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The essays in this book seek to unearth latent institutional racism using a three-pronged approach involving theoretical understanding, empirical data and policy formation.

Marjory Harper explores the motives and experiences of migrants, settlers and returners by focusing on the personal testimonies of the two million men, women and children who left Scotland in the 20th century.

This project seeksto re-examine the interchange of ideas initiated in the 18th century by the Scottish Enlightenment, and the ways in which these ideas were reformed and shaped to fit the changing social fabric of Scotland and India in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Home Game provides an insight into the birth of the Homeless World Cup and how it has become such a global phenomenon, by looking at more than just facts. It shows how the power of sport can help excluded people transform their own lives - and how the event has transformed attitudes to homelessness.

Whether by foot, bike, bus, armchair or car, this book is your perfect travelling companion.Previous Journeys and Evocations books focused on Scotland's capital city, exploring Arthur's Seat, Calton Hill and Edinburgh Old Town.

Fergusson, Joan Eardley and John Bellany are considered with American Alice Neel and the art of the ancient Celts.Composers like John Blackwood McEwen, Cecil Coles and Helen Hopekirk are introduced, amongst discussions of education, politics, social priorities, the mass media and different genres of writing.

Describing the Scottish Parliament, plane travel in the Western Isles, and more with familiarity and fluidity, these poems depict the many faces of contemporary Scotland with grace and intimacy.

For the last fifty years Tom Nairn has been one of Britain's most consistentlyprovocative and influential voices. Old Nations is the definitive Nairn collection - and an indispensable guidefor anyone looking to understand the current moment in Scottish and British politics.

Another Bloody Saturday is a book celebrating all that makes football the sport that it is. It explores the passions and devotion of those that support a team, a nation, a dream. By exploring football in the lower leagues and non-league, as well as lesser known clubs and nations abroad, the book attempts to reveal the true soul of football that is often lost among the glitz and glamour of the premier League and the Champions League. Ultimately, Another Bloody Saturday is about all that makes football so captivating and all-encompassing to so many, making a supporter's team and club a near religion. A small selection of clubs featured include: Accrington Stanley, Bangor City, Partick Thistle, Tibetan National Team, Bhutan National Team, Bristol Rovers and Arsenal Ladies.

Why are there so many Italian hairdressers and Chinese restaurants in Glasgow? With clear-sighted social analysis and an impressive assembly of historical evidence, Edward weaves a vivid tapestry of the many peoples and cultures that have created contemporary Glasgow.

George Macpherson connects us with Scotland's oldest legends and traditions. His stories of Fionn and the Old Grey Magician reclaim a world of heroic exploits and honour, of wizardry, and druidic mystery. In this groundbreaking volume Ossian is truly reclaimed by the oral tradition.

A new book of dances is always a delight, and this book is set to inspire the dancer, the caller and the teacher of social dances. There are new dances, well-known dances, and dances that Greig does differently in this book and thus it is an adventure of dance. The calling hints come in very handy for the inexperienced caller.

Featuring a mix of fiction, memoir, poetry and essays, this book provides a thought-provoking and necessary negotiation of historical and contemporary Irish-Scottish relations, and explores the Easter Rising's intersections with other movements, from Women's Suffrage to the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.

This new collection of work fromTessa Ransford is marked out by anauthentic and unique voice, honedthrough a lifetime of dedication to herart. The cover photograph shows theauthor in 1981 when she founded theSchool of Poets in Edinburgh.

I saw the field of battle' It still exhibits a most striking picture of desolation all the neighbouring houses being broken down by cannon-shot and shells. There was one sweet little chateau in particular called Hougomont which was the object of several desperate assaults and was at length burned to the ground' There was an immense carnage on this spot and the stench of the dead bodies is still frightfully sensible. WALTER SCOTTWhy was the Battle of Waterloo so significant for Scottish history?How has the conflict been represented in Scottish art and literature?What did the Scots who witnessed the battle and its aftermath have to say about it at the time?The Battle of Waterloo represented a seismic shift in the tectonic plates of national identity for Scotland. In art and political rhetoric, the Scots became the poster boys of the British Empire at Waterloo. Ostensibly fighting alongside England against France, the battle also arguably saw Scotland move away from the Auld Alliance towards identification with the United Kingdom.Scotland's Waterloo concentrates on how the battle was perceived at the time, showcasing the different ways that illustrious Scots documented and responded to the battle in its immediate aftermath. Owen Dudley Edwards starts with the painters and their patrons, before moving on to the fascinating eyewitness accounts of Scottish soldiers and doctors. He finally introduces the voices of two of the most famous Scottish writers who experienced the horrific aftermath of the battle first-hand, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron.

Providing everything a prospective hill walker could want, The Ultimate Guide to the Munros also makes extensive use of annotated digital photographs and OS maps and includes everything about a route from the amount of effort required to local history, weather conditions and the best tea-rooms in the vicinity.

Journey with Russell Lyon through the fascinating story of the Society of Horsemen, the secret group of strange gifted men who traditionally ruled the world of the stables. Discover a culture stranger than fiction, where a stable-boy could be asked to shake hands with the devil through a wall, and the sign of power would float upstream.

This work contains the stories of the many closes and wynds of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, from the castle to the palace.

This City Now sets out to retrieve the hidden architectural, cultural and historical riches of some of Glasgows working-class districts. Many who enjoy the fruits of Glasgows recent gentrification may be surprised and delighted by the gems which Ian Mitchell has uncovered beyond the usual haunts.

In a collection of essays from a wide range of leading political specialists, journalists and academics, Hassan and Gunson have assembled a comprehensive guide to Brexit for the UK as a whole, and its constituent parts. Particular focus is paid to how Brexit will impact Scotland and the viability of a future Scottish independence.

Dundonians have a defining, distinctive way of expressingthemselves and communicating feelings. The ancient city'scharacteristic accent can be heard in any Lochee bar or Hilltoonplayground, or on any bus - where Dundee grannies haveextraordinary `Eh?' `Eh!' nodding conversations. And to thetrained ear they make perfect sense!

Samuel Smiles' groundbreaking work "Self-Help" published in 1859 encouraged people to believe that they could do anything that they determined to do. More than a self-help book "Self-Help for the 21st Century" offers opinion, social commentary and biography.

This book is a celebration of all that is dreich. To my mind the images in this book are uplifting and joyful. There is nothing miserable about dreich. A sunny day has no more right to exist than a dreich one. Here, then, are fifty dreich images, accompanied by fifty equally dreich captions.

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2017A face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. Delving into family stories and his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face, `uniquely sprung from all the faces that had been'.

After `How David Cameron Saved Scotland', satirical author Owen Dudley Edwards comes back with a new book, `Defining Moments in The Fight for Independence'. The book covers the defining moments in which nations such as Ireland, Brazil, Belgium, Haiti achieved independence.

This is a collection of Robert Allan Jamieson's Shetlandic poetry spanningthe entirety of his writing life. It contains both original poetry and poetry intranslation from many of the marginal or disappearing languages of theworld, including Hungarian, Greek, Icelandic, Catalan and Turkish.