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The stories collected here make up Rhona Rauszer’s biography, an oral narrative composed and recorded by her over a period of twelve years (1992–2004).

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With Edinburgh holding Word Heritage Site status, the preservation of the city’s classic buildings has been paramount to the city fathers – despite myriad plans to level large swathes of the existing architecture and totally redesign the cityscape. So what might have been? Alexander Mullay takes us on a guided tour of Edinburgh as it would have looked had any of the disregarded plans gone ahead.

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This book considers the complex issues which arise from operating the nuclear deterrent out of a devolved Scotland that has attained a very limited autonomy and has no rights to determine defence and foreign policy

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‘A powerful and mesmerizing novel, both mythic and intimate . . . a great accomplishment of imagination, insight and lyricism,’ - Amy Tan

The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.

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The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.
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Fiona Watson examines the process of conquest and attempted colonisation of one medieval kingdom by another, concentrating on that most vital aspect of conquest: the maintenance of garrisons.
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After examining the principal similarities and differences between England and Scotland at the turn of the seventeenth century, this book studies the integration of the political, economic, legal and religious institutions of the two nations after the
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In this fresh and challenging look at the origins of the United Kingdom, the first full study for four decades, Michael Fry traces the fault-lines of the present time right back to the treaty drawn up between the ruling classes of Scotland and England three centuries ago.

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First full examination of one of the defining events in Scottish history.

    
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This book forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.

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A portrait of a Hebridean tideline by Helen Douglas.

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Acclaimed nature artist Darren Woodhead captures in painting and words the natural beauty of the countryside around Carlops and the valley of the North Esk river.
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Walking guide to the towns and cities of Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
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Urquhart Castle, and the surrounding Great Glen, has a tumultuous and fascinating history: a home to the Picts, a royal fortress in the Wars of Independence, fought over by the Highland clans, and a forlorn relic in the first Jacobite rising.
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