Product Description: In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, author Douglas Adams famously proposed that the answer to the question “What is the meaning of Life?” was the number 42. Why that number? Over the years, many theories have been put forward, but Adams steadfastly refused to clarify...read more

Product Description: In 1986, Peter Gill, the then director of the National Theatre Studio, sent a group of young actors to interview their seniors about speaking on stage. Actors interviewed include Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Robert Stephens, Harry Andrews, and Margaret Tyzack, with notes from John Gielgud and an introduction by Peter Gill himself...read more

Product Description: Apprenticeship is Peter Gill’s potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the ‘60s. Part history, part memoir, part polemic, it puts into context his recently re-discovered 1962 diary, in which he recalls his experiences as a young actor in the RSC's pioneering production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, as part of their first London season...read more

Product Description: Catherine Ridler, the spirited daughter of Bosworthy's wise woman, campaigns against the Barleside experiment, designed to achieve solvency for Exmoor's central workhouse. Interspersed with colourful characters and customs, and occasional flashes of humour, Barleside follows Catherine through dark and difficult days in her quest for justice until her determination to establish 'the rightness of things' is put to the ultimate test...read more

Discusses the habitat, behavior, flight, appearance, reproduction, nesting, and migration of birds

A step-by-step overview of what the author believes to be the world's leaders' failures regarding the AIDS epidemic argues that the spread of the disease has occurred as a result of pharmaceutical industry greed and inappropriate conservative agendas that promote abstinence rather than safe-sex education. Original.

Product Description: Set in Cardiff's east side, Peter Gill's new play offers a vivid portrait of a community the Tories thought they'd got rid of, and New Labour would prefer to forget. Cardiff East raises essential questions: What is family value? What does it feel like to be an immigrant in your own country? And most importantly, why don't the Welsh reach for the Armalite? Uncompromising and desperately real, with an undercurrent of ironic humour, Cardiff East builds towards an inexorable climax, which combines hope and tragedy in equal parts...read more

Product Description: From the earliest stone fortifications at Chepstow to the 19th-century folly of Castell Coch, and from the splendor of Caernarfon, Beaumaris, Conwy, and Harlech to the spectacular ruins of Carreg Cennen, Wales boasts a stunning array of castles...read more

Product Description: First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov's last 'comedy' still ranks supreme as a human tragedy of dispossession with audiences and actors alike...read more

Product Description: In the past decade there have been significant changes in the operations of security and intelligence agencies throughout Europe. Those in the former Eastern Europe have undergone the most obvious changes in their targets and the legal context within which they operate, but these changes have affected all the agencies to some extent...read more

Product Description: This comparative analysis of the sometimes fraught process of achieving democratic governance of security intelligence agencies presents material from countries other than those normally featured in the Intelligence Studies literature of North America and Europe...read more

In the first of these two plays, a group of English teenagers investigates the mysterious disappearance of a girl during an eclipse and, in the second, conflicts develop among friends as they face their sexuality. (view table of contents)

The role of intelligence in the contemporary world is ubiquitous: individuals, groups and organizations as well as states seek information in order to increase their sense of security. The events of 9/11 and subsequent 'war on terror' have made intelligence more central to the study of government and international affairs than at any time previously, reviving old debates and generating new ones. But what exactly is intelligence? Who seeks to develop it and how? What happens to the intelligence that is produced? This timely new book explores these and other key questions. Concentrating on the role of states and organizations, and using the post-9/11 security agenda as its key focus, it offers an authoritative and accessible guide to the relationship between intelligence and processes of public and private governance. Drawing on a range of contemporary examples, the book examines the limits of intelligence and asks whether the 9/11 attacks, the bombings in London and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq may be seen as intelligence 'failures'? It concludes by discussing the need for democratic control of intelligence to prevent its future abuse by unaccountable state or corporate agencies.

Product Description: This new edition of Ponton and Gill's well-known text continues to provide students with a superlative guide to political concepts and institutions. The second edition has sold in excess of 5,500 copies Thoroughly revised and updated, also two completely new chapters on global politics Clearly structured for course use, each chapter length to suit a week's reading Clearly written and accessible, very lucid introduction to political concepts...read more

Product Description: Powerful images take you to many inspiring locations around Wales—from the glacial valley of Nant Gwynant and the stream at Fairy Glen to the sand dunes of Cardigan Bay and the mining valley of Rhondda Fawr. This book is a celebration of stunning locations, breathtaking photography, and informative captions...read more

Product Description: There are 19 mountain ranges packed within Wales’ modest 7,722 square miles, amounting to hundreds of peaks—some well-trodden such as Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales, while others are unspoilt and waiting to be discovered...read more