously researched and thus will appeal to academics, policy-makers, and the general reader concerned about the current state of social security in the UK. Basic Income in practice, A Basic Income includes details of real Basic Income Schemes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2020
ISBN 10: 1912147025 ISBN 13: 9781912147021
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Swim Until You Cant See Land charts the relationship between two women born sixty years apart, whose chance encounter marks a watershed for the younger woman. In her early twenties, Hannah Wright is forced to give up a promising career as a professional swimmer, and is adjusting with difficulty to her narrowed horizons. She is in danger of becoming embittered, haunted by a lost future. Mariele may now be frail and old, but as her exploits during WW2 unfold, she is revealed as a woman of extraordinary spirit, unbroken by capture and interrogation as an agent in occupied France. Hannahs delight in the medium of water and the rhythms of swimming are set in dramatic counterpoint to Marieles of torture by water, an ordeal that puts her in touch with her core strength something Hannah starts to discover in herself. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2018
ISBN 10: 1912147262 ISBN 13: 9781912147267
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Fine. 'There is an old Scottish saying: Some are born cool, some achieve coolness, and some have coolness thrust upon them. At least I think it's Scottish. It doesn't matter.' What do Kenny Dalglish and Robert Louis Stevenson have in common? Or Annie Lennox and Mary Barbour? Or Joseph Knight and Sean Connery? They are but a few examples of the Scots that have shaped the cool nation we see today. In this whacky toon-fest of character sketches, Greg Moodie presents 42 key figures in Scotland's rich and varied history. Spanning the living and the dead, the portraits range from potentially paranoid politicians and health-and-safety-loving Formula One drivers to Jacobite heroines and promiscuous poets. Basically, you get the best of the best. Accompanying each brief biography - peppered with quirky anecdotes, hilarious quips and mostly accurate facts - is a psychedelic portrait that blends past and present. Ever seen Muriel Sparks sport a studded choker or James Clerk Maxwell boast two sleeves of tattoos? You will now. For once including those cool Scottish women so often ignored in history books, Moodie presents his collection 'in an order deliberately designed to jolt your little minds out of their preconceived ideas of time'. You'll leap between modern day musicians and 18th century science writers at the turn of each delightfully glossy page. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Moodie celebrates Scotland's achievements, revels in its victories and occasionally blends fact and fiction.
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Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2014
ISBN 10: 1910021571 ISBN 13: 9781910021576
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. The Scots have a unique way of communicating their feelings. Their sayings are cheeky, to the point, rude and always funny. Scotlands bestselling humour author is back with his latest collection of hilarious Scottish sayings. Away an bile yer heid an mak silly soup! If you dont behave ahll pawn ye an sell the ticket. That wans in everything but the Co-operative windae! If ah had your money ah wid burn ma ain. Yeve goat a heid oan ye like a stair-heid. The gemmes a bogie. Yer cruisin fur a bruisin. Ahm that hungry ah could eat a scabbie-heided horse. Castor oil cures everythin but a widden leg. Wan minute yer a peacock an the next yer a feather duster. Yer talkin mince withoot a tattie in sight. Lang may yer lum reek, an may a wee moose never leave yer kitchen press wi a tear in its ee. Yer herrs mingin, hingin an clingin. From the infallible wisdom of the Glesca Granny, to the hilarious patter of larger-than-life conductress Big Aggie MacDonald, Allan Morrison has a sharp eye and a silver tongue when it comes to observational humour.SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY on Haud Ma Chips, Ahve Drapped the Wean! The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2005
ISBN 10: 1842820842 ISBN 13: 9781842820841
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The Quest series from Luath Press continues with the quest for all things Celtic, an investigation into aspects of Celtic history that have previously been neglected or lost. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2014
ISBN 10: 1908373431 ISBN 13: 9781908373434
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Davie was about to leave the MP3 player lying on the pavement when something stopped him. A voice in his head. You'll regret it if you leave it. You'll only come back for it later. Can a song change your life? Can a song bring people, places and moments in time alive again? Davie Watts is the Trackman. He knows what song to play to you and he knows exactly when you need to hear it. Davie seeks out strangers in need and helps them using the power of music. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2010
ISBN 10: 1906817286 ISBN 13: 9781906817282
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Alistair Findlay's compilation of poems about social work shows the reader that the world they are living in is often shaped by poverty. Not much has been written about the stories that fill social worker's lives, and Findlay offers sad, sometimes absurd, insights. He creates poems for everyone who wants to know what goes on behind closed doors. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2020
ISBN 10: 1912147947 ISBN 13: 9781912147946
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. In this new book, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch brings together a lifetime of study and personal experience to show the many ways in which gardens matter to our modern society. Reaching back through the centuries, she explores how richly layered our contemporary response to both making and enjoying gardens has become. With an extract from renowned author Donald Smith, Why Gardens Matter provides a unique insight into how the outdoors can help us to find some calm in this increasingly busy world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2014
ISBN 10: 1910021601 ISBN 13: 9781910021606
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A photography project charting 100 weeks in the life of Scotland, and the people who live there. The photos are of all aspects of Scottish culture - politics, art, social issues, sport, energy and anything else that catches the eye. It is an interesting time to be living in Scotland and McCredie was keen to record and document this vibrant and exciting period to show the country, and those who live there, in a positive light by examining the many varied aspects that make up a modern country. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906307512 ISBN 13: 9781906307516
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. When DCI Andy Gilchrist is called to a crime scene to find an amputated hand clutching a note addressed to him, a note that contains only one word, murder, he is pulled into an investigation that will test him to the limit. Soon other single word clues are found along with amputated body parts and the murderer's vengeful message becomes clear as the identity of the next intended victim is revealed. But when someone close to him disappears, Gilchrist knows he is too late. Together with Nance Wilson, the sexy DC with her own agenda, Gilchrist comes to see the answer to the present murders lies within the secrets of his past. Forced to confront his demons, Gilchrist must solve the cryptic clues and find the murderer before the next victim, a woman whose life means more to Gilchrist than his own, is served up to him piece by slaughtered piece. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2010
ISBN 10: 1906817588 ISBN 13: 9781906817589
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This book provides an illustrated history of medicine in Edinburgh in an accessible style for the general reader. Centered on the 280 year history of Edinburgh Medical School, the book showcases famous Edinburgh medical alumni through the ages including Robert Knox and others like Charles Darwin and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who studied medicine in Edinburgh but went on to make their names in other fields. The book follows the evolution of medical practice through the ages, from the dark practices of the 19th century to Dolly, the first cloned sheep in the 21st century. It highlights the key advances made by Edinburgh medics in public health, anesthesia, surgery, antiseptics and antibiotics. Edinburgh Medical School was the first to admit women, and we follow their struggles, headed by the formidable Sophia Jex-Blake. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, 2007
ISBN 10: 1906307032 ISBN 13: 9781906307035
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This is the first collection of Scots poetry devoted entirely to football. It includes many of 20th century Scotland's best known poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith and Jackie Kay. Spanning centuries and a wide variety of perspectives on the popular sport, this brilliant collection sums up the best and the worst of football spirit. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.