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As colourful as the machair that surrounds it. Escape to the Scottish Rural Highlands as Stroma and her quirky community continue to fight for their way of life. With few job opportunities and storms tearing at their coastline, Blàs is once more under threat. On top of that, Old Tam is predicting gloom and doom as tales of mythical creatures spread among the villagers, putting the rescue plans in a precarious position. Casting aside her own pe...

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Stroma is a hard-working 30 year old Highlander who lives in Blàs, a small rural village on the North Coast 500. Her passion: to save her language and culture from dying out. It also plays a large part in her everyday job as she travels around the region. However, it is not only her culture that is under threat, it is Blàs itself as it struggles to retain its population. Into the tide of people leaving strides Auntie Lottie, returning home to ...

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Excerpt from A Course of Mathematics, Vol. 2 of 2: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private TuitionThere are also other methods of constructing the canon of sines and cosines, which, for brevity's sake, are here omitted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...

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Excerpt from A Short History of the Church in Great BritainIt is in the fourth century that we first hear, on what is pro bably sound evidence, of the name of a British Christian. Near where the town of S. Albans now stands there was a Roman camp, and there a soldier saved the life of a Christian priest, and from him learnt the faith of Christ. He was ordered to deny Christ, and do sacrifice to the Roman gods. He refused, and was martyred. His...

Excerpt from Literary Landmarks of RomeThere are two distinct classes of English speaking Visitors to Rome, each of whom, no doubt, are willing to learn something, and to see something, of its Literary Landmarks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technol...

Excerpt from Tracts on Mathematical and Philosophical Subjects, Vol. 3 of 3: Comprising, Among Numerous Important Articles, the Theory of Bridges, With Several Plans of Recent ImprovementIN the course of last year's Operations we experienced several inconveniences from some parts of our apparatus, which we determined to remedy if possible. These regarded chie¿y the time-pieces, the axes of vibration, and the method of measuring by the tape. Fo...

Excerpt from Thucydides and HistoryHerodotus breaks out to record his personal dissent from the ntild and abstract proposition of some contemporary Darwin that man is only an animal and need not he more careful of his behaviour in temples and holy places than animals are seen to be. The proposition is displeasing to me he tells us: Thucydides will not let his personal disgust he seen even when infants are butchered. It seems to be beneath the ...

Excerpt from Burford Papers: Being Letters of Samuel Crisp to His Sister at Burford, And Other Studies of a Century (1745-1845)The period covered by the book is about a hundred years, from the '45 to the death of Sydney Smith. None of it seems to me so very far away when I remember that my father's father was born in 1750.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

Excerpt from A Course of Mathematics, Vol. 1 of 2: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private TuitionAsy this work has been composed expressly with the intcn tion of adapting it to the purposes of academical education, it is not designed to hold out the expectation of an entire new mass of inventions and discoveries but rather to collect and arrange the most useful known principles of mathematics, dis posed in a convenient practical form, de...

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Excerpt from Greek Terracotta StatuettesWhy should little things be blamed? Little things for grace are famed. Love, the winged and the wild, Love was once a little child. P. Rogers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from Greek Terracotta StatuettesWhy should little things be blamed? Little things for grace are famed. Love, the winged and the wild, Love was once a little child. P. Rogers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from The Stratigraphy of the Devonian Rocks of Calhoun and Jersey Counties, Illinois, With a Preliminary Discussion of the Physiography of the Region: Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geology in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1910Description of'devonian strata. Detailed Sections I. In Jersey County. II. In Calhoun County Correlation and conclusion Phy...

Excerpt from A Course of Mathematics, Vol. 2 of 2: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private TuitionThere are also other methods of constructing the canon of sines and cosines, which, for brevity's sake, are here omitted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...