The past few decades
List the past few decades
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And yet, huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mysteryoxfam bookshop preston for generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental questionfrom life's murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, the demon in the machine is a breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics, biology, logic and computingat the heart of these diverse fields, davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and even to illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreso can life be explained by known physics and chemistry, or do we need something fundamentally new?in this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist and science communicator paul davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where computing, chemistry, quantum physics and nanotechnology intersectlife really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match itweaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window on the secret of life itself
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Over the past few decades buddhism has deepened its presence in the west and as a result teachings and practices are becoming integrated with those of western psychology in a more productive wayoxfam bookshop brighton this collection of writings presents contemporary views on the integration of buddhism in the westin particular the issue of the balance between authenticity and accessibility is examinedexamining these issues and many more, the contributors seek to bring buddhism into a realistic and informed relationship with contemporary western thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe decline of mechanism and positivism offers new opportunities to bring together western buddhist views of the mind and its relationship to its surroundingsbuddhist traditions are often perceived as inaccessible and too firmly fixed to a cultural framework with some people, especially women, left feeling alienated and undervaluedwritten by psychologists and scholars, the essays discuss many of the difficult questions raised by buddhism's increased presencehowever, by responding to this by attempting to synthesise buddhism with the values of contemporary culture can lead to doubts about authenticity and dilution
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Unfortunately i do not know if it works, however there is no reason to suspect it doesn’t, it’s just been sat idly in the box for the past few decades! as such i would invite you to take a look at it alternatively i can send more pictures if you are interestedthis was part of my late father’s collection
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Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalisma novel way of analysing contemporary societies is neededoxfam shop dumfries we are all modern todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut modernity today is not what it used to bethis book proposes such an analysis
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Oxfam bookshop byres road both critically and commercially successful filmmakers, the coen brothers have written, produced, and directed numerous acclaimed films over the past three decadesthey demonstrate how sometimes explicitly, but generally implicitly, the coens draw on thinkers such as homer, plato, dante, and hegel, while simultaneously presenting popular entertainmentthey examine five of the coen brothers' comedies: raising arizona, fargo, the big lebowski, o brother, where art thou, and hail caesar!in those works, they discover insightful engagements with such ideas as questions of human freedom, the relationship of reason to religion, and the nature of liberal democracy in the american regimesara macdonald and barry craig demonstrate that their comedies, in particular, which are often dismissed as mere entertainments, actually present substantial philosophic and political argumentssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam books & music totnes the majority of aestheticians have focused their attention during the past three decades on the identity, or essential nature, of art: can 'art' be defined? what makes an object a work of art? under what conditions can we characterize in a classificatory sense an object as an art work? the debate, and at times controversy, over these questions proved to be constructive, intellectually stimulating, and in many cases suggestive of new ideas'aesthetic experience' - which occupies a prominent place in the philosophy of artexperience, and evaluate itwe do not only create art; we also enjoy, ithe time is, however, ripe to direct our attention to another important, yet neglected, concept - vizhow can we theorize about the nature of art in general and the art work in particular, and about what makes an object a good work of art, if we do not experience it? nijhoff hardback with no djowner's name on ffepa good book here in very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read moregood binding and no other marksi hope this debate continues in its momentum and creative outcome
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Good condition no pages missing/tears compiled by colin marsden, this book is a graphic reminder of the illustrious career of the hst over the past three decadesillustrated throughout with a superb set of images, the book is a tribute to one of the iconic designs of the contemporary railway scene
10 €
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham a glorious celebration of the very best of the art of the fantastic over the past two decades, this glorious full-colour collection features over 300 illustrationssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Play the monopoly you know and love on a revolutionary round board with funky new movers! as you are wheeling and dealing your way to a big win, hear sounds and music from the past five decadeswhen you go to jail you'll hear the door slam, and when you pass go you can celebrate with a party tune!
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Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made "black" music in the first few decades of this centurya volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is how things will remain until we radically revise the way we think about the complex interactions between african americans and jewssee oxfam website for delivery information read moremoving beyond the narrow focus of advocacy group politics, this book complicates and enriches our understanding of the cultural terrain shared by african americans and jews"a right to sing the blues" offers just such a revisionoxfam shop dumfries all too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in crown heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts black-jewish relations into the news"black-jewish relations," jeffrey melnick argues, has mostly been a way for american jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imaginationhe shows how jews such as george gershwin, irving berlin, al jolson, and others were able to portray their "natural" affinity for producing "black" music as a product of their jewishness while simultaneously depicting jewishness as a stable white identitymelnick also contends that this cultural activity competed directly with harlem renaissance attempts to define blackness
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Re-live the last few decades of great music in this fast- moving board game based on the chart - topping now that's what i call music albums2 - 6 players ages 8 see oxfam website for delivery information read moremusic trivia and a whole lot more! now that's what i call music the board game from new romantics and britpop to house and rap, this is the soundtrack to our livesoxfam shop tooting as good as new
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As bruno latour has pointed out, scholarly efforts of the last few decades to exposethat way forward, however, may either frighten or hearten us, depending on the variety of disknowledge we see deployed
34 €
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A prisoner of the past album version 5:03the title is a prisoner of the pasta prisoner of the past radio edit 3:51for this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casing
7 €
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Oxfam bookshop beverley this book draws together the most authoritative articles on development economics published in the past few years, is aimed at undergraduate level and is suitable for students with little or no background in economicsthe development economics reader should be an invaluable resource for all students of the disciplinethe reader focuses on the most recent and up-to-date contributions to the field of development economicsthe main themes include poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital, with essays by such luminaries as amartya sen, jeffrey sachs, jagdish bhagwati, joseph stiglitz, paul romer, dani rodrik, william easterly, robert barro, kenneth arrow, hernando de soto, daron acemoglu, muhammad yunus, anne krueger, abhijit banerjee, esther duflo, michael kremer and martin feldsteinsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecondition: light shelf wearinstead of collecting "classic" contributions-which are already available through many sources-the articles chosen reflect recent developments in the discipline (for instance, in the area of geography and development) and include contributions that address recent events (the dramatic resurgence of a debt relief movement)
24 €
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While walking in the forest, a boy named agito comes across a machine which has been keeping a girl named toola in suspended animation for the past 300 yearswhen she finally awakens, she discovers that earth has been radically changed by the experiments that her father was conducting all those years ago, resulting in the forest taking on a sentient life all of its own see oxfam website for delivery information read morealong with a friend from the past, shunack, she sets about using old technology to try and return the earth to the way it was, but soon realises this is a wrong movenow, with the help of agito, she fights to protect the world in its present state, and tries to create a balance between humanity and natureplease note there is not a region code listed for this itemoxfam bookshop newark big screen anime featureas this is a used item it does not have any of the inserts it may have came with
9 €
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She lives in or out, she lived out whilst her foal was at foot but she’s been in the stable the past few weeks i’ve been hacking her everydayshe is perfect to clip (recently clipped) perfect to groom, stands all day longshe has the sweetest personality and needs a 5 star home i will settle for nothing lessholdy is a beautiful 15h/15schooling- she hasn’t had much schooling, so would need bringing on being a pacer, she hasn’t established a brilliant canter yet as she’s always been encouraged to pace but this is something she’d pick up quickly, she is a very quick learner, she hasn’t done much jumping (she’s pretty useless to jump) but she tries and that’s the main thingshe’d learn quicklyshe has been around screaming children and dogs all off her life, nothing would shock hershe is the most confidence giving horse you could ever findshe is never strong or silly and is ridden in a snaffle bit at all times, sometimes without a noseband she is not strong in anywayshe isn’t a kick along but fantastic brakes and you instantly feel safe and comfortable on hershe is barefoot, but is perfect to shoe if wanted and stands for the farriershe is 5 years old, i have owned her since she was rising 3offered to a forever 5 star home only with the opportunity to buy this special mare backno loans read morehacking is her strong point, she’s been in rivers and on the beach too, she also pops logs in the woodsi bred a beautiful colt foal from holdy and she is now sadly ready to go to a new perfect home, there is truly nothing this mare dislikes, she has no vices or quirksnever sore footed and goes of voice commands or legshe will hack alone or in company and is super comfortable being a standardbredhacking - she will hack all day long, she is bombproof in the heaviest of traffic and perfect on open fields1 standardbred mare
2500 €
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The title is a prisoner of the pasta prisoner of the past album version 5:04for this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casing
7 €
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Journeys in the pastlife on the home frontjourneys to the past, life on the home front, hard cover beautiful illustrated book
10 €
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Great mysteries of the pastgreat mysteries of the past,, beautiful, new hard back book
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Journeys in the pasthard cover new read morelife on the home frontjourneys to the past, life on the home front, hard cover beautiful illustrated book
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I have a ft narrowboat for sale which has been used to live on for the past few years, it came out of the water and was blackened new zinc, serviced,and more,can sleep 6, has 3 leisure batteries, 1 start, with solar charger, and has a 240v inverterc/h flush toilet and wood burning stove n more info call me maybe open to an offer
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Erdem cipa (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for detailswriting history at the ottoman court editing the past, fashioning the future by h
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Maurice - the past recalled 'the centre pages are loose but all others are securely bound" book in good overall condition with clean pages throughoutmaurice civic association staged a very successful exhibition entitled ' plympton stsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepublic interest was such that the association decided to make a selection of the photographs and publish them in book form as a record of life in what was, until , a town in its own righta feature of this exhibition was an an extensive collection of photographs covering the last hundred years which had been lent by local peopleoxfam shop mutley plain " in may the plympton stprinted around , first editionthe covers have creases near the spine and some scuff marks
8 €
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The title is living in the pastfor this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casing
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Hardback in perfect condition ad id: delivery service consumer creditreader's digest, journeys into the past: life on the home front
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Artifacts of the past - ancient mysteriesdiscover untold secrets and ancient relics! hidden objects gamesuitable for: windows xp/vista/7/8items will be dispatched within 24 hours of purchasefree postage within the uk
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Make a lovely christmas present from the pastalways been kept in their original boxesvictorian carol singers christmas stocking flaming the pudding boxing day-opening gifts all excellent condition£10 each collection caterham valley
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Gordon childe, hardback reprint, first publishedpiecing together the past: the interpretation of archaeological data, by v
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