Killer Cities

Release on 2021-02-10 | by Nigel Thrift

In Australia and New Zealand, following on from the example of the enclosure of
the Scottish Highlands, similar consequences ... in less rain and a reduced ability
to absorb moisture, along with increased instability and liability to erosion on
slopes' (Armstrong, 2016: 97). ... This was the beginning of a thriving trade in
frozen sheep carcasses which undercut the price of British lamb and mutton and,
in time, ...

Killer Cities
  • Author: Nigel Thrift
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9781529752991
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 264
  • View: 140

Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the lives of other beings. It offers pragmatic ways of diminishing the death toll and changing mindsets without ever minimizing the dilemmas that inevitably will have to be faced. Killer cities can be rehabilitated so that they offer brighter paths towards the future - for animals, for human beings, and for the planet. A new urban geography could be within our grasp. Indeed, it has to be, for all of our sakes.

Heritage as community research

Release on 2019-03-01 | by Vergunst, Jo

Mackenzie (2013:12) describes this way of seeing the land in Scotland as a '
colonizing optic' that presents 'narratives of ... a version of a Grand Tour in the
later 18th century (following the subjugation of the Highland clans at Culloden in
1746), and became part of an emerging 'green consciousness' in the UK and
beyond (Smout, 1991; Macdonald, 1998; Olwig 2002). ... the sheep farming that
was key to the removal of large parts of the rural population from the Scottish
Highlands and ...

Heritage as community research
  • Author: Vergunst, Jo
  • Publisher: Policy Press
  • ISBN: 9781447345299
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 224
  • View: 725

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvement with the past, undertaken with or by the communities for whom it is relevant, the book uses a diverse range of case studies, with many chapters co-written between academics and community partners. Through this extensive work, the Editors show that the process of research itself can be an empowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.

Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development

Release on 2019-05-13 | by E. Gunilla Almered Olsson

... 'Guidelines for reintroductions', IUCN SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group,
Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. ... Guidelines for reintroductions and
other conservation translocations, Version 1.0, IUCN Species Survival
Commission, ... 'IFA fears birds will take lambs and salmon', The Irish Times, 26
January 2007 Lucey, A. (2016a) 'Wind turbines killed ... I.J., Ripple, W.J. (2009) '
Restoring landscapes of fear with wolves in the Scottish Highlands', Biological
Conservation, 142, ...

Natural Resource Conflicts and Sustainable Development
  • Author: E. Gunilla Almered Olsson
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781351268622
  • Category: Nature
  • Page: 228
  • View: 116

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict. It is shown that the causes and driving forces behind natural resource conflicts are diverse, complex and often interlinked, including global economic growth, exploding consumption, poor governance, poverty, unequal access to resources and power. The different interpretations of nature-culture and the role of humans in the ecosystem are often at the centre of the conflict. Natural resource conflicts range from armed conflicts to conflicts of interest between stakeholders in the North as well as in the South. The varying driving forces behind such disputes at different levels and scales are critically analysed, and approaches to facilitate and enforce mediation, transformation and collaboration at these levels and scales are presented and discussed. In order to transform existing resource conflicts, as well as to decrease the risk of future conflicts, approaches that enhance and enforce collaboration for sustainable development at global, regional, national and local levels are reviewed, and sustainable pathways suggested. A range of global examples is presented including water resources, fisheries, forests, human–wildlife conflicts, urban environments and the consequences of climate change. It will be a valuable text for advanced students of natural resource management, environment and development studies and peace and conflict management. The book will also be of interest to practitioners in the field of natural resource management.

Official Journal of the European Communities

Release on 1983-04 | by

It is true that lowland breeds of sheep are very sensitive to high copper
concentrations either in their diet or in their ... of a Suffolk or perhaps Texel breed
is toxic but on the other hand , in the Highlands of Scotland with Blackface sheep
and with ... the English courts with the purpose of preventing others from making
or importing motor car replacement body panels ? ... that WRITTEN QUESTION
No 2016 / 82 by Mr Barry Seal ( S — GB ) to the Commission of the European
Communities ...

Official Journal of the European Communities
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  • ISBN: UOM:39015074622005
  • Category: European federation
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  • View: 489

Tweed

Release on 2016-12-15 | by Fiona Anderson

By the midnineteenth century much land in northern Scotland had been cleared
of small tenants to make way for a huge expansion in sheep farming and the ...
From the 1830s onwards, the growing fashionability of Scottish field sports, such
as deer stalking and grouse shooting led to the emergence of a sporting
economy in the Highlands. ... The considerable international impact and design
influence of British tweeds since the midnineteenth century are also explored in
this volume.

Tweed
  • Author: Fiona Anderson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781474263214
  • Category: Design
  • Page: 232
  • View: 803

The story of tweed is tied to a series of social, economic and cultural shifts that have molded its development. This book considers the historical factors that helped to shape the design characteristics and social meanings of the group of fabrics that we call tweed, from their emergence in the 1820s to the present day. Including significant new research on tweeds, from Harris Tweed to the type used by Chanel, this book follows the history of these fabrics from the raw fiber to the finished garment in men's and women's fashion. Exploring rural and urban contexts, this book reveals the important physical and conceptual relationships of tweed with landscape. Anderson shows that, contrary to their strong popular associations with tradition, tweeds emerged in the Romantic era as a response to the dramatic changes associated with industrialization and urbanization. Progressive changes in gender relations are also explored as a major factor in tweed's evolution, from associations with particular ideals of masculinity into what is now a truly adaptable fashion textile worn by both sexes. This is the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of tweed to fashion innovation today.

The Highland Laird s Bride Mills Boon Historical Lovers and Legends Book 3

Release on 2016-06-01 | by Nicole Locke

I offered a total of forty sheep—twenty immediately, and twenty more after one
year. It was a profitable and a ... If she hadn't, my father wouldn't have pursued
her and wouldn't have been murdered by an English knight.' This conversation
must ...

The Highland Laird s Bride Mills Boon Historical Lovers and Legends Book 3
  • Author: Nicole Locke
  • Publisher: HarperCollins UK
  • ISBN: 9781474042406
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 368
  • View: 170

At the gates of a Scottish keep... Lioslath of Clan Fergusson has defended her clan and her orphaned siblings against countless enemies. So when Laird Colquhoun, the man responsible for the death of her father, arrives at the gates of her crumbling keep, she’ll fight him all the way!

Isolation Shepherd

Release on 2016 | by Iain R. Thomson

They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years.

Isolation Shepherd
  • Author: Iain R. Thomson
  • Publisher: Birlinn
  • ISBN: 1780274041
  • Category: Biography & Autobiography
  • Page: 240
  • View: 324

In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. Set against the awesome splendour of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery, Iain R. Thomson's classic book provides a sensitive, richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the seasons and recreates the events that shaped the family's life in Glen Strathfarrar before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project.

The Commercial Motor

Release on 1980 | by

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BOXVAN , 600 engine , Plaxton coach LAND - ROVER , 109in , 4 - cyl petrol , 12
- seater . ... 7984 body with Highland Bear 5000 timber crane , plated 1977 FORD
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The Commercial Motor
  • Author:
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  • ISBN: UOM:39015022477528
  • Category: Aeronautics, Commercial
  • Page:
  • View: 580

Eigg

Release on 1998 | by Camille Dressler

Camille Dressler presents a history of the island of Eigg, one of the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. Dressler has lived on the island for twelve years, and was responsible for the first Feis Eige in 1995.

Eigg
  • Author: Camille Dressler
  • Publisher: Subterranean Company
  • ISBN: UOM:39015047571719
  • Category: Travel
  • Page: 211
  • View: 896

Camille Dressler presents a history of the island of Eigg, one of the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. Dressler has lived on the island for twelve years, and was responsible for the first Feis Eige in 1995.

Ardnish Was Home

Release on 2016-09-01 | by Angus MacDonald

Stationed in Gallipoli during WWI, a wounded Scottish soldier finds love as he longs for home in this novel of memory, romance and the horror of war.

Ardnish Was Home
  • Author: Angus MacDonald
  • Publisher: Casemate Publishers
  • ISBN: 9780857903358
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 256
  • View: 554

Stationed in Gallipoli during WWI, a wounded Scottish soldier finds love as he longs for home in this novel of memory, romance and the horror of war. Gallipoli, 1916. A soldier in the British Army’s Lovat Scouts, Young Donald Peter Gillies, lies in a hospital bed, blinded by the Turks. There by his side is Louise, a Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise, who cares for him and listens to his stories of home. Donald paints a vivid picture of the western highlands coast, telling stories of how his family lived: bagpiping, sheep shearing, celidhs, illegal distilling, his mother saving the life of the people of St Kilda, the navvies building the west highland railway and the relationship between the lairds and the people. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in the Welsh valley: coal mining, a harsh and unforgiving upbringing. But when they suddenly find themselves cut off from the allied troops, they must make a daring escape through Turkey to Greece. The first novel in Angus MacDonald’s acclaimed trilogy begins an epic tale spanning generation of war and of a single Scottish family.

Introducing Hamish Macbeth Mysteries 1 3

Release on 2016-10-04 | by M. C. Beaton

Discover M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth mystery series with this thrilling collection of the first three novels featuring the Scottish Highlands' cleverest but most unambitious policeman: Death of a Gossip When ...

Introducing Hamish Macbeth Mysteries 1 3
  • Author: M. C. Beaton
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 9781478971092
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 624
  • View: 427

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series... Discover M.C. Beaton's New York Times bestselling Hamish Macbeth mystery series with this thrilling collection of the first three novels featuring the Scottish Highlands' cleverest but most unambitious policeman: Death of a Gossip When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers--or was it the fins?--of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane's shrills--until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish must angle through the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find the murderer. But with a school of suspects who aren't ready to talk and dead women telling no tales, Hamish may be in over his head, for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers usually do strike again. Death of a Cad When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, everybody in town is delighted . . . except for love-smitten Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet his affairs of the heart will have to wait. Vile, boorish Captain Bartlett, one of the guests at Priscilla's engagement party, has just been found murdered-shot while on a grouse hunt. Now with many titled party guests as the prime suspects, each with a reason for snuffing out the despicable captain, Hamish must smooth ruffled feathers as he investigates the case. When the hidden culprit strikes again, Hamish will find himself trying to save Priscilla from a miserable marriage--and catch a killer before he flies the coop. Death of an Outside The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland is sleeping with the fishes, or--more accurately--dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain's best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth. Exiled with his dog, Towser, to the dreary outpost of Cnothan, Macbeth sorely misses his beloved Lochdubh, his formerly beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, and his days of doing nothing but staring at the sheep grazing in a nearby croft. Now the lawman has to contend with a detective chief inspector who wants the modus operandi hushed up, a dark-haired lass who has an ulterior motive to seduce him, and a killer who has made mincemeat of his victim-and without doubt will strike again . . .

Forthcoming Books

Release on 1992 | by Rose Arny

Forthcoming Books
  • Author: Rose Arny
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: UOM:39015023708681
  • Category: American literature
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Dead Men s Bones

Release on 2014-07-03 | by James Oswald

Dead Men's Bones is the fourth novel in James Oswald's phenomenal Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh and is already a Sunday Times Top Five bestseller.

Dead Men s Bones
  • Author: James Oswald
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 9781405917100
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 480
  • View: 723

Dead Men's Bones is the fourth novel in James Oswald's phenomenal Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh and is already a Sunday Times Top Five bestseller. A family lies slaughtered in an isolated house in North East Fife . . . Morag Weatherly and her two young daughters have been shot by husband Andrew, an influential politician, before he turned the gun on himself. But what would cause a rich, successful man to snap so suddenly? For Inspector Tony McLean, this apparently simple but high-profile case leads him into a world of power and privilege. And the deeper he digs, the more he realizes he's being manipulated by shadowy factions. Under pressure to wrap up the case, McLean instead seeks to uncover layers of truth - putting the lives of everyone he cares about at risk . . . The first three titles in the bestselling Inspector McLean series - Natural Causes, The Book of Souls, and The Hangman's Song, are all available as Penguin paperbacks and eBooks. Fans of Ian Rankin and Stuart MacBride will love James Oswald's writing. Praise for the James Oswald and the Inspector McLean series: 'A star of Scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene' Daily Record 'Crime fiction's next big thing' The Sunday Telegraph 'Literary sensation . . .James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of E. L. James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series' Daily Mail 'Fifty Shades of Hay' The Times 'Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers' Daily Mail 'The new Ian Rankin' Daily Record 'The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish' The Herald 'A good read' The Times 'An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series' Guardian 'Classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit. Oswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre' Daily Express

Stories from South Uist

Release on 1997 | by Angus MacLellan

This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell.

Stories from South Uist
  • Author: Angus MacLellan
  • Publisher: Birlinn Limited
  • ISBN: UOM:39015050145468
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 253
  • View: 761

This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale found on South Uist, from Fingalian heroes and ghost stories to international folktales and humorous and historical local anecdotes. These tales of ancient kings, thrilling escapes, jealous stepmothers and magic spells are fascinating not only for their narrative power, but also their links with myths and legends from Ireland, Scandinavia, France and Greece. The Hebrideaen island of South Uist was one of the last places in Western Europe where the ancient art of Storytelling was still honoured and practised, and the style of these translations is at once original and hypnotic, reflecting the oral tradition at their source.

Prayer for the Dead

Release on 2015-02-12 | by James Oswald

Sunday Times bestseller Prayer for the Dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector McLean series by author James Oswald.

Prayer for the Dead
  • Author: James Oswald
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 9781405917124
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 480
  • View: 303

Sunday Times bestseller Prayer for the Dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector McLean series by author James Oswald. 'The hallmarks of Val McDermid or Ian Rankin: it's dark, violent, noirish' The Herald *** 'Are you ready to be reborn?' The search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification. Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. The baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But it is not the only thing about this case that McLean will find beyond belief. Teamed with the most unlikely and unwelcome of allies, he must track down a killer driven by the darkest compulsions, who will answer only to a higher power . . . 'Are you ready for the mysteries to be revealed?' Praise for James Oswald: 'A star of Scotland's burgeoning crime fiction scene' Daily Record 'Crime fiction's next big thing' The Sunday Telegraph 'Literary sensation . . .James' overnight success has drawn comparisons with the meteoric rise of E L James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series' Daily Mail 'Fifty Shades of Hay' The Times 'Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers' Daily Mail 'The new Ian Rankin' Daily Record 'An excellent start to what promises to be a fine series' Guardian 'Classy, occasionally brutal, and with the odd suggestion of the supernatural, this will doubtless be another deserved hit. Oswald's writing is in a class above most in this genre' Daily Express