Little book of wales

Little Book of Wales

Everything you could possibly want to know about Wales in one handy, pocket-sized book!

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Little Book of Wales

Fascinating Welsh facts, new in paperback

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Little Gay History of Wales

A Little Gay History of Wales examines the lives, cultures and politics of ordinary LGBT men and women from the medieval period to the present day. Th

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Welsh Fairy Book

Containing a variety of tales from Wales, a land rich in folklore and fairy stories, this book will be of interest to both young readers and old.

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Brief History of British Kings a Queens

Presents the British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the Uni

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First Prince of Wales?

This is the first book to explain how Wales was transformed from a kingdom to a principality as the Norman Conquest forged modern Britain.

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Child Poverty in Wales

This book provides national governments and school-communities with a model way of working to push back against child poverty, showcasing Wales’s

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Broadcasting for Wales

S4C is no ordinary channel, this book chronicles the challenges, successes and failures of the S4C Authority and its staff during the channel's trial

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Impact of Devolution in Wales

This book is about the impact of Welsh devolution on public policy. It examines how, from a fragile beginning, distinct political institutions and ide

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Gentility in Early Modern Wales

Between 1450 and 1720, Wales was a place of opportunity as well as a society in transition. This book is an exciting new study of how one elite family

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Medieval Wales c.1050-1332

This book examines the achievements of Welsh rulers - such as Llywelyn the Great and Llywelyn the Last in the so-called Age of the Princes - but also

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Early Modern Wales c.1536–c.1689

This book explores the history of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It tackles subjects such as the Union of Wales and England, the Reformati

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Little Book of Welsh Culture

A fact-filled journey through the cultural heritage of Wales, new in paperback

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Little Book of Welsh Landmarks

A fact-filled journey through Welsh landmarks, from the snowy peaks of Snowdonia to the glorious Wales Coastal Path.

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Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason

In this book, the author systematically introduces one of the most important areas of KantÂ’s philosophy and relates its basic ideas to the debates of

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Simply Love

While on a summer holiday in Wales, Anne meets Sydnam Butler, a tacitum hero of the Peninsula Wars. Gentle yet courageous, he is unlike any man Anne h

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Representing the Male

This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity expressed

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Masks in Horror Cinema

As the first critical book on the subject of masks in horror, this book explores the often-overlooked question of why have masks been such an enduring

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Uncanny Youth

This book examines Gothic representations of childhood and adolescence in hemispheric American literature.

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Causes in Common

This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women's movement in modern Wales. Drawing on an array of compelling sources, this is a vivid

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John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions

This book provides the first discussion of the most steadfast supporter of parliament in Wales during the British Civil Wars (1642–9), who was eventu

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Theologia Cambrensis

A history of religion in Wales between 1588, when the first complete Welsh Bible was published, and 1760. The book describes the development of Christ

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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

This book considers Hester Lynch Piozzi as a Welsh writer of Wales, and documents the importance of her decision to build the beautiful Brynbella in n

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For the Recorde

A popular and readable book about the history of mathematicians in Wales, appealing to a wide audience – including those who may think of maths as so

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Rock Legends at Rockfield

Looks at the hysterical behind-the-scene antics of rock icons at the world famous Rockfield Studios in Wales. This book contains the stories behind so

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Theologia Cambrensis

The book describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious thought, it also include

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Watchdogs or Visionaries?

This ground-breaking book, which traces the changing role of school and college inspectors in Wales over time, offers insights into debates about the

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Introducing the Medieval Swan

This book examines the swan in medieval literature, spanning from Classical to Early Modern associations.

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Crimes Against Humanity

This book brings together jurisprudential debates on international criminal law, international law scholarship on the limits of state sovereignty, and

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Towards Modern Nationhood

This book compares how two underdog peoples shaped their modern national identities. Welsh Nonconformists, fighting for religious equality and social

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Saving the Pyramids

This book provides new and innovative theories into the construction of Egypt's ancient pyramids and the restoration of some of Cairo's most monumenta

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Latin America and Existentialism

This book is a literary history of existentialism in Latin America. While primarily a literary study, indispensable (if underappreciated) figures of e

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How Kant Matters For Biology

This book explores Kant's influence on the development of biology and his importance for contemporary issues in philosophy of biology. Establishing Ka

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Blumhouse Productions

Blumhouse Productions is the first academic book to examine one of the film industry's most successful producers of horror cinema. Individual chapters

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Welsh Criminal Justice System

Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this urgent and challenging book provides the first academic account of the operation of the Welsh cri

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Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March

This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to becomi

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Ramsey Campbell

Following studies of Lovecraft and Stephen King, this book pays overdue attention to KingÂ’s equally prolific contemporary, BritainÂ’s Ramsey Campbell

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Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches is a comprehensive study of the teenage witch as a cultural trope. The book explo

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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

This book demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies withi

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Fighting for Justice

This book provides a unique oversight of judges' work and contemporary legal challenges in Common Law and Civil Law countries, based on the legal prac

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Nature and Medieval Literature

This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world – both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as

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New Blood

This book includes academic studies from established scholars and early career researchers, as well as fans of horror cinema. It is written for its ow

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R. S. Thomas to Rowan Williams

R. S. Thomas and Rowan Williams enjoy an international reputation. This book demonstrates how the spiritual poetry of both has its roots in a remarkab

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Compatriots or Competitors?

This book debates how Brexit has exacerbated cultural differences between the four nations of Britain in a way that ultimately places the future exist

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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic

This book explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British repres

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From the Cradle to the Coalmine

This is an accessible, richly illustrated book, telling the story of the children and young people who worked in the Welsh coalfields.

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Welsh Language

This book offers a broad historical survey of Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to television and pop culture in the early twent

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This is Not a Grail Romance

This book provides the modern reader with the key to understanding the structure and context of the complex and mysterious narrative Historia Peredur

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Plants Matter

This book takes a journey around the world to demonstrate how plants influence people’s lives. From mealtimes to belief systems, from addictions

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Australian Gothic

The Gothic has contributed a distinctive style and atmosphere to Australian cinema since the 1970s. This book traces the appearance and interprets the

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How Water Makes Us Human

This book provides a novel cross-disciplinary approach to water, demonstrating the role water plays in shaping human lives. It uses anthropological in

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Blaxploitation Horror Film

This book, the first on Blaxploitation horror films such as Blacula, compares them with both mainstream horror movies and canonical Gothic stories. Wh

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Introducing the Medieval Dragon

This book is an introduction written for both the scholar and the interested lay reader. It presents a fascinating topic - the medieval dragon - in an

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Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

This book updates oppressive metaphors of Puerto Rico as a ‘big family’ in the prose of Afro-Puerto Rican authors Mayra Santos-Febres, Dahlma Llanos

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Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

A horrific family tragedy sets 16-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous.

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Land of Little Rain

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Little Book of Peace

A beautiful gift book filled with inspiring stories and insights on how to achieve greater peace in life from the author of The Little Book of Mindful

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Joan, Lady of Wales

This is the first book to ever be written on Joan, Lady of Wales.

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Refugee Wales

This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a resea

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Little Book of Resilience

A beautifully illustrated book about what happens when we get back up after being knocked down. From the bestselling author of I Had a Black Dog, The

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