Nofel yn llawn hiwmor gan awdur Gwylliaid GlyndAur a'r gyfrol o straeon byrion, Twist ar Ugain. Mae'r nofel yn llawn cymeriadau brith, ac Aberystwyth yn gefndir i'r digwyddiadau. Hanes saith o bobl a wnaed yn ddi-waith yn sgil yr hyn a elwid yn 'wasgfa ariannol'.

A global guidebook to the "utopias" being constructed—in cities, deserts, and on islands—in a capitalist era unfettered by union and state regulations.A New York Times Art and Architecture Critic's PickAlthough they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as "The World...

Daniel Davies is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston.

Robert E. Lee gave Joseph E. Johnston an impossible task.Federal armies under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had rampaged through Georgia on their “March to the Sea” and now were cutting a swath of destruction as they marched north from Savannah through the Carolinas. Locked in a desperate defense of Richmond and Petersburg, there was little Lee could do to stem Sherman’s tide—so he turned to Johnston.The one-time hero of Manassas had squabbled for years with Confederat...

What if the problems in British policing aren't failures of the system — but features of it?Most discussions about policing assume the system is failing — that the problems we see today come from bad leadership, poor training, or a few individuals who break the rules. But what if the system is not failing at all? What if it is working exactly as designed?The Afterlife of Empire traces British policing back to its real origins: not as a neutral ...

He was the most powerful Sith lord who ever lived.But could he be the only one who never died?“Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying.”—Suprem...

Who are rip-off label jeans actually ripping off? Why does it cost less to install a lift than to move a piano? And why don't maintenance men ever call when they are meant to?The Secret Life of Money answers questions like these - questions that strike us about the businesses we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. The answers to these puzzles reveal the very different ways in which businesses around us actually make their money - it is often not in the ways that we might expect.A ligh...

Anytown, England. Jeremy Shepherd has reached post-ambition, giving up the trappings of his London life (flash job, flash cars, even flashier girlfriends) to move back to his home town and his parents' house. By day, he is a low-level civil servant, chained to his desk and content to idle away the hours filing and answering emails. There isn't a lot to do in a small town, but the English are very resourceful and Jeremy quickly finds a hobby that delivers lots of fresh air and exercise. By ...

The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine, and for an influence that extends into the wider world. His remarkable work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is notoriously difficult to interpret, since Maimonides aimed it at those already versed in both philosophy and the rabbinic tradition and used literary techniques to test his readers and force them to think through his arguments.

Rheol 1: Allwch chi ddim ennill y gem. Rheol 2: Yr unig ganlyniad posib fydd colli'r gem. Rheol 3: Allwch chi byth ddianc rhag y gem. Ydych chi'n ddigon dewr i chwarae? Nofel arobryn Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Wrecsam a'r Fro, 2011.

The Compatibility Gene takes readers on a global journey of discovery spanning 60 years, involving scores of scientists, and encompassing the history of transplants and immunology. That journey has revealed astonishing links between who we are as individuals and our never-ceasing struggle to survive disease. Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. The...

In a sleepy little parish just outside of New Orleans, murder is no rare occurrence.Sergeant Lance Knight has a pile of unsolved homicide cases on his desk. On the surface, none seem to be connected. The victims are all men with money or power. An investment banker, a lawyer, and a local politician. They don’t socially run in the same circles. Lance can’t find a connection.Working closely with coroner Gina Goodwin, Lance and Gina discover a pattern. Three unrelated things t...