New Releases by Michael Fry

Avant, aux yeux de tous, Nick n''était que le plus petit élève du collège et la cible de toutes les moqueries. Depuis qu''il a fait la rencontre de Molly et Karl et qu''ils ont rejoint la patrouille de sécurité du collège, tout a changé ! Ensemble, ils ont réussi à vaincre Roy, la brute épaisse qui les harcelait ! Le quart d''heure de gloire va pourtant voir sa fin et leur belle amitié sera mise à rude épreuve lorsque Simone, une nouvelle élève, vient semer la pagaille dans le trio. Ce qui tombe vraiment mal pour Nick qui a, plus que jamais, besoin de ses amis vu qu''il s''est mis dans une situation délicate, le genre qui pourrait le faire expulser du collège... Un anti-héros maladroit et très drôle pour une série illustrée pleine d''optimisme sur la vie au collège.

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Simone, a new student, seems intent on stealing Molly away from Nick and the only way Nick can think to stop her is by teaming with his old anti-bullying ally, but that will require Nick using himself as bait both as the bullied and bullier.

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“Engaging and very readable . . . an essential read for those wanting to get under the skin of modern Scottish history” from the author of Glasgow (Scottish Field). Michael Fry here applies his uniquely wide-ranging procedures of Scottish historical analysis to the eighteenth century, which gave this small nation its one era of truly global significance. He adds: “Never again was it to be so exemplary: unless, perhaps, in the twenty-first century.” In his journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond, Fry takes in vivid scenes from all over the country, ranges up and down the social scale from peeresses to prostitutes, from lairds to lunatics, and covers every major aspect of national life from agriculture to philosophy. Most other Scottish histories published in recent times concentrate on social and economic history, but Fry insists that any true understanding of the nation, in the past as in the present, needs to pay at least as much attention to politics and culture. The social history and the economic history show us how Scotland was integrated into Britain. The political history and the cultural history show us why the integration was never complete. In this book readers will see both sides surveyed. In that way they will come also to understand how the nation’s rebirth in our own day remained possible. “Has the usual Fry merits of being elegantly written and the product of an incisive and original mind.” —The Herald “Ambitious and well produced.” —The Scotsman

Nick est très, très petit. Et aussi très, très timide. Ce qui en fait une victime toute désignée pour Roy, la brute épaisse du collège, dont le passe-temps favori consiste à enfermer le pauvre Nick dans son casier... Inquiète de son isolement, la psychologue scolaire pousse Nick, ainsi que deux autres élèves marginaux, à rejoindre les patrouilles de sécurité du collège. Leur mission : faire régner le calme et respecter le règlement intérieur. Si Nick n''était déjà pas très populaire, avec ça, il sera définitivement la risée de la cours de récré ! À moins que ce ne soit l''occasion de se faire des amis, de réagir... et de montrer à tous que même quand on est minuscule, on peut avoir des choses à dire !

Pas facile de se faire respecter quand on est le plus petit sixième du monde (!!!) et la cible de toutes les mauvaises blagues ! Lorsque la psychologue scolaire oblige Nick à participer aux patrouilles de sécurité avec Molly et Karl, il se dit qu''il sera la risée de l''établissement. À moins que ce ne soit l''occasion de se faire des amis, de réagir... Et de prouver au monde que, même quand on est minuscule, on peut être quelqu''un de grand ! Molly, Karl et Nick. À eux trois, ils vont semer la dinguerie dans tout le collège.

Nick, Molly, and Karl have nowhere to turn but to each other in the latest Odd Squad adventure, and they''ll need every ounce of wit, resourcefulness, and help they can get in order to rise above their biggest challenge yet.

Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous pioneers, history-changing revolutionaries, great Presidents, doughty fighters, inspiring writers, learned teachers, intrepid explorers, daring frontiersmen, and of course buccaneering businessmen, media moguls, and capitalists throughout American history. The Scots'' unflappable spirit and hardy disposition helped them take root among the earliest settlements and become some of the British colonies'' foremost traders. During the Revolution, the teachings of the great Scottish philosophers and economists would help to shape the democracy that thrived in America as in no other part of the world. America may have separated from the British Empire, but the Scottish influence on the young continent never left. Armed with an inimitable range of historical knowledge, Fry charts the exchange of ideas and values between Scotland and America that led to many of the greatest achievements in business, science, and the arts. Finally, he takes readers into the twentieth century, in which the Scots serve as the ideal example of a people that have embraced globalization without losing their sense of history, culture and national identity. Scottish Americans have been incomparable innovators in every branch of American society, and their fascinating story is brilliantly captured in this new book by one of Scotland''s leading historians. How the Scots Made America is not only a must-read for all those with Scottish ancestry but for anyone interested in knowing the full story behind the roots of the American way of life.

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War opened and closed Scotland''s greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the rest of mankind that the Scots have ever made - in everything from the combine harvester to the mackintosh to anaesthesia. It was a supremely successful achieving society yet one not without deep flaws, in its urban poverty, its destruction of the environment, its religious intolerance, its moral hypocrisy, its crushing of Highland culture. Michael Fry shows, with an emphasis always on the human story, how a succession of deep crises undermined the usually tranquil and prosperous surface of life in Victorian Scotland to leave a legacy of paradox that the modern nation has even today yet to overcome.

After taming the school’s biggest bully, Nick, Molly and Karl expect to bask in Safety Patrol glory. But without a bully to set straight, all they’re left with is helping sixth graders cross the hall and reminding everyone that Jell-o meat stains. Enter new kid Simone, who becomes fast friends with Molly but gets on Nick’s nerves when she makes light of his quest to find Emily, the mysterious middle school protector who may or may not be real. In an effort to prove he’s right, Nick tries to flush Emily out, only to bring the wrath of a new Zero Tolerance policy down on Emily Dickinson Middle School. Nick’s in way over his head (he’s not that tall in the first place) and risks expulsion if he can''t restore his good name. Since Nick is an expert at making wrong moves, he could be in big trouble. Because if there’s one thing worse than being the shortest seventh grader in the history of the world, it’shaving to go through it twice. Praise for The Odd Squad: Bully Bait “Funny and sweet with a steely centre.”—Neil Gaiman, New York Times best-selling author of Coraline and the Newbery Award–winning The Graveyard Book "An important message, humorously delivered, that will appeal to Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans." —Kirkus Reviews

In Search of Faith, and other Responsibilities is the journal of an aspirant pilgrim making his stubborn way along the Camino de Santiago, attempting to find as many selves as he can.Trying to figure out exactly what it means to be a pilgrim and how to go about discovering faith while beset with neurosis the author recounts his thoughts and encounters, internal monologues and occasional hallucinations. The epistles of Saint Paul provide him with a number of elaborate, if not entirely substantive, theological reflections. Eventually, somehow, his cemetery to cemetery account beginning as an ambitious (and self-admittedly vain) attempt to capture the essence of faith leads to an enlightening obsession with death and provides the reader with an insight into the joy, revelation and loneliness of walking the Camino de Santiago.Travelling on foot through the vineyards of France, over the Pyrenees and across the plains of northern Spain a number of encounters gradually mould the author''s idea of what it means to walk the Way of Saint James, and more than that, what it means to be part of a single idea. The way. A no-man''s land of pilgrims that turns out to be a lot more conventional than it seems, though even more enlightening.In Search of Faith, and other Responsibilities is the story of an optimistic struggle against cynicism and an attempt to challenge the absurdity of our lives.

Michael Fry, who has lived & work in Edinburgh for nearly 40 years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh''s cultural, political & social history, & shows how they have borne on one another.

From the author of How the Scots Made America, this is a definitive history of the Highlands, ranging from the depths of bloody clan warfare to the heights of Gaelic poetry. "This formidable, superb, spectacularly audacious history of the Highlands," wrote The Times, focuses squarely on its people. Michael Fry traces the ironies of their fate as emigration, forced clearances, and the breakdown of feudal relations undermined traditional customs. Fry''s groundbreaking reassessment of the Highlands is not, however, the usual eulogy for a dying era. He argues that modernization simply had to happen, and he traces the many inventive ways in which Gaelic culture withstood decline. "Outstanding...best of all, deliciously written." (The Literary Review) The author of four previous books on Scotland, Michael Fry has also contributed to many major newspapers.

"The story of modern Britain began 300 years ago, with the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland in 1707. In this fresh and challenging look at the origins of the United Kingdom, the first full study for four decades, Michael Fry focuses on the years which led up to the Union, setting the political history of both countries against the backdrop of war in Europe and the emergence of imperialism. In comparing the fate of Scotland with that of other small nations he reconstructs the human as well as the political story - in the voices of the people, in plots and conspiracies, in reports from battlefields and in the impassioned debates of the Scots Parliament." "In doing so he rejects the long-held assumption that the economy was of overwhelming importance in the Scots'' acceptance of the terms of the Treaty, showing how they were in fact able to exploit English ignorance of and indifference to Scotland - as evident now as then - to steer the settlement in their own favour. Thus the future of Scotland, England and Britain remained open, not closed. The implications of this, Fry argues, have influenced the dynamics of the Union ever since, and are only being fully worked out in our own time."--BOOK JACKET.

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the 1830s in a period of government later dubbed ''the Dundas Despotism''. Using a mass of new primary and secondary material culled from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, Michael Fry here challenges the traditional view that theirs was a corrupt and authoritarian regime. He shows that both father and son sought to achieve good government within the accepted political conventions of the age, and that many of the principles they set out to apply were owed directly to Scottish Enlightenment ideas. The Dundases were also of fundamental importance in drawing Scotland more fully into the United Kingdom and enabling the Union of 1707 to work. This is a sparkling reassessment of a crucial period of Scottish, British and imperial history. The Dundas Despotism was previously published by Edinburgh University Press.

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Fry analyses the astonishing contribution made by Scots to the development and continued success of the United States. Their philosophy, education and entrepreneurism, as well as their sheer grit, have been central to American history.

This new edition of Michael Fry''s remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range of concerns - from education, evangelism and philanthropy to spying, swindling and drug running. Stories of Scottish regiments on the rampage, cannibalism and other atrocities are contrasted with the deeds of heroic pioneers such as David Livingstone and Mary Slessor. Above all it tells how the British empire came to be dominated and run by the Scots, and how it truly became a Scottish empire. As the empire transformed Scotland beyond recognition, so was the Empire shaped by the Scots - a remarkable achievement from the population of so small a country, which was itself neither nation nor fully province, neither fully colonizer nor fully colonized. Michael Fry''s energetic and colourful account is one of the classics of modern Scottish history.

This is a resource for organists, church musicians and librarians and it catalogues over 33,000 melodies sung by congregations world-wide, providing the source for each one and lists of related materials.

"Like good reporters, Mike Fry and T Lewis have revealed to us at last what lies just beyond those well-groomed hedges."--Jim Cox, producer of the upcoming Over the Hedge movie RJ, the mischievous raccoon, and Verne, his philosophical turtle pal, don''t have time to be inconvenienced by the suburban sprawl that''s washed up against their woodland home. They''re in too big a hurry to embrace it and make it their own. They fly-fish for hot dogs, set up bleachers to watch big-screen TV, and sip virgin Banana Boomerangs while soaking in a Jell-O-filled hot tub. And if the joie de pirating isn''t enough fun for these two bon vivants, there''s always the local homeowner''s association on which to inflict a coup d''etat. In Knights of the Picnic Table, their next Over the Hedge anthology, RJ and Verne are not just spectators to suburbanity, but also to the pregnancy of Noreen, whose home also happens to be their favorite fast-food franchise. When Noreen''s husband, Nate, has to deliver their baby at home, RJ and Verne, personifying noblesse oblige, lead him through the harrowing birth. Then, as newborn Baby Clara''s self-appointed au pairs, they take up the crusade of teaching her the finer points of their world while squiring her about in a Harley Davidson motorized stroller. It may not be Camelot, but there''s not a more congenial spot than Over the Hedge.