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No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders
are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events
Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in
human history. Beginning with the earliest known example, Crawford
travels to many borders old and new: from a melting glacial
landscape to the conflict-torn West Bank and the fault-lines of the
US/Mexico border. He follows the story of borders into our fragile
and uncertain future - towards the virtual frontiers of the
internet and the shifting geography of a world beset by climate
change. As nationalism, climate change, globalisation, technology
and mass migration all collide with ever-hardening borders,
something has to give. And Crawford asks, is it time to let go of
the lines that divide us?
From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky You scramble
up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of
a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a
forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps
they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There
are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing
to account for what they once were - who made them, lived in them
or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are
being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history. In this book
acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many such
places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts
and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and
boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.
Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places.
Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat,
James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to
tell the story of the nation. Travelling across the country, from
abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern
cities, these five authors seek out the diverse narrative of the
Scottish people. Follow Kathleen Jamie as she searches for the
traces of our first family hearths in the Cairngorms and makes a
midsummer journey to Shetland to meet the unlikely new inhabitants
of an Iron Age broch. Tour the wondrous and macabre Surgeons' Hall
with Alexander McCall Smith, or walk with him over sacred ground to
Iona's ancient Abbey. Join Alistair Moffat as he discovers a lost
whisky village in the wilds of Strathconon, and climbs up through
the vertiginous layers of history in Edinburgh Castle. Accompany
James Robertson as he goes from the standing stones of Callanish to
the humble cottage of Hugh MacDiarmid - via the engineering
colossus of the Forth Rail Bridge. And journey with James Crawford
from a packed crowd in Hampden Park, to an off-the-grid eco-bothy
on the Isle of Eigg. Who Built Scotland is a landmark exploration
of Scotland's social, political and cultural histories. Moving from
Neolithic families, exiled hermits and ambitious royal dynasties to
highland shieling girls, peasant poets, Enlightenment philosophers
and iconoclastic artists, it places our people, our ideas and our
passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is
the remarkable story how we have shaped our buildings and how our
buildings, in turn, have shaped us.
As the glaciers of the last Ice Age receded, humans ventured into
the far north, exploring a wild, fertile territory. Nomadic
hunter-gatherers at first, they made the decision to stay for good
- to farm and to build. The landscapes they lived on were
remarkable in their diversity. Vast forests of pine and birch ran
through one of the world's oldest mountain ranges - once as high as
the Himalayas but over millennia scoured and compressed by sheets
of ice a mile thick. On hundreds of islands around a saw-edged
coastline, communities flourished, linked to each other and the
wider world by the sea, the transport superhighway of ancient
times. It was a place of challenges and opportunity. A place we
know today as Scotland. Over the past 10,000 years, every inch of
Scotland - whether remote hilltop, fertile floodplain, or
storm-lashed coastline - has been shaped, changed and moulded by
its people. No part of the land is without its human story. From
Orkney's immaculately preserved Neolithic villages to Highland
glens stripped of nineteenth century settlements, from a Skye
peninsula converted to an ingenious Viking shipyard, to a sheer
Hebridean clifftop used as the site of a spectacular lighthouse,
Scotland's history is written into its landscapes in vivid detail.
Scotland's Landscapes tells the enduring story of this interaction
between man and his environment. Stunning new imagery from the
National Collection of Aerial Photography comes together to build
up a picture of a dramatic terrain forged by thousands of years of
incredible change. These are Scotland's landscapes as you have
never seen or understood them before.
'What we build always reveals things that are deeply and innately
human. Because all buildings are stories, one way or another.'
Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James
Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to tell the
story of the nation, from abandoned islands and lonely glens to the
heart of our modern cities. Whether visiting Shetland's Mousa Broch
at midsummer, following in the footsteps of pilgrims to Iona Abbey,
joining the tourist bustle at Edinburgh Castle, scaling the Forth
Bridge or staying in an off-the-grid eco-bothy, the authors unravel
the stories of the places, people and passions that have had an
enduring impact on the landscape and character of Scotland.
Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in
human history. In this book James Crawford argues that our enduring
obsession with borders has brought us to a crisis point: that we
are entering the endgame of a process that began thousands of years
ago, when we first started dividing up the earth. Beginning with
the earliest known marker which denoted the end of one land and the
beginning of the next, Crawford follows the story of borders into
our fragile and uncertain future - towards the virtual frontiers of
the internet, and the shifting geography of a world beset by
climate change. In the process, he travels to many borders old and
new: from a melting border high in the glacial landscapes of the
Austrian-Italian Alps to the only place on land where Europe and
Africa meet; from the artist Banksy's 'Walled Off Hotel' in the
conflict-torn West Bank to the Sonoran Desert and the fault lines
of the US/Mexico border. Combining history, travel and reportage,
The Edge of the Plain explores how borders have grown and evolved
to take control of our landscapes, our memories, our identities and
our destinies. As nationalism, climate change, globalisation,
technology and mass migration all collide with ever-hardening
borders, something has to give. And Crawford asks, is it time to
let go of the lines that divide us?
Bilingualism is a reality that many Americans still find difficult
to accept; hence the prominence of English-only activism in U.S.
politics. This collection of essays analyzes the sources of the
anti-bilingual movement, its changing directions, and its impact on
education policy. The book also explores efforts to resist the
English-only trend, including projects to revitalize Native
American languages.
Systems-based practice exams based on past papers. Working through
past papers is an essential part of exam preparation and practice
questions such as the ones in this book are a vital resource for
medical school success. The questions represent common, universal
medical themes and practising them in a question and answer style
will bolster your learning of key facts and help you to remember
them for exams and ultimately clinical practice. The book takes a
systems-based approach, with answers presented in a way that will
consolidate your knowledge: they are succinct and to the point. The
practice papers in this book have been written to help you ace your
exams by testing your knowledge, improving your exam technique, and
working on your time management!
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Cocopa Dictionary
James Crawford
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R1,176
Discovery Miles 11 760
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1989.
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Cocopa Dictionary
James Crawford
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R1,965
Discovery Miles 19 650
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1989.
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El Sueno Del Escultor (Paperback)
Diaz-Rubio Manuel Diaz-Rubio; Edited by Musas Ediciones Las Nueve Musas Ediciones; Illustrated by Crawford Publishing James Crawford Publishing
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R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Letters (Paperback)
Alexander James Crawford
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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