Books written by George Robertson

  • The Drowned and the Saved: – Saltire Society History Book of The Year 2018

    According to a painstaking account of the disaster written shortly after it by Sergeant MacNeill, the foundering of the Otranto was first witnessed by Donald McLachlan, a ploughman who lived at Machrie, less than half a mile from the ...

  • Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement

    An investigation into the future of travelling in a world where boundaries are shifting and dissolving. Amongst the issues covered are politics and identity, history and narration and the representation of other cultures.

  • Soul Anatomy: Finding Peace, Hope, and Joy in the Psalms

    Introduction 1. John Calvin (1509–64), The Author's Preface, Psalms 1–35, xxxvi–xxxvii. 2. C. S. Lewis, “Sweeter Than Honey,” Reflections on the Psalms (1958), republished within C. S. Lewis: Selected Books (London: HarperCollins, ...

  • The Block Reader in Visual Culture

    It is not , however , the chief organising , or disorganising , principle at work . Many monographs on great designers and schools of design are organised around a notion of fundamental innovation or extensive influence rather than an ...

  • Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

    This collection considers how we might 'think' a future developing from emergent scientific theories and discourses.

  • Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement

    TRAVELLING TALES A public place around a train station. In Marrakesh. In Fez. In a city of words, told by a husky voice. In a body full of sentences, proverbs, and noises. There, a story is born. This body is a fountain.

  • Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

    Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature'. Recent developments in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics are discussed.