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E. A. Hornel    E. A. Hornel
ISBN:9781873830147
Category: Art
Author: Bill Smith
Publication Date: Jul 1997
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:
A celebration of Hornel’s important role both as a member of the Glasgow Boys and in the development of painting in Scotland in the final decades of the nineteenth century.

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E. A. Hornel    E. A. Hornel
ISBN:9781873830192
Category: Art
Author: Bill Smith
Publication Date: Jul 1997
Format: PB
Price: £15.00
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Synopsis:
A celebration of Hornel’s important role both as a member of the Glasgow Boys and in the development of painting in Scotland in the final decades of the nineteenth century.

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Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, The    Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, The
ISBN:9781904607755
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: Graeme Davis
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

In this new book by one of Britain’s foremost experts in mediaeval linguistics and history, Dr Graeme Davis counters popular historical belief by proposing that there was a Saxon settlement in both Orkney and Shetland during the fourth century AD.


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Early Stewart Kings, The    Early Stewart Kings, The
ISBN:9781904607687
Category: Kings and Queens, History
Author: Stephen Boardman
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
This volume is number one in The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series and is also the first scholarly biography of the two kings who established medieval Scotland’s most famous and durable royal dynasty.

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Early in Orcadia    Early in Orcadia
ISBN:9781899863501
Category: Literature
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
The pre-historic people of the Orkney Islands were ordinary men and women who were mostly content to win the fight for survival in their harsh world. Two of them are driven by a burning curiosity and desire for more; they dare to build a boat and travel into the unknown.

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Easter Ross 1750-1850    Easter Ross 1750-1850
ISBN:9781904607045
Category: Local History, History
Author: Ian R. M. Mowat
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

This book examines the changes that took place in the area during the period following the 1745 Jacobite uprising.


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Edge of Empire    Edge of Empire
ISBN:9781841587370
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: David Breeze
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

In this fascinating new book, David Breeze tells the story of the Roman invasion of Scotland, the building of the Antonine Wall, its occupation and abandonment.


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Edinburgh    Edinburgh
ISBN:9781841830933
Category: Photography
Author: Jason Baxter
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Format: HB
Price: £18.99
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Synopsis:     Through breath-taking panoramic images, Jason Baxter has captured the Scottish capital with fresh eyes, delighting those who know it well and those who wish they did.
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Edinburgh Curiosities    Edinburgh Curiosities
ISBN:9780859765930
Category: Local History, History
Author: James U Thomson
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

Edinburgh Curiosities will answer many of the questions you might have asked yourselves about Scotlands beloved capital.


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Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society, The    Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society, The
ISBN:9781862321441
Category: Music, Cultural Studies
Author: James Moray Calder
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

The Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society, the first of its kind, was formed in 1881, ’for the practice or promotion of Scottish National Music, more especially Reel and Strathspey playing in the old Highland fashion’.


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Edinburgh Literary Companion, The    Edinburgh Literary Companion, The
ISBN:9781904598619
Category: Literary History
Author: Andrew Lownie
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Charting the city’s literary past and present, this book is a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cultural capital as seen and recorded by writers through the centuries.

    
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Edinburgh New Town Gardens, The    Edinburgh New Town Gardens, The
ISBN:9781841584027
Category: Scotland, Social History, Gardening
Author: Connie Byrom
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Format: HB
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Lavishly illustrated in black and white and colour throughout, The Edinburgh New Town Gardens covers each the gardens in the centre of the city, from the large public spaces of Princes Street Gardens to the more intimate and secluded gardens of the elegant New Town crescents.

        
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Edinburgh and the Reformation    Edinburgh and the Reformation
ISBN:9781904607052
Category: Local History, History
Author: Michael Lynch
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £30.00
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

The story of one of the last of the great city reformations that took place all over Europe in the 16th century.


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Edinburgh, Lothian and the Borders    Edinburgh, Lothian and the Borders
ISBN:9780114952921
Category: Guides
Author: John Baldwin
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Edinburgh: The Golden Age    Edinburgh: The Golden Age
ISBN:9780859765718
Category: Local History, History
Author: Mary Cosh
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

This is a major contribution to the literature on the Scottish Enlightenment and an extraordinarily lucid insight into Edinburgh during the most exciting and stimulating period of its history.


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Eigg    Eigg
ISBN:9781841584256
Category: Scotland
Author: Camille Dressler
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

Eigg: The Story of an Island is a revised and upated edition of the book first published by Polygon. It was shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award in 1999. It contains written history and oral accounts about the history of the inhabitants from the earliest time to the present day.

            
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Elemental    Elemental
ISBN:9781841831091
Category: Medicine
Author: Paul Reed
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:     A unique blend of western and oriental traditions of psychotherapy and healing, this is a practical guide to relaxation and stress relief.
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Elements    Elements
ISBN:9781841830698
Category: Photography
Author: Craig McMaster
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Elephantina    Elephantina
ISBN:9781846970443
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
Original literary fiction that tackles the tricky eighteenth-century problem of how to dissect an elephant.
                
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Endless Tide, The    Endless Tide, The
ISBN:9781841587066
Category: Crofting, Social History, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Iain R. Thomson
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
The Endless Tide is a sweeping, imaginative, provocative work which functions on a micro- and macro-level, examining the continual cycle of humanity, and Scotland’s part in the process.

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Endless Tide, The    Endless Tide, The
ISBN:9781841584539
Category: Crofting, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Iain R. Thomson
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

Iain Thomson mixes his own personal story with Scotland’s historical past in a melting-pot of ideas, snapshots and autobiographical accounts, which conjure up the vital past and continuing force of the elusive Highland spirit.


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Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland, An    Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland, An
ISBN:9781862320345
Category: Autobiography/Biography, Politics And Economics
Author: Michael Mitchie
Publication Date: Mar 1997
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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This is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792–1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire.


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Erchie    Erchie
ISBN:9781841582023
Category: Humour
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. One hundred years after he first appeared in print, Erchie brilliantly displays Munro’s gift for humour and characterisation.

    
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Escalator    Escalator
ISBN:9781904598626
Category: Short Stories
Author: Michael Gardiner
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

Escalator is Michael Gardiner’s stunning fiction debut. Sparsely written and beautifully observed, these stories resist cliché and overstatement, and refuse to judge their subjects, presenting a compelling glimpse under the skin of an enigmatic country.


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Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland    Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland
ISBN:9781904607458
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: (Editor) Keith Stringer
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

The Scottish Baronial Research Group bring us closer to a ’history’ of the nobility of medieval Scotland and as such this book is a major landmark in Scottish medieval history.


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Essential English-Gaelic Dictionary, The    Essential English-Gaelic Dictionary, The
ISBN:9781841581064
Category: Reference, Gaelic
Author: Angus Watson
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis: This new dictionary is intended for learners of Gaelic, from beginners to university and college students.
    
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Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary, The    Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary, The
ISBN:9781841586311
Category: Reference, Gaelic
Author: Angus Watson
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

This dictionary is intended for learners of Gaelic – from beginners to university and college students.

            
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European Sun, The    European Sun, The
ISBN:9781898410973
Category: Cultural Studies
Author: (Editor) Kenneth Simpson
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

A description of the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scottish language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance).


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Everyday Gaelic    Everyday Gaelic
ISBN:9781841583402
Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic
Author: Morag MacNeill
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

An accessible and useful book which will be of benefit to all levels and ages of Gaelic learners. 
    

    
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Everyday Gaelic with CD    Everyday Gaelic with CD
ISBN:9781841583709
Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic
Author: Morag MacNeill
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is a new and updated edition of the bestselling title, now with an Audio CD to improve pronounciation and comprehension.     


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Evidence Essentials    Evidence Essentials
ISBN:9781845860103
Category: Law
Author: James Chalmers
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £13.50
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Synopsis:

A comprehensive revision and study guide to evidence and its role in cases. Part of the new Law Essentials series from Dundee University Press.


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Ewen and Roughy's Football Quiz Book    Ewen and Roughy's Football Quiz Book
ISBN:9781841584928
Category: Sport
Author: Alan Rough, Ewen Cameron
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

The quiz book based on Scotland’s most listened-to football phone-in radio show.


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Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, The    Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, The
ISBN:9781904598374
Category: Literature
Author: Jake Wallis Simons
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A startingly original tragicomedy based around a fictional Tibeto-Jewish refugee community in London.


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Expeditions to the Hebrides    Expeditions to the Hebrides
ISBN:9781899272068
Category: Exploration
Author: George Clayton Atkinson
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the naturalist and ornithologist George Clayton Atkinson set out from Newcastle to explore Skye and the Outer Hebrides, including the remote island of St Kilda.


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