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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedthe history of life is littered with accidents: any twist or turn may lead to a completely different worldso if these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, where are our counterparts across the galaxy? the tape of life can only run on a suitable planet, and it seems that such earth-like planets may be much rarer than hopedsimon conway morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedlyso too with the history of lifegould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligenceexternally there are some small marks on the back cover and some slight edge wear along the top and bottom of the booknow this view is being challengedeyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very much on the cards the assassin's bullet misses, the archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoidedinevitable humans, yes, but in a lonely universere-run the tape of life, as stephen j
9 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreexternally there is some slight damage to the corners of the front coverexplores the links between anger, rage, violence, evil, and creativity and describes a dynamic therapeutic approach that can help channel anger and violent impulses into constructive and creative activityinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarked
19 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good conditionthe book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: - how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?- how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?- how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation? see oxfam website for delivery information read morereadings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present there is slight wear at the top of the spine, but otherwise this copy is nearly as new inside and outthe fourth volume of the eam series, european avant-garde and modernism studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through european modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st centuryutopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde
29 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this is a copy of the folio society edition of charles darwin's classic account of "the voyage of the hsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebeagle - round the world under captain fitz roy, r the black slipcase is present, and in very good condition, apart from slight wear marks and a little bumping at the lower front corner" the book is in very good condition, with minimal wear inside and out
29 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston manchester university press, , hardback with dust jacket very good condition arthur henderson was one of the first working-class mps and held the office of secretary of the labour party for nearly twenty-five yearscentral to this book is a study of henderson's bitter and long-lasting rivalry with ramsay macdonald and his deep commitment to the league of nations and the cause of world peacehis talents as a political manager were central to the labour party's electoral strategy and to the expansion of the constituency organisation which enabled labour to develop from a sectional pressure group into a government partyalways a moderate, 'uncle arthur', as he was generally known, was the embodiment of the alliance between the labour party and the trade union movement, a partnership that he incorporated into the fabric of the party through the constitutionduring the first world war and again briefly after he served as leader of the labour partya key minister in the first two labour governments, he became foreign secretary in and received the nobel peace prize for his dedicated efforts as president of the world disarmament conference
12 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston palgrave macmillan, , hardcover, no dust jacket very good condition this book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of french heavy industry in the turbulent period between the establishment of the vichy regime in and the creation of the european coal and steel community (ecsc), the forerunner to the european union, in by studying institutions ranging from vichy's organisation committees to jean monnet's commissariat général du plan (cgp), luc-andré brunet challenges existing narratives and reveals significant continuities from vichy to post-war initiatives such as the monnet plan and the ecsc based on extensive multi-archival research, this book sheds important new light on economic collaboration and resistance in vichy, the post-war revival of the french economy, and the origins of european integration
60 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston palgrave macmillan, , hardback, no dust jacket very good condition why is france so often relegated to the background in studies of international relations? this book seeks to redress this balance, exploring the relationship between the united states, united kingdom and france, and its wider impact on the theory and practice of international relations
25 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston a history of emmanuel college cambridge by sarah bendall, christopher brooke and patrick collinson hardback with dust jacket "emmanuel college was founded by the royal minister sir walter mildmay in ; he chose a leading moderate puritan, laurence chaderton, as first master, and aimed to educate godly ministers and good preachers" dust jacket in excellent condition with bumping to edges onlythis history presents its development from these beginnings to the present dayhardback is blue cloth covered board with gold lettering to spine in excellent conditionpages bright, tightly bound, clean and unmarked
15 €
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oxfam books & music beeston moon the loon the amazing rock and roll life of keith moon by dougal butler, chris trengove and peter lawrence contains black and white photossee oxfam website for delivery information read morepages tightly bound and unmarkedbeing the extraordinary story of dougal butler's life with keith moon, late drummer of the who, and their adventures together in the ten years dougal spends as moonie's minder and personal assistant" some wear and slight creasing to cover, foxing to edge of pages"a rock and roll memoir
15 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good conditionincludes up-to-date material on recent developments and topics of significant interest, such as elliptic functions and the new primality test selects material from both the algebraic and analytic disciplines, presenting several different proofs of a single result to illustrate the differing viewpoints and give good insight see oxfam website for delivery information read more internally there si a gift inscription at the top of the free front endpaper ("to tori! with best wishes graham + thomas ward"), but otherwise the pages are clean, tight and unmarked the cover has slight shelf wear and a little fading on and near the spine, but is otherwise in very good condition with little general wear
14 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more the story of the nine 'kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing bookit was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impassein a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversin an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes south african societyhis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, inexternally the bottom right corner of the front cover has been creased and the is some slight signs of edge wear on the front and back coversinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkednoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosa
10 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more lode walgrave has made a highly significant contribution to the worldwide development of the restorative justice movement over the last two decadesexternally there are a couple of creases to the cover and there is some minimal damage to the cornersthis book represents the culmination of his vision for restorative justice a clearly outcome-based definition of restorative justice acceptance of the need to use judicial coercion to impose sanctions as part of the reparative process presenting restorative justice as a fully fledged alternative to the punitive apriorism development of a more sophisticated concept of the relationship between restorative justice and the law, and acceptance of the need for legal regulation a consideration of the expansion of a restorative justice philosophy into other areas of social life and the threats and opportunities this provides a consideration of the implications of the expansion of restorative justice for the discipline of criminology and democracycoming to the subject from a juvenile justice background he initially saw restorative justice as a means of escaping the rehabilitation-punishment dilemma, and as the basis for a more constructive judicial response to youth crime that had been the case hithertothis book develops lode walgrave's conception of restorative justice further, incorporating a number of key elementsinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedover time his conception of restorative justice moved in the direction of focusing on repairing harm and suffering rather than ensuring that the youthful offender met with a 'just' response, and encompassing the notion that restorative justice was not so much about a justice system promoting restoration, more a matter of doing justice through restoration
13 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more the main theme of this book is the theory of heights as they appear in various guisesthe authors'approach is very down to earth as they cover the rationals, assuming no prior knowledge of elliptic curvesthis includes a large body of results on mahlers measure of the height of a polynomialthe chapters include examples and particular computations, with all special calculation included so as to be self-contained the cover has a somewhat faded spine which is bumped a little at the bottom, but is otherwise in very good condition apart from a touch of corner wearthe authors devote space to discussing mahlers measure and to giving some convincing and original examples to explain this phenomenonthere are one or two small marks on the page edges, but internally the pages are in very good condition - clean, tight and unmarked
14 €
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oxfam books & music beeston the invisible dot, , paperback very good condition collectible book by the award winning comedian and alan partridge's sidekick simon, edition of see oxfam website for delivery information read more
40 €
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oxfam books & music beeston aberfan and merthyr vale community co-operative, , paperback very good condition an anthology of poetry, prose and pictures about the town by those who live there see oxfam website for delivery information read more
10 €
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oxfam books & music beeston piramide, , paperback good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam books & music beeston this rare and signed book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe life of harriet tubman, focusing on her civil war activity and underground railroadinternally the book is inscribed on the title pageborn into slavery, tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the underground railroadexternally there is a mark on the front cover as can be seen in the photo, but otherwise the book shows little signs of wearduring the american civil war, she served as an armed scout and spy for the union armyin her later years, tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffragepage 97-8 has been mis-trimmed but otherwise all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedshe was an american abolitionist and political activist
12 €
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oxfam books & music norwich published to coincide with howard goodall's major new bbc tv series, this is an accessible history for all music loverssee oxfam website for delivery information read more the story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel -- and entertain for many of us, music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly complex and specialisedalong the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, what happens in harmony, why some chords sound discordant in his energetic tour through years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology and leads us through the story of music as it really happened, so that each musical innovation strikes us with its original forcehe focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made soundhoward goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavour and a groundbreaking map of man's musical journey
25 €
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oxfam books & music wells this hard cover book is in good condition and has a full title of "a thousand books on bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read more a selection of english books on book-making book-selling and book-collecting"there are no internal markings or annotations and no damage to the coverthis is a first edition which was limited to 500 copies
15 €
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oxfam books & music fareham observer's books 2 titles: astronomy and the weathercondition of both books is goodsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished by warne jacket is faded and worn at edgesjacket has been price clippedhardbacks with dust jacketspages are brownedjacket is worn and faed with some marksastronomy by patrick moore list of other ttles has been annotated ink revised editionweather by reginald lesterpage edges arre marked
8 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the sixty-eighth aldeburgh festival of music and the arts programmecondition: very good - pages clean and tight, spine uncreased covers fine
5 €
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oxfam books & music salisbury complete music for piano duo set of 3 cds see oxfam website for delivery information read morepianists: massimiliano damerini and marco rapetti
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oxfam books & music fareham ladybird books 5 titles in biblical seriesin very good condition series 649 see oxfam website for delivery information read more series 649 the history of our bible by p j hunt hardback with illustrated covers series 606a baby jesus by hilda rostroncondition is goodhardback with illustrated boardsboards are worn at edgesgeneral conidtion is goodseries 522 book of saints by hilda rostron prize label on end paper hardback with dust coverseries 606a life in new testament times by ralph gower condition is goodcovers are worngeneral condition is good hardback with illustrated boardspublished cirashepherd boy of bethlehem told by lucy diamond early editionpublished circaboards are marked, worn and dulledjacket is faded and boards are worn published circapresumed 1st edition
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oxfam books & music berkhamsted these writings present the rationale behind lupukhov's attempt to develop a "symphonic" ballet that would integrate the formal and expressive elements of dance and music see oxfam website for delivery information read more paperback book in very good condition, slight shelf wear, with a small amount of scratching to the coversthey also show his finely detailed knowledge of the classical heritage and his creative efforts to transmit major works to future generationstranslations by dorinda offord edited and with an introduction by stephanie jordan
18 €
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oxfam books & music fareham handel: water music and fireworks suitesandre previn conduting the pittsburgh symphony orchestra see oxfam website for delivery information read more
6 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music wells this collection of 10 drum pieces comes with a cd, which we have not played but appears to be unscratchedthe music if free from markings and annotations and the cover is undamaged
32 €
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oxfam books & music bedford 14 x sheet music - various 1i'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter see oxfam website for delivery information read moreover the rainbow 7come fly with me 3pennies from heaven 4when i fall in love 12mas que nada 11how sweet it is (to be loved by you) 13diamonds are a girls best friend 6besame mucho (kiss me much) 14when you wish upon a star - pinocchio 9
9 €
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oxfam books & music bedford 15 music sheets 1the lambeth walk see oxfam website for delivery information read morei'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair - south pacific 4i've got a crush on you 2on the sunny side of the street 13can't help loving that man 6look to the rainbow - finian's rainbow 7wrap your troubles in dreams 15tonight - west side story 3best love songs of rodgers and hart, includes bewitched 10till there was you 12scarlet ribbons 9the man i love 5
9 €
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oxfam books & music fareham orchestral excerpts for viola - classical & modern workscompiled by joseph vieland 6 books see oxfam website for delivery information read more
90 €
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oxfam books & music fareham facination gipsy valse piano solo sheet music see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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