The Promise

The Promise
Author: Nicola Davies
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536221716

“This tale is a sturdy one that is made even more emphatic by Davies’s terse writing style. The text is heightened in every way by Carlin’s outstanding mixed-media artwork.” — Booklist (starred review) On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman says the thief can’t have it without giving something in return: the promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change the girl’s life — and a chance to change the world, for good.

Wales

Wales
Author: Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1895
Genre: Wales
ISBN:

Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales

Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales
Author: Glyn Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000887499

Social and Cultural Change in Contemporary Wales (1978) draws together recent research specifically on Wales, to overcome the overly-English takes on the ‘social structure of modern Britain’. A pattern of relative social deprivation is outlined, and such symptoms of this deprivation as second home ownership, school closure, economic peripheralism and inadequate social services become the marker of Wales’ marginality. The cultural marker of note is the Welsh language, several of the papers discussing its erosion and the steps taken to preserve and maintain it. While ethnicity serves as an integrating force, there are also divisions based upon class, which are discussed.

Contemporary Wales

Contemporary Wales
Author: The Open University
Publisher: The Open University
Total Pages: 195
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

This 15-hour free course explored key aspects of the economy, society, politics and culture of contemporary Wales from a social science perspective.

Environmental Law and Policy in Wales

Environmental Law and Policy in Wales
Author: Patrick Bishop
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2013-03-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 178316025X

This book is a collective academic response from environmental law scholars sharing an interest in Welsh perspectives on today’s local and global environmental challenges. The editors brought colleagues together at a ground-breaking colloquium at Swansea University in April 2011, seeking to foster new legal approaches at a time that sees a new dynamic toward a devolved Wales, including in the environmental policy field. This afforded the opportunity to reflect on pressing environmental quandaries, and to bring together contributors’ conceptual insights and technical legal know-how in identifying ideas for potential responses and solutions. These environmental problems with palpably global implications, such as climate change, thus require engagement at regional and local levels to look to the future.