The Lost Atholl

The Lost Atholl
Author: Alan Stapf
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728399068

The final book of the trilogy ‘The Janus Set’. Now, as outlaws of the Federation, Aramay and her siblings perceive how Her Royal Highness Jathonica is bringing about her total dominion of the Federation. Already Jathonica has millions of bio-androids infiltrating the upper echelons of the Federation. Logistics is her next target although her plans appear to have been momentarily thwarted. Bryton, aware of his perilous predicament decides to confront Jathonica head-on. His only reliance is with the natives, a presumed ally although he knows very little about them. This is where Aramay learns the true potential of the natives; where she and the natives learn of the lost Atholl and ultimately, the single reason of their efforts. A task they never sought but one which brought Aramay and the natives together, perfecting their skills ... perhaps for others.

James I

James I
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2015-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788853644

Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a wide range of sources, assessing James I's impact on his kingdom. Michael Brown examines James's creation of a new, prestigious monarchy based on a series of bloody victories over his rivals and symbolised by lavish spending at court. He concludes that, despite the apparent power and glamour, James I's 'golden age' had shallow roots; after a life of drastically swinging fortunes, James I was to meet his end in a violent coup, a victim of his own methods. But whether as lawgiver, tyrant or martyr, James I has cast a long shadow over the history of Scotland.

Summer at the Highland Coral Beach

Summer at the Highland Coral Beach
Author: Kiley Dunbar
Publisher: Hera books Ltd
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912973243

'Sweet, funny, and emotional...the perfect escape.’ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Reader Review Escape to the Highland Coral Beach and let the sunshine warm your heart... Beatrice Halliday needs a holiday. Booking a trip to the Highlands on a whim, Beatrice hopes learning Gaelic in a beautiful Scottish coastal village will be just the change her life needs. But Port Willow Bay isn’t exactly as the website promised... Instead of learning a new language, she’s booked in to learn the ancient skill of willow weaving, her hotel room is Princess and the Pea themed (with a stack of mattresses for her bed!) and her tutor is Atholl Fergusson, grumpy - but utterly gorgeous - landlord of the hotel where Beatrice is staying. Worse still, she’s the only one booked on the course, meaning lots of time spent up close with Atholl (and his mesmerising blue eyes). But as Beatrice finds herself falling in love with Port Willow Bay and its people, and as she discovers the kind heart beneath Atholl’s stony exterior, can she really leave? Escape to the beautiful Scottish Highlands with this utterly romantic, feelgood book; one visit to Port Willow Bay and you’ll want to come back! Fans of Sarah Morgan, Carole Matthews and Holly Martin will be captivated. Readers are loving Summer at the Highland Coral Beach!: ‘Kiley Dunbar is a wonderful author! She knows how to spin a tale in a way that'll break your heart but make you stay for the happily-ever-after.’ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Reader Review ‘I absolutely adored this book. The characters were so real that it sucked you in and made you feel a part of the story. You didn't want it to end!’ Reader Review ‘This a great and cosy escapism romance, focusing on hope, growth and a whole lot of healing. I really hope this isn't the end for these characters because I completely fell in love with them!’ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Reader Review ‘A great setting for the book - makes me want to go on holiday there too!’ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Reader Review ‘A sweet and great story, and one I had a hard time putting down. Highly recommend this one.’ Reader Review ‘This was a beautifully written book...made you want to visit the places described...I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone’ Reader Review ‘The characters were wonderfully quirky and the setting was gorgeous... Sweet, funny, and emotional, Summer at the Highland Coral Beach was the perfect escape.’ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Reader Review Praise for Kiley Dunbar: ‘I would easily give this book hundreds of stars’ Little Miss Book Lover 87 ‘this book was just sheer gorgeousness from the first page to the last, and I loved every moment...A really special book, and an author to watch for the future’ Being Anne ‘What an adorable, emotional, and beautiful read!!...This is certainly one of my favourite holiday reads and a book that will stick with me’ Diary of a Book Fiend ‘I just adored this book...This is a perfect book to chase away the winter blues and make you dream of love in the summertime. I cannot recommend it highly enough.’ A Little Book Problem ‘This was one of those books that you smiled reading from the very first page. It is such a feel-good rom-com’ Kelly’s Book Space ‘A heart-warming and uplifting romantic read about love lost and found, second chances and new beginnings...will leave you with a great big smile on your face.’ Bookish Jottings ‘a glittering feast of love and happiness that I simply couldn't put down... I urge you all to add this stunning book to your TBR pile immediately.’ Stacy Is Reading

The Challenge of Epistemology

The Challenge of Epistemology
Author: Christina Toren
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857455168

Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going right to the heart of anthropological theory and method, this volume discusses issues that have vexed practicing anthropologists for a long time. The authors are by no means in agreement with one another as to where the answers might lie. Some are primarily concerned with the clarity and theoretical utility of analytical categories across disciplines; others are more inclined to push ethnographic analysis to its limits in an effort to demonstrate what kind of sense it can make. All are aware of the much-wanted differences that good ethnography can make in explaining the human sciences and philosophy. The contributors show a continued commitment to ethnography as a profoundly radical intellectual endeavor that goes to the very roots of inquiry into what it is to be human, and, to anthropology as a comparative project that should be central to any attempt to understand who we are.

More Fruitful Than the Soil

More Fruitful Than the Soil
Author: Andrew MacKillop
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2001-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 178885392X

This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant reactions to recruiting, and the study concludes that this was a vital factor in bringing about change in the tenurial structure in the region. Both the decline of the tacksman and the emergence of crofting are linked to the process of regiment raising. Military recruiting involved a clear recognition on the part of the Highland landlords and tenantry that the Empire and the 'fiscal military state' offered alternative sources of revenue. Both groups 'colonised' various levels of the state's military machine. As a result of this close involvement, the government remained a vital influence in the area well after 1745, and a major player in the region's economy. Recruiting was not simply a residue of clanship, rather it was a form of commercial activity, analogous to kelping.

Britain's lost revolution?

Britain's lost revolution?
Author: Daniel Szechi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847799884

This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the enemy of liberty and all that is good and progressive. The Jacobite Scots are presented as so foolishly reactionary and dumbly loyal that they were (sadly) incapable of recognising their manifest destiny as the cannon fodder of the first British empire. But what if Louis acted in defence of a nation’s liberties and (for whatever reason) sought to right a historic injustice? What if the Scots Jacobites turn out to be the most radical, revolutionary party in early eighteenth-century British politics? Using newly discovered sources from the French and Scottish archives this exciting new book challenges our fundamental assumptions regarding the emergence of the fully British state in the early eighteenth century.

True Thomas

True Thomas
Author: Nigel Tranter
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1444757644

Little is known about Thomas Learmonth of Ercildoune, vassal and esquire of the Earl of Dunbar, poet and prophesier known as 'Thomas the Rhymer'. During the reign of the Scottish King Alexander III, a time when the sword ruled over all and the treachery of the powerful earls had never been greater, True Thomas became renowned for his extraordinary gift of prophecy - a gift which has echoed through the centuries. In this enthralling tale, Scottish historical novelist Nigel Tanter brings him and the wild and rugged times in which he lived to vivid and memorable life.

Lost and Found in Johannesburg

Lost and Found in Johannesburg
Author: Mark Gevisser
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374176760

"An inner-life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions"--