Product Description: Compiling a colorful collection of artistic representations of the myriad bird species found in South Africa, this beautifully illustrated manual celebrates the diverse, fascinating, and unique feathered fauna found in the national park and the adjoining Mpumalanga Province...read more

Product Description: Until the 1960s it was widely believed that people in pre-industrial Britain was born, lived their lives, and died within the confines of small, tight-knit communities which had only limited contacts with the outside world through migration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bringing together material from a wide range of sources, this book offers a balanced appreciation of the ways in which climate changes can interact with society. Presupposing no background in science, it draws on extensive international case studies to put scientific principles into context...read more

Product Description: Bringing together material from a wide range of sources, this book offers a balanced appreciation of the ways in which climate changes can interact with society. Presupposing no background in science, it draws on extensive international case studies to put scientific principles into context...read more

Product Description: This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish experience and that of her neighbours, especially England...read more

Product Description: In 1500, Scotland was a backward, impoverished country with a small population, an undeveloped economy and an indeterminate border with England. By 1800, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing; Scotland had become one of the most highly urbanized countries in Europe and its landscape had been radically altered by agricultural improvement...read more

Product Description: Part of the Landscape Heritage series, this book offers a guide to Edinburgh and the Borders region. It looks at how the landscape of the region has changed, from the legacy of the ice age and the coming of the Romans, up to the present...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the main manoeuvres that took place in Scotland and England between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the authors provide a detailed chronological narrative of places, people and battles...read more