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Hailed as a vast, superb history that] relates Scotland s past over a dozen millennia ("Kirkus Reviews"), Magnusson draws on a great deal of modern scholarship to redefine a nation s history. He charts the long struggle toward nationhood, explores the roots of the original Scots, and examines the extent to which Scotland was shaped by the Romans, the Picts, the Vikings, and the English. Encompassing everything from the first Mesolithic settlers in 7000 B.C. to the present movements for independence, "Scotland: The Story of a Nation" is history on an epic level, essential reading for anyone...

Lindisfarne has captured the imagination of visitors and residents alike. This title explores the eventful history of the area. It takes us on a journey to 'the cradle island' - the ancient shrine of Celtic Christianity. It tells the story of people and nature since the beginning, also exploring the natural history and archaeology of the region.

Discovering hidden recurring patterns in observable behavioral processes is an important issue frequently faced by numerous advanced students and researchers across many research areas, including psychology, biology, sports, robotics, media, finance, and medicine. As generally, themany powerful methods included in statistical software packages were not developed for this kind of analysis, discovering such patterns has proven a particularly difficult task, due to a lack of a) adequate formalized models of the kinds of patterns to look for, b) corresponding detection algorithms and c) their...

IAn idealistic Icelandic farmer journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise in this captivating novel by Nobel Prize--winner Halldor Laxness.
The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two adoring young children. But when he impulsively offers his children's beloved pure-white pony to the visiting King of Denmark, he sets in motion a chain of disastrous events that leaves his family in ruins and himself at the other end of the earth,...