James Robertson Knihy

Farářovo setkání s ďáblem. Kniha má formu nalezeného textu, obsáhlého fasciklu, který několik dní před svým záhadným zmizením sepsal skotský venkovský farář Gedeon Mack. V této závěti zachycuje svůj životní příběh, od útlého dětství až po osudové setkání s Kamenem – jednoho lednového odpoledne se jde proběhnout do nedalekého lesa a nachází obrovský kámen na místě, kde předtím určitě nestál. Farářův dosavadní usedlý život se dostává do chaosu, mimo jiné i proto, že je otřesena jeho víra: nikoli snad v Boha, nýbrž v racionalitu. Závěť Gedeona Macka je poutavý příběh člověka, který celý svůj život zasvětil charitě a práci v obci, ovšem nakonec zůstal sám – jako my všichni.

Kniha není ani skepticky obezřetná, ani fanaticky důvěřivá, pouze se snaží pravdivě pohlížet na zkušenosti Skotů s cizím a nevysvětlitelným. Je to nápaditá kniha, při jejimž čtení vás bude mrazit v zádech! Moderní variace etablované skotské tradice duchů a vyprávění historek o nich - a také pocta zvláštnímu tajemnému charakteru země, kde v každé noře a údolíčku žijí duchové, ať už pocházejí ze severu či z jihu, ať už jsou to katolíci nebo protestanti.

Provides an overview of the artwork of the seminal Manchester-based Factory label, covering its iconic record sleeves, posters, ephemera, venues and packaging. This title discusses the label's role in bringing design to the mainstream.

Katie Bairdie had a coo, Black and white aboot the mou. Wasna that a dainty coo? Dance, Katie Bairdie. Itchy Coo's first publication specifically for babies and very young children, Katie's Coo is a delightful board book. Illustrated in full colour throughout, the book contains some much-loved traditional Scots rhymes, along with a few that are less well known. Parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, big brothers and sisters, they'll all enjoy singing or chanting the words in Katie's Coo to babies and toddlers. And the bairns will love the combination of Scots words and sounds with the bright and simple illustrations by award-winning artist Karen Sutherland (Animal ABC, A Moose in the Hoose, Eck the Bee). Rhymes featured include favourites like 'The Three Craws', 'Katie Bairdie', 'Wee Willie Winkie' and 'Ally Bally Bee'. Developed in consultation with Craigmillar Books for Babies and the Scottish Book Trust, Katie's Coo is a fun introduction for young children to easy Scots rhymes.

A beautifully illustrated Scots language collection of Robert Burns's best loved poetry is back in the form of the extremely popular lift-the-flap book, to inspire even the youngest budding poet in a simple, entertaining and colorful way. 'Fair fa yer honest sonsie face Great chieftain o the pudding race' Kids will delight in the hidden surprises within the pages, lifting the flaps to reveal where the moose is hiding and what the haggis has on its head, while singing along with parents and teachers to favorite Scottish tunes such as 'Red Red Rose' with Rabbie traveling alongside them through the story, ending up in a marvelous Burns Supper rendition of 'Auld Lang Syne'.

It is the age of the bomb, the Cold War, Margaret Thatcher and North Sea Oil. As nationalism becomes a credible force in Scotland, a gay photographer, a feminist journalist, a war veteran and a guilt-ridden Conservative MP find their private lives entangled with the ideological conflicts of the times.

A gripping tale of history, enlightenment, and slavery unfolds as Sir John Wedderburn, exiled to Jamaica after the 1746 Battle of Culloden, amasses wealth as a faux surgeon and sugar planter with his brothers. In the 1770s, he returns to Scotland to marry and restore his family name, bringing along Joseph Knight, a black slave and remnant of his Caribbean years. By 1802, as Wedderburn settles his estate, he hires solicitor's agent Archibald Jamieson to locate Knight, who has haunted him since their last encounter in a pivotal court case twenty-four years prior. This case exposed deep societal divides—master versus slave, white versus black, rich versus poor. Wedderburn's past looms large, and the search for Knight raises questions about his own future. If Jamieson succeeds, how will it impact Wedderburn and those around him? As Jamieson delves into Knight's story, he grapples with his motivations, questioning how to find someone who seeks to remain hidden. The narrative spans sixty years, traversing battlefields, Jamaican plantations, Enlightenment Edinburgh, and Dundee's back streets, offering a poignant exploration of history, identity, and a forgotten chapter of Scottish history.

To deliver software that achieves its goals, you need a requirements process that can reliably, quickly, and easily identify those goals -- all of them. Mastering the Requirements Process delivers just that: start-to-finish techniques and templates for discovering exactly what your clients need, and describing it in ways that are provably correct and testably complete. Leading consultants Suzanne and James Robertson integrate the best of the waterfall, incremental, spiral, and use case modeling approaches into a practical set of techniques that reflect the way organizations really work. You'll learn how to identify functional requirements effectively, and how to capture crucial, easy-to-miss "non-functional" requirements, such as ease of use, performance and security levels, operational and maintenance requirements, even legal and "political" requirements. The Robertsons show how to prototype and risk-analyze your requirements; how to manage the requirements process more effectively; and how to analyze your finished spec for lessons that can improve your effectiveness next time.

Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still doubts the official version of events surrounding that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible.

An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of And the Land lay Still Douglas is fifty years old - he's just lost his job, been kicked out by his girlfriend and moved back into his dad's house. Just when things are starting to look hopeless, he makes a very unexpected new friend: a talking toad. Mungo is a wise-cracking, straight-talking, no-nonsense kind of toad - and he is determined to get Douglas's life back on track. Together, man and beast undertake a madcap quest to the distant Highlands, hot on the trail of a hundred-year-old granny, a beautiful Greek nymph, a split-personality alcoholic/teetotaller, a reluctant whisky-smuggler, and the elusive glimmer of redemption . . .