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The Language of Robert Burns

Style, Ideology, and Identity

By: Alex Broadhead

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The Language of Robert Burns

Style, Ideology, and Identity

By: Alex Broadhead

This monograph offers a radical reconceptualization of the relationship between the poetics and practice of Robert Burns and reevaluates the nature of his role in the history of Scots. By drawing on ideas from twenty-first-century sociolinguistic theory, it seeks to transform the debate surrounding Burns’s language. Through a series of readings that explore the way in which Burns used and commented on the styles associated with different places, groups and genres, it demonstrates how languages, places, and the identities associated with both are, in Burns’s writing, subject to continual reinvention. In this respect, the study breaks with existing accounts of the subject, insofar as it presents Scots, English and the other languages used by Burns not as fixed, empirically-observable entities, but as ideas that were revised and remade through the poet’s work. Focusing on Burns’s poems, songs, letters, prefaces, and glossaries, the book pays special attention to the complex ways in which the author engaged with such issues as phonology, grammar, and the naming of languages. The Burns who emerges from this book is not the marginal figure of traditional accounts—an under-educated poet alienated from the philological mainstream—but rather a well-informed thinker who, more than any other contemporary writer, embodies the creative linguistic spirit of the eighteenth century.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611485290

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9781611485295

Burgh Laws of Dundee

By: Alex J. Warden

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Burgh Laws of Dundee

By: Alex J. Warden

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

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642

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368164872

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9783368164874

Crops

The Alex Cropley Story

By: Alex Cropley

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Crops

The Alex Cropley Story

By: Alex Cropley

A nippy sweetie, he was always moaning, but that is often the sign of a great player - a real determination to succeed and a refusal to settle for second best. PAT STANTONI used to flinch when Studs wound up for a challenge and he feared no one as he sometimes threw his whole body into a tackle. That meant we also spent too much time together in the treatment room. ANDY GRAY Alex Cropley had just left school when he was picked up as one of Scotland's latest football talents. Signed to Hibernian aged just 16, Cropley soon made his name as a player on the team's legendary Turnbull's Tornadoes side. Over the 1970s, he played for Hibernian, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Newcastle United, Toronto Blizzard and Portsmouth, before a number of injuries forced him off the pitch. From a football-mad kid playing on the streets of Edinburgh to a member of the Scottish national team, his career epitomises both the aspirations and the bitter disappointments surrounding the game on the pitch. Cropley's tale of his time on (and off) the pitch isn't just the tale of one man's odyssey, however, but rather offers a glimpse into the footballing landscape of the time, with an engaging and often wry depiction of the larger-than-life characters who went on to become the greats of Scottish football. A frank but warm-hearted account of the hopes and despair of the great game, Crops will delight football fans of all ages.

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293

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Luath Press Ltd

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1909912654

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9781909912656

The PI Hanlon Series

By: Alex Coombs

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The PI Hanlon Series

By: Alex Coombs

Discover the gritty PI Hanlon series from bestselling author Alex Coombs 'A nail-biting chiller that is gritty, action-packed and so compulsively readable' ★★★★★ Reader Review This Boxset contains the complete PI Hanlon series, perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, Lisa Regan and Mark Dawson. Silenced For Good Missing For Good Buried For Good Silenced For Good Detective Hanlon is addicted to violence. She likes the rush, the danger, the losing control... When Hanlon is suspended from the force for assaulting a suspect, she escapes to the remote Scottish island of Jura, home to the mysterious Corryvreckan whirlpool. But wherever Hanlon goes, violence is sure to follow. As soon as she checks into The Mackinnon Arms, Hanlon senses something isn't quite right about the staff at her home for the week. Sure enough, within days of arriving, the body of a member of staff is found floating in the sea. While police believe she was claimed by the local whirlpool, Hanlon isn't so sure. As she pieces together the evidence, dark secrets begin to unravel. Can Hanlon work out what is going on before another floating body is found...? Missing For Good When the estranged daughter of Scotland's premier art dealer goes missing, Private Investigator Hanlon is hired to find out where she is. But what she thinks will be a straightforward job, soon turns dangerous. The missing girl, Aurora, has a troubled past but what made her suddenly pack her bags and disappear? Hanlon has her work cut out for her. The stakes are rising and she needs to get to the bottom of the case before someone else is attacked. And is Aurora still alive, or is she missing for good? Buried For Good On a remote island, everyone is a suspect... When Private Investigator Hanlon is hired to protect famous yoga instructor Camille Anderson on her Scottish island retreat, she thinks this may be her simplest job yet. But when an attack on Camille's life goes wrong, it soon becomes clear that there is a murderer on the island - and Hanlon will stop at nothing to track them down. With only a small group of guests the suspects are clear, but as the body count rises Hanlon must step up to find out who the killer is before it’s too late...

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1066

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Boldwood Books Ltd

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1802809872

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9781802809879

Big Ideas

100 Modern Inventions That Have Transformed Our World

By: Alex Hutchinson

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100 Modern Inventions That Have Transformed Our World

By: Alex Hutchinson

From the polio vaccine to the Post-It, the personal computer to Prozac, these are the scientific and technological innovations that have transformed our world. Award-winning author Alex Hutchinson unveils the 100 greatest inventions of the modern era--starting with the discovery of the transistor in 1947--complete with original photographs and anecdotes about their creation. For example, a candy bar melting in a scientist’s pocket during an experiment led to the invention of the microwave oven. Hutchinson consulted 25 experts at 17 museums and universities; their collective expertise spans aeronautics, automobiles, biology, computers, medicine, physics, and a host of other fields. The result includes some well-known breakthroughs (the laser, in-vitro fertilization) as well as a host of surprises (waffle-sole running shoes, the pull-top can). This charming book will delight, fascinate, and educate.

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260

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1588167224

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9781588167224

Favela

By: Alex Hijmans

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Favela

By: Alex Hijmans

NOTE: Please note that this book is in not in the English language; it is an Irish-language work only. Dutch-born journalist Alex Hijmans lives in one of Brazil's many poor and dangerous suburbs. As the only white person in this district, populated with the impoverished descendants of Africans who were brought as slaves to Brazil, he ponders the great life secret of these suffering souls: how can they live contented lives in a place devoid of worldly possessions?

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197

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Cois Life

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1908057467

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9781908057464

Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes

Principles, Design, and Operation

By: Alex C. Hoffmann,Louis E. Stein

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Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes

Principles, Design, and Operation

By: Alex C. Hoffmann,Louis E. Stein

Believed to be a publishing first when originally brought out, this book covers all aspects of centrifugal gas cleaning devices. These are cyclones used as gas-solid separators for dedusting and as gas-liquid separators for demisting. The optimization of cyclone performance for any given task is a sought-after goal – but it is one that is seldom achieved in practice. This second edition will help mechanical and chemical engineers to achieve this optimization.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354074696X

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9783540746966

Before Blackwood's

Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Alex Benchimol

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Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Alex Benchimol

This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood’s Magazine as the culmination of a long tradition rather than a starting point.

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199

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Routledge

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1317316959

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9781317316954

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period

Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere

By: Alex Benchimol

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Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period

Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere

By: Alex Benchimol

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period maps the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political crises of the early nineteenth century. It is a story of the making of a wider British public sphere out of the agendas and discourses of the radical and liberal publics that both shaped and responded to them. When juxtaposed, these competing intellectual formations illustrate two important expressions of cultural politics in the Romantic period, as well as the peculiar overlapping of national cultural histories that contributed to the ideological conflict over the public meaning of Britain's industrial modernity. Alex Benchimol's study provides an original contribution to recent scholarship in Romantic period studies centred around the public sphere, recovering the contemporary debates and national cultural histories that together made up a significant part of the ideological landscape of the British public sphere in the early nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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1317115031

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9781317115038

Soccer Skills for Young Players

By: Ted Buxton,Alex Leith,Jim Drewitt

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Soccer Skills for Young Players

By: Ted Buxton,Alex Leith,Jim Drewitt

An illustrated guide to improving soccer skills.

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1552093298

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9781552093290

The Power of Economic Ideas

The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929-1939

By: Alex Millmow

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The Power of Economic Ideas

The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929-1939

By: Alex Millmow

Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a 'very dangerous science'. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena. In a decade marked by depression, recovery and international political turbulence Australian economists moved from a classical orthodox economic position to that of a cautious Keynesianism by 1939. We look at how a small collective of economists tried to influence policy-making in the nineteen-thirties. Economists felt obliged to seek changes to the parameters as economic conditions altered but, more importantly, as their insights about economic management changed. There are three related themes that underscore this book. Firstly, the professionalisation of Australian economics took a gigantic leap in this period, aided in part, by the adverse circumstances confronting the economy but also by the aspirations economists held for their discipline. A second theme relates to the rather unflattering reputation foisted upon interwar economists after 1945. That transition underlies a third theme of this book, namely, how Australian economists were emboldened by Keynes's General Theory to confidently push for greater management of economic activity. By 1939 Australian economists conceptualized from a new theoretic framework and from one which they advanced comment and policy advice. This book therefore will rehabilitate the works of Australian interwar economists, arguing that they not only had an enviable international reputation but also facilitated the acceptance of Keynes¿s General Theory among policymakers before most of their counterparts elsewhere.

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ANU E Press

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1921666277

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9781921666278

Book's by Alex Leith

The Language of Robert Burns

The Language of Robert Burns

Burgh Laws of Dundee

Burgh Laws of Dundee

Crops

Crops

The PI Hanlon Series

The PI Hanlon Series

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Favela

Favela

Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes

Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes

Before Blackwood's

Before Blackwood's

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period

Soccer Skills for Young Players

Soccer Skills for Young Players

The Power of Economic Ideas

The Power of Economic Ideas

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