'A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.' Daily Telegraph A gripping, shocking story of history, enlightement and slavery from the bestselling author of THE FANATIC. JOSPEH KNIGHT confirms James Robertson as one of our foremost novelists. Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter. In the 1770s, he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish the family name. He brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave and a token of his years in the Caribbean. Now, in 1802, Sir John Wedderburn is settling his estate, and has hired a solicitor's agent, Archibald Jamieson, to search for his former slave. The past has haunted Wedderburn ever since Culloden, and ever since he last saw Knight, in court twenty-four years ago, in a case that went to the heart of Scottish society, pitting master against slave, white against black, and rich against poor. As long as Knight is missing, Wedderburn will never be able to escape the past. Yet what will he do if Jamieson's search is successful? And what effect will this re-opening of old wounds have on those around him? Meanwhile, as Jamieson tries to unravel the true story of Joseph Knight he begins to question his own motivation. How can he possibly find a man who does not want to be found? James Robertson's second novel is a tour de force, the gripping story of a search for a life that stretches over sixty years and moves from battlefields to the plantations of Jamaica, from Enlightenment Edinburgh to the back streets of Dundee. It is a moving narrative of history, identity and ideas, that dramatically retells a fascinating but forgotten episode of Scottish history.

Joseph Knight

Literature & Fiction

Robertson, James

Contemporary

Fourth Estate Ltd.

A portrait of Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson traces his life from his humble beginnings through his military career, to his untimely death in 1863

Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

History

Americas

Macmillan Library Reference

This handbook covers all aspects of the forensic examination of fibres, from factors affecting deposition to the collection of evidence at the scene of the crime, the recovery of fibres in the forensic laboratory, and the technologies used to establish their origin and identity. Emphasis is placed on the practical applications of technology - such as chromatography, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry - to the analysis of fibres. The theory underlying the manufacture of fibres and their properties is also demonstrated.

Forensic Examination of Fibres, Second Edition (International Forensic Science and Investigation)

Science & Math

Roux, Claude

Wiggins, Kenneth G.

Chemistry

CRC-Press

Agile business analysis, agile development. Now you can have both.Business Analysis Agility, written by two of the most renowned experts in the BA field, shows you a modern, more nimble approach to delivering solutions that precisely match the real needs of the customers. The book shows you how to: <ul>
<li>Make agile development better </li>
<li>Make business analysis better </li>
<li>Solve the right problem -- get the right result </li>
<li>Don't waste time on things nobody will use </li>
<li>Integrate business analyst with agile development</li>
</ul>Despite our technological advances, the biggest problem is still the human one: how to correctly understand the customer's real problem, and how to ensure that your solution is correctly solving that problem.<ul>
<li>Finding the customer or user segments, and which of them yields the best, and the earliest value </li>
<li>Using value propositions to uncover the real needs of the customers</li>
<li>Using safe-to-fail probes to ensure that any proposed solution solves the right problem and delivers the right value. </li>
<li>Deploying an iterative approach to discovering the real problem, and progressively feeding the right stories to the delivery activity. </li>
<li>Understanding that by discovering the right needs and solving the right problem you deliver real value to your customer and your sponsor. </li>
<li>Doing all this quickly </li>
</ul>The Robertsons' approach to analytical thinking is crucial to anyone who wants to build better software in agile environments: analysts, developers, team leads, project managers, software architects, and other team members and stakeholders at most levels of experience.

Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software

Business & Money

Robertson, Suzanne

Management & Leadership

Addison-Wesley Professional

Mastering the Requirements Process

Computers & Technology

Reed, Adrian

Programming

1st edition Penguin 2007 trade paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Testament of Gideon Mack

Penguin??Books

Penguin

Testament of Gideon Mack

"Who am I? I am Gideon Mack, time-server, charlatan, hypocrite, God's grovelling apologist; the man who saw the stone, the man that was drowned and that the waters gave back, the mad minister who met with the Devil and lived to tell the tale" 
Gideon Mack, an errant Church of Scotland minister, doesn't believe in God, the Devil or an afterlife. From the moment he discovers a mysterious standing stone, his life unravels dramatically until he is swept into a river and carried through a deep chasm underground. Miraculously, Mack emerges three days later, battered but alive. He seems, however, to have lost his mind, since he claims to have been rescued and restored to the world by the Devil. Mixing fantasy, legend and history with a wealth of insight about religion, belief and culture, The Testament of Gideon Mack is an ambitious, mesmerizing novel that combines superlative storytelling with immense imaginative power.

Penguin Canada

A critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called the Black Jaws, he is presumed dead. Three days later, however, he emerges bruised but alive-and insistent that his rescuer was Satan himself. Against the background of an incredulous world, Mack's disturbing odyssey and the tortuous life that led to it create a mesmerizing meditation on faith, mortality, and the power of the unknown.

Literary

Written by two internationally acclaimed experts on requirements, Mastering the Requirements Process provides software engineers with the practical insights, techniques and templates to discover exactly what their customers desire for their systems. It also explains how to implement an easily learned, ongoing forma requirements process which allows the requirements to evolve over the life time of the project. Using this book you will learn how to ask the right questions, how to determine whether or not the final solution will satisfy the requirements, how to fit the solution to the requirements to provide high quality products and even how to reuse requirements. The result is, systems that the user loves to use!

Addison-Wesley (Sd)

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