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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2011The Transformation of European Football
Towards the Europeanisation of the national game
by Arne Niemann, Borja Garcia, Wyn Grant
The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. The book brings together two significant research agendas: first, that on the governance of sport in Europe/the European Union; secondly, that within European integration studies on 'Europeanisation' (most commonly understood at the process of change in the domestic arena resulting from European integration). The concept of Europeanisation and in particular' top down' Europeanisation is used to shape the individual country case studies. Other transformational factors such as globalization are also assessed. The three chapters in the introductory section set the context within which the transformation of European football has occurred with particular emphasis on the role of UEFA and EU institutions. The ten country studies in the central part of the book include the five leading football nations in Europe and smaller countries that are facing new challenges in the competitive environment of modern European football. They include an example of a country that is a recent accession state and one outside the EU. What emerges from these chapters is both the shaping influence of Europeanisation but also the extent to which it is countered and modified by national culture and structures. What is also noticeable the sense of decline amongst some of the small and even larger footballing nations in the continent. This book will be of interest to students of European politics, sports governance and football, it also represents a substantial contribution to the debate on Europeanisation. ;
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Pest controlOctober 2010Biopesticides
by Alastair Bailey, David Chandler, Wyn P Grant, Justin Greaves, Gillian Prince, Mark Tatchell
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Home - You
by Ekaterine Togonidze
An earthquake completely shatters Nia’s world. The crack that appeared in her house is a sign that everything she holds dear – her family, relationships and future – is about to be destroyed. Nia is alone and that’s the fate of a lonely warrior, but life gives her another chance by offering her a long-desired role in a film. Together with film shooting starts a new phase in her life, a kind of parallel reality: art as a shelter, as a way of escape. Or possibly the only way of connecting to the reality and finding her own self. In this labyrinth the reader travels with the rhythm of Nia’s quickened heartbeat and breathing, but holds onto Ariadne’s thread to get back, hoping to restore the connection with the lost past and, all the way, noticing something even Nia fails to see, which is the truth of the others in her life. Home – You is Ekaterine Togonidze’s new novel. She is already well-known for collection of short stories, Anesthetic and Listen to Me, novels Another Way, Hurricane Margot and Asynchronies. Ekaterine Togonidze is a two-time participant of the Berlin Literary Colloquium and received the literary prize SABA. Her works are translated into the English, German, Czech, Russian and Abkhaz languages.
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MemoirsOctober 2014The Hill Farmer
by Jones, Gareth Wyn
The autobiography of Welsh hill farmer, Gareth Wyn Jones._x000D_ _x000D_ The farmer and his family came to national prominence in the aftermath of the severe snowstorm which hit their farm in the Carneddau mountain range of north Wales in March 2013._x000D_ _x000D_ Star of the r
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Art: general interest (Children's/YA)April 2021A Day at the Gallery
by Nia Gould
The mice are captivated by Matisse and the cats are exploring the Surrealists’ room ... what else is going on in the gallery? This quirky and creative search-and-find book takes children, room by room, through a wonderfully illustrated gallery, where an array of animals are enjoying everything from Impressionism and Surrealism to Pop Art and Cubism. Each room is filled with strange and astonishing works of art, with things for children to spot and information that introduces artists and art movements
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RomanceAugust 2014The White Witch
by Barbara Cartland
The Marquis of Wynstanton had become involved with one of the beauties of London Society – Locadi, Lady Marshall and when her husband died unexpectedly, the Marquis set out on a long journey to India and Nepal, as he wished to avoid any gossip arising about their liaison. After his return, he resumed the affair, staying on in London for some time when he should have gone straight to Wyn Castle and his country estate. Then he began to suspect that Locadi was using black magic to entice him to her and to induce him to propose marriage. Almost in a panic the Marquis returned to his estate, which he had neglected for so long only to find to his horror that he had been cheated by the manager he had left in charge. At Wyn Castle he meets Flora Romilly, the daughter of a distinguished author. She is known locally as the White Witch, because she can heal ailments with plants and leaves from her herb garden and has worked wonders with his grandmother’s rheumatism. How Flora despises the Marquis as she is so disgusted at the way his people have been treated in his absence. How she is persuaded to help him make amends and put matters to rights on the estate. And how in fleeing from London the Marquis has not escaped from Locadi and her evil magic is all told in this unusual and exciting story by BARBARA CARTLAND.
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Land of Warriors: The Adventure of Elio Modigliani in South Nias 1886
by Vanni Puccioni
This beautiful area in southern Sumatra was known by European adventurers in the nineteenth century as a "wild" land, the home of heroes who did not hesitate to behead, warriors that not even the Dutch colonial government could conquer. But Elio Modigliani, a young explorer from Italy, set foot there and went in and out of one village to another and came home intact. Accompanied by four hired hunters from Java, Modigliani not only succeeded in documenting various aspects of Nias life and culture, but also secretly brought home 26 human skulls which he donated to the National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Florence for their research. The big question is, why wasn't Modigliani killed, even though the other adventurers had to save themselves? Now Vanni Puccioni, the grandson of the museum director who exhibited the results of Modigliani's expedition, decided to follow in his footsteps and retrace the places the explorer had visited. The goal is one: to discover how Modigliani could survive among these warriors.
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IN THE TIME OF YELLOW BUTTERFLIES
by Vanni Puccioni
Nias Island, (Sumatra) 1856-1861. The Southern region of Nias island keeps on resisting the Dutch colonizers with its fearsome warriors. After being repeatedly defeated in the thick jungle, the Dutch mount a strong naval expedition, with the objective of building a fort in the bay of Lagundri. Bawo Mataluo is the strongest village in the region and its chief succeeds in rallying the other villages to form an army of a thousand warriors, able to crush the invaders. But mysteriously, they will not attack… But after five years the fort is destroyed by a tsunami, and the Dutch finally withdraw. (the above are actual historical facts). What happened in between these events? The story winds in the village of Bawo Mataluo, through the characters of Tuha, an old and wise witchdoctor, his rampant and evil competitor Galifa, village chiefs, a South African missionary, an evil archbishop, Dutch soldiers, and sea captains. At the turning point of the story are three episodes of man-hunting, each duel being fought through a sense: sight, scent, and hearing are the weapons to find the opponent in the thick jungle. We read of passionate love between Tuha and his wife Sumia, and between his niece Mohua and her brave but unlucky suitor. We read of mortal disease and revenge, of war, of cowardice, of treason and bravery. And we read of divine justice, delivered through the ocean.
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Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)June 2014
Hunting the Man in the Moon
by Wyn, Dafydd
Men have just landed on the moon as David Jones begins his first year as a pupil at Croesdy Comprehensive School. The bullies who pick on him learn about his secret fears in order to make his life a misery. They picture themselves as astronauts in pursuit
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General fiction (Children's/YA)May 2008The M4 Cats
by Wyn, Dafydd
A novel for children aged 9-12. The London cats are fleeing along the M4 to find refuge in Tircoed in West Wales. they are escaping from the cat flu virus and unpleasant memories of Old Gap-tooth, a giant rat in the sewers beneath Trafalgar Square. Meanwh
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)November 2007Red Bandits of Mawddwy
by Edwards, Meinir Wyn
A wild-looking bunch of men are hiding in the woods. They are seeking revenge but the enemy is determined to put a stop to their actions. A tragic scene on Christmas Eve changes everything. Welsh version available, "Gwylliaid Cochion Mawddwy".
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)February 2007Cantre'r Gwaelod
by Edwards, Meinir Wyn
Gwyn and Llewelyn, the two watchmen on duty, were fed up of waiting for Seithennyn. He was having the time of his life at Princess Mererid's birthday party at the palace when the storm crashed through the sea wall. Welsh version available.
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)May 2008Famous Welsh Tales
by Edwards, Meinir Wyn
Wales is a country full of myths and legends. This collection of folk tales contains a story of love from the Llyn Peninsula; a stormy tale of a land that disappeared under the sea; a tragic tale of a young collier from Merthyr Tydfil; a king who would do
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Traditional stories (Children's/YA)June 2011Welsh Folk Stories
by Edwards, Meinir Wyn
Wales is a country full of myths and legends. This is a collection of five famous folk stories from Wales: Twm Siôn Cati, the legendary highwayman who loved to play tricks; Branwen and Bendigeidfran, the giant who walked across the sea from Wales to irela
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Literary studies: poetry & poetsMarch 2013
Dylan Thomas - The Pubs (paperback)
by Towns, Jeff & Thomas, Wyn
A pictorial tour of some of the pubs Dylan Thomas attended in Swansea, west Wales, Oxford, London and the USA. This book will put Dylan Thomas' love of public houses and liking of drink into its proper perspective. Events that happened to him in and aroun
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersMelville as Poet
The Art of “Pulsed Life”
by Sanford Marovitz (editor)
The first collection of original critical essays on Melville’s poetryHerman Melville’s literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rendering of his pilgrimage of 1856–57 to the Holy Land, as well as the two small volumes of poems he published before his death in 1891.Melville as Poet: The Art of “Pulsed Life” opens with an introduction by Sanford E. Marovitz and the late Douglas Robillard on Melville’s conception of poetry as a literary form. The essays begin with Dennis Berthold’s study of how Melville’s observations of art at New York’s National Academy of Design in 1865 are reflected in Battle-Pieces, and Mary K. Bercaw Edwards follows, describing how the nautical combat of the ironclads Monitor and Merrimack became a subject of wide contemporary interest in popular culture. The next three essays focus on Clarel. Peter Riley explains how Melville’s familiarity with the congestion of Lower Manhattan as a customs inspector influenced his descriptions of Jerusalem. Gordon M. Poole then discusses notable subtleties in Ruggero Bianchi’s Italian translation of the poem, and Robert R. Wallace reveals how selected Biblical prints and other graphics familiar to Melville affected the poet’s descriptions in Clarel. Melville’s John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) is then examined by A. Robert Lee, who emphasizes the themes of memory and death in that small volume, and Sanford E. Marovitz illuminates Melville’s method of unifying Timoleon, Etc. by using contrast to bind, not separate. Vernon Shetley compares Melville’s “Pausilippo” thematically with Shelley’s “Julian and Maddalo,” and Michael Jonik explores “The Archipelago” for insights into Melville’s experimentation with imagery and form. Finally, Wyn Kelley, Clark Davis, and Robert Sandberg imaginatively examine and reassess poems Melville left unpublished at his death.Melville as Poet is a valuable collection of new and critical scholarship that aims to encourage more and deeper study of Melville’s art of poetry.
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Social issues & processesMay 2011Assessing the Impact of Severe Economic Recession on the Elderly
Summary of a Workshop
by Malay Majmundar, Rapporteur; Steering Committee on the Challenges of Assessing the Impact of Severe Economic Recession on the Elderly; National Research Council
The economic crisis that began in 2008 has had a significant impact on the well-being of certain segments of the population and its disruptive effects can be expected to last well into the future. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), which is concerned with this issue as it affects the older population in the United States, asked the National Research Council to review existing and ongoing research and to delineate the nature and dimensions of potential scientific inquiry in this area. The Committee on Population thus established the Steering Committee on the Challenges of Assessing the Impact of Severe Economic Recession the Elderly to convene a meeting of experts to discuss these issues. The primary purpose of the workshop was to help NIA gain insight into the kinds of questions that it should be asking, the research that it should be supporting, and the data that it should be collecting. Attendees included invited experts in the fields of economics, sociology, and epidemiology; staff from NIA and the Social Security Administration (SSA); and staff from the National Academies. This report highlights the major issues that were raised in the workshop presentations and discussion.
