Download or read book Gonnae No Dae That written by Miller H Caldwell and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. In his memoir, Miller goes back to 1950, growing up in the manse at Kirriemuir. After some troubling experiences, he finished schooling in Glasgow determined to lead a humanitarian life.

Download or read book The Wicked Wit of Scotland written by Rod Green and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about Scotland that people love so much? Scotland is famous for many things, as any Scotsman will happily tell you. The list of Scottish inventions is as long as Loch Ness, stretching from penicillin and the telephone to Irn Bru and Grand Theft Auto but, while that Scotsman is busy explaining how Scotland gave the world whisky, television and Long John Silver, spare a thought for the nation and its people. The Scots are a peculiar race with characters as varied and changeable as the unpredictable Scottish weather. In Scotland people will tell you that they love the summer, it's one of the best days of the year, and that wry sense of humour is what inspires The Wicked Wit of Scotland. This funny and beautifully observed book pulls together stories, quotes, quips and anecdotes from Scots talking about Scotland and others from all over the world relating what they most admire about the country that Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling described as 'one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world. The history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.' Featuring wit and wisdom from writers such as Armando Iannucci and Compton Mackenzie, Stanley Baxter and Neil Munro, the sometimes dubious delights of Scottish cuisine are discussed, along with the culture, folklore, politics and sport that will help us to understand just what makes Scotland tick.

Download or read book No Rabbie Burns written by Stuart McLean and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbie Burns is indisputably (well we're certainly not disputing it) Scotland's favourite poet. Indeed, he's ranked amongst the world's greatest poets of all time, having produced many works of pure genius: 'Auld Lang Syne', 'Tam O' Shanter' and 'A Red, Red Rose' to name but a few. However, the poems in NO' RABBIE BURNS, if you haven't already guessed it from the title, were not written by Rabbie Burns. But they are funny ... and Scottish ... and include 'Picts Rule', 'Owed to a Bank Manager', 'Tae a Wee Fat Bastard' and 'The Big Issue Seller'... Enjoy!

Download or read book Rethinking Verb Second written by Rebecca Woods and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages, this book shows that it is much more widely attested cross-linguistically than previously thought, and explores the multiple empirical, theoretical, and experimental puzzles that remain in developing an account of the phenomenon. Uniquely, formal theoretical work appears alongside studies of psycholinguistics, language production, and language acquisition. The range of languages investigated is also broader than in previous work: while novel issues are explored through the lens of the more familiar Germanic data, chapters also cover Verb Second effects in languages such as Armenian, Dinka, Tohono O'odham, and in the Celtic, Romance, and Slavonic families. The analyses have wide-ranging consequences for our understanding of the language faculty, and will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of syntax, historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Download or read book Bloodshot written by Stuart MacBride and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Logan McRae’s only chance of getting out from under Detective Inspectors Steel and Insch is to get noticed. Not that any of his cases are the type that he wants to get noticed for. For starters, someone dumped a dying man at the hospital, and the team can’t ID him or the person who dumped him. Even worse, McRae is also after a knife-wielding eight-year-old who is stirring up bad press for the department that does little for their case against Robert Macintyre, Aberdeen’s beloved star soccer player. They’re convinced he’s a rapist, but they can’t hold him long enough to prove it. Catching these perps is thankless work, and McRae’s chances of getting rewarded are as bad as Aberdeen’s without their leading goal scorer. With his third masterful installment in a series that combines suspense with a dark and distinctly Scottish wit, award-winning author Stuart MacBride is setting a blistering standard for the next generation of crime writers.

Download or read book Exit written by Laura Waddell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Exits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside. Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we've fallen through, exits determine how we move around our lives, cities, and the world. What does it really mean to 'exit'? In these meditations on exits in architecture, transport, ancestry, language, garbage, death, Sesame Street and Brexit, Laura Waddell follows the neon and the pictograms of exit signs to see what's on the other side. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Download or read book On Children Who Privilege the Body written by Ann Horne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist brings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne and draws upon her considerable experience in the field of child and adolescent mental health. On Children Who Privilege the Body will be of considerable interest and use to child psychotherapists, social workers and all other mental health professionals working with children and adolescents in a range of settings.

Download or read book The Little Men written by George McCafferty and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Little Men' tells the real story of Operation Herrick, unvarnished, from the point of view not of Generals or politicians, but the poor bloody infantry.

Download or read book The Lie written by Natalie Wrye and published by Wrye Writing. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANDREW Seven years ago, I took off my tux, slapped on a pair of secondhand jeans and walked away from my billion dollar inheritance. I guess I didn’t walk far enough… Because yesterday my inheritance came back to me, and in order to claim it, I need to find a fake fiancée to satisfy my family’s billion dollar demands. That’s where my tyrannical, uptight boss Nancy comes in—a royal pain in the seat of the secondhand jeans I’ve worn since the day I became her bartender. Truth is: I’ve been lying for seven years. I figure I can lie for one more weekend. But what I can’t lie about is how I’ve started to see the usually buttoned-up Nancy in a whole new light. How I’ve started to notice how sexy she is out of those overly prim pencil skirts. And how much I want to rub my fingers over her strawberry-red mouth. But I can’t. Because she’s my boss. Because it’s only a weekend. And because our pretend relationship—one of many amongst my family’s most dangerous secrets—is only a lie… Isn’t it?

Download or read book A Gossip Politic written by Andrea McDonnell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes explicit the historical, technological, and discursive links between gossip as a mode of communication, news media, and contemporary politics. A Gossip Politic advances a new framework of gossip, applying the informal understanding of the term to news talk and political actors. Authored by esteemed scholars in the fields of Political Science, Media Studies, Linguistics, and Sociology, chapters consider the influence of gossip on the press, the American presidency, and the public. A Gossip Politic provides readers with a multi-faceted portrait of the ways in which gossip has influenced media history, shaped our understanding of democracy, and contributed to our current political landscape.

Download or read book Me Life Story written by Scarlett Moffatt and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The Sunday Times bestseller* Fact: Did you know, over its lifespan, your sofa will witness roughly 293 arguments and 1,369 cuddles? Hiya, my name's Scarlett Moffatt and I love random facts. Almost as much as I love sitting on me sofa. You might know me best from my most famous and celebrated sit thus far on the I'm A Celebrity throne. You might also know me from all sorts of other seats, most especially my Gogglebox sofa. Well this book is my attempt at telling me life story through a whole series of them! So I'd like you right now to stop what you're doing and take a seat, whether it be in the comfort of your own home, on the top deck of the bus, on the tube (so you don't have to make eye contact with anybody) or on the throne of the house (a.k.a. the toilet). I want you to get comfortable and get ready to laugh, cry and maybe even learn a bit, as I chat to you about some of the highs and lows of me life. So grab a brew, settle down, and let's start from the very beginning...

Download or read book Blossom written by Lesley Riddoch and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blossom is an account of Scotland at the grassroots through the stories of people I've had the good fortune to know – the most stubborn, talented and resilient people on the planet. They've had to be. Some have transformed their parts of Scotland. Some have tried and failed. But all have something in common – they know what it takes for Scotland to blossom. We should too... Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Lesley Riddoch has undertaken. Dispensing with the tired, yo-yoing jousts over fiscal commissions, Devo Something and EU in-or-out, Blossom pinpoints both the buds of growth and the blight that's holding Scotland back. Drawing from its people and history as well as the experience of the Nordic countries, and the author's own passionate and outspoken perspective, this is a plain-speaking but incisive call to restore equality and control to local communities and let Scotland flourish.

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes And The Autumn Of Terror written by Randy Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -The true story of Jack the Ripper.---Cover.

Download or read book Our Nerdy Secret written by Jill Westwood and published by Jill Westwood. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She promised to help him find true love, but now she's falling for him... Jenna What do you do when you’re falling for your younger brother’s best friend? Introduce him to a reality TV matchmaker, obviously. What better way to avoid my feelings than to help him fall in love with someone else? To make matters worse, I also gave him a sexy makeover. Now my favorite nerd is looking hot as hell, and I have to pretend to cheer him on in his search for true love. What no one knows is that I secretly want him for myself, but I’m forty-four and jaded. In the words of Def Leppard, is it too late for love? Aaron I fell for Jenna Rossolino before I knew what the word crush meant. She was Sal’s rebellious older sister, completely out of reach, and she thought of me as a nerdy little kid. But I’m all grown up now, and it’s time for her to admit we’d be perfect together. If I can work up the courage to tell her my feelings, maybe I can get her to open her heart and believe in love again. Can a geek become the hero of his own story? Our Nerdy Secret is a standalone full-length novel and part of the Better Than Ever series. Jenna and Aaron's story is perfect for readers who enjoy later-in-life love, "brother's best friend" stories, age gap romance, steamy sexy times, ride-or-die friendships, nerdy heroes, sassy heroines, Gen X romance, and happily ever afters. Because love and laughter don't end at forty!

Download or read book Sport Media Culture written by ALINA BERNSTEIN and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland.

Download or read book Naw First Minister written by Allan Morrison and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With no party having a majority it was decided the position of First Minister should go to neutral, AGSTLO (Ah m Gonnae Sort This Lot Oot party) MSP, Big Nellie Nellis, a controversial imposing lady with the relics of beauty still on her face, unapologetically long legs which look as though they could stretch into different time zones, and bosoms requiring their own postal codes. Her over-bearing appearance and vibrancy, assisted by a continually refilled hip flask of single malt, make her formidable to all and sundry. Forget Mrs Thatcher, Mrs Merkel, Mrs Gillard, Mrs Meir and Ms Sturgeon. These women were absolute softies compared to Big Nellie. When Big Nellie Nellis bounds into Scottish politics after a fish supper and a cockup too far, her brash reason wins an electorate weary of the pointless jabbering of a divided Parliament. However, shaking up the status quo of Holyrood sets some slippery MSPs delving into Nellie s past to uncover the truth about Scotland s least likely political leader.

Download or read book The Herald Diary 2019 written by Ken Smith and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are folk desperate for these days? A laugh, we reckon. And fortunately the readers of The Herald newspaper agree, as over the past year they have sent the newspaper's Diary column their funniest moments, whether it's about the daft things that happen in their office, the outrageous comments they are told in the pub, or just the eyebrow-raising observations they overhear on the train into town. They even have the occasional smile over politics, would you believe.And the very best of them are gathered in this handy volume. So if you want to know why Scotsmen still cannot understand their partners, the funniest claims made on the golf course, and the outrageous shenanigans of police officers, apprentices, shop-workers and school teachers, then look no further.