Recent Releases
This is a complete list of the new books which have arrived on the site within the last month. See This Month's Highlights for a selection.
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The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture And Society In Post-War Britain
£65.00
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
This title provides a critical history of the first 25 years of the world's biggest arts festival: the Edinburgh Festival. It uses the festival as a lens for understanding wider social and cultural change in post-war Britain. -
Add to BasketEladria
£11.04
- Paperback - Cosmic Egg
A dire prophecy is fulfilled when Tahnadra's royal moon is attacked and overthrown by religious extremists. Now a fugitive, Princess Eladria finds herself embroiled in a sinister experiment that threatens to destroy her world and countless others. - Far-Flung Families In Film: The Diasporic Family In Contemporary European Cinema
£70.00
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
While there is a significant body of scholarship on the representation of the family in Hollywood cinema, an analysis of the depiction of the diasporic family in cinema from a comparative transnational angle has yet to be attempted. This book fills this gap and provides an essential resource for academics and researchers with an interest in cinematic representations of the family and transnational cinema. -
Add to BasketFirewallers
£5.94
- Paperback - Piccadilly Press
Jess returns from a nightmare day at school to find her dad's been suspended from work and gone into hiding. To escape the slobbering newshounds all eager for the full story, Mum drags Jess and her sister off to a remote Scottish island. Modern technology's forbidden, and there's only a bunch of teenage uber geeks for company. Without Facebook or even her mobile, Jess feels totally disconnected from everybody back home. And why are they there anyway? What are they really running away from? -
Add to BasketGratitude And Beyond: Five Insights For A Fulfilled Life
£9.99
- Paperback - Findhorn
This text suggests that near-death experiences are more frequent than we think and sometimes so under-stated that we fail to recognise them. Only by recognising the event can we draw out its lessons and the most important of these is gratitude. -
Add to BasketHagurosan
£4.49
- Paperback - Barrington Stoke
When Hagurosan is told to take an offering to the shrine, he reluctantly begins his trek up the mountain. But when he gets hungry and eats the cake meant for the spirits, things take a turn that no one could have expected. Now Hagurosan must face the consequences of his actions. -
Highland Buses: From Oban To Inverness
£12.74
- Paperback - Amberley
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of buses in the Highlands. It provides a window into the past of the isolated communities served by these buses as well as many photographs of the stunning Highland landscapes. -
A Historical Phonology Of English
£18.99
- Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
This work describes the segmental and prosodic changes in the history of English. It provides analyses of these changes both as phonological events and in relation to the evolution of interlocking aspects of earlier English. -
How Brave Is That?
£5.09
- Paperback - Barrington Stoke
Tom wants to join the army, but he has to pass his exams first. When he turns up without a proper uniform one day, strict Mrs Dell threatens to send him home. There are spare clothes available, but is Tom brave enough to face the exam hall - in a skirt?! - Add to BasketLost In The Backwoods: Scots And The North American Wilderness
£70.00
- Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes.
