James Robertson Bücher

Wenn der Teufel nicht existierte, müsste der Mensch ihn erfinden? Auf dem Schreibtisch eines Verlegers in Edinburgh landet ein so eigentümliches wie faszinierendes Manuskript. Es handelt sich um die Memoiren eines Pastors der schottischen Kirche, der einige Monate zuvor unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwunden war. In den Aufzeichnungen enthüllt sich die Geschichte jenes Gideon Mack, der als Sohn eines Geistlichen in der frostigen Atmosphäre eines Pfarrhauses aufwuchs, beherrscht von seinem strengen, gottesfürchtigen Vater. Obwohl Gideon selbst schon früh seinen Glauben verliert, tritt er in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters und übernimmt schließlich die kleine schottische Gemeinde Monimaskit nahe der Küste. Und dort, so berichtet er, begegnete er eines Tages dem Teufel.

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.

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.

Hidden in the breath-taking mountains of wild Scotland, Glen Conach is the home of secrets and stories, of fables and folklore. Over hundreds of years, three lives are woven together. In ancient Britain, the hermit Saint Conach performs impossible miracles, which survive as legend in 'The Book of Glen Conach'. Generations later in the nineteenth century, the book is rediscovered by charlatan Charles Gibb, who hustles his way into the big house at the heart of the village. In the present-day, young Lachie whispers to Maja of ghosts he has seen in the glen. Reflecting back on her long life, Maja believes him, as she has some ghosts of her own. News of the Dead is a captivating examination of the distance between the stories we tell of ourselves and the way in which we are remembered.

An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice - a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland. schovat popis

This is a collection of ghost stories based on a mixture of local history and folklore. The stories are from past and present. Some, such as The Hauntings of Glamis Castle and The Tale of Major Weir are well known, while others are less familiar, such as The Deil of Littledean.