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  • Folklore

    A journey through the past and present

    by Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook ...
    A gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore.In this ground-breaking book, two leading experts provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present.Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook explore folklore in all its remarkable variations, from village rituals and fairy tales to UFO legends and internet fanfiction. Travelling through a landscape of witches, wizards and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Vaughan Williams in Context

    Edited by Julian Onderdonk, Ceri Owen ...
    Series series Composers in Context
    Challenging residual doubts about Vaughan Williams's role and significance within twentieth-century music and culture, this book places and explores his life and music in their broad musical, cultural, social, and political contexts. Chapters by scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate the composer's life and career within a world marked by both rapid change and refigured traditions. ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Mametz

    with a Welsh-language translation

    by Owen Sheers ...
    Translated by Ceri Wyn Jones ...
    '"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were killed or wounded in the Battle of Mametz Wood in July 1916. Sheers revisits that chapter of carnage in a stirring, sprawling promenade show ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Building Magic

    Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures

    by Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • Necropolis

    London and Its Dead

    by Catharine Arnold ...
    From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS ... Read more

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  • Languages Fast and Easy ~ Welsh

    by O-O Happiness ...
    Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. Why not try our system? Learn to communicate quickly and easily in another language. Learn Welsh quickly. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oxford

    by Jan Morris ...
    'Few cities,' Jan Morris observes, 'have been much more loved, loathed, and celebrated.' This book has become a classic account of the character, history, mores, buildings, climate, and people of one of Britain's most fascinating cities. 'A book of outstanding excellence, with a sweep of knowledge and a distinction of style such as I have never before encountered in a work of this sort ... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Pinecone

    by Jenny Uglow ...
    In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church, her masterpiece, she let ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know: Teach Yourself

    by Christine Jones ...
    Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures arereinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not onlylearn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where to use it so yousound natural and appropriate. Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know will helpyou gain the intuition you need to become a confident communicator in your newlanguage. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Last Wolf

    The Hidden Springs of Englishness

    by Robert Winder ...
    It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a land built on a lucky set of natural ingredients: the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed the grass that nourished the sheep that provided the wool, and the wheat fields that provided its cakes and ale. Then came the seams of iron and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Essential Welsh Grammar: Teach Yourself

    by Christine Jones ...
    Essential Welsh Grammar will help you get more out of your study of Welsh.Essential Welsh Grammar is an up-to-date introduction to Welsh grammar. You don't need to know a lot about grammar before you start. Everything is explained simply and there are lots of examples to illustrate each point. Unlike more traditional grammars, Essential Welsh Grammar is structured so that you can look up language ... Read more

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