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Sarah Hill

In the 1960s, Welsh-language popular music emerged as a vehicle for mobilizing a geographically dispersed community into political action. As the decades progressed, Welsh popular music developed beyond its acoustic folk roots, adopting the various styles of contemporary popular music, and ultimately gaining the cultural self-confidence to compete in the Anglo-American mainstream market. The resulting tensions, between Welsh and English, amateur and professional, rural and urban, the local and the international, necessitate the understanding of Welsh pop as part of a much larger cultural process. Not merely a 'Celtic' issue, the cultural struggles faced by Welsh speakers in a predominantly Anglophone environment are similar to those faced by innumerable other minority communities enduring political, social or linguistic domination. The aim of ""Blerwytirhwng?" The Place of Welsh Pop Music" is to explore the popular music which accompanied those struggles, to connect Wales to the...

Steve Almond

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Doug Giles

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Patrick Russell

Ever since John Grierson popularized the term "documentary", British non-fiction film has been renowned, sometimes reviled, but seldom properly appreciated. 100 British Documentaries provides a uniquely accessible, occasionally provocative introduction to a rich and surprisingly varied tradition by considering 100 examples taken from across a century's worth of output. The 100 films range from the Victorian period to the present day. Alongside such classics as Night Mail and Touching the Void are documentaries that illustrate the many uses to which it has been put - from program-filler to political propaganda to classroom teaching aid - and the many styles and viewpoints it has embraced. While the focus is on the documentary "film", several television productions are included, indicating how the genre has developed on the small screen.

Sam Stall

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Jason Wood

This book offers a critique in terms of aesthetics, plot structure and defining formal and thematic features, while also considering under what criteria a film may be considered a road movie. Full credits, including year of production, principal cast, technical crew, and country of origin are also included at the foot of each entry.

Daniel Rosenthal

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of The Tempest (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It (2006), this work includes a selection Shakespeare films.

Pete Naish

What makes a crossword super? These 100 brainteasers will show you! First, they use real-life words - not ones like stoas or esnes that seem to exist only in crossword puzzle dictionaries. Next, they have a theme, with at least two answers in each puzzle that relate to each other. And finally, the clues are clever enough to test solvers' crossword savvy...but not so difficult that newer puzzle fans will end up screaming in frustration. And of course, the answers to these skillfully-made and entertaining puzzles are in the back.

Paul Zenon

As opposed to offering up typical magic tricks, this hilarious collection of scams, swindles, bets, and stunts features everyday objects and requires no special skills—just nerve. Some of the scams presented include how to drink from a champagne bottle without opening it, guess the date on a coin as it spins on the table, and pull a 10-dollar bill out from under a beer bottle without touching or knocking over the bottle. This amusing guide claims that a cheater, armed with the right skills, always wins and provides a crash course in conning at cards, pool, bets, and pretty much any activity where a sucker can be cornered into taking a chance.

Pete Naish

Why are these crosswords so wonderful? Just look at these clues and see: Castle site? (Solution: Sandbox.) Trip around the world? (Orbit). It'll give you that sinking feeling. (Quicksand). It's clear that while the questions are clever, the answers use plain language, and not that mysterious vocabulary found only in the puzzle world. Adding to the fun are the crosswords' themes, which provide a guide to some of the answers. Once they sharpen their pencils, and their minds, solvers will have a great time honing their skills on every one.

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Randy Howe

What is it about athletes and their amazing ability to twist and torture the English language? Here is an eminently readable, laugh-out-loud, always entertaining, can't-put-it-down collection of 1001 of the must stupefyingly dumb quotes from the world's best athletes. While they might be at the top of the athletic world, their profound inability to communicate clearly and articulately puts them on the bench. Here's a small sampling: Readers will want more, and "1001 Stupid Sports Quotes: Jaw-Dropping, Stupefying, and Amazing Expressions from the World's Best Athletes" will provide hours of entertainment.

Ben Malisow

If you're craving some adventure in your life - or just looking to see how the other side lives, "1001 Things to Do If You Dare" is sure to satisfy with its boundary-pushing suggestions of outrageous acts and fear-inducing feats guaranteed to test the physical, mental, and emotional limits of even the most venturesome. Offering up the antidote to the status quo, thrill-seeker extraordinaire Ben Malisow also let's you keep score along the way with risk rating scales and checkboxes to track your danger quotient. So go ahead, take the leap... if you dare.

Ray Comfort

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