Written by an experienced cotton spinner, this book is a comprehensive guide to the workings of the cotton manufacturing industry. Readers will learn about mill geering, machinery calculations, and the…

Gospel of the Absurd is a project that originates in the anarchic experiences of a crack cocaine addict who was knocked off his high horse by an experience of Jesus…

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English. Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history…

This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through…

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

A fateful day for Scotland The Battle of Flodden Field was founded upon the soundest of military maxims-‘to take the enemy in rear whilst he is directed upon another enemy.’…