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A spectator book of the year - 'refreshingly and engagingly candid' (jane ridley) see oxfam website for delivery information read morehowever just as his star was in the ascent, waldegrave became embroiled in a scandal which tarnished his reputation, but could not dampen his voracious enthusiasm for the political gamean unembroidered account of the narcotic effect of politics from one of the most fiercely intellectual governmental figures of the modern age, a different kind of weather is a beautifully weighted memoir of political success and failure, and the passing of an eraformative years spent at eton, oxford and harvard fortified his resolve to enter the political establishment, and by the early seventies he finally achieved his greatest ambitionthe youngest of seven children, and the son of an earl, waldegrave's quintessentially english upbringing would go on to shape the course of his life, instilling in him a sense of independence and self-discipline needed to steel one for a successful career in governmentas an fearless young conservative politician in the seventies and eighties, one who witnessed the fall of heath and the triumph and eventual decline of thatcher, waldegrave was firmly at the heart of one of the most exciting and tumultuous periods of modern british historyoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'why did you go into politics in the first place?'a question that former cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, lord waldegrave's is a life lived through politics
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For many his ascent echoes one of pop art's ambitions, to bring popular styles and subjects into the exclusive salons of high artplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitenevertheless, his screenprinted images of marilyn monroe, soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories, quickly became synonymous with pop artsold out licensed by the andy warhol foundation print signature on the back this is the lot of 2 toys: cm) and cm) come in the original box high quality and very sought aftership carefully with tracking read morehis crowning achievement was the elevation of his own persona to the level of a popular icon, representing a new kind of fame and celebrity for a fine artistcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemedicom toy bearbrick + andy warhol collaborationandy warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in new york even before he began to make art destined for gallerieshe emerged from the poverty and obscurity of an eastern european immigrant family in pittsburgh, to become a charismatic magnet for bohemian new york, and to ultimately find a place in the circles of high societyour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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Set up in the first months of adolf hitler's rule, dachau was a bastion of the nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of heinrich himmler and the ss to control of the third reich's terror and policing apparatusgraduates of the dachau school would go on to play a central role in the wartime criminality of the third reich, particularly at auschwitzan international symbol of nazi depredation, dachau was the cradle of a new and terrible spirit of destructionoxfam books & music islington dachau and the ss studies the concentration camp guards at dachau, the first ss concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnelchristopher dillon analyses recruitment to the dachau ss and evaluates the contribution of ideology, training, social psychology and masculine ideals to the conduct and subsequent careers of concentration camp guardsthis copy has slight damage to the back dust jacket (see photograph) see oxfam website for delivery information read morethroughout the pre-war era of nazi germany, dachau functioned as an academy of violence where concentration camp personnel were schooled in steely resolution and the techniques of terrorcombining extensive new research into the pre-war history of dachau with theoretical insights from studies of perpetrator violence, this book offers the first systematic study of the 'dachau school'it explores the backgrounds and socialization of thousands of often very young ss men in the camp and critiques the assumption that violence was an outcome of personal or ideological pathologiesdachau and the ss makes an original contribution to scholarship on the pre-history of the holocaust and the institutional organisation of violence
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Rapid ascent alarmscrew-locked bottom with engraved areas water resistant: 200 meters - 200 atmospheres technical features movement: eco drive caliber j250 power reserve 330 days case material: ip anti allergic silver color steel case finish: gold plated glass: sapphire saphire vickers anti-reflective mineral operative silicone rubber strap with ip steel pin buckle strap color: black color dial type: multi function combined luminescent hands with high visibility at night dial color: black water resistance: 200 atmospheres certified iso case diameter: mmplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitepromaster aqualand diver`s professional collection iso certified, diver 200 meterspower reserve indicator on the dialfunctions: depth gauge from 1 to 70 metersstandard man new watch complete with box, official dealer guarantee for 2 yearsweight: grams strap length cmunidirectional rotating bezelcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewhat you see in the picture is shipped we ship worldwide with insured registered parcelfeatures: steel case with screw-locked crowns and buttonsimportant large clock movement: eco drive (light-powered) with 330-day power reservepolyurethane strapour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeglass with anti-reflective treatmentdelivery time dayswith memory of the maximum depth reachedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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This universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial china creates an "off-yellow," darker-hued orient in huallywood films to silhouette its global ascentoxfam bookshop byres road how do english-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of china from a chinese perspective? how do they keep up appearances of pseudo-sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the english language? anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing chineseit commences with one nobel laureate, pearl buck, and ends with another, kazuo ishiguro, almost a century laterthe trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in japanese animeoff-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in anglo-american fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and chinglish are of, for, by the (white) peoplesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoff-white interrogates seminal anglo-american fiction and film on off-white bodies and voicesthroughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliens
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He lost his life while attempting the ascent of mont blancfrancis (frank) maitland balfour () was a british biologist, and younger brother of the politician arthur balfourthe work quickly won wide recognition, both as an admirable digest of the numberless observations made with regard to the development of animals during the quarter of a century preceding its publication, and as a work of original researchcovers plain with impressed line borders, spine with gilt bands top & bottom, and title etc in gilt letters - all rather dulledroughcut page fore-edgestwo pencilled annotations: 'almeida'Â at the top of the front pastedown, and 's'on the halftitle pageendpapers appear slightly newer than the main textblockhe was regarded by his colleagues as one of the greatest biologists of his day and a successor to charles darwinoxfam books & music islington this is the second volume of a ground-breaking and seminal research publication, the first having dealt with invertebratessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreour book is in good general condition for its age, its green cloth covers somewhat battered, stained and faded in placesinside, however, the binding is firm with no loose pages; all pages clean and bright apart from slight browning of edgesrubbing of edges & angles, shelf wear to top & tail of spine, and bumped corners with some frank damagehere the author turns his attention to vertebrates, displaying a vigorous scientific imagination, controlled by a logical sense that rigidly distinguished between fact and hypothesis
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Although they are just over 10 years old they are in perfect condition, they are mummy ascent type 210 cm long, the down has the same loft lift as when new, since new have only been used for no more than nights and always with liners, reason for selling is we have not used these for last 8-9 years and no longer camp2 rab 500 fill goose down sleeping bags, both in new conditioncash sale and collect only read more
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Rapid ascent alarm00 cm extension for diving closure: stainless steel pin buckle with citizen logo what you see in the picture is sent the watch is new, complete with all official citizen documents official 2 year warrantyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitefunctions: hour, minute, second, date display at 3 o'clock, battery discharge indicator (second hand jumps in 2-second increments), maximum memo depth, shock detection function, depth gauge, decompression alarm dial: glossy black color with large luminescent hour markers pointer: five white-plated hands, luminescent hour / minute hands, yellow depth indicator crown and pushers: screw-down crown and pusher, black pvd-coated rings and pusher crown (crown at hour / date at 4 o'clock), pusher for operating the diving functionswe ship worldwide with insured traceable parcelwe do not respond for delays of couriers during this period look at our other auctionspower reserve up to 330 days, automatic pointer correction, battery discharge indicator, gauss anti magneticglass: flared and planed mineral sapphire, anti-reflective inside case: in antiallergic ip stainless steel with engraving area screw-down caseback, unidirectional rotating bezel with luminescent sign in zero position, helium valve, black pvd-coated sensor housing case width: mm case thickness: mm weight grams water resistance: 20 atmospheres / 20 bar / 200 meters (compliant with iso for professional diving watches) strap: robust elastic in black silicone, extension for immersion loop: mm strap length: cmcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabledepth gauge from 1 to 70 meters, with memory of the maximum depth reachedaverage delivery time days read moretechnical features movement: eco drive (solar) caliber j250our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe watch is new, complete with all the original citizen accessories, with an official 2-year warrantywe offer for auction this particular and rare citizen diving watch, promaster aqualand diver's collection, with eco drive movement, professional sub, 200 bar with iso certificationare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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Oxfam bookshop folkestone clean tight copy in slip-case see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Ranging from new york to venice, sydney to berlin, and the middle east to south africa, jan morris was a witness to such seminal moments as the eichmann trial, the first ascent of everest, the fall of the berlin wall and the handover of hong konghav, her novel, was shortlisted for the booker prize and the arthur c'a glorious compendium of adventure and wisdom' pico iyer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand, as ever, she displays her unique and inimitable literary style, at once funny, wise and sadjan morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as venice, coronation everest, hong kong, spain, manhattan '45, a writer's world and the pax britannica trilogyoffering a tremendously perceptive and highly personal view of the world, she is as much concerned with conveying the 'feel' of these moments as the events themselvesoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells in a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, jan morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century
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Comprises snow on the equator (), the ascent of nanda devi (), everest ), when men and mountains meet(), two mountains and a river (), china to chitral (), and nepal himalaya ()this omnibus of exploratory mountain travel covers the yearsthis edition published in by baton wickssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretilman has been called 'arguably the best expedition writer and best explorer-mountaineer' of the 20th centuryoxfam shop tunbridge wells h
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Diamond back ascent 20" stx mountain bike carbon fibre frame, shimano brakes, gears, crank and pedals in good conditionincluding bicycle owner's manual & other books
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It shows china, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of europe - and which now power china's ascentand it raises as many question as it answers: how did john selden acquire it? where did it come from? who re-imagined the world in this way? and most importantly - what can it tell us about the world at that time? brook, like a cartographic detective, has provided answers - including a surprising last-minute revelation of authorshipit was bequeathed by john selden, a london business lawyer, political activist, former convict, mp and the city's first orientalist scholarwhen timothy brook saw it in , he realised that the selden map was 'a puzzle that had to be solved': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgeryoxfam shop kendal very good condition hardcover with minimal shelf wearlargely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive readersee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom the gobi desert to the philippines, from java to tibet and into china itself, brook uses the map (actually a schematic representation of china's relation to astrological heaven) to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in china's historybut it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishingin , a vast and unusual map of china arrived in the bodleian library, oxford
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Oxfam bookshop brighton in jacob bronowski was commisioned by david attenborough, then controller of bbc2, to write and present this 13-part documentary series that examines in great depth and with great erudition the intellectual and technological history of the human race from prehistoric times to the present daysee oxfam website for delivery information read more broadcast in and designed to complement kenneth clarke's earlier bbc documentary series 'civilisation', bronowski concentrates on the growing development of human science and technology, of the ways in which humanity seeks to harness and dominate its environment, and the ways in which scientific and intellectual theory across the ages, from galileo to einstein, have broadened our horizons
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Quadcopter size: cm (unfolded)4ghz anti-interference technology4 channels for ascent, descent, forward, backward, left flight, right flight and 360 rolld a flight path on the screen, the drone will fly autonomously along the specified path
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4ghz anti-interference technology4 channels for ascent, descent, forward, backward, left flight, right flight and 360 degree rolld a flight path on the screen, the drone will fly autonomously along the specified path
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The arms are foldable, small in size and easy to carry4 channels, which can carry out ascent, descent, forward, backward, left flight, right flight and 360° rolling4ghz anti-jamming technologyheight hold mode function, stable flightin headless mode, there is no need to adjust the position of the aircraft before flying
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This sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the glory of light was not brought about by a holy healerthe first time she died was the day barty was bornno celestial trumpets announced the restoration of his vision, just as none had announced his birthand you can't discount barty's profound desire to make his mother proud of him before she diedbut although eyeless, barty regained his sight when he was thirteenjanuary read moreplease check shipping costs before ordering synopsis bartholomew lampion was blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly removed his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancera rollercoaster had something to do with his recovery, as did a seagull
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The red 'apex' is dated late s or early 's with frame number 6kare there any retro bike collectors who are interested in this bike? ÂŁ5020" frame, brakes and gears all work, but 26" tyres are perished with one puncturedthe photos show the yellow 'ascent ex' i own, and the other two photos show both the red and yellow bikesladies bike with original paint in good conditionthis bike has the early brand name, as 'diamond back' changed to 'diamondback' a few years after the launchi have also got a 's raleigh nottingham 'coco' mountain bikethe bike is complete and rideable, and the frame size is 21", and it has 21 gearsthese retro 'diamond back' mountain bikes were introduced in after their successful bmx introduction in
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The red 'apex' is dated late s or early 's with frame number 6k20" frame, brakes and gears all work, but 26" tyres are perished, but hold airthe photos show the yellow 'ascent ex' i own, and the other two photos show both the red and yellow bikesladies bike with original paint in good conditionthis bike has the early brand name, as 'diamond back' changed to 'diamondback' a few years after the launchthese retro 'diamond back' mountain bikes were introduced in after their successful bmx introduction ini have also got a 's raleigh nottingham 'coco' mountain bikethe bike is complete and rideable, and the frame size is 21", and it has 21 gearsare there any retro bike collectors who are interested in this bike? ÂŁ45
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Dive mode, gauge mode, watch mode (out of the water) -versatile air/nitrox ranging % o2 with 1% increments -modified 9-tissue haldane algorithm -rgbm + deep stop (optional) -adjustable po2 of -battery life indicator -acoustic and visual alarms with screen lighting: po2, cns, ascent rate, deco, deco bypass -dive planning mode read morebrand new cressi leonardo scuba diving computer in black/grey brand new in the box and comes with a spare screen protector (also packaged) originally bought for £150 leonardo is the first dive computer designed and built entirely by cressian elegant expression of simple, functional design, the leonardo is a must-have for divers entering the sport and those who “just want to divean edge-to-edge, high-definition screen gives large numerical displays in a computer that is still compact and travel-friendly” a single button interface offers effortless activation of air, nitrox and gauge modes the first time a diver picks the computer up
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6 the ascent of stanwritten-by –ben folds,frally hynesben folds rockin' the suburbs - label epic made in austria rockin' the suburbs8 carrying cathy5 fred jones part 212 the luckiest
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With over pressure valve at top to rapidly remove air when needed and eliminate accidental over-inflation du ascent from expansion2 pieces heavy duty technical scuba diving 50lbs lift bag desinged with reflective stripe, high visibility,, compact and durable2 x scuba diving lift bags
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Smythe • seven years in tibet by heinrich harrer • the crossing of antarctica by sir vivian fuchs and sir edmund hillary • high adventure by edmund hillary • the ascent of everest by john hunt • man of everest by (the autobiography of tenzing) told to james ramsey ullman • memoirs of a mountaineer by f• the springs of adventure by wilfred noyce • south col by wilfred noyce • to the unknown mountain by wilfred noyce • hurricane’s wake by ray kauffman • annapurna by maurice herzog • land of tempest by eric shipton • the everest – lhotse adventure by albert eggler • the epic of mount everest by sir francis younghusband • the kangchenjunga adventure by fsmythe • kamet conquered by frank sspencer chapman • read more
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4 channels can make ascent, descend, forward, backward, left, right fly and roll 360°the fuselage of the quadcopter is made of high-strength and tough enginee plastics, which is and durablesmart follow, surround shooting, 50x zoom, mv production
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