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The Water of Life

Uisge beatha

by Daniel Marchildon ...

Uisge beatha, Scottish Gaelic for 'whisky', is literally 'the water of life'. However, it also frequently proves lethal.Driven by a mysterious voice, Elizabeth Legrand plunges headlong into an insane project: opening a distillery in her small, isolated Canadian community in Georgian Bay. Using ancient reserves of Glen Dubh, a mythical Scotch thought lost to the world, she hopes to create a single ... Read more

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Uisge beatha, Scottish Gaelic for 'whisky', is literally 'the water of life'. However, it also frequently proves lethal.Driven by a mysterious voice, Elizabeth Legrand plunges headlong into an insane project: opening a distillery in her small, isolated Canadian community in Georgian Bay. Using ancient reserves of Glen Dubh, a mythical Scotch thought lost to the world, she hopes to create a single
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Universality and Social Policy in Canada

Edited by Gregory Marchildon, Michael J. Prince, Daniel Béland ...

Series series The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the modern welfare state. The book argues that while universality is a core value undergirding certain ... Read more

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Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social welfare. The contributors survey the many contested meanings of universality in relation to specific social programs, the field of social policy, and the modern welfare state. The book argues that while universality is a core value undergirding certain
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Dunadd

A Veil of Time Novel

by Claire R. McDougall ...

Series Book 1 - The Veil of Time Series
MAGGIE TRAVELS THROUGH TIME TO 8TH CENTURY SCOTLAND, FINDING NEW HOPEThe fog Maggie's seizure medication induces has numbed her over the years to a bad marriage but cannot ease the pain of the recent loss of her young daughter to the same affliction. With her life crumbling about her, she flees to a cottage at the base of Dunadd Fort, once the royal seat of Scotland, but now in ruins. As the pills ... Read more

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MAGGIE TRAVELS THROUGH TIME TO 8TH CENTURY SCOTLAND, FINDING NEW HOPEThe fog Maggie's seizure medication induces has numbed her over the years to a bad marriage but cannot ease the pain of the recent loss of her young daughter to the same affliction. With her life crumbling about her, she flees to a cottage at the base of Dunadd Fort, once the royal seat of Scotland, but now in ruins. As the pills
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Sea Room

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson.Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a million puffins for company, he found himself in charge of one of the most beautiful places on earth ... Read more

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson.Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a million puffins for company, he found himself in charge of one of the most beautiful places on earth
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Not the Same Sky

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by Evelyn Conlon ...

By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than 4000 Irish girls are shipped across vast oceans to an unimaginable world in the new colony. On Sunday 28 October 1849, one of these ships, the "Thomas Arbuthnot", sets sail from Plymouth with a cargo of ... Read more

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By 1848 famine has ravaged Ireland, and London remains undecided about what to do. A shortage of female labour in Australia offers a kind of solution and so, over the following two years, more than 4000 Irish girls are shipped across vast oceans to an unimaginable world in the new colony. On Sunday 28 October 1849, one of these ships, the "Thomas Arbuthnot", sets sail from Plymouth with a cargo of
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Who Built Scotland

25 Journeys In Search Of A Nation

by Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Crawford, James Robertson, Kathleen Jamie ...

‘a fine picture of our strange and varied country’ Scotsman‘edifying and revelatory’ Herald‘an epic love story to Scotland’ Courier‘by turns inspiring and fascinating … a book that gives context to the Scotland we see around us today’ Undiscovered Scotland‘a fascinating alternative take on the country’s social, political and cultural histories’ Scottish Field *****Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall ... Read more

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‘a fine picture of our strange and varied country’ Scotsman‘edifying and revelatory’ Herald‘an epic love story to Scotland’ Courier‘by turns inspiring and fascinating … a book that gives context to the Scotland we see around us today’ Undiscovered Scotland‘a fascinating alternative take on the country’s social, political and cultural histories’ Scottish Field *****Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall
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The Secret Coast to Coast

Walking Scotland's Southern Upland Way

by Andrew Bowden ...

Tell someone you're going off to Scotland to walk the Southern Upland Way and they'll probably look at you rather blankly before starting to tell you about Great Aunt Mabel's recent hip operation. Even in walking circles, it's not exactly a well known trail.Which is why, when Andrew Bowden told anyone who would listen that he was going to Scotland to walk the Southern Upland Way, everyone looked ... Read more

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Tell someone you're going off to Scotland to walk the Southern Upland Way and they'll probably look at you rather blankly before starting to tell you about Great Aunt Mabel's recent hip operation. Even in walking circles, it's not exactly a well known trail.Which is why, when Andrew Bowden told anyone who would listen that he was going to Scotland to walk the Southern Upland Way, everyone looked
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Isolation Shepherd

by Iain R. Thomson ...

In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.In August 1956, Iain Thomson and his wife Betty, along with their two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son, sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the ... Read more

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In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.In August 1956, Iain Thomson and his wife Betty, along with their two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son, sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the
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On the Crofter's Trail

by David Craig ...

Tracing the legacies of the small farmers displaced and scattered in nineteenth-century Scotland, this is "a powerful, poetic, personal Highland Odyssey" ( Times Literary Supplement).In the Clearances of the nineteenth century, crofts—once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland—were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland ... Read more

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Tracing the legacies of the small farmers displaced and scattered in nineteenth-century Scotland, this is "a powerful, poetic, personal Highland Odyssey" ( Times Literary Supplement).In the Clearances of the nineteenth century, crofts—once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland—were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland
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Orkney Folk Tales

by Tom Muir ...

Series series Folk Tales
The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows.Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk, mermaids and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek ... Read more

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The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows.Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk, mermaids and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek
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Nessie the Mannerless Monster

by Ted Hughes ...

Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling, lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen... ... Read more

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Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling, lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen...
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The Crofter and the Laird

by John McPhee ...

When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors—Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland—a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were "incomers." Donald McNeill, the ... Read more

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When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors—Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland—a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofters and farmers, had familial histories of unbroken residence on the island for two or three hundred years; the rest, including the English laird who owned Colonsay, were "incomers." Donald McNeill, the
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