Product Description: How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation of social and cultural capital? By synthesizing insights across a variety of disciplines, this book builds an original theoretical perspective through which these and other questions about core social processes can be addressed...read more

Product Description: Bonnie Prince Charlie is one of the best-known and romantic names in Scottish and British history. As with so many legends, the truth is often obscure and the debate continues to rage over questions of his plans to become Charles III, his wish to make Britain a Catholic country, the battle of Culloden, France’s role in the ’45 Rebellion, whether he ultimately proved to be a coward and how he met his end...read more

Product Description: How did Christianity come to Scotland? A sixteen-hundred-year-old fog of mystery separates us from the dawn of Christianity in Scotland – but there are some intriguing signposts. Roderick Graham’s thorough research challenges the myths...read more

Product Description: No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of 'Age of Elegance' than Robert Adam (1728–92), the pre-eminent architect of his day whose expertise and imagination extended also to interior design, furniture and garden design...read more

Product Description: This complete life story of David Hume, one of Scotland’s greatest thinkers, follows the Enlightenment from its early roots to its full blossoming in 18th-century Edinburgh. Using original sources, many for the first time, this biography details every aspect of the philosopher’s life—from the lukewarm reception of his now pivotal work, Treatise of Human Nature, to the fame and near excommunication brought about by his famous Essays and History...read more

This book is the story of the life of David Hume, one of Scotland's greatest men. Through Hume's life, we are shown the Enlightenment from its roots through its sometimes difficult growth to its flowering in 18th-century Edinburgh.