Product Description: From the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, historian and author Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish nation. As well as focusing on key moments in the nation’s history such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite Risings, Moffat also features other episodes in history that are perhaps less well documented...read more

Product Description: The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognized by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it divides the country both geologically and culturally, signalling the border between highland and lowland, Celtic and English-speaking, crofting and farming...read more

Product Description: As Hawick celebrates the 500th anniversary of the fight at Hornshole, the first stirrings of the defining traditions of the common riding, Alistair Moffat takes the narrative much further back into the mists of prehistory to the time of the Romans, the coming of the Angles, and the Normans...read more

Product Description: The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat, and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep...read more

Product Description: Bestselling author Alistair Moffat offers fresh insights into one of the most famous battles in history: Bannockburn. As 8,000 Scottish solders, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers, and mounted knights on the morning of Sunday 23 June 1314, many would have thought the result a foregone conclusion...read more

Product Description: Compression and Coding Algorithms describes in detail the coding mechanisms that are available for use in data compression systems. The well known Huffman coding technique is one mechanism, but there have been many others developed over the past few decades, and this book describes, explains and assesses them...read more

Product Description: The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain: it divides the country both geologically and culturally, signaling the border between Highland and Lowland, Celtic and English-speaking, crofting and farming. In Britain’s Last Frontier bestselling author Alistair Moffat makes a journey of the imagination, tracing the route of the Line from the River Clyde through Perthshire and the Northeast...read more

Product Description: History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us...read more

Product Description: Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent and impervious...read more

Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its spell over the British. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art, architecture, superb natural beauty and weather—not to mention magnificent traditions of food and drink—British visitors and residents have been at times so numerous that the local word for foreigners was simply 'gli inglesi'—'the English'. Currently over 10,000 Britons live there, not to mention the huge numbers who travel there for holidays. What is it that makes this exquisite part of Italy so seductive? To answer this question Alistair Moffat embarks on a journey into Tuscany's past. From the flowering of the Etruscan civilization in the seventh century BC through the rise of the powerful medieval communes of Arezzo, Luca, Pisa and Florence, and the role the area played as the birthplace of the Renaissance, he underlines both the area's regional uniqueness as well as the vital role it has played in the history of the whole of Italy. Insightful, readable and imbued with the author's own enthusiasm for Tuscany, this book includes a wealth of information not found in tourist guides, and is the only modern history of the area available in English.

Product Description: This story of early Scotland begins 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when the familiar Scottish geography of mountains, glens, and rugged coasts evolved. It follows the movement of hunter-gatherers north, the growth of fishing, the establishment of farming...read more

Product Description: Alistair Moffat's journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives today...read more

Tells the tale of how Tyneside was made, and how it came to look, sound and behave the way it does. This book ranges from the retreat of the icefields, through the coming of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and the glories of Northumbria, to the growth of the Industrial Revolution, the trials of the football team and the renewals of the 21st century.

Moffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, argueing that he was not a king but a cavalry general chosen around 500AD to lead a coalition army. The key to Moffat's thesis lies in place-names and their derivation, and that the lost medieval city of Roxburgh and its castle were Arthur's Camelot.

The end result of applying the techniques described here is a computer system that can store millions of documents, and retrieve the documents that contain any given combination of keywords in a matter of seconds or fractions of a second. Written for an eclectic audience of information professionals and for graduate courses. Sections for technically or theoretically oriented readers can be skipped by others without loss of continuity. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This paperback edition of Mackintosh's first biography conveys an authentic and intimate portrait of the man behind the achievement.