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  • Running Through Adversity

    Perseverance, Passion and the Pursuit of Fulfilment

    by Ian Whyte ...
    Running Through Adversity is an inspiring running memoir and true story of perseverance, following the extraordinary life journey of Peter McGregor, a man whose life was forever changed at the age of five when he contracted polio. The illness left him with lasting physical and emotional challenges, coordination difficulties, and a disrupted education. Facing years of prejudice, bullying, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Landscape and History since 1500

    by Ian D. Whyte ...
    Series series Globalities
    Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history.In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Environmental History

    by Ian Whyte ...
    Series series Environmental History and Global Change
    Increasing awareness of the extent and cause of environmental problems has fuelled the emergence of a new and timely discipline: environmental history. An exciting blend of geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, landscape, environment and science, it seeks to reveal how human activity has affected the environment in the past and how we, in turn, have been affected by that environment. How ... Read more

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  • The Changing Scottish Landscape

    1500-1800

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Scotland
    Originally published in 1991 and focussing on the countryside, this book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland and considers how these were increasingly altered during the 17th and 18th Centuries by the first Improvers and then by the more widespread impact of the Agricultural Revolution. It considers the effect on the landscape of the changing role of the church, the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • On the Trail of the Jacobites

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Scotland
    Originally published in 1990 this book focusses on the main manoeuvres that took place in Scotland and England between 1688 and the Battle of Culloden in 1746. It provides a detailed chronological narrative of places, people and battles. Many of the sites associated with the Jacobites have not changed greatly in the last two centuries, and the book is extensively illustrated with photographs and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Climatic Change and Human Society

    by Ian D. Whyte ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1995, this book brings together material from many sources and offers a balanced appreciation of the ways in which climatic changes can interact with society. The questions it discusses are as relevant now as when the book was published: how far should governments go in taking expensive and unpopular measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Will the warming trend ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Scotland before the Industrial Revolution

    An Economic and Social History c.1050-c. 1750

    by Ian D. Whyte ...
    Series series Longman Economic and Social History of Britain
    This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants

    A Social History of Migration

    Edited by Colin Pooley, Ian Whyte ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1991, this book covers an usually long time – from the 17th to the 20th Century – and considers the impact of internal migration and immigration (primarily in Britain) as well as emigration to North America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Population movements are now recognized to be an integral part of structural change within society and this book brings ... Read more

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    Dark Tales of Mystery & Suspense

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    Series Audiobook 1 - Mystery & Suspense

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    4 hours 47 min

    A collection of those intriguing thrillers that keep us on the edge of our seats.Contents:"Man in a Hurry" by Alan NelsonThe pudgy little man was always hurrying."Bitter Gold" by B. C. BridgesA brief, grim tale of Siberia."The Gray Rider" by Charles Hilan CraigThe strange tale of a famous racing driver."What Is It?" by Charles M. MorrisRetribu... ... Read more

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    Baffling Beasts

    15 Tales of Weird and Mystifying Creatures

    Series Audiobook 1 - Baffling Beasts

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    Fifteen horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions.Contents:Warning Wings by Arlton Eadie (Weird Tales, 1929)A seemingly insignificant white moth.Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith (WT, 1938)An unusual witch.The Destroying Horde by Donald Wandrei (WT, 1935)The first BLOB story?Caterpillar... ... Read more

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    The dramatic story of Scotland as it has never been told before - as seen on the BBC**The beauty of Scotland is overwhelming and I've often thought that Scotland's popular history is just like her landscape - impossibly romantic, obscured by mist and myth and always changing.'Vivid and compelling'** Good Book GuideScotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past, ... Read more

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  • Scotland

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    Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms: "Deserves a prominent place in the history canon" ( Scots Magazine).Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of the Scottish nation. Focusing on key moments such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite risings, Moffat also ... Read more

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