231 results for 'alexievich scotland'

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in...

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...

An account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as...

Before the United States' invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties--and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. The...

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the...

The definitive history of Scotland, "told as a tale from its beginnings up to now" (The Observer). Hailed as a "vast, superb history [that] relates Scotland's past over a dozen millennia" (Kirkus...

Bringing the story of Scotland up to date, this revised fifth edition of Fitzroy Maclean's classic work includes additional chapters by distinguished journalist Magnus Linklater. Linklater examines...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 1 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring...

The Kingis Quair ("The King's Book") is a 15th-century poem attributed to James I of Scotland. It is semi-autobiographical in nature, describing the King's capture by the English in 1406 on his way...

This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of...

Albion Motors, established in Glasgow in 1899, became Scotland's most successful motor-manufacturing company. Initially a car factory, it began to specialise in the production of trucks before the...

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Against the background of a distinctive Lowland society transformed by commercializing and Anglicizing influences in the years after Scotland's union with England, the author traces the establishment...

Anderson, Professor Robert

Stewart J. Brown. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [417]-429.

A Revision Of The Author's Thesis, Cambridge. Bibliographies: P. [201]-214.

WRITTEN BY WILLIAM L MILLER-AN INQUIRY INTO THE HOMOGENEITY OF POLITICS IN BRITAIN-THE UNION OF SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND

The rediscovery of Scotland's past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalistScotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent,...