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One City Trust. To celebrate Edinburgh, its literature, and more importantly, its people, Polygon and the One City Trust have brought together writers - established and emerging - to write about the place they call home. Based around landmarks or significant links to Edinburgh each story transports the reader to a different decade in the city's recent past.

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In turn amusing and serious, this book looks backwards to things and ways of thinking and doing that are interesting in themselves but also illuminate the present. There is too a recurring element of present day use or abuse of the English language that will strike a chord with many. A glossary is provided to explain Scots words and expressions which enrich the text. A unique feature is the invitation to readers to contribute ideas for another...

A practical guide to being spiritually awake . A positive insight into living in oneness with all, whilst in this world.

Recounts the writer's international experiences, often connecting them to issues and events that touch on us all. The chapters are organised in themes - early identity, West Africa as a colonial servant concerned with produce like cocoa, palm oil, rubber and groundnuts for export - travels as an international businessman servicing the sugar industry - language and communication from the shredding of the English language by its American version...

This memoir positions the writer's responsibilities for produce for export by the Nigerian Marketing Boards in its historical context. His work took in experiences, places and events that breathed life into history. He illustrates the social scene and the rituals symbolising attitudes and values of the locals and expatriates alike in a series of fascinating vignettes and performs a similar function in relation to his work. An Interesting, amus...

Tre grandi scrittori contemporanei, chiamati a scrivere della loro Edimburgo, con stili, approcci, immagini diverse, se ne lasciano ispirare e regalano tre personalissime storie. Alexander McCall Smith racconta le vicende di un biologo indiano che si trasferisce nella capitale scozzese e, spaesato, cerca goffamente di costruirsi una vita sociale, per soffocare la solitudine e l'acuta nostalgia che prova per la sua famiglia, le sue radici, le s...

As in the earlier publication, 'Going, Going, Gone Again' is once more amusing and serious, and looks backwards to things and ways of thinking and doing that are interesting in themselves but also inform the present. There is too a recurring element of present day use or abuse of the English language that will strike a chord with many. A glossary is provided to explain Scots words and expressions which enrich the text.

Birefringent Thin Films and Polarizing Elements (2nd Edition) includes the significant advances that have been made since the first book on tilted-columnar films was published. The major discovery of serial bideposition has led to a normal-columnar nanostructure with enhanced birefringence and in turn to nanoengineered handed films with properties matching the left-circular reflectors of scarab beetles. A second version of the Matlab software ...

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Full of McCall Smith's gentle humor and sympathy for his characters, this second novel set at 44 Scotland Street is also an affectionate portrait of a city and its people who, in the author's own words, "make Edinburgh one of the most vibrant and interesting places in the world." Unabridged.