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Drums of autumn / by Gabaldon, Diana.;

A Scottish couple travels back in time to Charleston on the eve of the American revolution and seeks peace and freedom in the mountain wilderness.

Subjects: Scottish Americans; Family; Time travel;

© 2002, c1997., Dell Pub.,

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Written in my own heart's blood : a novel / by Gabaldon, Diana.;

"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743...Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie's wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland, or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family's secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself"--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Love stories.; Historical fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Love stories.; Historical fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character); Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Scottish Americans; Time travel;

© [2014], Delacorte Press,

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Go tell the bees that I am gone : a novel / by Gabaldon, Diana,author.;

"It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't be long until the war is on his doorstep"--

Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character from Gabaldon); Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Scottish Americans; Time travel;

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An echo in the bone : a novel / by Gabaldon, Diana.;

Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—across the barrel of a gun.Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though—not if she has anything to say about it.Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles—as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America. -- provided by Amazon.com.

Subjects: Love stories.; Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character); Scottish Americans; Time travel; Randall, Claire (Fictional character); Fraser, Jamie (Fictional character); Scottish Americans; Time travel;

© 2010, c2009., Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks,

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An echo in the bone : [electronic resource] : Outlander series, book 7. by Gabaldon, Diana.; Porter, Davina.;

Narrator: Davina Porter.Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—across the barrel of a gun.Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though—not if she has anything to say about it.Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles—as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America. -- provided by Amazon.com.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 1297207 KB).

Subjects: Historical Fiction; Electronic books.; Randall, Claire (Fictitious Character); Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious Character); Scottish Americans; Time Travel; Highlands (Scotland); Fiction.; Romance.;

© 2009., Recorded Books Inc.,

On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=274240 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;

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After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC / by Mithen, Steven J.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The beginning -- The birth of history -- The world at 20,000 BC -- Western Asia -- Fires and flowers -- Village life in the oak woodland -- On the banks of the Euphrates -- One thousand years of drought -- The founding of Jericho -- Pictograms and pillars -- In the valley of ravens -- The town of ghosts -- Heaven and hell at ÇatlahoÌyuÌk -- Three days on Cyprus -- Europe -- Pioneers in northern lands -- With reindeer hunters -- At Star Carr -- Last of the cave painters -- Coastal catastrophe -- Two villages in Southeast Europe -- Islands of the dead -- At the frontier -- A mesolithic legacy -- A Scottish envoi -- The Americans -- Searching for the first Americans -- American past in the present -- On the banks of Chinchihuapi -- Explorers in a restless landscape -- Clovis hunters on trial -- Virginity reconsidered -- Herders and the 'Christ-child' -- A double-take in the Oaxaca Valley -- To Koster -- Salmon fishing and the gift of history -- Greater Australia and East Asia -- A lost world revealed -- Body sculpture at Kow Swamp -- Across the arid zone -- Fighting men and a serpent's birth -- Pigs and gardens in the highlands -- Lonesome in Sundaland -- Down the Yangtze -- With the Jomon -- Summer in the Arctic -- South Asia -- A passage through India -- A long walk across the Hindu Kush -- Vultures of the Zagros -- Approaching civilisation in Mesopotamia -- Africa -- Baked fish by the Nile -- On Lukenya Hill -- Frogs' legs and ostrich eggs -- A South African tour -- Thunderbolts in the tropics -- Sheep and cattle in the Sahara -- Farmers in the Nile Valley and beyond.

Subjects: Prehistoric peoples.; Hunting and gathering societies.; Primitive societies.; Human beings; Antiquities, Prehistoric.; Civilization, Ancient.; Homme preÌhistorique.; Chasseurs-cueilleurs.; Homme primitif.; Homme; AntiquiteÌs preÌhistoriques.; Civilisation ancienne.; Archeologie.; Prehistorie.; Internationalisatie.; Jagers en verzamelaars.; Paleolithicum.; Mesolithicum.; Neolithicum.;

© 2004., Harvard University Press,

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Scotland's empire and the shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815 / by Devine, T. M.(Thomas Martin);

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-441) and index.A nation of emigrants -- Moving West -- Union and empire -- Trade and profit -- The Scottish Lowlands and North America to 1775 -- Exodus from Gaeldom -- Ulster Scots and the transatlantic connection -- Cultural relationships and the American Revolution -- Scotch Canada -- The Caribbean world -- Colonizing the Indian Empire -- Australian foundations -- Warriors of empire -- Empire and the transformation of Scotland -- Identities.

Subjects: Scots; Scots; Civilization, Modern;

© 2004., Smithsonian Books,

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The prisoner in the castle : a Maggie Hope mystery / by MacNeal, Susan Elia.;

Includes bibliographical references (page 306)."American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope must solve a baffling series of murders among a group of captive agents on an isolated Scottish island as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues. Maggie Hope is being held prisoner on a remote Scottish island with other SOE agents who know too much for the enemy's comfort. All the spies on the island are trained to kill--and when they start dropping off one-by-one, Maggie needs to find the murderer... before she becomes the next victim"--

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Spy stories.; Historical fiction.; Hope, Maggie (Fictitious character); Women spies; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war; Cryptographers;

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The Great divide : unequal societies and what we can do about them / by Stiglitz, Joseph E.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelude: Showing Cracks.The economic consequences of Mr. Bush -- Capitalist fools -- The anatomy of a murder: who killed America's economy? -- How to get out of the financial crisis -- Big Think. Of the 1 percent, by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent -- The 1 percent's problem -- Slow growth and inequality are political choices : we can choose otherwise -- Inequality goes global -- Inequality is a choice -- Democracy in the 21st century -- Phony capitalism -- Personal Reflections. How Dr. King shaped my work in economics -- The myth of America's golden age -- Dimensions of Inequality. Equal opportunity, our national myth -- Student debt and the crushing of the American dream -- Justice for some -- The one housing solution left : mass mortgage refinancing -- Inequality and the American child -- Ebola and inequality -- Causes of America's Growing Inequality. America's socialism for the rich -- A tax system stacked against the 99 percent -- Globalization isn't just about profits, it's about taxes too -- Fallacies of Romney's logic -- Consequences of Inequality. The wrong lesson from Detroit's bankruptcy -- In no one we trust -- Policy. How policy has contributed to the great economic divide -- Why Janet Yellen, not Larry Summers, should lead the Fed -- The insanity of our food policy -- On the wrong side of globalization -- The free-trade charade -- How intellectual property reinforces inequality -- India's patently wise decision -- Eliminating extreme inequality: a sustainable development goal, 2015-2030 -- The postcrisis crises -- Inequality is not inevitable -- Regional Perspectives. The Mauritius miracle -- Singapore's lessons for an unequal America -- Japan should be alert -- Japan is a model, not a cautionary tale -- China's roadmap -- Reforming China's state-market balance -- Medellín: a light unto cities -- American delusions down under -- Scottish independence -- Spain's depression -- Putting America Back to Work. How to put America back to work -- Inequality is holding back the recovery -- The book of jobs -- Scarcity in an age of plenty -- Turn left for growth -- The innovation enigma -- Afterword. Q & A: Joseph Stiglitz on the fallacy that the top 1 percent drives innovation, and why the Reagan Administration was America's inequality turning point."In the face of rising inequality in America, Joseph E. Stiglitz charts a path toward real recovery and a more equal society. A singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed America's greatest economic challenges, from the Great Recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and the poor. The Great Divide gathers his most provocative reflections to date on the subject of inequality. As Stiglitz ably argues, a healthy economy and a fairer democracy are within our grasp if we can put aside misguided interests and ideologies and abandon failed policies. Opening with the essay that gave the Occupy Movement its slogan, "We are the 99%," later essays in The Great Divide reveal equality of opportunity as a national myth, show that today's outsized inequality is a matter of choice, and explain reforms that would spur higher growth, more opportunity, and greater equality"--Publisher's website.

Subjects: Income distribution; Equality; Wealth;

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A brief history of modern psychology / by Benjamin, Ludy T.,1945-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-236) and index.1. Pre-scientific psychology -- A public psychology -- Phrenology -- Physiognomy -- Mesmerism -- Spiritualism -- Mental healing -- The road to mental philosophy -- British empiricism -- Scottish realism -- American mental philosophers -- Struggles for the new science -- 2. Physiology, psychophysics, and the science of mind -- Brain and nervous system -- Cortical localization -- Specificity in the nerves -- The speed of nerve conduction -- Sensory physiology -- Color vision -- Pitch perception -- Psychophysics -- Ernst Weber's research -- Fechner's psychophysics -- 3. Germany and the birth of a new science -- Wundt's Leipzig laboratory -- Wundt's psychology -- Wundt's research methods -- Wundt's VoÌlkerpsychologie -- Wundt's students -- Hermann Ebbinghaus and the study of memory -- Franz Brentano's act psychology -- Carl Stumpf and the psychology of tone -- Georg Elias MuÌller and memory -- Oswald KuÌlpe and thinking -- 4. Origins of scientific psychology in America -- William James as psychologist -- James's Principles -- James's student : Mary Whiton Calkins -- Philosophy and psychical phenomena -- G. Stanley Hall and the professionalization of psychology -- The child study movement -- Adolescence and Hall's genetic psychology -- Psychoanalysis, religion, aging -- James McKeen Cattell : psychology's ambassador -- Cattell's mental tests -- Cattell as editor of Science -- Getting the word out about a new science --5. The early schools of psychology -- Titchener's psychology -- Structuralism -- Introspection -- Studies of sensation : psychology's periodic table -- Titchener's first doctoral student : Margaret Floy Washburn -- The experimentalists -- The Manuals -- Functionalism -- British influences -- Angell's functional psychology -- Woodworth's dynamic psychology -- The psychological work of the functionalists -- The legacies of structuralism and functionalism -- 6. The birth of the new applied psychology in America -- The beginnings of clinical psychology -- Lightner Witmer's psychological clinic -- A psychology of business -- The psychology of advertising -- Walter D. Scott -- Harry L. Hollingworth -- MuÌnsterberg and industrial efficiency -- Lillian Gilbreth's engineering psychology -- Business psychology outside the academy -- Vocational guidance -- Intelligence testing -- MuÌnsterberg and the psychology of law -- The new profession of psychology -- 7. Psychoanalysis -- Freud's early training -- Josef Breuer and the case of Anna O. -- Psychoanalysis as a theory of the normal mind-- Psychoanalysis as a theory of the neuroses -- Psychoanalysis as method -- Psychoanalysis in America -- The neo-Freudians -- Alfred Adler's individual psychology -- Carl Jung's analytical psychology -- Karen Horney -- The continued popularity of psychoanalysis --8. Behaviorism -- John Watson and the founding of behaviorism -- The beginnings of comparative psychology -- Watson's behaviorism -- Conditioned emotions -- Watson at Johns Hopkins University -- Watson as founder -- The growth of behaviorism -- Neobehaviorism -- Tolman's cognitive behaviorism -- Hull's hypothetico-deductive behaviorism -- Skinner's radical behaviorism -- Behaviorism : a final note -- 9. The new profession of psychology -- A profession defined -- Experiences in World War I -- Early organizational efforts -- The role of psychological assessment -- Clinical psychology -- Industrial-organizational psychology -- School psychology -- Counseling psychology -- The modern profession -- 10. A psychology of social action and social change -- The psychology of sex differences -- Helen Bradford Thompson (Woolley) -- Leta Stetter Hollingworth -- Kurt Lewin's action research -- The psychology of race -- Race differences in intelligence -- Psychology and school desegregation -- A final note -- 11. Cognitive psychology -- Gestalt psychology -- Bartlett and the constructive mind -- The rise of modern cognitive psychology -- Karl Lashley and the Hixon symposium -- Computer metaphors -- Pioneers of the 1950s : Bruner, Brown, Chomsky, Miller -- Naming the field -- Was there a cognitive revolution?

Subjects: Psychology;

© 2007., Blackwell Pub.,

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