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Stone Voices

The Search for Scotland

By: Neal Ascherson

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Stone Voices

The Search for Scotland

By: Neal Ascherson

Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches what he calls an imaginative invasion of his native land, searching for the relationships, themes, and fantasies that make up "Scotland.

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Macmillan

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0809088452

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9780809088454

Games with Shadows

By: Neal Ascherson

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Games with Shadows

By: Neal Ascherson

Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original series of arguments -the politics of 'Stonehenge': the UK's archaic and undemocratic constitution, and finally examines the temptations of state power in Mrs Thatcher's decade. Next, Ascherson takes us on a personal tour of Europe, 'the barbaric continent', exposing some ugly hatred and memories lurking beneath the cultured surface; he writes movingly about the courage and sacrifice that nations at their best can draw out. His meditations on Eastern Europe, 'Waltzing With Molotov', are exemplary for their critical sympathy. In the book's final section, a vivid and memorable collection of sectarians, spies, traitors, heroes, monsters and victims reveals a lot about fear and hope in the closing years of this dangerous century.

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483

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A&C Black

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1448206022

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9781448206025

The Polish August

By: Neal Ascherson

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The Polish August

By: Neal Ascherson

What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last twenty five years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of Western observers. How were such changes possible? What forces lay behind them? In what way did the workers' strike relate to the demands for political democracy? Although a colourful and vivid eye-witness account of the 1980 upheavals, it is to these questions that Neal Ascherson's brilliant and thoughtful analysis mainly addresses itself. Viewing the situation in perspective, he argues that the Polish working class has brought about a controlled revolution, but is not intent on taking power for itself: the real heirs to the gains of 1980 and 1981 are likely to be the intelligentsia, in or out of the Communist Party. It is this social and political ferment that poses fundamental questions about the future of the whole Soviet system in Eastern Europe.

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1448206030

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9781448206032

Stone Voices

The Search For Scotland

By: Neal Ascherson

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Stone Voices

The Search For Scotland

By: Neal Ascherson

Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of the deep past - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Few writers in these islands have his ability to write so well about the natural context of history.

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Granta Books

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1783780061

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9781783780068

Stone Voices

The Search for Scotland

By: Neal Ascherson

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The Search for Scotland

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Black Sea

By: Neal Ascherson

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Black Sea

By: Neal Ascherson

The author demonstrates, through the history of the Black Sea area and the disputed regions of Russia, Turkey, Romania, Greece, and Caucasus, that "the meanings of 'community, ' 'nationhood, ' and 'cultural independence' are both fierce and disturbingly uncertain.

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0809015935

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9780809015931

The Polish August

By: Neal Ascherson

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Red Mutiny

Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

By: Neal Bascomb

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Red Mutiny

Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

By: Neal Bascomb

In 1905 more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard the battleship Potemkin, one of the most powerful battleships in the world. Led by the charismatic firebrand Matyushenko, they risked their lives to take control of their ship and fly the red flag of revolution. What followed was a violent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven harrowing days and came to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself. This pulse-pounding story alternates between the opulent court of Nicholas II and the drama on the high seas. Neal Bascomb combines extensive research and fresh information from Soviet archives to tell the true story of the deadliest naval mutiny in history. Red Mutiny is a terrific adventure filled with epic naval battles, heroic sacrifices, treachery, bloodlust, and the rallying cries of freedom.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547348452

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9780547348452

The Death of the Fronsac: A Novel

By: Neal Ascherson

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The Death of the Fronsac: A Novel

By: Neal Ascherson

A STORY OF SABOTAGE, BETRAYAL AND THE TERRIBLE SADNESS OF EXILE. 'Remarkable'The Times. 'A magnificent novel'The Times. 'Gripping'The Spectator. Scotland, 1940: The Fronsac, a French warship, blows up in the Firth of Clyde. The disaster is witnessed by three locals. Jackie, a young girl who thinks she caused the explosiong by running away from school. Her mother Helen, a spirited woman married to a dreary young officer; and their lodger, a Polish soldier whose country has just been erased from the map by Hitler and Stalin. All their lives will be changed by the death of the Fronsac.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786694360

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9781786694362

North American Wildland Plants

A Field Guide

By: James L. Stubbendieck,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn,Stephan L. Hatch

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North American Wildland Plants

A Field Guide

By: James L. Stubbendieck,Neal M. Bryan,Cheryl D. Dunn,Stephan L. Hatch

North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties. Each illustration has been enhanced with labels pointing to key characteristics to facilitate the identification of unknown plants. Each plant description includes plant characteristics, an illustration of the plant with enlarged parts, and a general distribution map for North America. Each species description includes nomenclature; life span; origin; season of growth; inflorescence, flower or spikelet, or other reproductive parts; vegetative parts; and growth characteristics. Brief notes are included on habitat; livestock losses; and historic, food, and medicinal uses. This third edition contains additional refinements in the nomenclature, distribution, illustrations, and descriptions of plants.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496200918

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9781496200914

The King Incorporated

Leopold the Second and the Congo

By: Neal Ascherson

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The King Incorporated

Leopold the Second and the Congo

By: Neal Ascherson

Leopold 2d and his use of economic power to extend his royal authority.

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Granta Books

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1862072906

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9781862072909

Wojtek the Bear

Polish War Hero

By: Aileen Orr

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Wojtek the Bear

Polish War Hero

By: Aileen Orr

This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarettesmoking, beer-drinking brown bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek soon took on a more practical role, carrying heavy mortar rounds for the troops and going on to play his part as a fully enlisted 'soldier' with his own rank and number during the Italian campaign. After the war, Wojtek, along with some of his Polish compatriots from II Corps, came to Berwickshire, where he became a significant member of the local community before subsequently moving to Edinburgh Zoo. Wojtek's retirement was far from quiet: a potent symbol of freedom and solidarity for Poles around the world, he attracted a huge amount of media interest that shows no sign of abating almost 50 years after his death.

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Birlinn

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0857900056

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9780857900050

The Periodic Table

Introduction by Neal Ascherson

By: Primo Levi

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The Periodic Table

Introduction by Neal Ascherson

By: Primo Levi

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi’s gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi’s masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny.

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Everyman's Library

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0679444637

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9780679444633

Scotophobin

Darkness at the Dawn of the Search for Memory Molecules

By: Louis Neal Irwin

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Darkness at the Dawn of the Search for Memory Molecules

By: Louis Neal Irwin

This book chronicles the apparent discovery of “memory molecules” in 1965, the loss of credibility that plagued those findings, and the subsequent triumphant discovery of the neuroactive peptides, including endorphins. The story is told through a series of biographical vignettes and the author’s own experiences that unfolded from the plains of West Texas, through Kansas, Houston, New York, Detroit, and Boston. This seminal episode in the early history of neuroscience flows smoothly for the lay reader as an engaging story of the clash between personalities, conventional wisdom, and unconventional explanations. The book is well documented for the scientist and historian, providing a definitive account of early attempts to understand memory at the molecular level.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664156712

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9781664156715

Book's by Neal Ascherson

Stone Voices

Stone Voices

Games with Shadows

Games with Shadows

The Polish August

The Polish August

Stone Voices

Stone Voices

Stone Voices

Stone Voices

Black Sea

Black Sea

The Polish August

The Polish August

Red Mutiny

Red Mutiny

The Death of the Fronsac: A Novel

The Death of the Fronsac: A Novel

North American Wildland Plants

North American Wildland Plants

The King Incorporated

The King Incorporated

Wojtek the Bear

Wojtek the Bear

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table

Scotophobin

Scotophobin

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