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DescriptionA critical introduction to J rgen Habermas' political thought and his theory of power J rgen Habermas has come to be viewed as the unoff...

DescriptionThe story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish history. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh ...

DescriptionWeaving together history and myth, Robert the Bruce: The King and the Spiderbrings to life the most-famous legend of the freedom-fightin...

The Theological Implications of Digital Culture This informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologie...

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Goth...

Rare and delicious fungi spell trouble for an ambitious restaurateur in this sumptuously painted graphic novel from one of Scotland's most imaginat...

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This series of original case studies, focusing on the proceedings and wider diplomatic significance of lavish banquets held across the period at ic...

Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market publishing This book...

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...

Reducere. Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in Sout...

Reducere. Riccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Spinoza's...

Reducere. This book brings together chapters authored by leading African American Studies/Black Studies scholars in the USA and the UK. It focuses on the roo...

The acclaimed author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit brings a dazzling voice and extraordinary plot twists to this captivating Scottish adventure.....

This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarette smoking, beer-drinki...

DescriptionThe essence of Scotland, a compelling mix of traditional and modern, is captured in the newly updated Green Guide Scotland, from the Hig...

Reducere. Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature * Winner of the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year Award * Short-listed for the Costa First No...

One of Helen's friends is dying, stabbed in the heart by the Master, and this life-threatening injury needs a magical remedy. Helen and her fabled-...

Reducere. In this prequel to the bestselling Murder in Samarkand, Craig Murray describes how he discovered the dark heart at the centre of Tony Blair's shiny...

DescriptionSing a Song of Seasons is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems -- one for every day of the year. Filled with familiar f...

Reducere. Lady Charlotte Whitaker is devoted to her family, particularly her sister's son, Freddie. Her late father, the Marquess of Lockhead, died without a...

Reducere. One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011 "Agatha Christie lives You'll love this book." --John Lescroart Welcome to Edinburgh, 1926. Dandy ...

Some children face traumatic or difficult events in their lives, and it's essential that they are helped to understand such events and given permis...

Reducere. "Since the religious revolution of the sixteenth century, to no man has the Catholic Church in Scotland been so much indebted as to Bishop Hay. He ...

DescriptionAnd we are watching the huge grey waves crashing and this is the moment when I say I have to tell you something. Claire and her wife Kit...

DescriptionOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic ...

Reducere. A new cover reprint of the second volume of T. C. Smout's magnificent - and indispensable - account of the Scottish people, from 1830-1950. 'Profes...

We make choices all the time--about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantl...

Reducere. "He's gone..." When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two day...

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrati...

DescriptionAuthor Biography: Steve Cole is a best-selling children's author whose sales exceed three million copies. His hugely successful Astrosau...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infur...

DescriptionSet against the post-war backdrop of a rural village in the Emilia-Romagna, this is the second in a new series of hilarious and incisive...

Anita Sundström, out of the force for a year after her resignation, is approached by a dying woman to track down a collection of paintings stolen f...

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To understand the current difficulties and future prospects of European integration, multiple perspectives are required. The essays in this collect...

Explores 'scenic realism' in the major novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad Offers the first book-length study of connections between these two...

Reducere. An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its h...

This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or lang...

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Mu...

A "gorgeous, thoughtful, heartbreaking" historical novel, The Cape Doctor is the story of one man's journey from penniless Irish girl to one of mos...

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts is the fi...

Reducere. A collection of contemporary romance novellas from New York Times Bestselling Author Samantha Young.This volume includes novellas previously only a...

Reducere. The second sparkling book in the New York Times bestselling Duke's Men historical romance series, featuring the Duke's cousin and a skilled female ...

Reducere. 'I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.' A woman, a phone call, a final conversation. In this extraordinary and prophetic...

Reducere. The original title of this book, which was compiled from a series of lectures delivered in Edinburgh in October, 1884 by Mgr. Dillon, was The War o...

This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under ...

A fascinating graphic guide to the political movements and philosophical roots of fascism, tracing the origins of its ideas to nineteenth-century t...

Reducere. This is the first biography written from a legal perspective on the public life of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884); a prominent figure in the common ...

Reducere. In November 2017 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. As a 13-year-old Princess, she fell in love with Pr...

Soon-to-be new parents Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have been hoping for a respite from their inquiries, but murder and mayhem have a sta...