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Interpersonal Violence against Children and Youth
Interpersonal Violence Against Children and Youth uses empirical research to provide an overview of the risk factors, different types of violence against children and youth, their …
No Parent Left Behind
The goal of an elementary school is to educate all children. However, the growing number of students per school and the increased demands placed upon teachers make this more …
Travels in an Old Tongue
Studying in Lampeter, Dyfed and learning Welsh, Pamela Petro found it infuriating that whenever she stumbled with her Welsh, the locals would always revert to English. She decided …
Sitting Up with the Dead
An enthralling, rollicking tour among the storytellers of the American Deep South. The story of the South is not finished. The southeastern states of America, the old …
Long Field
The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth'.
Music as Social and Cultural Practice
Essays dealing with the controversial concept of the "work", and how far social and cultural practices are integral to it. The linking theme of the essays collected here is the …
Long Field
The Long Field burrows deep into the Welsh countryside to tell how this small country became a big part of an American writer's life. Petro twines her story around that of Wales by …
The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of WalesHiraeth is a Welsh word that's …