Making Managers

GORDON, COLIN

Handy, Charles

GOW, Ian

Randlesome, Colin

Pearson Professional Education

<div>This&nbsp;is&nbsp;the first fully revised&nbsp;and expanded&nbsp;guide to&nbsp;the buildings of&nbsp;Lothian&nbsp;since Colin McWilliam's pioneering volume of 1978, with&nbsp;new colour photography, maps and plans&nbsp;to accompany the unrivalled coverage of the area. Lothian surrounds&nbsp;the capital city of Edinburgh, which has done much to influence the character of its buildings.&nbsp;Among these are some important medieval relics, including the internationally-famous Rosslyn Chapel,&nbsp;the royal Renaissance palace at Linlithgow and&nbsp;the ruins of great castles and tower houses. Among major country houses, none are more splendid than Hopetoun and the ducal seat of Dalkeith Palace but Lothian also has the extraordinarily well-preserved Newhailes and mighty Gosford House. This is also an area of picturesque small towns and resorts along the Firth of Forth with outstanding villas for the Edwardian elite, and rural villages of unspoiled character, preserving remains of their agricultural heritage. The industrial legacy is important, including not only one of the most complete collieries in Scotland but also the world-famous Forth Rail Bridge. This&nbsp;volume is an essential reference for visitors and residents alike.</div>

Lothian (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)

Travel

Tabraham, Chris

McWilliam, Colin

MacKechnie, Aonghus

Geddes, Jane

Europe

Yale University Press

This book is a biography of a remarkable Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact with a gift and passion for languages and mathematics. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work as a printer, playing an important role in the production and distribution of a new Chinese translation of the Bible; as a teacher, translating into Chinese key western texts in science and mathematics including Newton and Euclid and publishing the first Chinese textbooks on modern symbolic algebra, calculus and astronomy; and as a writer in English and an internationally recognised major sinologist, bringing to the West much knowledge of China and contributing extensively to the development of British sinology. The book concludes with an overall evaluation of Wylie's contribution to knowledge transfer to and from China, noting the imbalance between the significant corpus of scholarly work specifically on Wylie by Chinese scholars in Chinese and the lack of academic studies by western scholars in English.

Two-Way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China: The Scottish Missionary-Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815–1887) (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Reference

Routledge

This study chronicles World War II's last great battle, one of its fiercest and most costly, and propounds the view that Okinawa's numerous casualties influenced the American decision to use the atomic bomb

Okinawa 1945: Gateway to Japan

History

Asia

DOUBLEDAY

Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics: Admiral Kato Kanji and the 'Washington System' (Japan Library)

This is a study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (Navy) relations and on the professional and political career of one leading naval figure, Admiral Kato Kanji (1873-1939). In this re-appraisal of Kato's career, the author challenges the conventional and negative interpretation of both Kato's role in the naval politics and factions within the Imperial Navy, utilizing Kato's involvement in the domestic political debate as a focal device for studying two key areas of Japanese civil-military relations: civilian control and the phenomenon of massive, overt naval intervention in domestic politics.

Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics (Japan Library)

This is a study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (Navy) relations and on the professional and political career of one leading naval figure, Admiral Kato Kanji (1873-1939). In this re-appraisal of Kato's career, the author challenges the conventional and negative interpretation of both Kato's role in the naval politics and factions within the Imperial Navy, utilizing Kato's involvement in the domestic political debate as a focal device for studying two key areas of Japanese civil-military relations: civilian control and the phenomenon of massive, overt naval intervention in domestic politics.

This illustrated volume attempts to bring together all surviving visual records of Scottish interior design through the ages. It uses both drawings and early photographs to provide an example of interior furnishings from private homes and cottages, to hotels and castles.

Scottish Interior: Georgian and Victorian Decor : A Visual Anthology of the Domestic Room in Scotland Culled Principally from the Collections of the

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Edinburgh Univ Pr

This new illustrated paperback edition examines the Scottish country house in all its guises--from great classical houses like Hopetoun, to familiar castles such as Glamis and Craigievar--as well as giving insights into the architects who designed them, including William and Robert Adam, Sir John James Burnet and Sir William Bruce.

Scottish Country Houses, 1600-1914

Rowan, Alistair

Edinburgh University Press

Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics: Admiral Kato Kanji and the 'Washington System'

Scotland's Lost Houses

In terms of architectural heritage, perhaps nothing is more poignant than the ruination of a once-grand house. Since 1945, it has been estimated, over 200 of Scotland’s major houses have been lost. The reasons for the losses vary, whether fire, dry rot, or demolition when costs become prohibitive. Fortunately, photographs remain as a remarkable, often eerie record of these great houses. Sometimes, as with the magnificent photos of Hamilton Palace, they provide a fitting testimony to an architectural masterpiece. In other cases, as with Murthly, the unique pictorial record is a painstaking—and heartbreaking—sequence of photos taken of the dynamiting of this beautiful property. Ian Gow, Curator of the National Trust for Scotland and one of the country’s most eminent architectural historians, has selected 20 of its most important lost houses, placing them in the context of an entire era of destruction.

Aurum Press

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