How did a laid-back singer with a guitar turn a song into one of the most powerful lifestyle brands in the world?For decades, Jimmy Buffett gave millions of fans more than music, books, and plays. He gave them permission to slow down, laugh louder, have a positive outlook on life & people, and to chase their own adventures. What began as songs about paradise became something far bigger: a community, a new genre of music and a lifestyle.In Jimmy Buffett:...

His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious autobiography - Stuart Kelly was born near Abbotsford - his examination of Scott's legacy and ch...

No writer has ever been as famous as Sir Walter Scott once was; and no writer has ever enjoyed such huge acclaim followed by such absolute neglect and outright hostility. But Scotland would not be Scotland except for Scott. All the icons of Scottishness have their roots in Scott's novels, poems, public events and histories. It's a legacy both inspiring and constraining, and just one of the ironies that fuse Scott and Scotland into Scott-land.In this book Stuart Kelly reveals Scott ...

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terror...

In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before.In this gripping account, Anders...

He thought he was in control until she snuck into his heart...Carter Hill walked away from a perfectly fine life and relationship…all for a career she's chased since she was fourteen. Years and a PhD later, she loves her job as a water rights consultant. At the same time, now that all her brothers are happily married, she’s lonely and wanting more. But the only man in her life is Logan – super serious, no sense of humor, and friend-zoned. Or is he? Perhaps a sexy, ...

Holding Back Disaster: Protecting Lives and Infrastructure Through Excavation Damage Prevention presents a rare system-level account of excavation damage prevention as a form of critical infrastructure, bringing together the people, systems, and practices that protect people and essential infrastructure every day.Excavation damage to buried infrastructure is one of the most persistent, costly, and under-examined safety problems in the built environment. Each year in the Un...

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2020WINNER OF THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARD FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, 2019An Irish Independent and Irish Times Book of the Year, 2019From the author of Tatty, the Dublin: One City One Book 2020 choice______...

Rakes of the Caribbean 1Certo che la piantagione di canna da zucchero di cui ha ereditato la maggioranza delle azioni risolverà i problemi economici della propria famiglia, Ren Dryden, Conte di Dartmoor, giunge a Barbados per cogliere di sorpresa gli altri sconosciuti azionisti. È lui però a restare di stucco quando scopre che l'unico comproprietario è in realtà una donna bellissima e sensuale, che dopo aver tentato invano di persuaderlo a tornare a Londra decide di...

Does a sailing voyage ever really go as planned?Not when the world has been turned upside down by a devastating solar flare that disrupts GPS and communications systems.Landfall in the Bahamas doesn't work out the way Artie and Larry Drager envisioned, because now the two brothers must search a vast archipelago of out islands in hopes of finding their missing crew member. A stranger they encounter on a remote cay complicates matters even further, p...

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terror...

"This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read... Smart and hilarious."— Kirkus ReviewsJoyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston's Campusland is a satiric howl at today's elite educational institutions—from safe spaces to tribal infighting to the sheer sanctimony. A wickedly delightful novel that may remind you of Tom Wolfe and David Lodge.Her room sucks. Her closet isn't big enough for two we...