Recent Acquisitions (September 09)

 

In support of learning and teaching, and in support of the development of reading for pleasure,

more than 400 items were added to the library collection between July 2008 and September 2009.

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 2009

Job application handbook

Readymade CVs: sample CVs for every type of job

Degree course offers: guide to entry to UK universities

Choosing your degree course & university (2008)

The Times A-Z of careers & jobs (2008)

Helping you meet the costs of learning: funding for disabled students

Student finance: loans, bursaries, grants, tuition fees and budgeting

Careers in Scotland: occupations, qualifications and full-time courses

 

Biography

The way I see it: a teenager's story of rebuilding her life after cancer

Teacher man: Frank McCourt

Barack Obama: hope for the world

The Oxford children's book of famous people


Creative, Expressive & Performing Arts, including Design

Tatooing (Body art)

The complete book of sewing (2006)

Johann Gutenberg and the printing press (Graphic library)

The Grand Tour and its' influence on architecture and artistic taste

You can draw wild animals

100 years of fashion illustration

Treasures of early Irish art 1500 BC to 1500 AD

Joan Eardley 1921-1963

The family of man (photographic essay)

The story of hip-hop: from Africa to America, Sugarhill to Eminem

31 songs: Hornby

Kristen Stewart: Bella of the ball (an unauthorized biography)

Game design (2004)

Animation: the mechanics of motion (2006)

 

Language & Literature

Eats, shoots and leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
Chambers' Scots dictionary
The sleekit Mr Tod (Scots translation of Fantastic Mr Fox)
The superior person’s book of words

Winnie the Pooh    (Scots translation of Winnie the Pooh)

Critical thinking skills: developing effective analysis and argument

Studying drama: an introduction

How to write better essays (Palgrave study skills)

Essays and dissertations (One step ahead)

In our time: the speeches that shaped the modern world

The rough guide to classic novels: from Don Quixote to American

The Cambridge companion to Sylvia Plath (2008)

Windrush songs (poems on the experience of coming to Britain

Selected poems (of Carol Ann Duffy)

Scanning the century: the Penguin book of the 20th century in poetry

Staying alive: real poems for unreal times

Addressing the bard: twelve contemporary poets respond to Robert Burns

A night out with Robert Burns: the greatest poems

Music of (Robert) Burns [CD-ROM]

The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter

The Homecoming: Harold Pinter

Complete Works Two 1959-1963: Harold Pinter

Othello for A level (Letts explore literature guide)

Scottish plays for schools (2008)


Health & Well-being, Sports & Fitness

Food (Eyewitness guide)

Delicious Magazine, assorted issues from 2008-2009

Caledonian curries: delicious recipes from leading Scottish restaurants

 Weighing it up: a teenager's frank account of her struggle with anorexia

Legends of football

Gerrard: my autobiography

Moments: Christiano Ronaldo

The encyclopedia of Scottish football (2008)

Lewis Hamilton: the full story

Muhammad Ali (book &CD)


 Mathematics, Sciences

Making use of renewable energy

Renewable energy in Scotland: electricity issues

Wind power in the UK: a guide to the key issues surrounding wind power

Stardust: the cosmic recycling of stars, planets and people

QED: the strange theory of light and matter

Deserts [Poster]

Forest (DK Eye Wonder)

Wild woodlands (The natural world)

Louis Pasteur (Lifetimes)

Wildlife at risk: RSPB

Kelp (All about...)

Culpeper's colour herbal

Heathland harvest: the uses of heathland plants through the ages

Scottish wild plants: their history, ecology and conservation

A guide to the identification of deciduous broad-leaved trees and shrubs

Scots pine (All about...)

Collins handguide to the wild animals of Britain and Europe

Animals of the desert (Habitats)

Red deer (All about...)

Otter (All about...)

Pine marten (All about...)

Guide to British butterflies (2009) [Poster]

Six-spot burnet moth (All about...)

Emperor moth (All about...)

Guide to British butterflies (2009) [Poster]

Wood ants (All about...)

Salmon (All about...)

Woodland birds: eight beautiful colour prints of woodland birds

Sparrowhawk (All about...)

Corncrake (All about...)

The flight of the snow goose

Starting life: duck

The life cycle of the common sparrow

Golden eagle (All about...)

White-tailed sea eagles (All about...)

Red squirrel (All about...)

The natural hedgehog

Dolphin ( All about...)

1001 inventions that changed the world

Scotland's inventors (newspaper supplement)

Inventors and innovations (Scotland's heritage, part 4) (poster)

Scottish inventors that have shaped the modern world (poster)

Mary Seacole (Great women leaders)

The human body: upper body [Poster]

The human body: lower body [Poster]

Body image and self-esteem (Issues, 2009)

The alternative power of plants (Seasons, Spring/Summer 2009)

Nature's medicine: plants that heal

Essential guide to natural home remedies


Social Subjects, Travel

Penguin dictionary of sociology (2006)

The freedom writers diary: how a teacher and 150 teens used writing…

Suffragette: the diary of Dollie Baxter, London 1909-1913 (My story)

Freedom or death: Emmeline Pankhurst speech delivered 13/11/1913

The worst jobs in history

The early trade unions [Kit]

Battle rattle: the stuff a solder carries

Seven troop (CD). Andy McNabb

Immediate action, Andy McNabb

The suspicions of Mr Whirter, or the murder at Road Hill House

Burke & Hare, grave-robbers

Slave girl: an African-American girl's diary 1859 (My story)

A royal Christmas in Renaissance Scotland

Black history timeline [set of 6 posters)

 

Intermediate Geography (2nd ed.)

 

The perfect storm: a true story of men against the sea

 

The EU: what's in it for me? (2008 ed.)

 

Hell of a journey: on foot through the Scottish Highlands in winter

 

a'phairc (Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park), July 2009

 

Faroe Islands today (2008)

 

Iran & Ancient Persia [Poster]

 

Canada's historic sites

 

Map of the United States (2008) [Map]

 

Between extremes: Brian Keenan

 

Ancient Egypt (Cultural atlas for young people)

 

The Greek armies

 

First World War: day three, life in the trenches  

First World War: day six, the art of war

 

Your country needs you: posters from the First World War (poster)

 

Can I come home, please? the Second World War, by the children who …

 

I never knew that about Scotland

 

Days like this: a portrait of Scotland through the stories of its people (2009)

 

John Cornford: a memoir

 

Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell

 

The last English revolutionary: Tom Winteringham 1998-1949

 

Tears of the desert: one woman's true story of surviving Darfur

 

- New Acquisitions 29/7/08 – 23/9/09

 

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