Product Description: Scotland's mountains and glens retain the secrets of a long and frequently violent geological history that has gone into their making. Volcanoes have played a major role in the creation of Scotland, and while the youngest - a mere 60,000,000 years old - were responsible for much of the scenic splendor of the Inner Hebrides, the rocks composing many of the famous Scottish landforms - such as those of Glencoe and Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh - are also the direct result of volcanism...read more

Product Description: A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees...read more

Product Description: Looking at Edinburgh Castle, it is easy to appreciate that it embodies a thousand year's worth of history. By investigation of soils and erosional features, we can extend Edinburgh's history back to the end of the ice-ages, and the movements of glaciers across the region can also be discerned...read more

Product Description: The Scottish Borders region is famed for its frontier history and its myths and ballads. This book - now available in paperback - concerns the much more ancient geological history revealed by its rocks. The authors tell how the once great ocean of Iapetus met its end through the inexorable motion of the tectonic plates that brought continental masses on a collision course...read more