This book provides a unique and comprehensive review of the making and re-making of Edinburgh over most of the last millennium.
A study of linguistic awareness in multilinguals.
This anthology provides a solid theoretical base for all those encountering the 'author' debate for the first time. It presents key readings from the main... Læs mere
This book follows the history of Celtic Scotland from the ancient kingdoms of the Picts and Scots to the downfall of Clan Donald at the end of the fifteenth century.
Bringing together some of the most influential international scholars on the subject, this anthology provides a detailed, diverse and accessible perspective on music in the cinema.
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg’s most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime.
Deleuze and Music is the first volume to explore Deleuze's ideas from the perspective of music and sound.
An expanded and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to linguistic morphology. The text guides the reader from the very first principles of the internal structure of words through to advanced issues of current controversy.
This introduction to the physical sciences and engineering of the Islamic world is the first to trace the full extent of the Muslim scientific achievement in the period... Læs mere
Assessing materials from the 3rd/9th century to the 10th/16th century, Professor Abrahamov focuses on the foundations of both traditionalism and rationalism, the arguments which the two tendencies used against each other and the compromises reached.
This new and extensively illustrated history explores the reality behind stereotypical views of Glasgow.
The first comprehensive dictionary of the field of sociolinguistics, this is a valuable reference book for students and teachers of sociolinguistics, others concerned with the socially-oriented study of language and those with a professional interest in language.