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The timeless tale of a little rabbit's wish to be real is beautifully brought to life by Oakley Graham's charming text and Gareth Llewhellin's delightful illustrations. Adapted from Margery William's original story.

The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the Monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Natural History Museum and Chicago University, they lost their jobs because they refused to renounce their belief in the creature. For decades, t...

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A fresh account of one of the iconic scientific mysteries of the last hundred years. The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?

Discovered in 2007 and acquired by the British Museum and York Museums Trust, the Vale of York hoard was buried in the late 920s in the reign of the West Saxon king Athelstan, in what is now North Yorkshire. This book describes the individual items in the Vale of York treasure and explores the historical context of the burial of this hoard.

The Viking Age was a period of great economic complexity and experimentation in Scandinavia. Based on a symposium held in Aarhus, Denmark in 2008, this book provides a structured basis for comparison, combining regional overviews with case-studies of significant sites or hoards of Scandinavia.

Subtitled, "21 Designers For Twenty-First Century Britain". Showcases designers living and working in Britain who have come to prominence since the millennium. Combines interviews with commentary and evaluation.

Written to honour this marvellous, newly discovered National Treasure that the Ashmolean hopes to acquire in the not too distant future.

With a clear, concise approach, this comprehensive resource will support your EAL learners in understanding key scientific concepts. A step-by-step approach will help every learner reach their potential in science.

This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is nowhere explained. Exile transforms Ovid into a melancholic poet of despair who claims that his creative faculties are in terminal decline. But researc...

This volume, prepared in tribute to Barbara E. Crawford, covers the subject of Viking expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic. The 30 papers are arranged in four groups: History and Cultural Contacts, The Church and the Cult of Saints, Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement, and Place-Names and Language.

This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Oskarsdottir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.

When did sofas become sexy? From the advent of aspirational design magazines like "Wallpaper*" to the popularity of interior design shows on television, all signs indicate that we are living in a boom time for furniture design. "The Furniture Machine" is the first in-depth book-length examination of the major trends and designers in contemporary furniture design over the last 15 years. More than 170 illustrations and designs from cutting-edge ...

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Higher education is likely to involve the majority of people at some time in their lives in the twenty-first century. The main drivers of expansion in the previous century were a belief that widening access promotes social equity and the advance of knowledge as the main factor underpinning economic success for individuals and societies. However, universal higher education in rapidly changing economies raises many questions that have been inade...

Higher education is likely to involve the majority of people at some time in their lives in the twenty-first century. The main drivers of expansion in the previous century were a belief that widening access promotes social equity and the advance of knowledge as the main factor underpinning economic success for individuals and societies. However, universal higher education in rapidly changing economies raises many questions that have been inade...

Here for the first time is the compelling story of how the male voice choirs of Wales have become symbols of pride and identity, from their origins in the country's turbulent industrial past via the epic contests fought out on the stage of the National Eisteddfod to their status as iconic features of the contemporary Welsh landscape. -- Gwasg Gomer

A selection of world beating writing on Welsh rugby.

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The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.