Wisdom of the Scots brings together 365 traditional Scottish proverbs, each presented in Scots, translated into clear modern English, and explained with careful attention to meaning, context, and practical use.These sayings were never intended as decoration. They emerged from everyday life shaped by work, weather, scarcity, kinship, authority, and long memory. Spoken rather than written for much of their history, they survived because they were useful. They warned ...

Neurological disorders are diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. Examples of symptoms include paralysis,muscle weakness, poor coordination, loss of sensation, seizures, confusion, pain and altered levels of consciousness. Thereare many recognized neurological disorders, some relatively common, but many rare. They may be assessed by neurologicalexamination, and studied and treated within the specialities of neurology and clinical neuropsychology. Neurosurgicalnursing is a s...

THE Indian’S CONDITIONS OF SETTLEMENT. The conditions which govern the Indian’s occupation of his Reserve are, probably, so well known, that any extended reference under this head will be needless. He ceded the whole of his land to the Government, this comprising, originally, a tract which pursued the entire length of the Grand River, and, accepting it as the radiating point, extended up from either side of the river for a distance of six miles, to embrace an area of that extent. The Gover...

Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book was created from an amalgamation of the most commonly used words in fantasy and science fiction novels over the previous decade.

The complete BBC radio adaptations of Alexander McCall's bestselling seriesInspired by Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, 44 Scotland Street started life as a serial in The Scotsman. It was a huge hit, and was soon novelised, adapted on stage and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. Collected here are all five radio series, in which we follow the interconnected lives of the residents of adjoining flats in a tenement in Edinburgh's Georgian New ...

Taken by the Highest Bidder by Jane PorterSamantha van Bergen has been won by the highest bidder: dark and sexy Italian racing driver Cristiano Bartolo. Virginal Sam suspects Cristiano will seduce her! But she quickly finds out he has another reason for wanting her – bedding her is just a bonus!Bought by Her Latin Lover by Julia JamesSpanish millionaire Cesar Montarez wants Rosalind the moment he sees her. But Ro...

Brought to you by Penguin.From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE grumpy sunshine college romance.I made a terrible mistake.Being a mafia princess, I knew my fate was already decided.But I went ahead and longed for the wrong one.Creighton King is bad news with a gorgeous exterior.He’s silent, brooding, and obviously emotionally unavailable.So I thought it was over.Until he...

Seven days to make her remember. Seven nights to make her beg.She was my salvation—until she became my destruction.Once, I would have bled for her.Now, I burn for revenge.She and her father didn’t just betray me. They destroyed me. Left me broken, bleeding, crawling my way out of hell. And now, years later, she’s back—wrapped up in a satin bow with a convenient case of amnesia?Nice t...

Tiny cues shape your days and, compounded, shape your destiny. Catalyst Habits shows why your brain obeys triggers instead of willpower and teaches a four step “Catalyst Method” to hijack those cues for good: spot the current trigger, hitch a two minute micro routine onto it, reward the win instantly, and let compounding do the heavy lifting.James Mackenzie breaks the process into environment design, habit stacking, identity based change, and the inversion strategy for breaking bad...

Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ Maya community of San Andrés Xecul in the Guatemalan Highlands and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of locals who have migrated to the United States.Author C. James MacKenzie explores the relationship among four coexisting religious communities within Highland Maya villages in contemp...

Hope is a cornerstone of human existence. Hope may even define what it means to be human. It is such a visceral emotion that it can be even more enduring than love. For when love fails, the hope for love can endure.Three individuals, eagerly pursuing their own version of hope, arrive on the idyllic island of Owls Nest. Believing they will find hope through the others, they soon learn that they must find it alone.Sitting alone on the funeral parlors porch, Beth Morgan slowly...

From author Charlie Jane Anders comes a Tor.com Original, Six Months, Three Days, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette.Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can't both be right, but over and over again, they are.Obviou...