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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this—and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given.Tephe knows from the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It’s what he doesn’t know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultim...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did — how I did what I had to do — no...

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put...

A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city -- for the undead!Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book editor in the tourist-centric New York City. After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position though, Zoe is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her resume -- human.Not to be put off by anything -- espe...