New Releases by Peter Stevenson

Cyfarwydd yw’r hen enw am storïwr, un sy’n adrodd storïau. Yn y llyfr hwn cewch gipolwg ar ei stôr o storïau gwych. Dewch i gwrdd â môr-forynion swnllyd Bae Ceredigion, gwledydd cudd dan y môr, hen goeden lle mae drws i’r byd arall, a’r llyffant doeth holl-wybodus sy’n byw yng Nghors Fochno. Neu beth am y ferch glyfar drodd yn alarch, gyr o wartheg swyn sy’n byw dan Lyn Barfog, a’r eliffant a fu farw – efallai – yn Nhregaron?

The first lavishly illustrated collection of famous and forgotten Welsh folk tales created for children

The Grimms called them The Quiet Folk, in Māori they are Patupaiarehe, in Wales Y Tylwyth Teg : hidden people who live unseen, speak their own languages and move around like migrants, shrouded from our eyes – like those who lived in the utopian world of Plant Rhys Ddwfn off the west Welsh coast, where this book begins. In mythology, lost lands are coral castles beneath the sea, ancient forests where spirits live, and mountain swamps where trolls lurk. Strip away the mythology, and they become valleys and villages flooded to provide drinking water to neighbouring kingdoms, campsites where travellers are told they can''t travel, and reservations where the rights of first nations people are ignored. The folk tales in this book tell of these lost lands and hidden people, remembered through migrations, dreams and memories.

A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an ''Indian Princess'', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there, and those curious travellers who returned to find their roots in the old country. They were explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers. The Cherokee called them: '' the Moon-Eyed People''.

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of ‘chwedlau’. If someone says, ‘Chwedl Cymraeg?’ they are asking, ‘Do you speak Welsh?’ and ‘Do you tell a tale in Welsh?’ Here is the root of storytelling, or ‘chwedleua’, in Wales. It is part of conversation. This book, one to linger over and to treasure, keeps these ancient tales alive by retelling them for a new audience.

Historic buildings are irreplaceable, embodying shared public experiences and exhibiting qualities no longer achieved in new constructions such as iconic ornamentation or singular construction methods. It is these unique attributes and idiosyncrasies that contribute to the rich texture of successful, vibrant cities. The distinctive character and public significance of Auckland''s built heritage is frequently disregarded along with its potential for urban rejuvenation. Successful conservation and adaptation of historic buildings requires an approach that acknowledges the heritage guidelines, while producing a design which respects the old and allows the legibility of new adaptations and future uses. Marking the intersection of Hobson Street and Cook Street, the Thomas Doo Building stands alone, one of the few remaining examples of the Victorian period retail-and-residential building typology. Saved from demolition by the Auckland Council''s Built Heritage Acquisition Fund, the current owners of the building propose to partially refurbish the existing building and erect a new fourteen-storey apartment tower above. This thesis provides an alternative solution for the Thomas Doo Building that explores the adaptive re-use approach of heritage conservation theory through the combination of heritage fabric and music performance. From its prime location immediately adjacent to Auckland''s performance hub, the site is ideally suited to re-use as a recital hall. The design adapts the existing building into a mixed-use foyer space and café-bar-restaurant with the addition of a 578 seat recital hall along Cook Street. The alterations and additions retain the integrity and significance of the historic building, addressing the need to keep the building relevant without overwhelming the prominent two-storey city placeholder. Without directly copying, the contemporary form makes reference to qualities in the original Thomas Doo Building design such as scale, materiality and architectural details, engendering a sense of continuity throughout. This thesis presents the new addition as a subtle counterpoint to the existing, allowing the design integrity of both architectural languages to remain discernable and relevant.

Ceredigion is a land shaped by mythology, where mermaids and magic mix with humans and where ordinary people achieve extraordinary things. This is a captivating collection of traditional and modern stories, including the submerged city of Cantre''r Gwaelod, or the ''Welsh Atlantis'', how the Devil came to build a bridge over the Rheidol, the elephant that died in Tregaron, and how the Holy Grail came to Nanteos. All the while the tylwyth teg (the Welsh fairies) and changelings run riot through the countryside. Storyteller and illustrator Peter Stevenson takes us on a tour of a county steeped in legend, encountering ghosts, witches and heroes at every turn.

Memory is a large component of computer system cost and current trends indicate this cost is increasing as a fraction of the total. Emerging applications such as in-memory databases, virtual machines, and big-data key-value stores demand more memory relative to compute. Some of these high-memory applications incidentally store many duplicate values in memory: in some cases, duplicates account for over 75% of the total. Recent work on the HICAMP architecture provided a sophisticated hardware mechanism for memory deduplication to implement memory versioning, but without support for current software stacks. This thesis extends work on HICAMP by evaluating a deduplicated memory that is compatible with existing hardware and software. Memory content from actual workloads indicates that deduplicated memory effectively doubles capacity. After understanding the baseline cost-benefit tradeoff in terms of capacity, performance, and energy, this work proposes novel optimizations for machines with deduplicated memory. These optimizations reduce memory traffic and improve performance relative to both the baseline deduplicated memory and, in many cases, relative to the original machine. Energy consumption is reduced because memory devices are reduced with no penalty to performance. Further, deduplication reduces data transfer and improves performance for certain scientific applications. This thesis argues that in-memory deduplication is warranted by its own benefits, which are likely to grow in the future, and that it enables low-cost memory snapshots, as in the HICAMP architecture.

Following recent high profile cases of surgical error in the UK and USA, patient safety has become a key issue in healthcare, now placed at heart of junior doctor''s training. Errors made by doctors are very similar to those made in other high risk organisations, such as aviation, nuclear and petrochemical industries. Practical Patient Safety aims to demonstrate how core principles of safety from these industries can be applied in surgical and medical practice, in particular through training for health care professionals and healthcare managers. Whilst theoretical aspects of risk management form the backdrop, the book focuses on key techniques and principles of patient safety in a practical way, giving the reader practical advice on how to avoid personal errors, and more importantly how to start patient safety training within his or her department or hospital.

Bring the classic fairy tale of Snow White to life with this book that reads the story to you! Read each page, enjoy the fun and colourful illustrations, then push the corresponding button to hear the story on that page! The artwork in this lovely series is unique and fun and no grown-ups are necessary for bedtime story telling! Sound, Noise and Musical Books.

Ce livre vous permettra de noter les meilleurs souvenirs tout au long de la première année de votre bébé. Depuis les premiers jours jusqu''au premier anniversaire, vous garderez la trace des plus beaux moments. photos et autres documents pour revivre plus tard ces instants privilégiés.

In Joy Starters, renowned children''s author Joy Cowley brings her adventurous outlook and ear for children''s language to early reading instruction. 72 leveled books, 72 lap books, 12 rhyme charts, and audio CD''s employ themes drawn from curriculum frameworks of the NAEYC, IRA, and National Head Start Literacy Initiatives.

Into the car and close the door. Ready to go on a mystery tour! * Sharing a story or rhyme for only 10 minutes each day helps your child to enjoy practising his reading. * Books 1-8 of Read with Ladybird will help children who are just starting to learn to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

Stickers to swap, players galore. Now we''ve run out, let''s get some more! * Sharing a story or rhyme for only 10 minutes each day helps your child to enjoy practising his reading. * Books 1-8 of Read with Ladybird will help children who are just starting to learn to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

A collection of thirteen fairy tales.

Neither Rachel nor Tri is happy about having to work together on a project about King Arthur, but once they step into the virtual reality machine they are fascinated by what their guide Merlin shows them.

"Driving Forces tells the human story of men, their women, and their machines that made the German dominance of 1930s and Grand Prix Racing possible.

Grâce aux quatre marionnettes du " Petit Théâtre " qui s''animeront sous vos doigts, donnez vie à Poucette. Apprenez l''histoire, travaillez les voix, et offrez un spectacle unique à vos amis et à votre famille. Le " Petit Théâtre ", c''est l''animation à la maison !

Fairy tales and animal stories have a timeless fascination for children. This collection features 20 favourite fairy tales and 27 original animal stories and rhymes, all brought to life by Peter Stevenson''s fun illustrations.

A simple introduction to the human body, discussing its different parts and how they work.