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Oxfam bookshop hexham the fiction of postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmoderncontemporary works of fiction by novelists such as don delillo, toni morrison, salman rushdie, thomas pynchon and martin amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the 'culture industry', analyses of the 'postmodern condition' and theories of simulacrathomas pynchon, salman rushdie, don delillo)*introduces influential theories of the postmodern (fredric jameson, jean-francois lyotard, jean baudrillard)*analysis of the relationships of modernism and the avant-garde to postmodernism*focuses on the critical potential of postmodernism and postmodern fiction see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxismkey features*substantial readings of fiction by major contemporary authors (ekey features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fictionthe work of influential theorists of the postmodern - such as theodor adorno, jean-francois lyotard, fredric jameson and jean baudrillard - is explained and comparedissues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the secrets of happiness is an extraordinary tale of sisterhood, from lucy diamond author of the beach caferachel is the successful one: happily married with three children and a big house, plus an impressive careerartistic becca, meanwhile, lurches from one dead-end job to another, shares a titchy flat, and has given up on lovecan be just around the cornerrachel and becca aren't real sisters, or so they saythe two of them have lost touch, but when rachel doesn't come home one night, becca is called in to helpsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas becca begins to untangle rachel's secrets, she is forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about her own life, and the future seems uncertainworst of all, nobody seems to have a clue where she might beonce there, she quickly realizes that her stepsister's life is not so perfect after all: rachel's handsome husbandhas moved out, her children are rebelling, and her glamorous career has taken a nosedivebut sometimes happiness can be found in the most unexpected placesthe best things in lifethey are stepsisters, living far apart, with little in common
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Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth the fruit of four years' work, lawrence published his translation of homer's epic under the pseudonym of treading like a novel, it was described in the new york herald tribune as perhaps the most interesting translation of one of the world's most interesting books', while the book of the month club news called it one of the notable books of our time'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreshaw, after george bernard shaw
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead the worst of crimes: homosexuality and the law in eighteenth century london in the eighteenth century homosexuality became an issue, especially in london with its fast growing populationshe also shows a how reactivated sodomy law put all eighteenth-century male homosexuals in fear and suggests it led to a distorted concept of masculinitythe inside pages are clean and unmarked' by studying original trial documents and other manuscript sources netta murray goldsmith has discovered hitherto unsuspected facts about some cases, including one important instance in which a prosecutor, aided by members of the judiciary, was able to pervert the course of justicethere is sight edge wear to the jacket top spineno one dared to say publicly that it should be tolerated, yet the reactions of men and women to the homosexuals in their midst were varied and complexthere are a slight dust marks to the jacket and marks to the cover boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read moremoving from the old bailey to the court of king's bench, the author discusses the anomalies, inconsistencies and miscarriages of justice that arose as our ancestors decided what to do with defendants accused of the so-called 'worst of crimesin good condition
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead the adventures of tintin, volume 1: tintin in the land of the soviets / tintin in the congo join the world's most famous travelling reporter in two exciting adventures as he heads for the land of the soviets and the congohis attempts to research his story are put to the test by the bolsheviks and moscow's secret policetintin and snowy encounter witch doctors, hostile tribesmen, crocodiles, boa constrictors and numerous other wild animals before solving the mystery and getting their storytintin in the congo the young reporter tintin and his faithful dog snowy set off on assignment to africatintin in the land of the sovietssee oxfam website for delivery information read morejoin the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteriesstill selling over copies every year in the uk and having been adapted for the silver screen by steven spielberg and peter jackson in , the adventures of tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publicationsince then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20thbut a sinister stowaway follows their every move and seems set on ensuring they come to a sticky endaccompanied by his dog snowy, tintin leaves brussels to go undercover in soviet russia
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead the law of compulsory purchase by guy roots being spread across several statutes of varying antiquity and many judicial decisions, the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation can appear dauntingthis authoritative new book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the lawthere is some little shelf wear and a few marks to the page edge on the bottomthe practical structure, style and indexing ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to findthis is a first edition in a very good conditionthe law of compulsory purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchaseit both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areasthis book should be on the desk of every practitioner who has to advise upon this branch of law and every advocate who has to present a case in which it ariseswritten in convenient narrative form, it contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provision and policy circularsit also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefind the answers you need quickly and easilyit provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further information
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead the challenge of the silver screen: an analysis of the cinematic portraits of jesus, rama, buddha and muhammad by freek lthis book explores these films and looks at how these films dealt with the fundamental question of portraying an individual thought to have either divine status or a very special and unique status among human beingsslight indentation on front cover and light scratches on back coveralthough religious leaders did not always approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believersthis book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary worldthis and other films about jesus became examples for and an inspiration for films on other important religious figures like rama, buddha and muhammadin very good conditionbakker in - only two years after the invention of film - the first feature film about jesus appearedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreclean, crisp pages with slight damage on the bottom corner of a couple of pages
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Oxfam bookshop brighton the story of the band keith richards called 'the best rock 'n' roll band in the world'along with blistering live performances and devising the 'rock opera', they were 'the godfathers of punk', and remain hugely influentialincludes interviews with remaining members pete towshend and roger daltreydisc 2 includes rarities and previously unseen footage of the band playing live at the railway hotel in , the earliest recorded film of the band performingthis 2-disc set charts the band's rise from their early beginnings playing in working men's clubs, to their appearance at the woodstock concert, live aid and beyondsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam 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 environmentsthis invaluable reference tool is lavishly illustrated with numerous tables, figures and maps, many of which are reproduced in full colourthe volume also illustrates the fundamental importance of geographical variations between urban and rural areasits 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 expectancysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the reformation of the subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the english protestant epictracing the transformation of the epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political subject, gregerson thus provides an illuminating contribution to our understanding of the ways in which subjectivities are historically producedin lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, linda gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of the faerie queene and paradise lostshe reminds us that reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of waylaying the human imaginationthrough a series of detailed readings, gregerson examines the different strategies adopted by spenser and milton as they sought to distinguish their poems from idols yet preserve the shaping power that iconoclasts have long attributed to iconssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop birmingham the character of christian-muslim encounter is a festschrift in honour of david thomas, professor of christianity and islam, and nadir dinshaw professor of inter religious relations, at the university of birmingham, ukthe editors have put together a collection of over 30 contributions from colleagues of professor thomas that commences with a biographical sketch and representative tribute provided by a former doctoral student, and comprises a series of wide-ranging academic papers arranged to broadly reflect three dimensions of david thomas' academic and professional work - studies in and of islam; christian-muslim relations; the church and interreligious engagementcontributors, excluding the editors, are: clare amos, john azumah, mark beaumont, david cheetham, rifaat ebied, stanislaw grodz svd, alan guenther, damian howard sj, michael ipgrave, muammer iskenderoglu, risto jukko, alex mallett, juan pedro monferrer-sala, lucinda mosher, gordon nickel, jørgen nielsen, claire norton, emilio platti, luis bernabé pons, peniel rajkumar, peter riddell, umar ryad, andrew sharp, sigvard von sicard, richard sudworth, mark swanson, charles tieszen, john tolan, davide tacchini, herman teule, albert waltersin as new condition - still shrink-wrappedthese are set in the context of a focussed theme - the character of christian-muslim encounters - and cast within a broad chronological frameworkrare book, difficult to source see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the revolt of naples in was one of several contemporaneous revolts and revolutions which have been grouped together by historians as manifestations of a "general crisis of the seventeenth century" concentrating not on the city of naples itself but on the countryside, it has new and important things to say about landlord-peasant relations, rural banditry, and the workings of spanish rule in southern italysee oxfam website for delivery information read more rosario villari's account of the background to this revolt, first published in and now at last available in english, has established itself as essential reading for all those interested in the origins and character of these seventeenth-century revolts
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Oxfam bookshop knutsford the physics of quantum mechanics aims to give students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material 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 atomsevery opportunity is taken to illustrate the emergence of the familiar classical, dynamical world through the quantum interference of stationary statesthe connections between observables, operators and transformations are clearly explained and the standard commutation rules derived from the properties of spacetimea chapter is devoted to entanglement, quantum computation, density operators and their role in thermodynamics, and the measurement problemthe text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum worldscattering 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 dimensionsname written on inside facing page see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit stresses that stationary states are unphysical mathematical abstractions that enable us to solve the theory's governing equation, the time-dependent schroedinger equationit shows that the theory follows naturally from the use of probability amplitudes to derive probabilitiesthe mathematical prerequisites are no more than simple vector algebra, taylor series expansion and the use of integrating factors to solve linear first order differential equationsdirac 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 problemrigorous algebraic methods are preferred to the solution of partial differential equations
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Oxfam bookshop lymington the voice of poetrycolumbia masterworkcolumbia ? db to x shellac, rpmthe folder is intact but has significant mould marking to the covers and the cover fabric is deterioratingsome of the records have chips around the edges which do not affect the playing surfacesall the others are slightly dulledvolume ii: john gielgud john gielgud ? the voice of poetryside 1 track three has a larger area of deposit which has not moved on cleaningvolume i: edith evans columbia dvolumes i and iian anthology of recorded versereleased: original set of 6 x 78 rpm records in folderplease note, this is a heavy package and there is an additional courier charge of £8there is no booklet includedreleased: original set of 6 x 78 rpm records in folderother than this the set is very goodthere is a booklet includedshellac, rpm ukthe records are all in very good shiny condition apart from side 1 where track two has two small areas of damage/depositsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe folder is intact but has significant mould marking to the covers and the cover fabric is deteriorating and there is damage to one cornerside 4 has a long scratch
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Includes a 20-page guide written by nick bakeryou may also hatch other creatures such as clam shrimp, fairy shrimp and daphniancludes a 20-page guide written by nick bakergrow pets from the 'age of the dinosaurs&apos
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Oxfam bookshop hexham the story of the sthere are small mould marks on the bindingtranslated by charles fullmanofficer who daily risked his life to alert the pope and the neutral countries to hitler's extermination drivesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis copy is in good conditionprotected with a removable cellophane coverthe book jacket is worn at edges and corners, with some loss to the top of the spine
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the vegetation of craven with its adjacencies in aire and ribble - an analysis of its flora in advent and decline 111 ppthe boards are a little discoloured, and the binding has cracked slightly at page 88see oxfam website for delivery information read morereprinted from the north western naturalist, xii-xivhardcover with cloth spine, no dust jacketthere is a name inside the front cover, and the occasional marginal pencilled note
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Oxfam bookshop ashbourne the book of ruth is a triumphant love story in the face of adversityleaving her homeland, ruth follows her mother in law to israel after the death of her husband to meet a man who will change her lifecondition:Â used see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop newport "the reader of the following story may be induced to hope that so perfect a character exists in realityowner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown" black cloth covered boards with red cloth band overlaid on leading edgeswe grieve to confess that he is purely imaginary, and we must add that he is not "intended" for anybodyvarious scuffs, marks and discolouration to boardsred text on black section of front boardlightly but evenly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morespine cloth missingif this little work should have the effect of making even one prig more priggish, the writer will not have laboured in vainblack endpapers, cracked at rear to reveal linen binding beneathsuperficial foxing and other marks throughout
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the missing of the somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrancesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the great war
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Oxfam bookshop cardiff "the girls of the abbey school" - another story from the pen of elsie jnot dated but presumed mid-sthis copy is in good condition for its near one hundred yearseight pages of adverts at backclean and bright internally with only a little foxingsquare and firm in its bindingno marks or inscriptionssee oxfam website for delivery information read morecolour frontispiece and two further black and white illustrationssee the attached images for a good impression of this bookgirl in roundel on cover and girl waving on the spine
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury the mystery of the spanish chest is a novella by agatha christie which was first published in three instalments in women's illustrated from 17 september to 1 october with illustrations by zelinksi in the uthe story was also gathered and published as part of the adventure of the christmas pudding and a selection of entrées in october the three issues in very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the seeds of kokopelli - a manual for the production of seeds in the family garden - a directory of heritage seedshardcover with laminated pictorial boardsa little bumping at corners, contents as newsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenear fine condition
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the lord of the rings - the return of the king - first edition, seventh impression in seventh impression dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredust jacket a little browned especially the spine, a few light marks on the rear panel, very slightly bumped along edges, not price clipped, now in a removable protective coverred cloth, gilt titles, top edge red, corners slightly rubbed and bumped, spine slightly cocked, contents in excellent clean condition, as is the fold-out map tipped-in following the last page
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Oxfam bookshop ilkley the excursions of mrthis is janacek's only madcap operatic comedythis performance caught live at the barbican, londonbroucek to the moon and to the 15th century is the complete title of leos janacek's fifth opera, based on two svatopluk cech novels2 cd set includes booklet with libretto in czech and englishsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop newport the story of a yorkshire woman who was called upon by the ministry of labour and national service to be directed to work of national importanceminor foxing to edges of text block, which is otherwise lightly but evenly tannedrear free endpaper has been torn outshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spinea heart-warming and touching collection of anecdotes about life as a clippie, and how it impacted upon her life at homegiven the choice between working in a factory or going into transport, she chose the latter and became a conductress on a tramblue cloth covered boards with gilt text to spinesee oxfam website for delivery information read morevarious scuffs, marks and discolourationendpapers discoloured
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Oxfam bookshop victoria the making of a marchioness is a novel by frances hodgson burnettit was followed by a sequel, the methods of lady walderhurst, but both have been subsequently published together, either under the original name the making of a marchioness or as emily fox-setonthe collected version was republished by persephone bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read more it was made into a bbc radio 4 classic serial in
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate the story of the families and companies that dominated the trade in privately produced nautical charts, or "bluebacks", from the s until the preent dayblue cloth, gilt; unmarkeddustwrapper has very slight edgewear, in non-adhesive clear protective coverx, 158 pp; 8 colour plates plus b&w illus, mapspublished , first editionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally unmarked, as newtiny mark to text block fore-edge
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the roots of romanticism is the long-awaited text of isaiah berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the mellon lectures, delivered in washington in and heard since by a much wider audience on bbc radiothey destroyed the traditional notion of objective truth in ethicsm with incalculable, all-pervasive resultsfor berli, the romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itselfin his unscripted tour de force berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define romanticism, distils its essence, traces its development, and shows how its legacy permeates our outlook todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop thame the story of kiwi motorcycling legend, backyard engineering genius, and land speed record holder burt munrohe broke several international speed records with a motorbike he modified in his christchurch shed and still holds several records in the usnow a motion picture called the world's fastest indian and with sir anthony hopkins playing burt, this true-life, little guy beats the odds story is bound to renew interest in one of the legends of land speed racingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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