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      • Highline Verlag

        Highline is a young and creative and publisher specializing in high-quality children’s books. The book series „The adventures of little Charlie“ is particularly popular among dog lovers of all ages.

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      • Highlights for Children

        Highlights for Children is a multi-media brand that has nurtured children for more than 70 years. Our books and digital products - puzzles, trade and educational - are devoted to helping children around the world become their best selves.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Martial races

        The military, race and masculinity in British imperial culture, 1857–1914

        by Heather Streets

        This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies - a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire. Martial Races bridges regional studies of South Asia and Britain while straddling the fields of racial theory, masculinity, imperialism, identity politics, and military studies. Of particular importance is the way it exposes the historical instability of racial categories based on colour and its insistence that historically specific ideologies of masculinity helped form the logic of imperial defence, thus wedding gender theory with military studies in unique ways. Moreover, Martial Races challenges the marginalisation of the British Army in histories of Victorian popular culture, and demonstrates the army's enduring impact on the regional cultures of the Highlands, the Punjab and Nepal. This unique study will make fascinating reading for higher level students and experts in imperial history, military history and gender history.

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        Geography & the Environment
        October 2025

        Drifting north

        Finding the future at the top of the world

        by Dominic Hinde

        Scotland's past and future collide in this engaging journey through climate change, fossil capitalism and the struggle for a sustainable world. Scotland's history and future are entangled with climate change and the story of the modern world. This small country on the fringes of northern Europe pioneered fossil capitalism and played a key role in its spread across the planet. It is a living museum of the crisis of the west, of deindustrialisation, stagnation and the struggle to build a better future from the ashes. Journalist and sociologist Dominic Hinde travels from the treeless Highlands to the lowland cities, struggling to balance memories with aspiration. Through this journey he finds that his own sensory turmoil, shaped by recovery from a near fatal accident, mirrors the disarray of the fossil fuel transition - an uncertain passage between what was and what must be. Part memoir, part environmental history, part travelogue, this is a compelling narrative of connections - to place, energy and the possibility of renewal. Through the lens of one country, it asks a vital question: can the lessons of the past help us build a more sustainable future?

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2009

        Emigration from Scotland between the wars

        by Marjory Harper, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

        Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2023

        The supernatural in early modern Scotland

        by Julian Goodare, Martha McGill

        This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.

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        March 2008

        Stern der Highlands

        Er wollte die Freiheit - doch die Liebe legte ihn in Fesseln

        by Ranney, Karen / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgina

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        February 2009

        Fluch der Highlands

        Er war rastlos und wild - doch sie zähmte sein Herz

        by MacGillivray, Deborah / Übersetzt von Sommerfeld, Georgia

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        Scotland

        by Murray Stewart Leith, Duncan Sim

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        Economic history
        July 2000

        Scottish society 1707–1830

        Beyond Jacobitism, t

        by Christopher A. Whatley

        Scottish Society, 1707-1830 challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history.. Argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked.. Contests received wisdom on issues such as the role of the Kirk and other agencies for inculcating order, and argues that the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Scotland were years of upheaval and deep social conflict in both the Highlands and Lowlands, where commercialism and later the market economy revolutionised social relationships.. The period surrounding the Radical War in 1820 is identified as a watershed in Scottish history, almost making but also breaking the Scottish working class.. Not only on an exhaustive reading of secondary material but also incorporates a wealth of new evidence from previously little-used or unused primary sources.

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        September 2025

        Weihnachten in Applemore

        Roman | Knisternd festliche Friends to Lovers-Romance

        by Rachael Lucas, Sabine Schulte

        Winterzauber in den Highlands – Liebe inklusive Ein verschneites Hotel in den schottischen Highlands, eine prominente Braut mit großen Plänen und zwei beste Freunde, die vielleicht mehr füreinander empfinden, als sie ahnen… In dieser festlichen Feelgood-Geschichte liegt Magie in der Luft. Hotelier Harry Robertson ist fest entschlossen, das Applemore Hotel zu einem Erfolg zu machen. Kaum sind die letzten Gäste der Saison abgereist und die Bauarbeiter bereit zum Start, erhält er den Auftrag seines Lebens: eine opulente Weihnachtshochzeit für die berühmte Influencerin Ivy Winter, die sich nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als in dem Hotel zu heiraten, das ihre Großeltern so geliebt haben – und das bitte sofort. Mit Unterstützung seiner besten Freundin Polly, die den Hofladen führt, und einem ganzen Ort, der zusammenhält, scheint das Wunder möglich. Doch als ein plötzlicher Rückschlag alles bedroht, zeigt sich, was wirklich zählt: Freundschaft, Zusammenhalt – und vielleicht sogar die Liebe. Wird dieses Weihnachtsfest auch Harrys und Pollys Leben für immer verändern?

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        February 2013

        Schottland

        by Peter Sager

        Schottland: Das sind die einsamen Highlands, die Festival- und Literaturstadt Edinburgh, an die fünfhundert Inseln der Hebriden und natürlich Glasgow. Peter Sager lässt die schottische Kultur lebendig werden – erzählt von Walter Scotts »Romanfabrik«, der Geschichte des Dudelsacks und begibt sich auf die Spuren Dr. Jekylls & Mr. Hydes.

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