Midpoint Trade Books: 136 books
by Facing History and Ourselves Facing History and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War details the events unfolding in China and Japan in the years leading up to World War II in East Asia, and the Japanese occupation of the city of Nanjing, China, in 1937. Following our guiding scope and sequence, and including a foreword by Benjamin Ferencz, a...
by Barrington, John
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This work looks at the everyday life of John Barrington, a shepherd to over 750 Blackface ewes who graze near some of Britain's most beautiful hills overlooking Loch Katrine.
by Roger Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
On 26 November 2008, India came under a series of horrific terrorist attacks which killed more than 150 people, and injured hundreds more. Scottish banker Roger Hunt was staying at the Oberoi Trident Hotel in Mumbai and found himself caught up in the siege. Trapped in his hotel room, defenceless against...
A Model Constitution for Scotland
Making Democracy Work in an Independent State
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
A Model Constitution for Scotland sets out a workable model for Scotland's future and includes detailed constitutional proposals and informed discussion on the topic. The independence debate has to break out of political elites and address the 'after independence' question. Elliot Bulmer's book is an...
by Dilys Rose
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Pelmanism Noun [mass noun] - a system of memory training - a card game in which matching pairs must be selected from memory from cards laid face down A young woman steps reluctantly from the train platform, arriving to visit the estranged father she has been running from for over two years. What follows...
Scotland The Growing Divide
Old Nation, New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Scotland: The Growing Divide is the follow-up to Scotland: The Road Divides, which was released in 2007 to significant media interest across the UK. A book ahead of its time, several of the conclusions and predictions in The Road Divides have now become a political reality. Five years on, and now facing...
Charlie, Meg and Me
An epic 530 mile walk recreating Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape after the disaster of Culloden
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
For the first time, Bonnie Prince Charlie's arduous escape of 1746 has been recreated in a single journey. The author, along with his faithful border collie Meg, retraces the Prince's epic 530 mile walk through remote wilderness, hidden glens, modern day roads and uninhabited islands. Gregor Ewing tells...
Rethinking Our Politics
The political and constitutional future of Scotland and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
As the Scotland electorate wakes up in the day after the referendum, everything has changed and nothing has changed. Scottish and UK politics is broken, it desperately needs fixed. The future of Scotland will be centre stage, but so will our democracy and the future of a Union in decline.Our politics...
On the Trail of King Arthur
A Journey into Dark Age Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Crichton's bilingual French-English text draws on Mackintosh's own letters and journals to offer some touching insights into the restorative capacities of both travel and art.
Hot Stuff
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
An attractive sous chef at the famous restaurant L'Elfe Is murdered and half of the employees are suspect. The lack of police progress toward solving the murder leads Chef Jean Bouvier to seek a quicker solution. He hires private eyes James Lessor and Skip Moore to go undercover and discreetly investigate...
by Bruns, Don
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs, still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, and still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when James lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for...
The Glass Half Full
Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In The Glass Half Full, filmmaker Eleanor Yule and academic David Manderson identify cultural miserablism as an important aspect of Scottish life. Yule and Manderson explore where this bleak take on Scottish life came from, its literary and cultural expressions, and in particular, identify this phenomenon...
by Robert Alan Jamieson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
An experimental novel on a grand scale, beautifully carried through. A Perth minister takes in a traumatised stranger who calls himself 'the son and heir to being lost'. When the stranger disappears, the events leading up to and following on from this are revealed. Shifting perspectives from a contemporary...
Voicing Scotland
Culture and Tradition in a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Voicing Scotland takes the reader on a discovery tour through Scotland