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One of Edinburgh‘s lovelier local libraries, Stockbridge Library in the central district of Stockbridge, is due to receive an artwork by Glasgow-based artist Rachel Barron as part of this year’s Love Your Library Campaign launched for Book Week Scotland. “Book Week Scotland will shine a light on the place libraries occupy in communities,” explains the Scottish Book […]

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Fans of the long-running series of Ian Rankin detective stories will need little introduction to the sub-genre of Tartan Noir, a specifically Caledonian brand of granitic hard-edged crime fiction set in Scotland, and often drawing on the poverty and brutality of parts of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other darker urban quarters  North of the border. Its [...]

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Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today expanded its partnership with the British Educational Research Association by announcing the publication of two further journals together. In 2013 the British Journal of Educational Technology will be joined at Wiley-Blackwell by the British Educational Research Journal and the new Review of Education: An International Journal of Major Studies in Education.

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