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Accurate and detailed step-by-step guidance on the design and construction of a wide range of timber staircases The only book that both describes and demonstrates every technique, skill and project Features the 'Rise & Going Calculator' - a colourful, easy-to-read chart which aids stair calculations

Major new text which provides the state-of-the-art on laser scanning technology. Includes a wide range of applications.

Considers a number of issues affecting ungulates and their management in different parts of Europe and evaluates effective management solutions. Draws on expertise from across Europe with a truly multi-national list of international experts in the field. Provides an up-to-date synthesis of topics and an authoritative review of literature.

Explores the extraordinary range of monuments and memorials to be found in Scotland. Covers over 500 monuments and memorials which range from follies to fountains and from delicate sundials to colossal statues of long-dead aristocracy.

As a sequel to the earlier Life in Lethinnis, this book provides a further series of stories about life on a remote West Highland croft.

Stunning photographs of coast, sea and wildlife by an award-winning natural history photographer. Discover the little-known and dramatic coastline of Caithness

A compelling history of the lives of five Scottish medical explorers set in the context of British dominance in exploration. It opens a new and enlightening window on this great era of exploration.

A powerful and truly shocking story of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August, 2021. It reveals the challenges, difficult decisions and conditions in Kabul during the horrific final days and the evacuation from Kabul airport.

Explores the achievements of some of Britain's most innovative engineers, traces the links betwen them and how their ideas collectively created 'modern Britain'. It's an engaging and profusely illustrated introduction to the men who made it all happen.

Inspiration for returning through the seasons to better appreciate the nature Edinburgh and the Lothians has to offer. Features carefully researched nature connection walks in and around Edinburgh.

Features histories of some great ships, including the two largest and most powerful ocean-going salvage tugs of the day. Includes the decline of the last shipbuilder at Leith and accounts of the industrial unrest and strife.

Peter Clutterbuck recounts his lifelong experience and love of adventure as he crosses oceans, mountain ranges and continents. This is an astonishing story of risk, jeopardy, achievement and wonder.

This consolidated reference book will be of immense value to maritime researchers, and anyone interested in shipping and maritime/military history.

A trade union and maritime history with lessons for today. It is also the story of how maritime professionals have worked together, across national borders, to develop specialist services and support and build pioneering methods of representation and negotiation in a globalised industry.

The autobiography of an individualistic, larger-than-life sailor who lived by his wits. An insightful and unusual look at the development of two navies - the Royal Navy 1889-1913, and the Royal Australian Navy 1913-22

This is a personal journey by sea kayak into the heart of the sea roads that make up our Scottish Highlands and islands. It's a story of enlightenment, an opening of heart and mind to the wonders and challenges of living and working on our remote Scottish Highland shores.

An overview of landscape change in the Scottish Highlands over the millennia and its continuing change. It analyses and challenges the common view that the Highlands were deforested by people.

A tribute to the intertwined story of the Swedish and British Navies over 500 years of extraordinary events in the Baltic region.

This is an unusual and lyrical account of birds that stresses their importance to people, resulting in more attention and kindness to birds. It includes an interesting selection of myths and facts for bird-lovers.

Marvels at the intrepid qualities of the various visitors to this then unknown region and provides impressions of what it was like, as seen through their eyes. Provides an illuminating and entertaining account of how the Far North was revealed through early travellers.

An instantly usable handbook and guide to profitable use of metocean data which provides a better understanding of Metocean and how optimum use of data and information can benefit offshore renewables and oil & gas activities

This is a harrowing account of what drives a man to flee his home country in fear of his life, the trauma of refugee camps and the dangers he faces even when he reaches the sanctuary of the West.

The second in a series of four books about the almost forgotten part played by Leith in our truly great maritime heritage.

A descriptive, uplifting journey into the often surprising world of vultures, a fascinating look at the lives of Europe's, and the world's, vultures.

This provides essential information about subsea rock installation for operators in the oil, gas and renewable sectors and an invaluable guide for all staff to appreciate the elements of SRI.

The fifth of a series of meetings devoted to the science of this extensively used special cement.

This is a revised and updated 3rd edition which incorporates changes in the national and international standards. It is a highly-acclaimed practical guide to the engineering geological description of soils and rocks in the field and is the definitive work by an acknowledged expert.