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  The Welsh Way - Essays on...

  Dean Evans, Huw Williams, Kieron...

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  This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radical and transformational. A call for a political engagement that will create real opportunity for change.
  
  
  Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has reached epidemic levels: the worst in the UK. Educational attainment remains stubbornly low, particularly in deprived communities. Prison population rates are among the highest in Europe. Unemployment remains stubbornly high. House prices are rising, with the private rented sector lining the pockets of an ever-increasing number of private landlords. Minority groups are consistently marginalised. All this is not to mention the devastatingly disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on working class communities.
  
  
  The Welsh Way interrogates neoliberalism's grasp on Welsh life. It challenges the lazy claims about the 'successes' of devolution, fabricated by Welsh politicians and regurgitated within a tepid, attenuated public sphere. These wide-ranging essays examine the manifold ways in which neoliberalism now permeates all areas of Welsh culture, politics and society. They also look to a wider world, to the global trends and tendencies that have given shape to Welsh life today. Together, they encourage us to imagine, and demand, another Welsh future.

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  A Year's Turning

  Michael Viney

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  Michael Viney and his wife Ethna lived in the city, had successful jobs in the media and had just turned forty when they made a life-changing decision: to give up everything for a self-reliant existence on a remote cottage farm in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland. This enchanting chronicle of life on the land follows the highs and lows of one year in the Irish countryside. Since then, for sixty years, Michael Viney's weekly columns in The Irish Times have established his reputation as a uniquely compassionate and informed commentator on the natural world, and undoubtedly one of Ireland's greatest nature writers.

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  Nothing - Surprising Insights...

  New Scientist, Marcus Chown,...

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  The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds’ inner workings. It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world’s top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect. And they discover that understanding nothing may be the key to understanding everything: What came before the big bang—and will our universe end?How might cooling matter down almost to absolute zero help solve our energy crisis?How can someone suffer from a false diagnosis as though it were true?Does nothingness even exist if squeezing a perfect vacuum somehow creates light?Why is it unfair to accuse sloths—animals who do nothing—of being lazy?And more! Contributors Paul Davies, Jo Marchant, and Ian Stewart, along with two former editors of Nature and sixteen other leading writers and scientists, marshal up-to-the-minute research to make one of the most perplexing realms in science dazzlingly clear. Prepare to be amazed at how much more there is to nothing than you ever realized.

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  Under the Streets of Nice - The...

  Ken Follett, Rene Maurice L.

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  One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari had engineered the European crime of the century.A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside—with a note left behind that read, "Without guns, without violence, without hate." Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars in gold, jewelry, gems, and cash. Here is the breathtakingly compelling story of Spaggiari, his “sewer gang,” and the most daring, outrageous theft of the 20th century.

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  Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes...

  Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

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  Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border is a collection of biographies of valiant and daring adventurers, who were among the early settlers of the Wild West. These men were real scouts and trappers, for they lived in the wilds and had to know how to shoot a rifle; how to trap; and how to camp in whatever place night happened to overtake them. Biographies presented in this book are accurate histories of several important frontiersmen and heroes of the border. These stories are all true and are vouched for by early historians.  
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  Daniel Morgan: The Famous Virginian Rifleman, and His Adventures with the Indian Bear
  James Harrod: Founder of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and Famous Scout of the Frontier
  Robert McLellan: Pluckiest of the Early Pioneers
  Colonel Benjamin Logan: The Intrepid Fighter of the Kentucky Frontier
  George Rogers Clarke: Famous Leader of the Borderland of Kentucky
  John Slover: Scout under Crawford and Hero of Extraordinary Adventures
  Lewis Wetzel: Heroic Virginia Frontiersman and Implacable Enemy of the Redskins
  Samuel Colter: And His Wonderful Race for Life
  Meshack Browning: The Celebrated Bear Hunter of the Alleghanies
  "Bill" Bent: Hero of the Old Santa Fé Trail
  Thomas Eddie: The Last of the Old School Trappers
  Jim Bridger: Founder of Bridger, Wyoming, and Famous Indian Fighter
  "Old Bill" Williams: The Famous Log Rider of Colorado
  "Big Foot" Wallace: Noted Ranger on the Texan Frontier
  Captain Jack Hays: Famous Texan Ranger and Commander of Valiant Border Fighters
  Bill Hamilton: Famous Trapper, Trader, and Indian Fighter
  Uncle Job Witherspoon: And His Exciting Adventures with the Blackfeet
  Henry Shane: Heroic Scout of the plain of Teas
  Poor Jerry Lane: The Lost Trapper of Wyoming
  The Song of the Moose

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  Ballad of the White Horse

  G.K. Chesterton

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  This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As the white horse mark must be continually maintained by weeding to be clearly seen, Chesterton sees it as a symbol of the continual struggle to maintain the Christian culture and values for which Alfred the Great fough

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