Recent Acquisitions (August 08)

 

In support of learning and teaching, and in support of the development of reading for pleasure, more than 500 items were added to the library collection between July 2007 and June 2008.

 

The following is a selected list of the complete new acquisitions list.  All materials are available for loan.

 

Planning for the Future

UCAS open days 2008

Getting into veterinary school

UCAS Scottish guide 2008

Veterinary science: for all walks of life (DVD)

UCAS big guide for entry to university & college 2008

Getting into medical school

Getting into art & design courses

Biomedical admissions test

Getting into Oxford & Cambridge

 


 

Personal Development Skills for young people

 Mind maps for kids: max your memory and concentration, by Tony Buzan

The seven habits of highly effective teenagers: personal workbook

Is anyone's family as mad as mine? a survival guide for teenagers

Life strategies for teens

Just us girls: secrets to feeling good about yourself, inside and out

 

Balfron High School

Balfron High School yearbook, 2007-2008 session

Balfron High School: HMIe inspection progress report (May 2007)


 
Biography

 Moving mountains: Claire Bertschinger

Into the wild, by Jon Krakauer

 Benazir Bhutto: an autobiography

Humble Pie: my autobiography, Gordon Ramsay

 On the edge: my story: Richard Hammond

Lucky, by Alice Sebold


 

Business Management, Computing

Questions in Standard Grade Business Management

Standard Grade General & Credit: Business Management, past papers

Higher Business management: official SQA past papers

SCHOLAR: SQA Advanced Higher Computing Studies, unit 1&2 (2007 ed.)

How to pass higher computing

Higher Computing: official SQA past papers

Standard Grade Computing Studies

 

Creative, Expressive & Performing Arts, including Design

Through the looking glass: a history of dress from 1860 to the present day

20th century fashion: the complete sourcebook

The world of masks

Wedding dress 1740-1970 (from the Victoria & Albert Museum)

Native American arts and crafts

The Arts and Crafts Movement

Art Nouveau: paintings, jewellery, bric-a-brac, sculpture, architecture

Art deco source book

Bauhaus source book: Bauhaus style and its worldwide influence

The great Japan exhibition: art of the Edo Period 1600-1868

Contemporary architects

The atlas of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (Architecture in focus)

Henry Moore

Drawing techniques: pen, charcoal and ink (The art of drawing)

Drawing hands & feet: form, proportions, gestures and actions (The art of drawing)

Drawing portraits: faces and figures (The art of drawing)

Drawing the clothed figure: portraits of people in everyday life (The art of drawing)

Drawing scenery: landscapes, seascapes and buildings (The art of drawing)

How to draw a woman in an evening dress

How to draw manga: monsters

Henry Moore's sheep sketchbook

Drawing: seeing and observing

Draw desert animals

American folk art

The book of Kells

Avantgarde design 1880-1930

Twentieth century design classics: from the Anglepoise lamp to the Zippo lighter

The art of calligraphy

The Conran directory of design

Kaffe Fassett at the V&A: knitting and needlepoint

A complete guide to creative embroidery: designs, textures, stitches

Batik: get started in a new craft....

The Pre-Raphaelites (Investigating artforms)

The art of Louis Comfort Tiffany

Masterpiece paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The post-impressionists

Norman Rockwell, illustrator

History of Western American art

David Hockney (Art & Design)

Turner: later works: the later works of JMW Turner

Turner: early works: the early works of JMW Turner

Adrian Wiszniewski: painting and drawings

Leonardo Da Vinci (Scientists who made history)

Salvador Dali 1904-1989

Picasso (First impressions)

Images of war: British posters 1939-45

M.C. Escher: works of art

Japanese prints (Poster art) 

New Design [Magazine]

Millais: September 2007 - January 2008 (Tate Britain Museum exhibit booklet)

How to read a film : the art, technology, language, history and theory of film and media

Film & genre

Moving images in the classroom: a secondary teachers' guide to using film & television

 

English Literature

English inside the black box: assessment for learning in the English classroom

 Speeches that changed the world: the stories and transcripts of the moments that made history

100 must-read classic novels (2006)

Good fiction guide: 4000 great books to read (2005)

 How to study a poet

Studying the novel: an introduction

Dictionary of classical, Biblical & literary allusions

The Columbia anthology of American poetry

The complete poems of Emily Dickinson

Winter trees: poems from the last year of Sylvia Plath's life

Our town: a play in three acts

The novels of John Steinbeck: a critical study

Jack Kerouac: novelist of the beat generation

Salinger: a critical and personal portrait

The hat: poetry of Carol Ann Duffy

Station Island: poetry of Seamus Heaney

The nation's favourite love poems: a selection of romantic verse

The Faber book of ballads

The nation's favourite poems of childhood

Penguin modern poets 4: Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Sharon Olds

Philip Larkin: the poems (Longman critical essays)

New connections: plays for young people (2008)

Shakespeare: the world as a stage

Health and disease (Shakespeare's world)

Crime and punishment (Shakespeare's world)

Daily life (Shakespeare's world)

Theatre and entertainment (Shakespeare's world)

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "Sunset Song": notes

 Angela Carter's book of fairy tales

The melancholy death of oyster boy and other stories, by Tim Burton

The bloody chamber and other stories, by Angela Carter

Damage land: new Scottish gothic fiction

We can remember it for you wholesale (collected short stories, volume 5), Philip K. Dick

Health & Well-being, Sports & Fitness

Physical education: Standard Grade & Intermediate 1, course notes

Questions in Standard Grade & Intermediate 1 Physical Education (2007)

The young rugby player

Skilful squash

Learn golf in a weekend

The complete encyclopedia of Formula One

John Bailey's complete guide to fishing: the fish, the tackle, the techniques

Wok & stir-fry: a guide to quick healthy cooking

Shish mahal cook book

Olive oil (Eyewitness companions)

French cheeses (Eyewitness companions)

Vinegar: 1001 practical uses

 

Mathematics, Sciences

Intermediate 2 Maths: official SQA past papers

Advanced Higher Mathematics: official SQA past papers

Higher Maths revision notes

Mathematics inside the black box: assessment for learning in the mathematics classroom

GCSE AQA science: the revision guide

GCSE AQA science: the work book, higher level

Supermagnets: exploring the properties and use of rare earth magnets

QTC: a remarkable new material to control electricity

 Forensic science (Eyewitness guides)
 4000 more things you should know: science, buildings & transport, geography, plants

Great scientists (Eyewitness guides)

Galileo (Great lives)

Isaac Newton (great scientists)

Thomas Edison (great scientists)

Marie Curie (Great lives)

 Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine (Graphic library)
 Benjamin Franklin (great scientists)
 Rosalind Franklin (Scientists who made history)

Louis Pasteur (great scientists)

Charles Darwin (Spilling the beans on...)

Climate change (Eyewitness guide)

Plants and people (Looking at plants)

Wild flowers of Britain

Field guide to the trees and shrubs of Britain

Animals (1000 facts)

Bug athletes (Bug zone)

Waterbugs (Bug zone)

Bugs that build (Bugs that build)

Worms (Looking at minibeasts)

Crabs and crustaceans (Looking at minibeasts)

Insects (1000 facts)

Ladybirds and beetles (Looking at minbeasts)

Birds (Usborne spotter's guides)

Insect eaters (Looking at small mammals)

Multislice CT imaging

Toshiba Medical Systems Journal

Finding out about animals in medicines research

Medicine now (Tomorrow's science)

Dog (Eyewitness guides)

Marley & me: the biography of a dog

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the personal computer

The Wright Brothers (great scientists)

I know you got soul: machines with that certain something, by Jeremy Clarkson

On cars, by Jeremy Clarkson

Born to be riled, by Jeremy Clarkson

Motorworld, by Jeremy Clarkson

The Independent environmental map of the world  [Poster]

Forensic science (Eyewitness guide) [Poster]

Great scientists (Eyewitness guides) [Poster]

The periodic table of elements [Poster]

Crystal & gem (Eyewitness guide) [Poster]

Climate change (Eyewitness guide) [Poster]

Pond life

Rockpool life

An easy guide to forest trees and their uses [Poster]

The tree name trail: a key to common trees [Poster]

Creepy-crawlies

British moths

Britain's butterflies

Bats and people (Natural Heritage and the Law)

Standard Grade Physics

How to pass higher physics

Higher Physics revision notes

Questions in Standard Grade Physics

Answers to revision questions for Higher Chemistry

Revision notes for Higher Chemistry

Assessment tests for Higher Chemistry

Revision questions for Higher Chemistry

Higher Chemistry: test your higher chemistry calculations

Test your higher chemistry calculations

Standard Grade Chemistry (Success guides)

Standard Grade Credit Chemistry: official SQA past papers

Higher Chemistry: official SQA past papers

Standard Grade General Chemistry: past papers

Standard Grade Credit Biology: official SQA past papers

Higher Biology revision notes

 

Mythology & Legends

The legend of Odysseus

Greek gods (Poster)

Scottish myths and legends

Greek monsters [Poster]


 

 Modern Languages

German for beginners

Standard Grade French (success guides)

Very simple Japanese

Higher French: official SQA past papers with answers

 

Religion & Spirituality

The universe in a single atom: how science and spirituality can serve our world, by the Dalai Lama
The book of Celtic saints

 

Social Subjects, Travel

American slavery 1619-1877

Free at last: a history of the Civil Rights movement...

The no-nonsense guide to fair trade

Bravo two zero: the true story of an SAS patrol behind the lines in Iraq

Long way down: John O' Groats to Cape Town, by Ewan McGregor

Hannah's gift: lessons from a life fully lived

Titanic: an Edwardian girl's diary 1912 (My story)

Pirate (Eyewitness guide)

The Roman cookery book

Speeches that changed the world: the stories and transcripts of the moments that made history

Freaky peaks (Horrible geography)

Explorer (Eyewitness guide)

Titanic (Eyewitness guide)

The Lake District: a celebration of Cumbria

Prague (Lonely planet guide, condensed)

Paris (Eyewitness travel guide)

Rome (Insight compact guide)

Barcelona (Rough guide)

Sweden (Lonely planet guide)

Brussels, Bruges, Ghent & Antwerp (Eyewitness travel guide)

Mongolia (Lonely planet survival kit)

For a pagan song: in the footsteps of the man who would be king: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

Welcome to Iran (Welcome to my country)

Iraq (Countries in the news)

Seven years in Tibet

Silk dreams, troubled road: love and war on the Old Silk Road, on horseback through Central Asia

Bali & Lombok: travel survival kit

Running with the moon: a boy's own adventure, riding a motorbike through Africa

New York (Eyewitness travel guide)

Down under, by Bill Bryson

Princess of Egypt: an Egyptian girl's diary 1490 BC (My story)

Pyramid (Eyewitness guide)

Tutankhamun and his tombful of treasure (Horribly famous)

Ancient Egypt [Poster]

The rotten Romans (Horrible histories)

Pompeii: a Roman girl's diary AD 78-79 (My story)

The groovy Greeks (Horrible histories)

World War I (Eyewitness guide)

Road to war: a First World War girl's diary 1916-1917 (My story)

The trenches: a First World War soldier 1914-1918 (My story)

Life on the Home Front (Journeys into the past)

Battle of Britain: a Second World War spitfire pilot 1939-1941 (My story)

The Great Plague: the diary of Alice Paynton, London 1665-1666 (My story)

Mill girl: a Victorian girl's diary 1842-1843 (My story)

Blitz: a wartime girl's diary 1940-1941 (My story)

Times Past: the story of Glasgow

The hunger: an Irish girl's diary 1845-1847 (My story)

To kill a queen: an Elizabethan girl's diary 1583-1586 ( My story)

Bloody Tower: a Tudor girl's diary 1553-1559 (My story)

The Weimar Republic

Imperial and Weimar Germany 1890-1933 (History at source)

Weimar and the rise of Hitler

The Weimar Republic: the crisis of classical modernity

Nazi youth and the Weimar republic

Holocaust Memorial Day: imagine reflect, react (2008)

Standard Grade History (Success guides)

Standard Grade General & Credit History: past papers

Higher Modern Studies: official SQA past papers with answers

Higher History: official SQA past papers 

Standard Grade Modern Studies: course notes

Geography inside the black box: assessment for learning in the geography classroom

Geography: Standard Grade bitesize revision 

How to pass higher geography

Standard Grade Geography (Success guides)

Higher Geography: official SQA past papers

Standard Grade General & Credit Geography, past papers

 

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