Search Results: Titles starting with S from Emily Green Books

Birlinn Ltd, 2011 About the book: History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting our history in spectacular fashion. In Scotland: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat explores the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncovers the detail of where we are from, who we are and in so doing color vividly a DNA map of Scotland.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Bodley Head, 2010 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Picador, 2005 About the book: The Sea (2005) is the eighteenth novel by Irish author John Banville. The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult. The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels to write about. Despite the constant fluctuations, Max returns to three settings: his childhood memories of the Graces-a wealthy middle class family living in a rented cottage home, the "Cedars"-during the summer holidays; the months leading up to the death of his wife, Anna; and his present stay at the Cedars cottage home in Ballyless-where he has retreated since Anna's death. These three settings are heavily diced and impromptly jumbled together for the novel's entire duration. Max's final days with Anna were awkward; Max does not know how to act with his soon-to-be-dead wife. Scenes of… Read More

Vintage, 2007 About the book: Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at polling station 14 finds it odd that by midday on national election day, only a handful of voters have turned out puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank - not spoiled, simply blank national law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later the result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank the incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less the authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency in his new novel, josé saramago has deftly created the politicians ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless seeing explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be. Soft cover. As New.

Aurum Press, 1986 incl. The Watercolour Handbook The Pastel Handbook (with Charcoal and Sanguine) The Watercolour Handbook. Hardcover. Fine.

Cambridge University Press, 1999 Our cosmic tour begins here. As we leave the secure confines of the Earth and journey into space, we find a plethora of strange and unexpected phenomena. Little can we anticipate from the quiet, star-studded sky the violent events in the cosmos. Stars explode. Powerful radio sources eject matter in jets. The ever-changing Universe grows more beautiful and more complex the deeper into it we go. Professor Narlikar skillfully steers us through a cosmic journey of discovery, starting from the Earth and Solar System and stepping out to the farthest reaches of the Universe. Using simple analogies, humorous anecdotes, and a wealth of illustrations, he conveys the thrill of observing strange and surprising features of the Universe. The seven wonders represent a range of mysterious phenomena, a class of spectacular events, or remarkable cosmic objects that have challenged human curiosity and defied explanation. They concern the giants and dwarfs of the stellar world, the… Read More

Inverness Field Club Soft cover. Very Good.

Bell & Sons, 1925 Ex-library copy. See photos for the book.. Hardcover. Good/Good.

J.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 Stories included in this collection: Jack of Newberie and Thomas of Reading by Thomas Deloney. Carde of Fancie by Robert Greene. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Comma Press, 2008 Soft cover. As New.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2012 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Michael Joseph, 1990 About the book: A collection of 25 science fiction stories united by a single idea - that a scientific community has replaced the biblical God's work of creating the world on the sixth day. Each story portrays a highly mechanistic world and explores our technological culture and its effects on our daily lives.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Jonathan Cape, 2012 About the book: Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work. Mark Renton seems to have it all: he's the first in his family to go to university, he's young, has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his badly handicapped younger brother dies the family bonds start to weaken, his life flips out of control, and he succumbs to the defeatism and the heroin which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. His friends face similar challenges. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job and faces long-term unemployment, while Tommy Lawrence feels that only love can save him from being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence -- exemplified respectively by the thieving Matty Connell and… Read More

Profile Books, 2011 About the book: This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. "The Shielding of Mrs Forbes" - Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. But this is Alan Bennett, so no matter the importance of keeping up appearances, what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, and ultimately much more honest to people's predilections. "The Greening of Mrs Donaldson" - Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers (a young, broke couple) passions that she never knew existed are aroused, and her mundane life becomes much more… Read More

Henry Holt & Company, 2011 About the book: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: "O.K." For the next year¬ a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last¬ Shields had access to Vonnegut and his letters.And So It Goes is the culmination of five years of research and writing¬ the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut re. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

HarperCollins, 2010 About the book: The extraordinary new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'. What do you pack for the rest of your life? Shepherd Knacker is bored with his humdrum existence. He's sold his successful handy-man business for a million dollars and is now ready to embark on his 'Afterlife' - a one way ticket to a small island off the coast of Africa. He tries to convince his wife Glynis to come with him, but she laughs off the idea as preposterous.There's no way she'll let Shepherd uproot the family to some far-flung African island. When Glynis is diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer, Shepherd's dreams of an exotic adventure are firmly put on hold. He devotes himself to caring for his sick wife, watching her fade before his eyes. Shepherd's best friend Jackson knows all too well about illness. His sixteen year old daughter has spent her life dosed up on every treatment going while he and… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 2013 About the book: In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty roads at night. These are people for whom the idea of 'home' has become increasingly intangible, hard to believe - and happiness, or grace, or freedom, all now seem to belong in some kind of dream, or a fable they might have read in a children's picture book. As he says in one story, 'All a man has is his work and his sense of himself, all the secret life he holds inside that nobody else can know.' But in each of these normal, damaged lives, we are shown something extraordinary: a dogged belief in some kind of hope or beauty that flies in the face of all reason and is, as a result, both transfiguring and heart-rending. John Burnside is unique in contemporary British letters: he is one of our best living poets, but… Read More

Barbican Art Gallery, 1991 Soft cover. As New.

Princeton University Press, 1980 This Dover edition, first published in 1965, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Princeton University Press in 1958. This edition is published by special arrangement with Princeton University Press.. Soft cover. Good.

Hardcover. Near Fine.