James Robertson: 41 books
Who Built Scotland
25 Journeys In Search Of A Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
‘a fine picture of our strange and varied country’ Scotsman
‘edifying and revelatory’ Herald
‘an epic love story to Scotland’ Courier
‘by turns inspiring and fascinating … a book that gives context to the Scotland we see around us today’ Undiscovered Scotland
‘a...
The Casablanca Man
The Cinema of Michael Curtiz
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which...
The Hidden Cinema
British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
How does film censorship work in Britain? Jim Robertson's new paperback edition of The Hidden Cinema argues that censorship has had a far greater influence on British film history than is often apparent, creating the `hidden cinema' of the title. Robertson charts the role of the British Board of Film...
Business Analysis Agility
Solve the Real Problem, Deliver Real Value
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Understand and Solve Your Customers’ Real Problems with Agile Business Analysis
To deliver real value, you must understand what your customers truly value, and solve the problems they really need solved. Business analysis can help you do this—and it’s as crucial in agile environments...
by James Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Inheriting the tradition of Hugh Miller, the nineteenth century folklorist and stonemason (whose own haunted life is the subject of the opening chapter), James Robertson has, where possible, researched the original or oldest written source and visited the site of each story to compile the most comprehensive...
Republics of the Mind
New and Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The republic of the mind… It might have been a drug, it might have been something you scored in pub toilets, but it wasn't. It was better than that… One day everybody was going to be there.
In this new edition of James Robertson's shorter fiction, nothing is quite what it seems. From a...
by James Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland. It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and a...
by James Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
A critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called...
After the Civil War
The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Returning to the turbulent days of a nation divided, best-selling author and acclaimed historian James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond. Relentless politicians, intrepid fighters, cunning innovators—the times called for bold moves, and...
Transforming Economic Life
A Millennial Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
How can we reshape our economic system?which now transfers wealth from poor to rich, marginalises individuals, communities and cultures, damages the natural environment, and denies all sense of the sacred?so that it will meet the needs of people and the Earth in the 21st century? In this Briefing,...
by Major James Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“Major Robertson is doing a great service to his old comrades in publishing this History of the New Zealand Companies of the Camel Corps. In New Zealand as in Australia, it is only natural that more interest has been shown in the Western theatre of the Great War than in the Eastern theatres as the...
Mastering the Requirements Process
Getting Requirements Right
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
“If the purpose is to create one of the best books on requirements yet written, the authors have succeeded.”
—Capers Jones
Software can solve almost any problem. The trick is knowing what the problem is. With about half of all software errors originating in the requirements activity,...
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The Professor of Truth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A literary spellbinder about one man’s desperate attempt to deal with grief by unmasking the terrorists responsible for the act that killed his wife and daughter
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Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were killed in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, English lecturer Alan Tealing...