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Published by hampshire county council in , the book records many of the conflicts between the authorities of the new forest and its inhabitants between the years of and adhampshire record series volume 3Â there is a little creasing to the top and bottom edges of the dust jacket and some light scratchingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacketthere is a previous owner's signature and date at the top of the inside first blank page, otherwise the pages are all clean and unmarkedthe hard cover has some bumping to the bottom end of the spine but the binding is sound and the corners are good
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Oxfam books & music lichfield this is the first english translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century englandjocelin of brakelond was a monk in the abbey of bury st edmunds, and his narrative of events between the years of and provides a unique insight into the life of a medieval religious communitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of jocelin's narrative, and the annotation is particularly clear and helpful
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Hardback, blue cloth boards and interior in good condition, price-clipped dust jacket is grubby, with small stainsoxfam bookshop cheltenham the letters reprinted in this book were written by a girl to her lover between the end of and the autumn ofillustrated with portraits and a facsimile of dorothy osborne's writingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst edition , reprinted from sheets of the first edition in and
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Wild violets: the years of hope, paperback by arthur, alma, isbn , isbn-13
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Roy wood & wizzard the best of and the rest of eighteen great tracks! quality cd in excellent condition; played once and kept in storageprotective packaging and receipted postage just ÂŁ153 or collect from old hall, warrington (near gulliver's world) safe distancing area provided read more
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? & the mysterians: the best of ? and the mysterians cd
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From a middle-aged communist to an islamic terrorist; from the young children of a tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a brahmin housemaid, adiga has produced a microcosm of indian life in the 80s, the years between the assassinations of indira gandhi and her son rajivoxfam bookshop cheltenham in his compelling new work of fiction, aravind adiga has imagined the small indian city of kittur, an everytown nestling on the coast south of goa and north of calicutmuslim, christian and hindu, high-caste and low-caste, rich and poor: all of indian life - the 'sorrowful parade of humanity' - is heresee oxfam website for delivery information read moresizzling with acid observations, and textured with wicked humour and gentle humanity, between the assassinations is a triumph of voice and imaginationthrough the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, an entire indian world comes vividly and unforgettably to lifejourneying through kittur's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer limits, adiga conjures a remarkable fictional landscape
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This book covers important aspects of the history of italy between the years tolongman history of italy: italy in the age of the renaissance bytitle: italy in the age of the renaissance series: longman history of italy format: paperback / softback type: book publisher: longman uk release date: language: englishit concentrates on social and political issues and gives particular coverage to sicily and the south
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Oxfam bookshop holmfirth english local government is in a state of decline after 40 years of incremental but cumulative centralisation by central governmentthe 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 fieldthis 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 governancethis 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 gaphowever, 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 rectifiedno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop newport a selection from her majesty's correspondence between the years andgilt text and decoration to spinesall three volumes: red cloth-covered boards with blind embossed decoration to frontswear to edges and tops and bottoms of spinesvarious scuffs, marks and discolourationneatly pencilled name to front pastedown in volume 1bookplate affixed to front pastedown of volume 2see oxfam website for delivery information read morediscolouration to endpaperstext blocks are generally clean and tight and lightly but evenly tanned
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Dirac notation is used from the outset and students are trained to move easily from one representation to another, choosing whichever representation is best suited to a particular problemoxfam bookshop knutsford the physics of quantum mechanics aims to give students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material worldrigorous algebraic methods are preferred to the solution of partial differential equationsscattering phenomena, including the origin of radioactivity, are handled early on in the accessible context of one dimension, and at the end of the book with some rigour in three dimensionsthe connections between observables, operators and transformations are clearly explained and the standard commutation rules derived from the properties of spacetimethe mathematical prerequisites are no more than simple vector algebra, taylor series expansion and the use of integrating factors to solve linear first order differential equationsname written on inside facing page see oxfam website for delivery information read moreevery opportunity is taken to illustrate the emergence of the familiar classical, dynamical world through the quantum interference of stationary statesit shows that the theory follows naturally from the use of probability amplitudes to derive probabilitiesa chapter is devoted to entanglement, quantum computation, density operators and their role in thermodynamics, and the measurement problemit stresses that stationary states are unphysical mathematical abstractions that enable us to solve the theory's governing equation, the time-dependent schroedinger equationthe text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum worldhydrogen and helium are discussed in some detail and it is shown that quantum mechanics enables us to understand the structure of the periodic table without engaging with the complexities of many-electron atoms
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Excellent pages, a little edge and cover wearin previous scp recommendations on informal care, attention has been drawn to the often problematic combination of working and helpingdit verlies kan leiden tot een groter beroep op professionele hulp, tenzij verlofregelingen worden verbeterdde cijfers tonen dat de stijgende arbeidsdeelname die het kabinet nodig acht omdat de nederlandse beroepsbevolking krimpt een prijs heeft in de vorm van verlies van informele steunin deze studie is die spanning in cijfers gevatthe figures show that the increasing labor participation that the cabinet deems necessary because the dutch working population is shrinking has a price in the form of a loss of informal supportthis loss could lead to greater recourse to professional help unless leave arrangements are improvedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreuitstekende pagina's, een klein randje en omslagslijtagein eerdere adviezen van het scp over de mantelzorg is aandacht gevraagd voor de vaak problematische combinatie van werken en helpenas in previous reports on the future foresight of informal care, this study also shows that no worrying gap between the numbers of recipients and providers of informal care is expected in the future (until )er is in dat verband gewezen op de spanning tussen twee doelen van beleid: meer mensen langer aan het werk en grotere eigen verantwoordelijkheid van burgers voor hun hulpbehoevende netwerkledenthis study summarizes that tension in figuresoxfam bookshop carlisle net als in eerdere rapportages van toekomstverkenning van mantelzorg blijkt ook uit dit onderzoek dat in de toekomst (tot ) geen onrustbarende kloof tussen aantallen ontvangers en verleners van mantelzorg wordt verwachtin this context, the tension between two goals of policy has been pointed out: more people working longer and citizens' greater responsibility for their network members in need of help
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Oxfam shop crosby the world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benignwhat went wrong? how did we do this to ourselves? the war of the world comes up with compelling, fascinating answerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreglobalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most peopleit is niall ferguson's masterpieceinstead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the first world war and the end of the cold war
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It reassesses the character of this third lancastrian king and his place in english history, though it is not primarily a personal biographyoxfam bookshop preston this book, an invaluable and much-needed addition to english historiography, and unparalleled in its informative detail, is an examination of the exercise of the king's authority between the death of henry v in and the dethronement of henry vi insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit describes the governance of england during the mid-fifteenth century, yet without claiming to study every aspect of english lifedust jacket slightly yellowed with age, but book otherwise in excellent condition
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Included are hundreds of specially commissioned photographs with detailed descriptions, chapters on collecting, care and conservation, and a lengthy study of marks, signatures and the amphora numbering systemsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey journey from amphora's beginnings in the turn-teplitz region of what was once bohemia, to foreign markets where their artworks garnered mass appeal and on to the world's largest art exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centurieswith access to the most extensive amphora collections worldwide and recently unearthed archives and records from the czech republic, the authors - all three specialists in their fields - piece together a fascinating story of talent, ambition, family ties and innovationoxfam bookshop victoria here is the definitive account of the house of amphora, the innovative ceramic artworks bearing that name in fact or by association, and the five workshops that produced themcognizant that all works of art reflect the times from which they emerge, the authors discuss the vital relationship between the ceramic workshops and the many movements - political, economic and artistic - that swept through europe and the rest of the world at that time
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In 'the sins of the fathers' morse (john thaw) is called in when the owner of a brewery is found murdered in one of his vatsin 'driven to distraction' a serial killer stalks the streets of oxford, claiming victims who each have one thing in common: they all owned cars purchased from boynton's garageeven morse loses his taste for beer as he investigates the family who own the brewery, discovering evidence of a hostile takeover bid and a feud between the murder victim and his brotheroxfam shop kingsthorpe two more cases for the oxford detectivemorse makes the garage owner (patrick malahide) his prime suspect, but is his famous instinct correct this time? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal executionoxfam bookshop carlisle boethius was an eminent public figure under the gothic emperor theodoric, and an exceptional greek scholar the consolation was extremely popular throughout medieval europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of chaucer and danteit is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' philosophyher instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebook and slipcase are in excellent conditionwatts translation, with a preface by brian kenathis folio edition is the vwhen he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in pavia, it was to the greek philosophers that he turned
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There is a name in ink on the first page, and there are a handful of minor marks inside; the contents of the book are otherwise clean and brighttranslated from the french by evelyn crawfordsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluding indexoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames xxvi+629 ppthe covers are a bit worn and marked, and there is some minor spotting/discolouration around the edges of the page blockthe front endpaper has neatly been removed
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal hardback in excellent conditioninside of dust jacket at front fold is clippedthe book of job, which deals with deep-seated conflict between the integrity of god and the integrity of man and belongs to a group of writings known as wisdom literature, surpasses any of its known babylonian or egyptian forerunners in the beauty of its poetic discourses and in its insight
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop victoria pristine with shiny orange boardsthis is a work about our very existence, about reality, about the relationship between the individual personality and the cosmos in which that personality exists, showing how the person is a microcosm, a little part of the cosmos
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The result is an enthralling account of life during the second world war and in the years of recovery and recrimination that followed the liberation of paris inhow would you have survived?
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Oxfam bookshop tavistock this book of extracts from 'the west briton', cornwall's leading newspaper, spans the years from and is the last of four sequent volumes which together encompass all aspects of everyday cornish lifegrey cloth covers in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back covercontents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front cover
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Describing the history of an important undertaking in west cornwall throughout the years of britain's industrian revolutionvery good condition in a very good dustwrapperauthor: pascoe, w
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Oxfam shop wolverhampton martin scorsese's academy award-winning film took nearly 30 years in planning and brought two major actors back onto the big screen after several years absence (leonardo dicaprio and daniel day-lewis)new york and tensions have reached climactic and fatal proportions between the irish immigrants and the british and dutch inhabitants of the five points neighbourhoodamsterdam (dicaprio) manages to integrate himself into bill the butcher's corrupt inner circle, which is now running the entire underworld around five points, and even becomes his right-hand manhowever, his identity is soon revealed and a bloody showdown ensuesafter a violent clash between the two gangs which leaves vallon dead, his son amsterdam goes missing only to turn up in under a new name and seeking vengeance for the death of his fathersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewilliam cutting (day-lewis), aka bill the butcher, leads the inhabitants of five points and creates the 'native americans' gang, whilst the immigrants are led by priest vallon (liam neeson) and form 'the dead rabbits'
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Oxfam books & music troon martin scorsese's academy award-winning film took nearly 30 years in planning and brought two major actors back onto the big screen after several years absence (leonardo dicaprio and daniel day-lewis)new york and tensions have reached climactic and fatal proportions between the irish immigrants and the british and dutch inhabitants of the five points neighbourhoodamsterdam (dicaprio) manages to integrate himself into bill the butcher's corrupt inner circle, which is now running the entire underworld around five points, and even becomes his right-hand manhowever, his identity is soon revealed and a bloody showdown ensuesafter a violent clash between the two gangs which leaves vallon dead, his son amsterdam goes missing only to turn up in under a new name and seeking vengeance for the death of his fathersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewilliam cutting (day-lewis), aka bill the butcher, leads the inhabitants of five points and creates the 'native americans' gang, whilst the immigrants are led by priest vallon (liam neeson) and form 'the dead rabbits'
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Clothed as a monk in , he devoted his life to the benedictine way, and, after completing a degree at oxford, spent 12 years teaching classics at ampleforth, and leading it as prior for the final 3 of those years107 is torn at the bottom, but with no frank lossoxfam books & music islington the spirit of catholicism (karl adam, transkarl borromäus adam () was a german catholic theologian of the early 20th century dom philip justin mccann () was born in ireland and educated at ampleforth collegethe yellow cloth covers are rather grubby and darkened, particularly at edges & angles; there are two small punctures on the spine (see photo), and a 'catholic book-a-month club' stamp on the backtitle etc in black lettering on spinevery occasional spots of foxing notedinside, the binding is firm with no loose pages; pages clean apart from some annotations between ppthe author is presenting to the laity a straightforward narrative of the catholic faith and the catholic church as keeper of that faithit contains the texts of 11 lectures delivered at the university of tubingen in , with two additional lectures from and respectivelyin he was appointed master of st benet's hall in oxford, where he remained for 27 years, and was able to spend much time in translating texts such as 'the spirit of catholicism'see oxfam website for delivery information read more  previous sale price of 1/6, circled, at top of front pastedown  previous owner's name neatly inscribed at the top of the front fep  the back cover may have sufferedsome water damage, as there is a stain both inside and out, with slight puckering of the pastedownit has been widely translated, and remains in print todaydom justin mccann) -1st edition thusthis is the best known of the author's works our book is in good condition for its age, despite lacking a dust jacket
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The cold war was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars; far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as martin walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destructionwe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic power" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubtat the end of the s the fear was generated by communist expansion into eastern europe and china; in the s by the prospect of defeat in vietnamfrom the origins of the marshall plan, which revived europe after world war ii, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated japan into a bulwark against china to the collapse of the berlin wall, this authoritative work reveals how the west was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-state"walker reminds us how easy it is to forget that there were many occasions for the late s on when victory seemed far from assured, and that lent a particular urgency to the efforts of postwar western leadersin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominenceusing newly opened kremlin archives and his own experiences in the field, martin walker has written a brilliant analysis of the conflict that has shaped the contemporary worldoxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sincenow that it is over, it is crucial to our future to understand how the cold war has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economyas the united states became the national security state, california, which had a population of five million at the start of the cold war, grew to thirty million and, by the s provided one in every ten members of congress and two presidentsthe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breath
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Its principal focus is the great demographic revolution which occurred during those years, especially the secular decline of fertility and the origins of the modern rise in life expectancythe volume also illustrates the fundamental importance of geographical variations between urban and rural areassee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis invaluable reference tool is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full colouroxfam bookshop chelmsford the demography of victorian england and wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of england and wales between andbut robert woods also considers the variable quality of the victorian registration system; the changing role of what robert malthus termed the preventive check; variations in occupational mortality and the development of the twentieth-century class mortality gradient; and the effects of urbanisation associated with the significance of distinctive disease environments
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Jackson examines the mechanisms of power at the disposal of these development organizations, the expertise of those administering development aid, the agency of development workers, and the benefits that accrue to donor countriesjackson examines the significant roles played by international development workers-"the globalizers"-operating in honduras over the past thirty years, particularly in the troubled construction of the el cajĂłn hydroelectric dam, the creation of maquiladoras, and the multinational relief, recovery, and reconstruction efforts following hurricane mitchoxfam bookshop skipton very good conditionhe finds in the international development community a close-knit coalition of policy makers who have inserted themselves into the local political process and pushed the honduran nation-state to conform to international norms and integrate into a transnational structure of governancesee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and the emergence of global governanceusing honduras as a case study, jeffrey tjust one light smudge on page edgesjackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in latin america, asia, africa, and the middle east for political economic construction, or nation buildingin doing so he makes a persuasive connection between nation building and global governance-raising important questions about whose nations are being built and why
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We’re looking to rehome a young pug, between 1-3 years oldwe had a 12 year old male pug that we lost on boxing day, so it’s left a bit of a hole in our livespreferably kc registered and pde paperswe live near the coast so walks on the beach and dunes are something we do most dayswe’re both 58 and my partner works from home and i’m semi retired so there’s usually somebody in the house most dayslooking forward to finding our new best friend
750 €