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Papermaking on the Water of Leith    Papermaking on the Water of Leith
ISBN:9780859766722
Category: Industry
Author: (Editors) Alistair McCleery, David Finkelstein, Sarah Bromage
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Jim White, William Nelson, Kate Milne, Thallon Veitch, Richard Blaikie, “Mary Reid” and Nan Aitken recount their experiences of living and working in the papermills along the Water of Leith.

    
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Para Handy    Para Handy
ISBN:9781841582276
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News nearly a hundred years ago. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in Neil Munro’s lifetime, as well as a new story never previously published which was discovered in 2001.


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Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus, The    Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus, The
ISBN:9781874744009
Category: Reference, Scottish Culture, Humour
Author: Stanley Baxter
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

A hilarious yet informative book of Glaswegian phrases.

REPRINT DUE OCTOBER 2008

            
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Patrick Robertson    Patrick Robertson
ISBN:9781904598459
Category: Literature
Author: Brian Hennigan
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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This is Brian Hennigan’s debut novel and it has currently being adapted for film by director David Mackenzie.

    
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Patronage and Politics in Scotland 1707-1832    Patronage and Politics in Scotland 1707-1832
ISBN:9781904607335
Category: Politics And Economics, History
Author: Ronald M. Sunter
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

An original and eye-opening contribution to our understanding of the workings of politics in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Scotland.


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Paying the Piper    Paying the Piper
ISBN:9781841585871
Category: Politics And Economics, Current Affairs
Author: Brian Monteith
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Paying the Piper offers an intriguing and stimulating debate about taxation.


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Pearl-fishers, The    Pearl-fishers, The
ISBN:9781846970061
Category: Classics
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

The Pearl-fishers is a classic love story and the master storyteller’s last novel.

            
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People Above, The    People Above, The
ISBN:9781904607342
Category: Politics And Economics, History
Author: Alexander Murdoch
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

This important book incorporates an outline of the structure of government in Scotland after the Treaty of Union with a study of the politics of Scotland from 1747 to 1784.


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People and Society in Scotland    People and Society in Scotland
ISBN:9780859762106
Category: Literature, Social History, History, Agriculture And Farming
Author: (Editors) T. M. Devine and Rosalind Mitchison
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.


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People and Society in Scotland    People and Society in Scotland
ISBN:9780859762113
Category: Scottish Culture
Author: W. Hamish Fraser and R.J. Morris
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Published in association with The Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, this history provides a scholarly survey of the forces that have shaped modern Scotland.


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People and Society in Scotland    People and Society in Scotland
ISBN:9780859762120
Category: Scottish Culture
Author: (Editors) A. Dickson and J. H. Treble
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.


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People of the Wild Cat Country    People of the Wild Cat Country
ISBN:9781841584485
Category: Folklore
Author: Sandra MacPherson
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
Sandra Macpherson’s last book, A Strange and Wild Place, was hugely successful in 2003 and reprinted in 2004. Thisa book contains a delightful variety of tales old and new from Monarch of the Glen country.

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Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights    Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights
ISBN:9780748662319
Category: Short Stories, Literature
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights is a complete set of stories first published in the early thirties, revealing an author whose interests lie far beyond the Scottish and rural.

    
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Perthshire Book, The    Perthshire Book, The
ISBN:9781874744849
Category: Local History
Author: Donald Omand
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This comprehensive collection of essays provides fascinating information about this part of Scotland. The natural, historical and cultural treasures of this popular part of Scotland are revealed here in all their glorious variety.


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Perthshire in History and Legend    Perthshire in History and Legend
ISBN:9780859765176
Category: Social History, History, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Archie McKerracher
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This book explores some of the remarkable stories of this ancient land, many of them appearing in print for the first time.


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Philipson    Philipson
ISBN:9781873830246
Category: Art
Author: W. Gordon Smith
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Format: PB
Price: £15.00
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Synopsis:
Philipson was well-known for his bold colours and his free use of paint, and his art embodied many themes, ranging from female nudes through cockfighting to World War I.

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Philipson    Philipson
ISBN:9781873830031
Category: Art
Author: W. Gordon Smith
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
Philipson was well-known for his bold colours and his free use of paint, and his art embodied many themes, ranging from female nudes through cockfighting to World War I.

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Physicians and Society    Physicians and Society
ISBN:9780859766982
Category: Medicine
Author: Morrice McCrae
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
This book is a social history of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1681 until 1918 when, at the end of the First World War, its role was changed by the creation of the Ministry of Health.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2007


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Picts, Gaels and Scots    Picts, Gaels and Scots
ISBN:9781904607670
Category: Scottish History
Author: Sally M. Foster
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:

This fully revised and updated edition draws on the latest archaeological discoveries and cutting-edge research, providing a comprehensive, up-to-date and fascinating insight into the rich tapestry of Scottish ancestry, history and culture.


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Pillar of Fire    Pillar of Fire
ISBN:9781841580784
Category: Military History
Author: Ronald Atkin
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Pillar of Fire is the epic story of the journey of the British Expeditionary Force from hope to despair, to triumph in the midst of defeat - a triumph that may have saved Britain from Nazi tyranny.


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Pipers    Pipers
ISBN:9781841584119
Category: Music
Author: William Donaldson
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: Pipers takes the reader inside the world of the performer community, introducing what pipers do, how they do it, and why.
    
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Piping Traditions of the North of Scotland    Piping Traditions of the North of Scotland
ISBN:9781904607151
Category: Social History, Cultural Studies, History
Author: Bridget Mackenzie
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £30.00
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A comprehensive guide and reference work which will appeal to all pipers, especially those coming from outside Scotland, and to piping enthusiasts.


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Poems of Norman MacCaig, The    Poems of Norman MacCaig, The
ISBN:9781904598268
Category: Poetry
Author: Norman MacCaig
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

This book is the third edition of MacCaig’s Collected Poems and is edited by his son Ewen. This edition contains 778 poems, 100 of them previously unpublished, and has, in addition, a context piece, author’s words and CD of readings. It is a definitive edition of his work.


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Polar Crusader    Polar Crusader
ISBN:9781841585437
Category: Exploration, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael Smith
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.

                
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Polar Crusader    Polar Crusader
ISBN:9781841582924
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael Smith
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.
                       
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Polar Twins, The    Polar Twins, The
ISBN:9780859765138
Category: Literary Criticism, History, Essays, Cultural Studies
Author: (Editors) Edward J Cowand and Douglas Gifford
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

In his pioneering book Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (1919), the literary critic Gregory Smith distinguished two contrasting moods inherent in the Scottish psyche.


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Political History of Scotland 1832-1914, A    Political History of Scotland 1832-1914, A
ISBN:9781904607328
Category: Politics And Economics, History
Author: I. G. C. Hutchison
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A study of the main political parties in Scotland, examining in particular their electoral fortunes from the time of the First Reform Bill to the emergence of the Labour party.


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Poor Mercy    Poor Mercy
ISBN:9781904598282
Category: Literature
Author: Jonathan Falla
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Jo Falla, the author of the critically acclaimed Blue Poppies, has followed up his earlier triumph with a brilliant new novel set in the shimmering deserts of western Sudan.

    
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Popular Disturbances in Scotland, 1780-1815    Popular Disturbances in Scotland, 1780-1815
ISBN:9781904607168
Category: Politics And Economics, Social History, History
Author: Kenneth J Logue
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock

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A study of popular disturbances at the turn of the eighteenth century.


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Port of Leith, The    Port of Leith, The
ISBN:9781904607175
Category: Local History
Author: Sue Mowat
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock

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In this history of Leith the emphasis is placed firmly on the lives of the ordinary people - their work, homes, lifestyle, interests, aspirations and opinions.


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Portrona    Portrona
ISBN:9781841580739
Category: Literature
Author: Norman Malcolm MacDonald
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis: This book tells the story of two ships with totally unexpected connections with the town of Stornoway.            
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Poverty Castle    Poverty Castle
ISBN:9781846970153
Category: Classics
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Poverty Castle is an absorbing work of contrasts and subtle irony centred around an idealistic family in Argyll. A compelling novel, it deals with human nature and the socialism of industrial Glasgow.

                
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Power-House, The    Power-House, The
ISBN:9781846970290
Category: Literature
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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The Power-House is a classic Buchan thriller – one of the best. The hero, Leithen, is often considered to be Buchan’s altar ego.     

            
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Princelie Majestie    Princelie Majestie
ISBN:9780859766111
Category: History
Author: Andrea Thomas
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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For many years the reputation of James V has been overshadowed by the tragic glamour of his father, James IV, killed at Flodden, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Princelie Majestie
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Puir Labourers and Busy Husbandmen    Puir Labourers and Busy Husbandmen
ISBN:9781841581460
Category: History
Author: Piers Dixon
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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This is a portrait of a complex and fascinating society which laid down patterns in the Scottish countryside, many of which still survive today.

    
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