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Sunday independent book of the week agreatread and argosybooks book of the month see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop billericay 'informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch potato' (new scientist)irish times top ten bestsellerwalking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skilland the latest research is only now revealing how the brain and nervous system performs the mechanical magic of balancing, navigating a crowded city, or running our inner gps systemwe must start walking again, whether it's up a mountain, down to the park, or simply to school and workin praise of walking celebrates this miraculous abilitywalking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and can slow or turn back the ageing of our brainsincredibly, it is a skill that has its evolutionary origins millions of years ago, under the seawith our minds in motion we think more creatively, our mood improves and stress levels fallwe, and our societies, will be better for itwe put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us? in this hymn to walking, neuroscientist shane o'mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and mindswalking together to achieve a shared purpose is also a social glue that has contributed to our survival as a speciesas our lives become increasingly sedentary, we risk all thisit enabled us to walk out of africa and to spread as far as alaska and australiait freed our hands and freed our mindsit defines us as a species
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop wolverhampton flower of the month series april sweet pea key fob boxed a beautiful royal albert flower of the month ceramic key fob for the month of april with sweet pea designthe key fob measures approximately 2 1/2 inches by 1 3/4 inchesthe key fob is in very good condition together with its original presentation box
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oxfam books & music beeston shambhala, , paperback good condition, some stains to front cover the tibetan book of the dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of tibetan buddhismluminous emptiness features in-depth explanations of: the tibetan buddhist notions of death and rebirth the meaning of the five energies and the five elements in tibetan buddhism the mental and physical experience of dying, according to the tibetan buddhist tradition see oxfam website for delivery information read morefremantle relates the symbolic world of the tibetan book of the dead to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the livingusing vivid and dramatic imagery, the tibetan book of the dead presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightenedhere, fremantle, who worked closely with chögyam trungpa on the translation of the tibetan book of the dead (shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the livingover the years, it has been studied and cherished by buddhists and non-buddhists alikeluminous emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imageryaccording to the buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixedthe entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every moment
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road the bumper book of marmite is a huge book which explores the strange, beautiful, funny world of marmite and the people, thoughts and events that orbit ita huge publishing event and being produced with the full backing of unilever, this book promises to be one of the biggest (and heaviest) gift books of the yearit's almost as big as a coffee table
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"a christian theological book" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop keynsham the book is in good condition though the front board is bowedthe front paste down end paper has a book plate glued to itthe binding is soundthe corners are bumpedthe back free end paper show slight marksthe top and bottom of the spine show signs of wearthe top edge is marked with a small stain, all edges are brownedit uses the experience sayers had of literary creativity to illuminate christian doctrine about the nature of the doctrine of the trinity
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Shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time' judges of the costa book of the year see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' the timesoxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the costa book of the year winner of the slightly foxed best first biography prize a sunday times paperback of the year 'a masterpiece of history and memoir' evening standard'superbwrites with an almost sebaldian simplicity and understatement' guardian'sensational and grippinglittle lien wasn't taken from her jewish parents in the hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be savedhis account of tracing lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two familiesit is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined'luminous, elegant, haunting - i read it straight through' philippe sands, author of east west street'deeply movinghidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had notmuch later, she fell out with her foster family, and bart van es - the grandson of lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morebook has a slight slantoxfam shop shirley hardback without dust jacketinternally clean and overall in good condition for a book of this ageprevious owner's bookplate on fep also a signature in ink at front of bookin blue cloth boards with title and design in gilt on front cover and spineside and bottom edges grubby741 and 742 are missing 1cm at the bottom of the pagesome shelf weartop edges are also gilt
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' see oxfam website for delivery information read morephilip hobsbaum, in the oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry, says of the faber book of modern verse, 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the soxfam bookshop cheltenham first published in february , just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth centuryall took as their kernel the original selection by michael robertsmichael roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within ithe excludes some poets he admires such as edmund blunden and walter de la mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic techniqueeliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired oneyes, his purpose was tendentious' on the other hand, 'i have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and languagethis faber finds reissue restores that pristine selection' from the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with gerard manley hopkins' the wreck of the deutschland michael roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aimsince then three further editions by, in succession, anne ridler, donald hall and peter porter have been publishedmore likely than not, the original idea was t
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" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop stafford the book of the goons, nd impression) some pages have come away from the spine (as shown in pictures)"incorporating a new selection of spike milligan's goon show scripts the authentic inter-goonal correspondence of peter sellers, harry secombe and spike milligan, photographs by snowdon and drawings by the goons
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is in very good condition for its age however it is missing a blank page at the beginning of the book which appears to have been cut outoxfam shop haverfordwest published in by mrs dyson this is a first edition copy of her work on trees aimed at children and young adultsthe text is clear and readable and there is very little to moderate yellowing of the pages
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ilkley ty beanie baby of the month, sparkles, complete with tag and tag protector
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bedford 124 pages  hardback edition of boys' book of the world cup, by kenneth wolstenholmecoloured laminated boards (too early for an isbn); in generally good condition with clean pages and a tight binding
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oxfam shop leominster the pan book of machine knitting see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston the official tie-in to the return of the king, in which actor andy serkis relates how he and the team of animators brought tolkien's character gollum to lifefully illustrated with more than 100 exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and drawings from the return of the king and the two towers, and with contributions from the many designers and animators who brought gollum to life, this book examines the transition to the big screen of one of tolkien's most popular characters from the hobbit and the lord of the ringsnow andy serkis tells his own story about how a three-week commission to provide a voiceover for gollum grew into a four-year commitment to breathe life and soul into the lord of the rings' most challenging screen performancefilm-making history was made when, in the two towers, an actor's performance and digital animation were seamlessly integrated to create the world's first totally lifelike animated character
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford through a life cloaked in mystery, edwardian polymath hannibal gby the celebrated author of the caliph's house, a time top ten book of the yearfirst in a series of ground-breaking adventure novels from master storyteller, tahir shah, hannibal fogg and the supreme secret of man is unlike anything published in recent timesfogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterityalmost eight decades passedbanished from england, he lived out his days in secrecy - before disappearing on an expedition to manchuria in the winter ofhis life work was publically destroyed in what was to become known as the 'great foggian purge'zigzagging through five continents, the quest reveals how alexander the great was never beaten in battlethe key to a door in marrakeshthen, one morning william fogg receives a letter from a legal firm in london, claiming he's the sole inheritor to his great-great-grandfather's estateknowing almost nothing of his forebear, he takes possession of the single object left in the bequest - a large rusty iron keyhailing from a landed family, fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have livedby completing the life work of hannibal, william fogg strives to lift the veil on the supreme secret of manbut, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned the flames of envyten years in the making, it's as worldly and wise as the indefatigable hannibal foggunable to take fogg's triumphs any longer, the british establishment sought to have him discreditedand there begins the treasure trail of mystery, danger and uproar, as william pieces together the clues left for him by hannibal fogg
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road classic cookery book of the s
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hexham this book covers the period between the accession of charles 1st and the advent of king williamit exposes 'a vast amount of calumnious falsehood with which scotch fanaticism had debased the history of the country'dundee was called 'the devil dundee' but did he deserve this name? this is volume 2, published in and bound in blue boardsthere is some foxing and tanning and minor signs of wear to the edges and corners of the binding
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morerichly illustrated with maps, engineering drawings, newspaper engravings, and architectural photographs, this book suggests new ways of understanding london's sewers and makes visible these vital, yet hidden spaces of the cityoxfam books & music lichfield in this fascinating and innovative look at how the underbelly of victorian london, paul dobraszczyk offers a new account of how the city's sanitation was revolutionised in the s and s by means of gigantic new sewers and magnificent pumping stationshe focuses on the question of how these new spaces were understood and represented - by both those who planned and promoted them (reformers and engineers) and also by those whom they impacted, namely london's populace
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop ilkley  this book, as one of its many values, shows the extent to which hierarchy and other centres of life on the planet are dependent upon the unpredictable and often irresponsible factor of human free will so we are helped to understand what the interdependence of life on this planet really signifies in terms of love, sacrifice and service by the part to the needs of the whole
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book details the investigationoxfam shop macclesfield when signs of a giant underwater predator are seen at martin mere nature reserve in lancashire, jonathan downes of the centre for fortean zoology decides to investigate
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music totnes an extremely clean book with very good binding pale blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering to the spine there is an inscription on the top of the ffep
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oxfam bookshop chelmsford daily telegraph and new statesman book of the year see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lower petergate a personal account of the spring offensive of that culminated in the capture of saigon and the end of the vietnam wartranslated by john spragens jr, with an afterword by cora weiss and don lucein good condition, there are a number of small tears to the edge of the dust jacket, and some discolouration to the edges of the pageswritten by general van tien dung, chief of staff in the vietnam people's army and the officer in charge of the offensive, the narrative offers valuable insight into the vietnamese side of these historic events
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music lichfield the s were the golden age of the american automobile, and the cars were faster, bigger, and more boldly styled than ever beforetheir colorful illustrations and catchy copy give these ads a "power-packed beauty" all their own, offering a fun look at 50s culture and valuesthe economic prosperity of the country made for an "ultramatic" boom in car manufacturing, and the advertising industry followed suitsunday driving--cleaver-style--in the regal family ford, edsel or plymouth topped the list of national pastimes; and teenagers, behind the wheels of their daddies' thundering t-birds, had fun, fun, fun across america's highways this reprint of a chronicle books classic collects the "masterpieces" of automobile advertising, culled from the pages of such popular periodicals as life, the saturday evening post, collier's, look, and holidayso take a cruise down memory lane with this fond look back on a time when tail fins and chrome were the standard, and the american car was the true king of the road
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , signal booksit was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining "in exile" for the next seventy yearssmall marks to pageblockat the beginning of the fourteenth century anarchy in italy led to the capital of the christian world being moved from rome for the first and only time in historydustwrapper clean, small mark of glue left by old label on back boardillustrated in b&wthis is a portrait sketch of that eraand at the centre of the picture is avignon itself, as it grew from being a relatively insignificant town on the rhône to become, albeit briefly, one of the great capitals of the worldthe city chosen to replace rome was avignonand depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hell opinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves
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Finest hour - the book of the bbc tv series authors tim clayton & phil craig first publication in by hodder & stoughton hardback with dust jacket approx 418 pages powerful account of events in very good clean condition inscription to previous owner added owned from new in same family please see photos for condition rrp £ bargain £6 ono from a smoke & pet free home can post out at buyers cost if required social distancing observed read more
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Finest hour - the book of the bbc tv series authors tim clayton & phil craig first publication in by hodder & stoughton hardback with dust jacket approx 418 pages powerful account of events in very good clean condition inscription to previous owner added owned from new in same family please see photos for condition rrp £ bargain £5 ono from a smoke & pet free home can post out at buyers cost if required social distancing observed read more
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The complete book of the car - then definitive illustrated guide to the world's favourite automobiles hardback good condition see my other items for sale collection only
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International delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for detailsthe big book of the dark by helena harastova (hardback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 9 to 11 working days
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop raeburn place signed with signature to title pagewe flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actiontimes literary supplement books of the year in the soul of the marionette, john gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedomthis is a stimulating and enraging meditation on everything from cybernetics to the fairground marionettes of the titledustjacket price unclippedvery good conditionmany writers and intellectuals have always understood this, but instead of embracing our condition we battle against it, with everyone from world conquerors to modern scientists dreaming of a 'human dominion' almost comically at odds with our true state
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29 €