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By: Alastair McIntosh
ISBN: 9781780276397
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Publication Date: Aug 2020
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Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. Writer, scholar and broadcaster Alastair McIntosh sums up the present knowledge and shows that conventional solutions are not enough. In rejecting the blind alleys of climate change denial, exaggeration and false optimism, he offers a scintillating discussion of ways forward.
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By: Allan Burnett
ISBN: 9781780273914
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Publication Date: Aug 2016
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Learn history the fun way in an entertaining and informative series of books about key people from Scotland's history
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By: James Robertson
ISBN: 9781846970351
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Publication Date: Apr 2007
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Originally published in 2000 by Polygon to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson's birth, this new edition contains all Fergusson's finest poems in both Scots and English, and features a new introductory essay, revised orthography, a substantial section of notes and a glossary.
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By: Amby Burfoot
ISBN: 9781909715608
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Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
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Run Forever aims to distil the essence of the sport for readers who are looking for access, insights, and a way to get started, get fast, stay fast, and run forever
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By: Michael McEwan
ISBN: 9781909715387
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Publication Date: Sep 2016
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26 First-Hand Accounts of Tackling the London Marathon
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By: Kenneth Cox
ISBN: 9781780271897
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Publication Date: Jul 2014
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This book is a compact colour guide of the largest survey of Scottish gardens ever mounted and the first such guidebook to all that Scotland can offer garden and plant lovers.
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By: Sheila Livingstone
ISBN: 9781780277301
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Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
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Customs play an important part in all societies and offer fascinating insights into a countrys history and culture. Scotland boasts a multitude of unique customs, many of which can be traced back to the times of the Druids, Celts and Romans. This book introduces hundreds of Scottish customs associated with a huge range of topics.
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By: Peter Burns
ISBN: 9781909715677
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Publication Date: Oct 2018
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Scottish Rugby 101 is a compendium of fascinating facts, quotes, stats, stories, personalities and trivia - a perfect stocking-filler for all fans of Scottish rugby.From the very first Test match in 1871 all the way through to the present day, Scottish rugby's rich history is distilled into 101 facts, stats and stories.
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By: John Neil Munro
ISBN: 9781846974984
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Publication Date: Sep 2019
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John Martyn is one of rock music's last real mavericks. Despite chronic addiction to alcohol and drugs, he produced a string of matchless albums. Loved by fans and critics, loathed by ex-wives and managers, he has survived the music business he despises for forty years.
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By: Ron Shaw
ISBN: 9781780275185
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Publication Date: Oct 2018
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This completely revised edition of the Official Guide takes us through a number of places closely associated with St Cuthbert's life. The journey is full of historical interest and natural beauty.
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By: Ian R. Hamilton
ISBN: 9781841587295
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Publication Date: Oct 2008
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In 1950, Ian Robertson Hamilton, a law student, took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, leading to the outrage of the English establishment. This book sets down the chain of events which led to his decision to go to London, remove the Stone and a minute-by-minute account of the act and the aftermath.
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By: Alistair W.J. Kerr
ISBN: 9781846975264
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Publication Date: Oct 2021
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Tales for Twilighttakes the reader on a 200 year journey of Scottish ghost stories, with unnerving tales by writers such as James Hogg in the early eighteenth century, all the way to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first.
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By: Jess Smith
ISBN: 9781841587141
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Publication Date: Feb 2009
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Traces the author's eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together. This memoir features their adventures and achievements that are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhood, her father's 'tall tales' and the eerie echoes of ghosts and hauntings that she has heard from gypsies and travellers.
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By: Iain R. Spink
ISBN: 9781780277332
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Publication Date: Jan 2021
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Award winning food hero Iain R. Spink, whose tireless work promoting the Arbroath Smokie has garnered him national acclaim, presents here the story of the Scottish delicacy as well as over 30 mouth-watering recipes, including Arbroath Smokie and Leek Chowder. Another great addition to a series that includes the MacSween Haggis Bible.
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By: N.E. Solomons
ISBN: 9781846976148
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Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
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On a mountain road in the Balkans, former Olympic cyclist Heather Bishop and her journalist boyfriend Ryan race each other for fun. But when Ryan rounds a bend in the road, Heather cycles after him only to find that he has disappeared. A suspenseful crime novel that will appeal to fans of Nordic crime and smart, atmospheric thrillers.
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By: Liz Ashworth
ISBN: 9781780274850
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Publication Date: Sep 2017
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The only book to feature bere - one of Scotland's most ancient and nutritious grains
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By: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780275543
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Publication Date: Jul 2018
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A story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. This is also the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior, where Celtic warlords ruled, the Romans came but could not conquer, and where the glittering kingdom of Northumbria thrived.
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By: A.D. Cameron
ISBN: 9781841584034
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Publication Date: Nov 2005
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"The Caledonian Canal" records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century.
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By: Edwin Morgan
ISBN: 9781846975424
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Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
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Introduced by Jackie Kay, this selection of poems include the famous Strawberries and One Cigarette and four from Morgan's autobiographical sequence, Love and a Life - love in all its aspects.
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By: Edwin Morgan
ISBN: 9781846975431
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Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
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By: Edwin Morgan
ISBN: 9781846975462
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Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
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By: James Miller
ISBN: 9781780275734
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Publication Date: Sep 2019
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James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. This thought-provoking book will appeal to all who like stories of travel and transport, and are interested in how changing modes of transport have affected the ways of life in the Highlands.
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By: Ian Williams
ISBN: 9781780277813
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Publication Date: Dec 2022
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In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how Chinas aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West but the rest of the world ignores at its peril.
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By: George Mackay Brown
ISBN: 9781846975080
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Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2019
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These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.
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