The Scots: A Genetic Journey
By: Alistair Moffat , James F. Wilson
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Here, guided by Jim Wilson's researches into Scottish genetic history, he (Alistair Moffat) tackles…
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1. The Frontiersmen
By: Allan W. Eckert
4.46
Format: 626 pages, Paperback
White man's massacre. Red man's revenge. Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans
By: Juilene Osborne-McKnight , Mara McKnight
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The ancient legends and ancestral legacy of the Emerald Isle. This comprehensive history examine… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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- nonfiction
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- science
4. The Scots: A Genetic Journey
By: Alistair Moffat , James F. Wilson
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Here, guided by Jim Wilson's researches into Scottish genetic history, he (Alistair Moffat) tackles… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- scotland
- reference
- genetics
- anthropology
5. The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
By: Scott Weidensaul
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, … read more
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6. Bloody January
By: None
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
When a teenage boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commit… read more
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7. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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- scotland
8. Antarctica Station
By: A.G. Riddle
4.02
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In Antarctica, a groundbreaking experiment will change everything. Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all… read more
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9. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. The Ancient Code (The Ancient Secrets #1)
By: T.S. Falk
4.27
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
After barely escaping from his last project alive, Professor Elliot Brand wanted to spend a few cal… read more
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11. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- anthropology
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
12. The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
By: Ambrose Parry
3.94
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, from husband-and-wife wr… read more
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- scotland
"Nor did he care for how McLevy used the term ‘females.’ He made it sound as though he were talking about some other manner of species; exotic and of interest, no doubt, but somehow beyond the human. …"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
"James Matthew Duncan, he decided, was going to be insufferable. He had the bearing of a young man who had never been punched full in the face for an unguarded remark, and Raven instinctively felt he …"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
"Sarah poured the tea, thinking how narrow Mina’s assessment of a woman’s role was, how restrictive. Why couldn’t a woman aspire to more? Why shouldn’t she? Why did Raven get to do whatever he wanted?…"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
"Sarah had been speaking the truth when she said she didn’t dislike him, but she did dislike his presumption of superiority over her, as she disliked it in all young men. Given the same chance, she wa…"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
13. February's Son (Harry McCoy, #2)
By: Alan Parks
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for c… read more
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- scotland
14. Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy, #3)
By: Alan Parks
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE IS INNOCENT? The papers want blood.The force wants results.The law m… read more
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- scotland
15. The April Dead (Harry McCoy, #4)
By: Alan Parks
4.28
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him… read more
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16. The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
By: Ambrose Parry
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying al… read more
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"Louis XIV of France said that only the small man desires always to be right. It struck Raven that the route to discovery and knowledge lay not in the desire to be right, but in one's preparedness to …"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
"Raven wondered how many enduring misapprehensions in medicine (and other fields, for that matter) were down to ambition and the desire to be vindicated. How many proud men had only sought out the evi…"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
"Men often talked about a woman's intuition. Ostensibly it sounded complimentary and yet its intention was usually patronising and dismissive: a term for irrational flights of fancy that these silly c…"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
17. Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
By: Lewis Dartnell
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- anthropology
"We are as utterly reliant on fire today as were our Paleolithic ancestors who huddled around a campfire; we've just hidden it behind the scenes of the modern world."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"...the iron in your blood not only links you to the ancient stars that created it in their nuclear forge but also to the magnetic shield around our world that protects life on Earth."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"The carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing its level in the atmosphere, which is now 45 per cent higher that prior to the Industrial Revolution."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it …"-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
18. The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
By: T.M. Devine
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Tim… read more
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- history
- scotland
"It was noted of Smailholm in Roxburghshire, for instance, that many young men from the parish had joined the army and navy during the American War of Independence and never came back home."-T.M. Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
