SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY and THE HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEARThe Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate across the British Empire, the United States and elsewhere, from finance to industry, philosophy to politics.To the Ends of the Earth puts this extraordinary epi...

'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesEighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change, as traditional ways of life were overturned by the 'rational'...

The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, Devine places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future.

There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Middle Ages onwards the island of Britain has been shaped by the unique dynamic between Edinburgh and London, exchanging inhabitants, monarchs, money and ideas, sometimes in a spirit of friendship and at others in a spirit of murderous dislike.Tom Devine's seminal new book explores this extraordinary history in all its ambiguity, from the se...

"Days of Trump" is first book to document the Trump presidency by the dayA lot happened in the 1,461 days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump. So much so that no one could possibly retain it all without extensive notes. Working off the whirlwind mantra of "flood the zone," Trump kept fans and critics alike mesmerized by his daily gyrations and machinations, aiming to "own the news cycle" like no previous president ever has.Chronicling one of the most unique presidencies of...

A beautiful trucker leaves her five children with her grandmother one morning to drive a delivery truck on a short trip across the Texas – Arkansas border and back. But, before the day is over she’s charged with twenty counts of murder. The story details the sorrow and hardship of her beauty and the problems that arises from her getting involved in unhealthy relationships at a very early age. And if that isn’t enough, she catches a case she has nothing to do with, due to a desperate FBI ag...

Ain't nothing funny about being in prison. There is, however, plenty of funny things going on in the prisons. And, there is more non-sense going on in the legal sector of our goverment. I wanted to provide the readers with some real and cold facts about prison and our legal system; what better way to share this knowledge then in a way that people can have a laugh and get information at the same time. This books will have you laughing about the guards, the gays, churchgoers, and have you th...

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. Pragmatics for Latin provides a descriptive analysis of Latin information structure based on detailed philological evidence and elaborates a syntax-pragmatics interface that formalizes the informational content of the various different word orders. Using a slightly adjusted version of the structur...

This updated and expanded 1985 edition of the classic 1974 work covers deindustrialisation, industrial and competition policy, the public enterprise sector, regional and urban policy, and privatisation, as well as focussing on the firm and the industrial sector in all its facets. It remains the key work on industrial economics.

A risk worth taking for a love worth living.Ruby Vasilaki’s world has been turned upside down—more than once. Abandoned by her mother, she was taken in by her grandparents after her father’s untimely death. Raised under the shelter of their love, Ruby is ready to take on the world and moves across the country to pursue her dreams. She finds Vander Vitalis instead. Vander, who makes her laugh, who accepts her for who she is, who loves her.But the wh...

This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde. New and original research, as well as historiographical overviews and commentaries, illuminate the study of this formative century in the creation of modern Scotland. Contributors are leading figures in their fields, and the Scottish experience is examined within an international dimension. Topics include Scottish modernisation before the I...