Alexander Mc Call Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.
52 Ebooks by Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith: Life of Alexander Smith, Captain of the Island of Pitcairn
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN offering …
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€9.81
Alistair Moffat: The Great Tapestry of Scotland
The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander Mc Call Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of …
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English
€15.59
Alexander McCall Smith: Varg In Love
Alexander Mc Call Smith's Scandanavian sleuth Ulf Varg makes his e Book debut in a Valentine's Day puzzle for the super-cool detective with the cult following on …
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English
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€1.24
Alexander Smith: The Holiest Lie Ever
The Holiest Lie Ever is made up of controversial material pertaining to religion and all the facts. It reveals the truth behind many religious aspects that have become distorted over time and …
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English
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€4.49
Alexander Smith: Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens
Why did the chicken cross the road? TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! The city of Aberdeen is being terrorised by giant robot chickens who want to peck out every last sign of human resistance. The streets …
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€4.49
Alexander Smith: Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives
This highly readable book, is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as party political activism more generally. Available in paperback for the first time, it explor …
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English
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€26.99
Esther Verhoef: Rendezvous
Simone is a wife, a mother, a daughter and a suspected murderer.She and her husband Eric have left the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam for a remote village in the south of France. Together with their …
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English
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€3.99
Alexander Smith: Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives
This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally. It explores how Conservative Party activists who had …
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English
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€18.83
Alexander Smith: They Create Worlds
They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provides an in-depth analysis of the creation and evoluti …
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€87.67
Alexander Smith: They Create Worlds
They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provides an in-depth analysis of the creation and evoluti …
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€87.67
Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp
Alexander Smith’s ‘Dreamthorp’ is a collection of essays that blend poetry, philosophy, and personal reflection. Written in a lyrical prose style, the book explores the beauty of small town life, the …
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English
€1.99
Cathrine Degnen: Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England
Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and …
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English
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€33.99
Rebecca Walker: Enduring violence
Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes …
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English
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€43.99
Karen Throsby: Immersion
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and invest …
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English
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€33.99
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos: Exoticisation undressed
Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and …
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English
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€33.99
Marianne Holm Pedersen: Iraqi women in Denmark
Iraqi women in Denmark is an ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen. The book explores how Iraqi women construct a sense of belonging …
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English
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€129.99
Trish Winter & Simon Keegan-Phipps: Performing Englishness
Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the only study of its kind, the authors explore how …
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English
DRM
€30.99
Jonathan Hearn: Salvage ethnography in the financial sector
This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland’s first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake …
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English
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€134.99
Ruth Sheldon: Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, ‘extremism’, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this …
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English
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€129.99
Wing-Chung Ho: Occupational health and social estrangement in China
This book concerns the post-illness experiences of about a hundred occupationally sick workers who suffer from the incurable diseases of pneumoconiosis or heavy metal poisoning in contemporary China. …
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English
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€129.99
Joseph Webster: The religion of Orange politics
The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish …
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English
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€129.99
Penny McCall Howard: Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile envi …
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English
DRM
€33.99
Christy Kulz: Factories for learning
Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has …
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English
DRM
€32.99
Stewart Allen: An ethnography of NGO practice in India
Through an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods …
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English
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€134.99
Mateja Celestina: Living displacement
Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives. …
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English
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€134.99
Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé: Into the woods
This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four …
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English
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€129.99
Fiona Murphy & Mark Maguire: Integration in Ireland
The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants. This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with Af …
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English
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€26.99
Amy Levine: South Korean civil movement organisations
This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), …
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English
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€129.99
Michaela Benson: The British in Rural France
The British in rural France, available at last in paperback, is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It present …
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English
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€27.99
Laura Jeffery: Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK
The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in M …
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English
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€30.99
Patrícia Matos: Disciplined agency
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human …
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English
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€129.99
Saskia Huc-Hepher: French London
Who are the people that make up London’s French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is ‘Frenchness’ played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? And …
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English
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€129.99
Alexander Smith: Treibstoff der Macht
Das Erdöl ist der Lebenssaft der industriellen Gesellschaften und zugleich der am meisten politisierte Rohstoff. Europa hat sich in der Vergangenheit in eine gefährliche Abhängigkeit von Ölimporten …
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German
€62.99
Joseph Webster: Religion of Orange Politics
The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish …
PDF
DRM
€24.91
Patricia Alves de Matos: Disciplined Agency
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human …
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€106.85
Alexander Smith: Unbreaking My Life
This is the story of Alexander Thomas Smith, a typical man enjoying life until fatal injury takes away this ability in the form of paralysis from the chest down. The book holds his voice and the …
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English
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€2.65
Karen Throsby: Immersion
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and …
EPUB
DRM
€26.16
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos: Exoticisation Undressed
Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and …
EPUB
DRM
€26.12
Marianne Holm Pedersen: Iraqi women in Denmark
Iraqi women in Denmark is an ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi’a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen. The book explores how Iraqi women construct a sense of belonging …
EPUB
English
DRM
€99.82
Simon Keegan-Phipps & Trish Winter: Performing Englishness
Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the only study of its kind, the authors explore how …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.60
Jonathan Hearn: Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector
This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland’s first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake …
EPUB
DRM
€106.80
Ruth Sheldon: Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, ‘extremism’, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this …
EPUB
DRM
€106.80
Mateja Celestina: Living Displacement
Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives. …
PDF
DRM
€105.88
Wing-Chung Ho: Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China
This book concerns the post-illness experiences of about a hundred occupationally sick workers who suffer from the incurable diseases of pneumoconiosis or heavy metal poisoning in contemporary China. …
EPUB
DRM
€106.80
Penny McCall Howard: Environment, labour and capitalism at sea
This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile …
EPUB
English
DRM
€25.13
Christy Kulz: Factories for Learning
Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has …
EPUB
DRM
€25.11
Stewart Allen: Ethnography of Ngo Practice in India
Through an ethnographic study of the ‘Barefoot College’, an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods …
EPUB
DRM
€106.80
Meritxell Ramirez-i-Olle: Into the Woods
This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four …
EPUB
DRM
€105.88
Mark Maguire & Fiona Murphy: Integration in Ireland
The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants. This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.03
Amy Levine: South Korean civil movement organisations
This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists, intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial, post-Cold War, …
EPUB
DRM
€106.80
Laura Jeffery: Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK
The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in …
EPUB
English
DRM
€22.60
Michaela Benson: British in Rural France
The British in rural France is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.09
