Author: Fraser Lauchlan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781790443413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Everybody loves Italy. Well, ok, maybe not everyone. But a lot of people do. Including me. After 12 years of living in Scotland, my Italian wife abruptly announced to me on a cold, grey November morning that she wanted to move back home. Home being the beautiful Italian island of Sardinia, slap bang in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. After having lived almost all of my life in Scotland, I suddenly found myself facing the reality of moving to a different country, a different climate and a different language to all that I had known. A lot of it was good. A lot of it wasn't so good. But most of the time, I tried to see the funny side. This is the story of someone coping with Being Scottish in Italy.
Author: Tom M. Devine
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748674470
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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100 short essays offer an opportunity to penetrate behind the statistical surveys and explore the rich complexity of changing identity from a varied range of opinion.
Author: Clark McGinn
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1909912344
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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What makes the Ultimate Scot? Is it the ability to identify a tartan pattern from 50 yards? Maybe it's being able to recite the two forgotten verses of Auld Lang Syne? Or perhaps it's knowing your single malt from a double malt? The Ultimate Guide to Being Scottish examines in hilarious detail the history, politics and traditions that make Scots great. Exploring the best of scottish culture, this book focuses on the celebrations that Scots have made their own, from Hogmanay to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Mixing fact and practical hints (like the ideal recipe for boiled sheep's head) with witty banter, The Ultimate Guide to Being Scottish is perfect for injecting Scotland's unique and beloved brand of merriment into life.
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307371719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Full-time philosopher and occasional sleuth Isabel Dalhousie, now the mother of a baby boy, is getting used to the new rhythms of her life, caring for little Charlie with the sometimes unsettling aid of her forthright housekeeper, Grace, having dinners with Charlie’s father, Jamie, and tending as usual to submissions to the Review of Applied Ethics. But Isabel is deeply unsettled when she receives a letter telling her that she is soon to be replaced as editor of the Review by Christopher Dove, an ambitious academic at a London university, and she considers a variety of ways of dealing with this unwelcome news. And her niece, Cat, who a couple of years before had rejected Jamie and broken his heart, is now furious at Isabel for having stolen him away. Isabel’s insatiable curiosity—or what Jamie sees as her tendency toward meddling—is peaked when she learns some odd details regarding two paintings by a Scottish artist that have come onto the auction market, and she begins to think that the paintings might be forgeries. Her investigation takes her to the beautiful Isle of Jura, where she finds some recent traces of the painter and learns of his apparent suicide in the fabled whirlpool called the Corryvreckan. A visit to the painter’s widow brings a surprising realization, one that contributes to her musings throughout the story on mothers, fathers, and sons.
Author: Fraser Lauchlan
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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After the success of Being Scottish in Italy, Fraser Lauchlan continues his Sardinian adventures in this sequel, where he describes more stories, anecdotes and unique experiences of how he copes with being Scottish living on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia with his Italian wife and family. We learn about what a 'passo carrabile' is exactly, and why they don't exist in Scotland, how scandalous it is to want a bit of cheese on your fish-based pasta, and the essential differences between ice-cream and gelato. Praise for Being Scottish in Italy... "Insightful and hilarious"; "Many laugh out loud moments - I woke up two family members laughing loudly on two separate occasions"; "This is a fantastic book. Insightful, humorous and enjoyable insight into the challenges faced by a family moving abroad"; "Accurate, hilarious and sensitive account of the pros and cons of living in Italy"; "I read this exceptional book all in one breath: entertaining and instructive at the same time"; "Extremely amusing account of the author's experiences of moving with his Italian wife and children to Sardinia"; "This is a must read, I found myself laughing out loud so many times"; "A book to lift your spirits"; "This book is a little treat for yourself. It's a comforting book that warms you like a conversation with a good pal"; "Amusing and informative read - you'll laugh out loud"; "Anyone from anywhere will feel uplifted by this refreshingly witty account"; "A really good read. Very funny and shows the cultural differences between Scotland and Italy. The writer uses humour very well. Impressive first book", "Funny, poignant and right on target"; "This is a super book, engaging from start to end. Very funny"; "Hilarious, entertaining, interesting and enlightening. I could not put this down and I finished it in one day"
Author: Karen Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 1408857359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told - or what she believes in? Frank Chapel, a young, black American soldier fighting with the Buffalo soldiers for a country that refuses him the vote, is unlike anyone Vittoria has ever met. In the chaos, they find each other - but can their growing love overcome prejudice and war?
Author: Billy Connolly
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473531675
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is actually very different: What do you come from? And, let me tell you, that question can take you all sorts of strange places...' In Made in Scotland, legendary comic and national treasure Billy Connolly returns to his roots, reflecting on his life, his homeland and what it means – then and now – to be Scottish. Full of Billy's distinctive humour, Made in Scotland is a hilarious and heartfelt love letter to the place and the people that made him.
Author: Patrick Abercromby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Author: Nicolas Laos
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527534979
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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This book articulates a new research program, called “Ur-Illuminism,” which consists in an integrated and systematic study of humanity’s quest for “illumination,” namely, for the highest and noblest possible mode of being. Thus, it takes on the challenge of revising widely accepted ways of understanding and interpreting the ontological underpinnings of civilization and the ontological potential of humanity. It allows the reader to delve into a creative “rediscovery” of Platonism, medieval Christian mystics’ and scholars’ writings, and various “illuminist” systems, from the Orphic mystical cult to the European Enlightenment and thence to the eighteenth-century Illuminati fraternities and beyond. Moreover, the book studies major issues in the history of philosophy, politology, and esoteric systems (such as Hermeticism, the Kabbalah, alchemy, the Rosicrucian movement, Freemasonry, and the Bavarian Illuminati). It maintains that a postmodern “rediscovery” of premodern metaphysics, specifically, a postmodern esoteric theocracy (as distinct from old sacerdotalism and religious formalism), is the best bulwark against oppression and the ontological degradation of humanity, as well as the best path to the attainment of that wisdom and spiritual self-knowledge which constitute the existential integration and completion of the human being. In this context, it proposes a peculiar and intellectually fecund synthesis between Tory Anarchism, Libertarianism, Platonism, and Byzantine Hesychasm, as they are elucidated here.
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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