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Owain Arwel Hughes

My Life in Music

By: Owain Arwel Hughes

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Owain Arwel Hughes, OBE CBE, is one of the world’s foremost conductors. Having recorded and performed with leading orchestras including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia Halle Orchestra and many throughout Scandinavia, his career of over forty year has seen him share centre stage with some of the world's greatest performers from Julian Lloyd Webber to Bryn Terfel, Pavarotti to Shirley Bassey, and has brought him into contact with a wide array of personalities - Prime Ministers, royalty, Church leaders and sports stars. Now, in his open, honest and entertaining autobiography, prompted by the catastrophic events of 9/11, Owain takes a look back at the events and people that have shaped and influenced his life and the occasions when, despite adversity, the show had to go on...

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University of Wales Press

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0708326307

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9780708326305

Matins, Lauds, and Vespers for St. David's Day

The Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E

By: Owain Tudor Edwards

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Matins, Lauds, and Vespers for St. David's Day

The Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E

By: Owain Tudor Edwards

This book looks at the only Welsh antiphonal known and discusses in particular the material for services celebrating the memory of the Welsh patron saint. The book has a full listing and description of the contents of the Penpont Antiphonal, National Library of Wales MS. 20541 E, and discusses the significance of the Office of St David. The chants and the literary text are described and discussed, supported by full transcriptions of the musical and literary texts, and by facsimile reproduction of the manuscript folios. The office is considered in its historical perspective, as evidence of the active cultivation of music in Wales during the Middle Ages, and for its relationship to other similar late medieval offices and to Rhigyfarch's Life of St David.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0859912930

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9780859912938

40 Classic Crude Oil Trades

Real-Life Examples of Innovative Trading

By: Owain Johnson

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40 Classic Crude Oil Trades

Real-Life Examples of Innovative Trading

By: Owain Johnson

The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders. Few non-specialists appreciate how oil traders approach the markets, what their backgrounds are and how they make money. This book brings the oil trading world to vivid life by introducing the reader to 40 real-life trades or strategies that were carried out by named market participants. The 40 chapters cover different geographies and different crude oil markets, providing an unparalleled insight into how crude oil traders work and think. Oil trading developed in its current form in the 1980s and the chapters cover these early beginnings through to the present day. The trades have been grouped in sections that relate to the nature of each trade and its broader use as an example of a successful trading style. Sections cover approaches to arbitrage trading; the impact of geopolitics; logistics and storage plays; short-term versus longer term trading; managing new crude oil grades; trading crude oil derivatives. The book provides plenty of inspiration for current or prospective crude oil traders or analysts. It will also be valuable for academic researchers, business school case studies, and for anyone wanting to learn more about the individuals that shape the world’s most important commodity market.

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Routledge

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1000539458

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9781000539455

Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering

By: Trystan Owain Hughes

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Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering

By: Trystan Owain Hughes

Everyone suffers at some time or other - it's simply a part of life. But however bad things seem, we are never completely helpless. For the deeply affirming truth is that we can choose how to respond to adverse circumstances. Trystan Owain Hughes suggests that learning how to suffer and how to wait patiently may be the secret of finding joy in our lives. Diagnosed with a degenerative spinal condition, he was surprised to discover that, instead of increasing his unhappiness, it spurred him on to seek out sources of hope and meaning. The book opens by encouraging us to take a step back from our anxieties and worries and rest in the love of God. We then explore five areas where that love may be found in the midst of pain: in nature, memory, art, laughter and other people. By becoming conscious of the echoes of the transcendent in these areas, we will gain new strength. And paradoxically, through facing our suffering, learn to truly live.

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SPCK

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0281065187

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9780281065189

Digsite

By: Owain Nicholson

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Digsite

By: Owain Nicholson

Digsite draws on Nicholson’s experience working in the Alberta oil sands and arboreal forest, taking an archaeological lens to its subject, and in this way, reimagines tens of thousands of years of human existence. These poems grow from a schism between the current place of living and the ones in which we are pulled back to, in particular, the places we no longer occupy. Nicholson’s language draws on his archaeological and fieldwork background as he burrows and grinds the places we have lost, consistently underpinned by the grief that must accompany such a fervent exploration. In these discoveries, Nicholson presents us with the material remains of our own abandonment, of loss and acceptance, and ultimately leaves us with more questions than when we began.

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Harbour Publishing

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0889710724

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9780889710726

The Price Reporters

A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks

By: Owain Johnson

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The Price Reporters

A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks

By: Owain Johnson

Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms like Platts, Argus and ICIS, which are referenced every day by commodity traders and which influence billions of dollars of trade, are totally unfamiliar to consumers. The Price Reporters: A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks brings the mysterious world of price reporting out of the shadows for the first time, providing a comprehensive guide to the agencies that set the world’s commodity prices. This book explains the importance of PRAs to the global commodities industry, highlighting why PRAs affect every consumer around the world. It introduces the individual PRAs, their history and the current state of play in the industry, and also presents the challenges that the PRA industry is facing now and in the future, in particular how regulation might impact on the PRAs, their relationships with commodity exchanges, and their likely direction. This is the first-ever guide to PRAs and is destined to become the standard reference work for anyone with an interest in commodity prices and the firms that set them.

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348

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Routledge

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1351760556

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9781351760553

Leadership

Limits and possibilities

By: Keith Grint,Owain Smolovic Jones

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Leadership

Limits and possibilities

By: Keith Grint,Owain Smolovic Jones

Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of leadership and through this debate suggests possible ways to improve as a leader. It is structured around 5 key aspects of leadership: person, product, position, process and purpose, providing a useful organizing framework. It combines theoretical discussions with lively examples to bring the subject alive.

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417

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350328545

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9781350328549

Tryweryn

A Nation Awakes

By: Owain Williams

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Tryweryn

A Nation Awakes

By: Owain Williams

The life story of Owain Williams, the Welsh Freedom Fighter (and later a councillor) who was jailed in 1963 for blowing up an electricity pylon as part of the bombing campaign against the building of the Tryweryn reservoir to provide water for the city of Liverpool.

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Y Lolfa

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1784613282

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9781784613280

Tree Cultures

The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place

By: Paul Cloke,Owain Jones

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Tree Cultures

The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place

By: Paul Cloke,Owain Jones

The relationship between nature and culture has become a popular focus in social science, but there have been few grounded accounts of trees. Providing shelter, fuel, food and tools, trees have played a vital role in human life from the earliest times, but their role in symbolic expression has been largely overlooked. For example, trees are often used to express nationalistic feelings. Germans drew heavily on tree and forest imagery in nation-building, and the idea of 'hearts of oak' has been central to concepts of English identity. Classic scenes of ghoulish trees coming to life and forests closing in on unsuspecting passers-by commonly feature in the media. In other instances, trees are used to represent paradisical landscapes and symbolize the ideologies of conservation and concern for nature. Offering new theoretical ideas, this book looks at trees as agents that co-constitute places and cultures in relationship with human agency. What happens when trees connect with human labour, technology, retail and consumption systems? What are the ethical dimensions of these connections? The authors discuss how trees can affect and even define notions of place, and the ways that particular places are recognized culturally. Working trees, companion trees, wild trees and collected or conserved trees are considered in relation to the dynamic politics of conservation and development that affect the values given to trees in the contemporary world. Building on the growing field of landscape study, this book offers rich insights into the symbolic and practical roles of trees. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the anthropology of landscape, forestry, conservation and development, and for those concerned with the social science of nature.

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Routledge

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1000210952

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9781000210958

Think Small

The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals

By: Owain Service,Rory Gallagher

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Think Small

The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals

By: Owain Service,Rory Gallagher

Think Small is a simple and accessible plan for success, based on seven scientifically tested steps that really work.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1782436340

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9781782436348

The Compassion Quest

By: Trystan Owain Hughes

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The Compassion Quest

By: Trystan Owain Hughes

In this follow-up to his much praised Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering, Trystan Owain Hughes encourages us to develop an approach to life that looks beyond our own concerns. Using illustrations from poetry, literature and film, and drawing on contemporary scientific thought, the author makes plain that our natural state is an interconnected harmony with God, with each other and with the world around us. Gradually we come to realize that loving others and desiring the best for them is worthwhile, even when there seems to be little in it for us. Just as Christ chose to humble himself and become 'God with us', so we too will bring light to the lives of those around us by transcending our self-centredness and becoming fully present to those in need. And as we begin to attune ourselves to love's frequency, our inner being will instinctively embrace all creation as sacred and deserving of our care and attention.

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SPCK

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0281068267

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9780281068265

Geography and Memory

Explorations in Identity, Place and Becoming

By: Owain Jones,Joanne Garde-Hansen

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Geography and Memory

Explorations in Identity, Place and Becoming

By: Owain Jones,Joanne Garde-Hansen

This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming. Drawing upon cultural geography, the book provides an accessible framework to approach key aspects of memory, remembering, archives, commemoration and forgetting in modern societies.

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Springer

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1137284072

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9781137284075

Guerrilla Democracy

Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century

By: Bloom, Peter,Smolović Jones, Owain,Jamie Woodcock

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Guerrilla Democracy

Mobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century

By: Bloom, Peter,Smolović Jones, Owain,Jamie Woodcock

Combining cutting edge theories with empirical research, this timely book offers an in-depth analysis of current platform-based radical movements to show how digital technologies revolutionise political and economic organising. This is an invaluable contribution to the emerging literature on the relationship between technology and society.

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Policy Press

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1529205611

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9781529205619

The Metaphysics of Truth

By: Douglas Owain Edwards

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The Metaphysics of Truth

By: Douglas Owain Edwards

What is truth? What role does truth play in the connections between language and the world? What is the relationship between truth and being? The Metaphysics of Truth tackles these fundamental philosophical questions and develops a distinctive metaphysical worldview. Moreover, it does so in a climate where the traditionally central issue of the nature of truth has diminished in significance due to the rise of deflationary and primitivist views, which deny that there are interesting and informative things to say about truth. Douglas Edwards responds to these views, and demonstrates the importance of the metaphysics of truth with regard to both the study of truth itself, and metaphysical debates more generally. He also develops a detailed pluralist metaphysical approach, which starts with the diversity of different subject areas, and holds that there are different relationships between language and the world in different areas, or 'domains'. He develops a pluralist approach which explains what domains are; how different domains are individuated; which metaphysical frameworks apply in different domains; and how truth plays a key role in the picture. The picture is extended to incorporate ontological pluralism - the idea that there are different ways of being - which increases the explanatory power of the view. Edwards gives particular attention to important domains which have not yet received a great deal of attention in debates about truth, namely the institutional and social domains, and thus connects work on the metaphysics of truth and being to key issues in social construction.

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Oxford University Press

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0198758693

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9780198758693

Think Small

The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals

By: Owain Service,Rory Gallagher

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Think Small

The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals

By: Owain Service,Rory Gallagher

Think Small is a simple and accessible plan for success, based on seven scientifically tested steps that really work.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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Think Small

The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals

By: Owain Service,Rory Gallagher

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Think Small

The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals

By: Owain Service,Rory Gallagher

We're often told to dream big, the sky's the limit and that nothing is impossible. While it is undoubtedly good advice to set yourself goals that have the potential to make you and those around you healthier and happier, how to reach those goals is often less clear. From getting fit or securing a new job to becoming a better manager or parent, simply setting your mind to something will rarely get you where you want to be, and big plans can quickly become overwhelming, leaving us feeling as though we've failed. Most of us set goals with very good intentions, so why do our best-laid plans so often go awry? When we're so committed to making positive changes and fulfilling our ambition at the outset, is there a way of avoiding the common roadblocks that stand between our goals and us? Thankfully, the answer is yes - and it's much easier to achieve than you might think. Working inside the world's first Nudge Unit, Owain Service and Rory Gallagher know the huge impact that small changes and clear plans, based on a scientific understanding of human behaviour, can have from an individual to an international level. For the first time, Think Small takes these successful approaches and translates them into an easy, simple framework that has the potential to make a big difference to all our lives."--Provided by publisher.

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Owain Arwel Hughes

Owain Arwel Hughes

Matins, Lauds, and Vespers for St. David's Day

Matins, Lauds, and Vespers for St. David's Day

40 Classic Crude Oil Trades

40 Classic Crude Oil Trades

Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering

Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering

Digsite

Digsite

The Price Reporters

The Price Reporters

Leadership

Leadership

Tryweryn

Tryweryn

Tree Cultures

Tree Cultures

Think Small

Think Small

The Compassion Quest

The Compassion Quest

Geography and Memory

Geography and Memory

Guerrilla Democracy

Guerrilla Democracy

The Metaphysics of Truth

The Metaphysics of Truth

Think Small

Think Small

Think Small

Think Small

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