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The Story of Scotland Before History
This story of early Scotland begins 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when the familiar Scottish geography of mountains, glens, and rugged co...
A Journey to Lindisfarne
In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to โ and through the history of โ the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insul...
A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic ...
A New History
Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is ...
eBook Bundle
Uncover the story of Scotland with Alistair Moffat's history collection. From the Ice Age to the modern day, this bundle leaves no stone unturned. Jou...
Rome's Greatest Frontier
Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: ...
New Perspectives
June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack. In the dead of night, a fig...
The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surround...
A compelling and beautifully illustrated history of Scottish clans and their leaders....
A History
Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its spell over the British. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art, architecture...
A History from Earliest Times
In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. ...
Journeys to the Edge of the World
'[an] exploration of Scotland's past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker ... Magnificent' - New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago,...
Walking the History of England and Scotland
A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2024 The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles...
The History of Celtic Britain and Ireland
'The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it' - The Scotsman Alistair Moffat's journey, from t...
A Genetic Journey
Based on exciting new research involving the most wide-ranging sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair Moffat, author of the bestselling 'The S...
Entertaining and provocative, this book from an expert on Scotlandโs cultural heritage reveals the lost history of an ancient, proud nation. While S...
The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland
In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In ...
A History of Tuscany
'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' โ Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has ca...
Scotland's Forgotten Roads
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads t...
As Hawick celebrates the 500th anniversary of the fight at Hornshole, the first stirrings of the defining traditions of the common riding, Alistair Mo...
"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 ...
Walking in the Shadows of the Clans
Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as ...
The Battle for a Nation
As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, m...
Our Remarkable Genetic Story
In an epic narrative, sometimes moving, sometimes astonishing, always revealing, Moffat writes an entirely new history of Britain. Instead of the usua...
The Story of the Border Reivers
Only one period in history is immediately linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Wh...
A History of the Borders from Earliest Times
This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. It is the story of England and Scotland, told not...
The Holy Men of the Hebrides
Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. These 'white martyrs' sought solitude, rem...
Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Second Edition
"This book is the Bible for anyone who needs to manage large data collections. It's required reading for our search gurus at Infoseek. The authors hav...
Compression and Coding Algorithms describes in detail the coding mechanisms that are available for use in data compression systems. The well known Huf...
Practitioners, especially those who work in the software development and independent consulting industries creating compression software or other appl...
An Illustrated Biography
This first biography of the world-renowned architect, artist, and designer conveys an intimate portrait of the man behind the achievements. Includes f...
A History of Newcastle and Gateshead from Earliest Times
"Tyneside bursts with pride not a swaggering conceit but the most obvious, warm and pungent sense of civic pride in Britain. Tynesiders know who they ...
From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland's capital since 1437, the city has witnessed...
A Memoir
After the deaths of his grandmother and his father, Andrew Moffat dicovered that they had kept hidden what they saw as a shaming secret. Moffat soon r...
Images of the Scottish Borders
This book is a story of magical moments caught in the quiet and intuitive eye of award-winning photographer, Liz Hanson. These photographs are beautif...
A lavish, large format hardback featuring the artwork of The Great Tapestry of Scotland, an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish ...
After the deaths of his grandmother and his father, Alistair Moffat discovered that they had kept hidden what they saw as a shaming secret. Moffat soo...
Collected Works of Academics of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Melbourne
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Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval : Melbourne, Australia, 24-28.08.1998