Called the "language of heaven," Welsh is beautiful to speak, fascinating to learn and enchanting to hear. It's a musical language, liltingly poetic, and has long been the language of the hearth. But it is also the language of school, office and government, and is equally at home in TV, film and pop culture. This book is an informed and entertaining glance at the origins and history of the most vibrant of the Celtic languages.
Read all about it! Wales was wicked. It's official! We all know that history can be wickedly dull - especially when teachers go on and on...and on...and on! But did you know that in the days of the troublesome Tudors and the sleazy Stuarts people were boiled alive in oil and several husbands tried to sell their wives at livestock fairs? Learn more about the mad murders, scandalous schools and grisly games of the early moderns. Marvel at their pugnacious piracy, royal wrangles and laughable laws...
There's something for everybody in Woeful Wales at War, from the grandparents and great-grandparents who experienced the horrors of war first-hand, to the thousands of schoolchildren who enjoy finding out about this very important (and world-changing) part of our history.
A bilingual, colorful booklet introducing the patron saint of Welsh lovers since the Dark Ages whose spiritual home is an idyllic spot on the Anglesey coast, and an inspiration to modern-day romantics! Includes full-color illustrations and interesting facts about Dwynwen on every page resting facts about samplers and the people who made them.
Dyma gyfrol yn llawn gwybodaeth ddifyr am gymeriadau Cymru ar hyd y canrifoedd. Mae'n sôn am gymeriadau rhyfedd a rhyfeddol, yn ddynion a menywod sydd wedi gwneud eu marc yn hanes Cymru. Roedd ambell un yn athrylith ac ambell un yn adnabyddus am fod yn gymeriad od! Addas i blant 9-13 oed. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Revolutionaries fighting a just cause in order to change rural Wales, or lawless terrorists bent on causing mayhem? Why did the Rebeccaites dress as women? What has been their legacy to us? The answers to these questions, and more, can be found in this useful book.
Cyfrol yn llawn gwybodaeth ddifyr am y môr, am forwyr, a smyglwyr ar hyd y canrifoedd. Mae'n adrodd yr hanesion ac anturiaethau sy'n gysylltiedig â'r pwnc mewn modd ysgafn a darllenadwy, a cheir lluniau a ffotograffau pwrpasol. Addas i blant 9-13 oed. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Cyfrol yn llawn gwybodaeth ddifyr am drosedd a chosb yng Nghymru ar hyd y canrifoedd. Mae'n adrodd yr hanesion sy'n gysylltiedig â throsedd a chosb mewn modd ysgafn a darllenadwy, a cheir lluniau a ffotograffau pwrpasol yn ogystal. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Llyfr stori maint A3 am ddiwrnod yn hanes pysgotwr yng Ngheinewydd yn yr 1960au, yn seiliedig ar gymeriad go iawn. Yn llawn arlunwaith deniadol, manwl. Addas ar gyfer maes Gwybodaeth a Dealltwriaeth o'r Byd y Cyfnod Sylfaen. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Dyma gyfrol yn llawn gwybodaeth ddifyr am derfysg a phrotest yng Nghymru ar hyd y canrifoedd. Mae hanes Cymru yn llawn sôn am frwydro a gwrthryfela - yn erbyn tlodi a chyflogau isel, dros gyfiawnder i'r wlad a'r iaith Gymraeg, neu dros hawliau a thegwch i bobl eraill ar hyd a lled y byd. Addas i blant 9-13 oed. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Dyma gyfrol yn llawn gwybodaeth ddifyr am gampau a chwaraeon yng Nghymru ar hyd y canrifoedd. Mae cymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon, a'u gwylio, wedi bod yn boblogaidd erioed. Ers talwm, dim ond ar ddydd Sul neu ddyddiau gŵyl yr oedd y bobl gyffredin yn cael amser hamdden i chwarae. Ond, o tua 1850 ymlaen, newidiodd chwaraeon yn fawr. Addas i blant 9-13 oed. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
An account of 12 prominent figures in Welsh history written for learners of Welsh and containing a vocabulary on every page. Black-and-white illustrations and photographs.
Cyfrol yn llawn gwybodaeth ddifyr am gartrefi Cymru ar hyd y canrifoedd. Mae'n adrodd yr hanesion sy'n gysylltiedig â'r pwnc mewn modd ysgafn a darllenadwy, a cheir lluniau a ffotograffau pwrpasol yn ogystal. Addas i blant 9-13 oed. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Gwerslyfr defnyddiol sy'n ymdrin â'r newidiadau a fu ym mywydau menywod rhwng 1900 a 2000; yn cynnwys ymarferion amrywiol a chwestiynau arholiad yn ogystal â chyfle i fynd i'r afael â sgiliau sydd eu hangen i fod yn hanesydd. Cyfrol hanfodol ar gyfer pob myfyriwr TGAU sy'n astudio'r pwnc hwn ar gyfer yr arholiad. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Llyfr stori maint A3 am ddiwrnod yn hanes postmon ym Merthyr Tudful yn yr 1960au, yn seiliedig ar gymeriad go iawn. Yn llawn arlunwaith deniadol, manwl. Addas ar gyfer maes Gwybodaeth a Dealltwriaeth o'r Byd y Cyfnod Sylfaen. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Llyfr stori maint A3 am ddiwrnod yn hanes taniwr rheilffordd yng nghanolbarth Cymru yn yr 1960au, yn seiliedig ar gymeriad go iawn. Yn llawn arlunwaith deniadol, manwl. Addas ar gyfer maes Gwybodaeth a Dealltwriaeth o'r Byd y Cyfnod Sylfaen. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
A bilingual booklet telling the fascinating story of the talented lawyer, fearsome warrior and cunning statesman. Contains full-color illustrations and interesting facts on every page. Ideal for all ages.
This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
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