Author: John MacKay
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804251968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This book is the story of a changing Scotland as it was heard and seen by the people of Scotland. We all may have our ideas about where we are headed as nation and a society, but none of us knows. That makes what lies ahead so fascinating. Just like what's gone before. JOHN MacKAY John MacKay is one of Scotland's best known broadcasters. His career as a reporter, anchor and presenter has spanned from the Thatcher Years to the Independence Referendum and beyond. MacKay has been witness to the major stories in the country's recent past. There have been the tragedies of Lockerbie, Dunblane and Clutha; sporting triumphs and tears; the opening of the new Scottish Parliament; the drama of parliamentary elections and referendums; interviews with Prime Ministers and First Ministers; and the death of Donald Dewar. From being in a room with a grizzly bear to trying to calm an irate – and topless – Alex Salmond, MacKay's career has been nothing if not varied. Using archive scripts, interview transcripts, recollections and personal diaries, he tells the story of one of the most tumultuous periods in Scotland's peacetime history.
Scotland Today and Yesterday
Author: John MacKay
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804251968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This book is the story of a changing Scotland as it was heard and seen by the people of Scotland. We all may have our ideas about where we are headed as nation and a society, but none of us knows. That makes what lies ahead so fascinating. Just like what's gone before. JOHN MacKAY John MacKay is one of Scotland's best known broadcasters. His career as a reporter, anchor and presenter has spanned from the Thatcher Years to the Independence Referendum and beyond. MacKay has been witness to the major stories in the country's recent past. There have been the tragedies of Lockerbie, Dunblane and Clutha; sporting triumphs and tears; the opening of the new Scottish Parliament; the drama of parliamentary elections and referendums; interviews with Prime Ministers and First Ministers; and the death of Donald Dewar. From being in a room with a grizzly bear to trying to calm an irate – and topless – Alex Salmond, MacKay's career has been nothing if not varied. Using archive scripts, interview transcripts, recollections and personal diaries, he tells the story of one of the most tumultuous periods in Scotland's peacetime history.
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804251968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This book is the story of a changing Scotland as it was heard and seen by the people of Scotland. We all may have our ideas about where we are headed as nation and a society, but none of us knows. That makes what lies ahead so fascinating. Just like what's gone before. JOHN MacKAY John MacKay is one of Scotland's best known broadcasters. His career as a reporter, anchor and presenter has spanned from the Thatcher Years to the Independence Referendum and beyond. MacKay has been witness to the major stories in the country's recent past. There have been the tragedies of Lockerbie, Dunblane and Clutha; sporting triumphs and tears; the opening of the new Scottish Parliament; the drama of parliamentary elections and referendums; interviews with Prime Ministers and First Ministers; and the death of Donald Dewar. From being in a room with a grizzly bear to trying to calm an irate – and topless – Alex Salmond, MacKay's career has been nothing if not varied. Using archive scripts, interview transcripts, recollections and personal diaries, he tells the story of one of the most tumultuous periods in Scotland's peacetime history.
Scottish Writing Today
Author: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Yesterday's Sins Today's Regrets
Author: Lawrence J. Marr
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468577565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Tim Robinson is a very successful insurance broker based in Singapore. His world is turned upside down when he is accused of committing a murder. Banished from the south east Asian city; he returns penniless to England where he is forced to live on the streets as a down and out tramp. He is pulled into a terrorist plot which leads him into murder, bombings and an anti-American show down on the high seas. The story moves along at a very fast pace and the reader is compelled to keep turning the pagers to discover the next shocking plot on its way to a remarkable climax.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468577565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Tim Robinson is a very successful insurance broker based in Singapore. His world is turned upside down when he is accused of committing a murder. Banished from the south east Asian city; he returns penniless to England where he is forced to live on the streets as a down and out tramp. He is pulled into a terrorist plot which leads him into murder, bombings and an anti-American show down on the high seas. The story moves along at a very fast pace and the reader is compelled to keep turning the pagers to discover the next shocking plot on its way to a remarkable climax.
THE ADVENTURES OF BOOBAGGINS
Author: Nicholas Calhoun
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359887732
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"An Exceptional Novel" - President Obama.This day by day account of a man in the world is something everyone should read. You may laugh, you may cry, you may pay off your credit card bills. The key is this! BooBaggins is one of the greats. He is who we should all strive to become.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359887732
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"An Exceptional Novel" - President Obama.This day by day account of a man in the world is something everyone should read. You may laugh, you may cry, you may pay off your credit card bills. The key is this! BooBaggins is one of the greats. He is who we should all strive to become.
Scotland's Story
Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today
Author: Stefan Zweig Symposium (1981: Fredonia, N.Y.)
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873955997
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiting many qualities of the familiar essay, it considers a wide range of topics of interest to Cooper, his friends, and potential readers in the United States. As a celebrity thoroughly at home in the brilliant society of Bourbon Paris, Cooper was able to provide fascinating glimpses of personalities, spectacles, institutions, and manners--from his distinctly American perspective. Indeed, as Professor Philbrick remarks, "No other of Cooper's works, perhaps, brings us closer to his speaking voice or puts us more directly in contact with the man himself, with all his idiosyncratic preoccupations, his quick resentments, his restless curiosity, his surprising humor, and his nobility of principle." The reader of this edition is brought even closer to Cooper in the draft of a hitherto unpublished letter, probably intended for this book, which illustrates Cooper's grasp of the still finer points of French customs and attitudes.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873955997
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiting many qualities of the familiar essay, it considers a wide range of topics of interest to Cooper, his friends, and potential readers in the United States. As a celebrity thoroughly at home in the brilliant society of Bourbon Paris, Cooper was able to provide fascinating glimpses of personalities, spectacles, institutions, and manners--from his distinctly American perspective. Indeed, as Professor Philbrick remarks, "No other of Cooper's works, perhaps, brings us closer to his speaking voice or puts us more directly in contact with the man himself, with all his idiosyncratic preoccupations, his quick resentments, his restless curiosity, his surprising humor, and his nobility of principle." The reader of this edition is brought even closer to Cooper in the draft of a hitherto unpublished letter, probably intended for this book, which illustrates Cooper's grasp of the still finer points of French customs and attitudes.
Lockdown Diary
Author: Callum Ross
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
None of us could have imagined our lives would be struck by a global pandemic. Until it happened, and our lives suddenly changed. Everything slowly shuts down. No meetings, no parties, no movies, no sporting events, no restaurants. Fear of Covid-19 forces us to repudiate our most natural and ancestral instinct to socialise, to deny our innate desire to form strong, concrete, durable bonds with other human beings. So, when it’s impossible to satisfy such an ancient need, and we are forced to be apart from the world, what’s left? Callum Ross, in his darkest moments, discovered that communication has many faces, and one of those faces has the shape of a diary. With all the difficulties of a lockdown that lasted over a hundred days, he found the strength to face his fears and insecurity. When he couldn’t reach out to the world, he did what he could to survive: he reached out to himself. And, as he was locked inside his house, he didn’t just survive: his inner journey led him to a personal growth, to a renewal of his passion for writing, to a mature and complete consciousness of his dreams and hopes. Callum is unique but, at the same time, he is every one of us – he wants to live, to love, and be loved. By publishing his diary he proves that, even when it seems most unlikely, the will to connect and communicate with others is a powerful tool to face life’s hardships. Callum Ross lives in a small town in Fife, Scotland, with both his parents. Now in his 30’s, he has been writing since his early teens. Callum enjoys keeping a diary and has written throughout his experiences with depression and anxiety throughout lockdown. Many issues he addresses in his diary such as his father’s many trips into hospital, his crush on his work colleague Ben and the many restrictions imposed on the UK causing conflicts with friends and family. Callum became an uncle in February and strives to be the best uncle there is.
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
None of us could have imagined our lives would be struck by a global pandemic. Until it happened, and our lives suddenly changed. Everything slowly shuts down. No meetings, no parties, no movies, no sporting events, no restaurants. Fear of Covid-19 forces us to repudiate our most natural and ancestral instinct to socialise, to deny our innate desire to form strong, concrete, durable bonds with other human beings. So, when it’s impossible to satisfy such an ancient need, and we are forced to be apart from the world, what’s left? Callum Ross, in his darkest moments, discovered that communication has many faces, and one of those faces has the shape of a diary. With all the difficulties of a lockdown that lasted over a hundred days, he found the strength to face his fears and insecurity. When he couldn’t reach out to the world, he did what he could to survive: he reached out to himself. And, as he was locked inside his house, he didn’t just survive: his inner journey led him to a personal growth, to a renewal of his passion for writing, to a mature and complete consciousness of his dreams and hopes. Callum is unique but, at the same time, he is every one of us – he wants to live, to love, and be loved. By publishing his diary he proves that, even when it seems most unlikely, the will to connect and communicate with others is a powerful tool to face life’s hardships. Callum Ross lives in a small town in Fife, Scotland, with both his parents. Now in his 30’s, he has been writing since his early teens. Callum enjoys keeping a diary and has written throughout his experiences with depression and anxiety throughout lockdown. Many issues he addresses in his diary such as his father’s many trips into hospital, his crush on his work colleague Ben and the many restrictions imposed on the UK causing conflicts with friends and family. Callum became an uncle in February and strives to be the best uncle there is.
Scotland's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Yesterday's Roots, Today's Branches
Author: Pauline Wall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Scottish Educational Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description