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Nofel hanesyddol gan y nofelydd poblogaidd Gareth F. Williams, yn cynnwys darluniau gan Graham Howells, i gofio am a phortreadu trychineb diwydiannol gwaetha'r 20fed ganrif a ddigwyddodd ym Medi 1913,
Un tro - yn reit ddiweddar, a dweud y gwir - roedd bachgen ifanc o'r enw Derwyn yn byw efo'i rieni mewn hen fwthyn yn y goedwig. Dysgai ei fam yn ysgol gynradd a'i dad yn yr ysgol uwchradd. Anodd iawn oedd dweud pa un ohonyn nhw oedd yn cwyno fwyaf.
Mae Y Ddwy Lisa yn adrodd hanes Lisa Angharad a Lisa Marie, y ddwy ar yr wyneb yn gymeriadau hollol wahanol i'w gilydd. Ond mae bywydau'r ddwy'n dod ynghyd mewn modd tywyll sydd y tu hwnt i realiti. Nofel sy'n dal gafael hyd at y diwedd.
A novel based on the Senghennydd disaster of October 1913, the worst tragedy in the story of Welsh coalmining when 439 workers, both men and boys, perished.
Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty’s assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as ‘bigger than Marx’ (The Economist) or dismissed as ‘medieval’ (Wall Street Journal), the book is widely acknowledged as having significant economic and political implications. Collected in this BWB Text are responses to this phenomenon from a diverse range of New Zealand economists and commentators. These voices speak independently to the relevance of Piketty’s conclusions. Is New Zealand faced with a one-way future of rising inequality? Does redistribution need to focus more on wealth, rather than just income? Was the post-war Great Convergence merely an aberration and is our society doomed to regress into a new Gilded Age?
Silver, Butter, Cloth discusses what constituted 'money' in the Viking Age, and how 'money' was used? It is widely accepted that silver constituted the main form of currency. Silver, Butter, Cloth examines how silver functioned as payment but also explores the monetary role of non-silver currencies in the Viking economy.
"This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been ...
Sean has been on the run from an Alpha who desires his power and submission all his life. He’s close to death when Alpha Gareth finds him. Gareth’s wolf demands he claim his mate, but Sean will bring danger to the Lydon pack....
In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America and Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. Throughout their existence, the Vikings encountered a remarkable diversity of peoples and inhabited an expansive and changing world. This beautifully illustrated book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe ...
Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics