Product Description: Humorous and occasionally poignant anecdotes about the Welsh on tour, in particular Welsh choirs. Memoirs are also collected from those who have toured Wales. It's a cultural exchange, with 'Calon Lan' meeting Nabucco, flamenco in clogs, Cornish pastries and giant paellas...read more

Product Description: Pablo Picasso, the inventor of Cubism, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the inventor of Surrealism, met in 1905, forged a close friendship, and between them laid the foundations of modernism in twentieth-century art and literature. Apollinaire's death in the 1918 flu epidemic did not diminish his importance to Picasso, who continued to draw on the poet for inspiration until his own death in 1973...read more

Product Description: Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams was a member of the Aboriginal Stolen Generations. She was taken from her mother at birth and put into a home for white girls. As an effected adult, she spent ten years in court suing the Australia's State Government for negligence...read more

Product Description: Oh Yes It Is... Kevin Johns! is the extremely enjoyable autobiography of Swansea's all-round entertainer: performer, actor, pantomime dame, radio broadcaster, football fanatic and the guy with the mike at all of Swansea City's home games...read more

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This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we return, and keep on returning, to these places so large in our memories. It considers many lost towns, suburbs and homes: Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in NSW, the inundation of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, bushfire at Macedon in Victoria, migration from other countries, the clearing of neighborhoods for freeways and the everyday circumstances that force people from their land. It establishes how important the places we live in are, and how much we grieve when we lose them. (view table of contents)

Product Description: With the Framework Convention on Climate Change, action to prevent possible global warming is on the agenda. But the obtacles appear daunting. Peter Read argues that the problem can be tackled, however, at a much more affordable cost than commonly realized, and in ways likely both to provide incentives to energy corporations and to improve the development prospects of many countries in the South...read more

Product Description: Depression in Young People: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives [Hardcover]