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The children of harvey milk how lgbtq politicians changed the world by andrew reynolds (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is within 4 to 6 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Misprint: missing text "nederland + 45c and name"see scans for good impression(please allow 7-14 working days for delivery from australia) read morecatalogue value € 500 (nvph )sent registered shipping
132 €
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All picture cards and jokers with caricatures of famous politicianspolitical playing cardslimited editionall excellent condition
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Authors: ian douglas smithgeneral, onwards, africa, general aas, politicians, zimbabwe, english, hardcover, regular sizeproduct category: booksbinding: hardcover
46 €
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politicians were regarded as shallow and self-servinga cabinet of greek curiosities: strange tales and surprising facts from the cradle of western civilization hardcover – 27 juneven socrates and the king of sparta used to entertain their children by riding around on a stick pretending it was a horse
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Even fewer know that us politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military expertsdespite warnings such as this one, president truman supported establishing a jewish state on land primarily inhabited by muslims and christians
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The courtroom is my theater my lifelong representation of famous politicians, industrialists, entert by jay goldberg (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Everybody can see it and knows who you are - except you! you have to discover your mystery identity by interrogating the other players: am i dead? am i fat? can i sing? am i a bore? personalities range from cartoon characters, to politicians, to movie starsall complete and in good clean condition great fun family game!!! selling lots more family games - please take a look! happy to combine postage! read moreblind ignorance - on your forehead you have a card that names you as a famous person, dead or alivethere's a limit to how many questions you can ask - so choose carefullythe more questions it takes, the lower the player's scorecontents: 100 famous names on cards, 1 headband, instructions
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Humphrys pulls no punches and now, freed from the restrictions of being a bbc journalist, he reflects on the politicians he has interrogated and the controversies he has reported on and been involved in, including the interview that forced the resignation of his own boss, the director generala day like today charts john's journey from the poverty of his post-war childhood in cardiff, leaving school at fifteen, to the summits of broadcastingas presenter of radio 4's today, the nation's most popular news programme, he is famed for his tough interviewing, his deep misgivings about authority in its many forms and his passionatecommitment to a variety of causes humphrys was the bbc's youngest foreign correspondent; he was the first reporter at the catastrophe of aberfan, an experience that marked him for ever; he was in the white house when richard nixon became the first american president to resign; in south africa during the dying years of apartheid; and in war zones around the globe throughout his careerin typically candid style, he also weighs in on the role the bbc itself has played in our national life - for good and ill - and the broader health of the political system todayoxfam bookshop knutsford for more than three decades, millions of britons have woken to the sound of john humphrys' voicejohn was also the first journalist to present the nine o'clock news on televisionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea day like today is both a sharp, shrewd memoir and a backstage account of the great newsworthy moments in recent history - from the voice behind the country's most authoritative microphone
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For two thousand years, artists, social and cultural activists, politicians and philosophers, humanists and devoted spiritual seekers have all looked to the sayings of jesus for inspiration and instruction
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Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storegecalculeert op den meridiaen van gend, door mrtax rates, chroniclevoorders merkweirdige gebeurtenissenin good conditionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitedaniel montanus, behoudende boven de gewoonelyke gerieffelykheden, de reductie der geldspecien; de schipbraek van kapiteyn stout op de kust van africa; de naemen en woonplaetsen der amptenaeren van de provincie; van het stedelyk bestuer van gend, &cin ink and pencilwonderful hardcover with a green title label and gold printthe almanac was a folk book that contained useful, actual information for a city or region and which was also amusing literature contents: markets, transport, comparative tables for coins, mail, astronomy, weather, year calender, city regulations, the story of the shipwrecked hercules in , birthdays of european monarchs, names and streets of politicians, administration, courtsalmanach van milanen, voor het jaer ons heere jesu-christi mdcccxxviit has multiple personal notes from former users: purchases, bookkeepingcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Political philosophy: a beginners' guide for students and politicians, paperback by swift, adam, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk
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As he progresses in his venture he crosses paths with politicians and mobsters alike but his lavish lifestyle soon leads the federal government to grow suspicious of his activitiesin this series, nucky's position of power is threatened by his former employee, jimmy (michael pitt), his brother, eli (shea whigham), and his predecessor, commodore louis kaestner (dabney coleman), who formulate a plot to bring him downsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dalkeith all 12 episodes from the second season of the golden globe-winning hbo period drama set during the s prohibition eraatlantic county treasurer enoch 'nucky' thompson (steve buscemi) sets up a bootlegging business, hoping to get richthe episodes comprise: '21', 'ourselves alone', 'a dangerous mind', 'what does the bee do?', 'gimcrack and bunkum', 'the age of reason', 'peg of old', 'two boats and a lifeguard', 'battle of the century', 'georgia peaches', 'under god's power she flourishes' and 'to the lost'
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In 'beautiful' cho puts forth her philosophy on beauty and laments its lack among the politicians and marketers who define so much of modern culture'i'm the one that i want' finds cho in her home city of san francisco, reflecting humorously on her life to date' cho takes a look at modern issues of sexuality and minority rightsfinally, in 'revolution' she tackles subjects as diverse as the war on terror and her ex-boyfriend'assassin' sees her taking aim at george woxfam books & music perth collection of five stand up performances from the american comedian margaret chobrand new and sealed see oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'notorious cborn into a korean family in san francisco, cho began touring as a stand up at the age of 16bush's presidency and the american religious right
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This seriously funny collection draws together a host of delightfully contradictory statements from leading writers and wits and shows how, in spite of their paradoxical nature, they convey arresting and amusing truths about art, love, and the human conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxymoronica includes hundreds of paradoxical and contradictory observations by a wide range of writers, politicians, philosophers and public figuresas mardy grothe reveals in this book, human beings are often at their most profound when they are apparently talking nonsenseoxfam shop colne road a book for anyone who enjoys the funny, quirky and humorous side of language
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politicians pack their speeches with skewed statistics: crime rates are either rising or falling depending on who is doing the countingthey won't inspire, and they won't tell you precisely what causes whathe reminds us of the danger of taking numbers so seriously at the expense of what is non-measurable, non-calculable: intuition, creativity, imagination, happinesswe are in a world in which everything designed only to be measuredthey won't interpretyardsticks are a vital toolcounting is a vital human skillsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this passionately argued and thought-provoking book, david boyle examines our obsession with numbersas long as we remember how limiting they are if we cling to them too closelywhy are we so obsessed with numbers? what can they really tell us?too often we try to quantify what can't actually be measuredwe count people, but not individualsthe government has set itself new targetsbut the big problem is what numbers don't tell youwe count exam results rather than intelligence, benefit claimants instead of povertyif it can't be measured it can be ignoredoxfam bookshop cheltenham never before have we attempted to measure as much as we do today
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Oxfam shop colne road more than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on: * the fascinating origins of words * quotes and misquotes* slang, dialects and secret languages * unforgettable adverts, famous lines from novels and movies* newspeak, basic english, spelling reform* malapropisms, politicians' blunders and 'mispeakings'* mnemonics and other memory joggers* palindromes and anagrams * semaphoresee oxfam website for delivery information read moremorse, tic-tac, hand gestures and other ways of speaking without wordsentry after entry explores the byways, oddities and curiosities of the english language
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Oxfam books & music beaconsfield this is a very good copy of a scarce title, illustrated with photographs from the author's life, many featuring chinese scholars and politicians of the period   see oxfam website for delivery information read more5cm tear on the top of the front fold in  the page edges of the book, which is bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, have faded and the top corners of pp are stuck together (they appear separable without damage) the jacket is also very good, with one small 0
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Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any formulas - and in fact not even many numbersoxfam bookshop cheltenham mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle usmost maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in factsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremost of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks - or create policies - which can waste millions of poundsit is liberating to understand when numbers are telling the truth or being used to lie, whether it is health scares, the costs of government policies, the supposed risks of certain activities or the real burden of taxes
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It was later popularised by soviet politicians and is sometimes known as the diplomat/ambassador hatoriginally,traditional brown astrakhan hats were worn by shepherds in many countries, especially in eastern europe, balkans, and caucasusin unworn conditionoxfam shop hampstead vintage grey astrakhan hat with original label and seal datedmade in moscow and from special persian lamb fleece with tight curlsnicknamed pie hat in the soviet unionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinterior hat size approx 52 cm, so smallish but it is meant to be worn high on head
250 €
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As imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinyminor signs of shelf wearas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdcolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilsdrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world ordersee oxfam website for delivery information read morebritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwisethe first world war threw the imperial order into crisisnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsthe pages are clean and tight and appear unread
9 €
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Paul eddington’s the party game board game beat the politicians at their own game! a game of strategy, imagination and pure funthe object of the game is to lead your party to victory in a general election, and maybe finish up as prime minister! in good used condition with everything completewin votes by making speeches, answering questions or landing on the ladder of successcontents - gameboard, dice, question cards, speech cards, ladder of success cards, greasy pole cards, constituency rosettes, votes, party tokens, timer, rules
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'feeding seahorses by hand' takes a magnifying glass to the outside world, giving a fictional appraisal of donald trump from the perspective of his daughter on the saccharine 'cartoon people', and poking fun at unnamed politicians on 'betsy&apossecond studio album from the british singer-songwriterafter completing work on her debut album, 'writing of blues and yellows' (), billie completed her secondary school studies, including gcses and a-levels, on top of travelling and creating this follow-up recordit's no surprise that she has maturity beyond her years
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Paul devereux is one of the most powerful politicians in the countrystubborn and at times irrational, her belief that her daughter is alive leads her to the sordid truth - an international black market where babies are sold for cashshe is just one woman against the worldthe search for her daughter will cost her everything, but as long as she believes that bella is alive she will never surrender and paul devereux must use every means in his power to make sure she is silenced for goodizzy cannot accept the death of her baby daughter bellabehind this horrific truth, isadora detects the sinister hand of devereuxsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreisadora dean is the rising star of television news journalismtwo exceptionally talented, successful people brought in to dangerous conflictoxfam shop great dunmow no 1 best selling author of "house of cards" and "to play the king" - this is a signed copy of "the touch of innocents" by michael dobbsit is always the innocent who suffer to make the powerful rich
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It contains sketches of prominent politicians and public men, of the times, published in the daily news at intervals, during the latter half of the parliamentary recess ofthere is writing in ink on the top of the half title pagethe title and publisher are in gold lettering on the spine see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe title, preface and contents pages are loose from the bindingthe book is in good condition with little foxing, but yellowing throughout, which is commensurate with the books agethere are twenty political portraits or sketches over 313 pagesoxfam bookshop west bridgford this book 'political portraits' is the second edition of a book, published in the hard back book is bound in a brown coloured leather, with gold motif at the top and black below
39 €
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As he progresses in his venture he crosses paths with politicians and mobsters alike but his lavish lifestyle soon leads the federal government to grow suspicious of his activitiesoxfam shop colne road all 12 episodes from the third season of the golden globe-winning hbo period drama set during the s prohibition erasee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this series, crime boss gyp rosetti (bobby cannavale) causes problems for nucky's business, eli (shea whigham) has difficulty adjusting to his new life after he is released from prison and gillian (gretchen mol) tries to deal with a devastating lossatlantic county treasurer enoch 'nucky' thompson (steve buscemi) sets up a bootlegging business, hoping to get richthe episodes are: 'resolution', 'spaghetti and coffee', 'bone for tuna', 'blue bell boy', 'you'd be surprised', 'ging gang goolie', 'sunday best', 'the pony', 'the milkmaid's lot', 'a man, a plan', 'two imposters' and 'margate sands'
8 €
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Irregularly cut marginswe are adding this print to the series and describe it under drdu journal pour rire” paris, edited a small album containing 12 hand-coloured lithographs on wove paper from the series “les représentans représentés” , showing the following dr numbers (see photo): dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, dr, drhe was indicted in and went into exile to geneva, switzerlandthe album was entitled: “choix de caricatures politiques parues depuis la revolution de février” and contained the images of the following politicians: bugeaud, lherbette, lebreton, dupin, tocqueville, montalembert, arago, mole, gambon, peerdiguier, peupin, and larabit, each initialled “hplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website\t translation: agricol perdiguierles représentans représentés (the representative represented) is a series consisting of 109 prints, which is divided into two partsdepicted in his favourite position as a working man who doesn't work any morebetween and the publishing house of “aubert, editsome surface dirtabout this printthe series was published in the charivari between november and august with the exception of drbetween and there were two published albums: “album les représentans représentéscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available(source: the daumier register digital work catalogue)second part, “assemblée législative”après ça je conçois qu'agricol ait du plaisir à mettre les mains dans ses poches, depuis qu'il est certain d'y trouver chaque matin vingt-cinq francs”“position favorite d'un ouvrier qui n'est plus à l'ouvrageour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storei think the reason why agricol always puts his hands into his trouser pockets is that he can be sure to find each morning 25 francs in therehe was one of the early associates () of “la république”print on laid paperthe first part shows the portraits of the “assemblée constituante” (constituent assembly), while the second part shows the ones of the “assemblée législative” (legislative assembly)1ère série” and “album les représentans représentésfurthermore, there exists an additional unpublished print, which has not been described neither by hazard nor by delteilas a deputy he received a daily allowance of 25 francs” within the plateare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithese unusual colour prints can be considered to be “rare”perdiguier, agricol () was a socialist politician and deputy supporting freedom of the press inin good overall conditionlettering: agricol perdiguier2ème série”, containing a great number of portraits from this series
30 €
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The process of centralisation, and its corrosive effect on the status and responsibilities of local government, have been widely recognised and deplored among politicians and senior officers within local government, and by academics with an interest in this fieldno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop holmfirth english local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central governmentthis book is the first to directly address this trend's impact upon the institution of local government, a crucial element in the democratic viability of a unitary statethis book fills this gapthis text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of local government, and more generally to those interested in what has been happening to british politics and governancehowever, there has been no study exploring in detail its impact, and, equally important, suggesting ways in which the growing imbalance between the powers of central and local government should be rectified
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It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the arabs and the jews, and ultimately led to war between the british and the french in and between the arabs and the jews inthrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainin , after many years of intrigue and espionage, britain finally succeeded in ousting france from lebanon and syria, and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to palestineoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themagainst the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries britain and france would rulesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the entente cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the mediterranean to the persian frontiersir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgelawrence, winston churchill and charles de gaulle, a line in the sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when britain and france ruled the middle eastusing newly declassified papers from the british and french archives, james barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life, and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the french finally got their revengethe creation of britain's 'mandates' of palestine, transjordan and iraq, and france's in lebanon and syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty years
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Woven through the book are remarkable stories - of yeltsin's use of popular psychics, of the might of the 'robber barons' who form alliances with criminal mafia gangs, of machiavellian politicians who 'have dealt with the devil and believe they have made a good bargain'this was the height of market euphoria when, despite the chaos of everyday life, a prosperous future seemed within easy reachwritten by one of the finest writers on contemporary russia, it is told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's impact on the lives of ordinary peoplein the final stage of the book, freeland chronicles the end of the first wave of russia's capitalist revolution, detailing the economic crisis currently rumbling through the countrysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebeginning with a sharp portrayal of the dismal living conditions in the soviet union, she moves on to the romantic early days of the capitalist transformationoxfam shop evesham this is the first account of russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy
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