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Download or read book Pilton Keelie written by James Meikle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it better to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth or a hunger in your belly? Is life in the city better than life in the country? Is life in the new world really better than life in old Europe? Is private education better than public? Is a university degree compulsory to success in life?. What exactly is a better life? Affluence does not guarantee happiness and poverty does not guarantee misery and regardless of inherent socio-economic standing a kind or cruel bounce at the right or wrong moment can be life-changing. Strong parental love and guidance ultimately trump actual money but the latter does make further education more readily available and that generally opens up more opportunities in the modern world. My wife and I had no post-secondary education and loved our upbringing yet we strived very hard to make sure our children did have university degrees and a shot at that better life. I hope the joyful if sometimes embarrassing memoirs of a Scottish working class boy, combined with a good deal of social history and the many quirks of the common language which my native and adopted countries allegedly share, can amuse and inform.
Book Synopsis The commissariot record of Edinburgh. Register of testaments by : Sir Francis James Grant
Download or read book The commissariot record of Edinburgh. Register of testaments written by Sir Francis James Grant and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shorter Slang Dictionary by : Paul Beale
Download or read book Shorter Slang Dictionary written by Paul Beale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking world. It gives clear and concise definitions of each word, supplemented by examples of their use and information about where and when they came into being. This entertaining reference work will be of use to students of English at all levels and a source of fascination to word-lovers throughout the world.
Book Synopsis From Alfred the Great to Stephen by : R. H. C. Davis
Download or read book From Alfred the Great to Stephen written by R. H. C. Davis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two collected essays on late Anglo-Saxon and Norman history.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address by : Leslie Dunkling
Download or read book A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address written by Leslie Dunkling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will give learners of English the confidence to address people appropriately in a wide variety of situations. It will also help them to understand what is implied when an English speaker uses a particular way of addressing someone. These topics are entirely neglected in most courses and textbooks, and there is no other reference work on the subject. Anyone who is fascinated by words will also find much here of interest. A wealth of historical, sociological and etymological information is set out in a highly readable style. Some 2,000 entries arranged in alphabetical order shed new light on familiar terms of address and present many curiosities. The author gives examples from a wide range of literature, particularly twentieth century novels, and provides an illuminating commentary on them.
Book Synopsis The Trick is to Keep Breathing by : Janice Galloway
Download or read book The Trick is to Keep Breathing written by Janice Galloway and published by Random House. This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A young drama teacher in the West of Scotland suffers deep psychological problems which affect all areas of her life. She fails to find meaning in anything around her, but in her search she strips situations of their conventional values and sees them in a sharp, new light." --Publisher's description.
Download or read book Imagine a City written by Moira Burgess and published by Argyll Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable account of how Glasgow has been presented in fiction -- through the kailyard to the enduring No Mean City gang depiction and the rich crop of Glasgow's contemporary writers.
Book Synopsis Inventing Fear of Crime by : Murray Lee
Download or read book Inventing Fear of Crime written by Murray Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the fear of crime has become as important as crime itself. This book analyses the emergence of the fear of crime as a meaningful concept in both social enquiry and governmental and political discourse particularly in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and North America.
Book Synopsis The Highlanders of Scotland by : William Forbes Skene
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fear of Crime written by Jason Ditton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the fear of crime have constituted what is undeniably the fastest growing research area within criminology in the last decade and this shows no sign of diminishing. The editors have a distinguished record of innovative research in the field, being responsible for a number of seminal empirical and theoretical articles. In this volume, they have collected together and for the first time, all the most significant contributions to the field. The collection includes an introductory essay by the editors and articles reflecting: an overview of the field; the causes of vulnerability; the sources of information on victimisation; the methods used to survey fear; the theoretical models employed to explain it; and the nature of policies designed to reduce fear.
Book Synopsis The Origin of the Aryans by : Isaac Taylor
Download or read book The Origin of the Aryans written by Isaac Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grey Granite by : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Download or read book Grey Granite written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis Transformation of Scotland by : Tom M. Devine
Download or read book Transformation of Scotland written by Tom M. Devine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents 'state of the art' research in an accessible style to all those interested in understanding the historical context of modern Scotland. Fresh interpretations are revealed on such key and controversial issues as the impact of the Union of 1707, the Clearances, the rise and fall of Scottish heavy industry and the recent transformation of the modern economy. The distinctive features of the Scottish economic system are stressed but these are also analysed within a British and international context. The focus of the volume is both broad and detailed with full treatment of agriculture, finance, industry and the service sector as well as the impact of momentous economic changes on the lives of the people and the massive new role in the twentieth century of the state in economic affairs. At a time of intense debate on the present and future condition of Scotland under a devolved parliament and executive, this book provides the essential background and the long-run perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing the nation.
Book Synopsis Cities on the Margin, on the Margin of Cities by : Philippe Laplace
Download or read book Cities on the Margin, on the Margin of Cities written by Philippe Laplace and published by Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Modern Scottish Novel by : Cairns Craig
Download or read book The Modern Scottish Novel written by Cairns Craig and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig shows how writers -- Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Iain Banks, A. L. Kennedy, and Irvine Welsh -- have adopted a specific set of formal techniques to deal both with the dominance of the English language in the media and the Calvinist legacy, and relates the Scottish novel to contemporary postcolonial and postmodern theory.
Book Synopsis CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature) by : Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Download or read book CLOUD HOWE (The Classic of Scottish Literature) written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud HoweII is the story of Chris Guthrie and her second husband Robert. They move to Segget, a mill town where a class struggle is taking shape and Robert is at the helm of political affairs… "The borough of Segget stands under the Mounth, on the southern side, in the Mearns Howe, Fordoun lies near and Drumlithie nearer, you can see the Laurencekirk lights of a night glimmer and glow as the mists come down." (Excerpt) Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901 – 1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.
Book Synopsis Growing Up in the West by : Edwin Muir
Download or read book Growing Up in the West written by Edwin Muir and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books give four very different, and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. Fernie brae celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive boy in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist Gordon William's novel tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: 'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs.' Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s.
