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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury the poetry of philip gross with the art of john eaves and fj kennedybeautifully illustrated - a lovely copy of this iconic book see oxfam website for delivery information read moresigned by the poet and two artists above their names on the title page book condition throughout very good: dust jacket complete and unmarked, card covers very good and all pages crisp and clean
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Oxfam bookshop hertford cleo laine with the poetry of william shakespeare see photo for track listingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury the age of improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing this second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by lord briggs amongst others, since its original publicationthe author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literaturethe story ends, not with a full stop but with a question markthe book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in british history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culturewidely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research in the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling themcould improvement be maintained? could balance and progress continue to be reconciled? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop lymington the voice of poetryvolume ii: john gielgud john gielgud ? the voice of poetryplease note, this is a heavy package and there is an additional courier charge of £8shellac, rpm ukside 4 has a long scratchsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is a booklet includedvolumes i and iivolume i: edith evans columbia dside 1 track three has a larger area of deposit which has not moved on cleaningcolumbia masterworkthere is no booklet includedthe records are all in very good shiny condition apart from side 1 where track two has two small areas of damage/depositall the others are slightly dulledreleased: original set of 6 x 78 rpm records in folderreleased: original set of 6 x 78 rpm records in folderother than this the set is very goodan anthology of recorded versecolumbia ? 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 surfacesthe folder is intact but has significant mould marking to the covers and the cover fabric is deteriorating and there is damage to one corner
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Oxfam bookshop hexham in this critical biography, forde concentrates on the relationship between music and meaning in bunting's workthe experienced bunting readers will find much to absorboverall in great condition, some slight rubbing on the corners""one of the masters of the ageforde's attention to a great poet and good man benefits us all""bunting demands close attention, and at last he is getting itshe was the only critic with whom he co-operated, and his comments and answers to her letters and queries are incorporated""for the reader new to bunting this is an excellent companion"" - harvard reviewsee oxfam website for delivery information read more"" - allen ginsberg
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the missing of the somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembranceit 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 warsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury a master of the cryptic aphorism, mcluhan's probes are quintessentially socratic interrogations that ask "what if?" the book is in excellent condition and has a previous owner's name in biro on the front end papersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop truro hardback book in a very good condition this book brings together the poetry of gerald manley hopkins and the photography of francis browneintroduction and commentary by jo o'donovan pages very good an inspiring booksee oxfam website for delivery information read more black and white photographsminor scuffing to spine corners both were jesuits whose lives overlapped during
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Not poetry but philosophical musings on nature in all its aspects; divided into 7 books - the garden, pastoral scenery, woodland scenery, mountain scenery, river scenery, lake scenery and the seaoxfam shop barnard castle a classic of high victorian book design scarce, especially in first edition see oxfam website for delivery information read more one front end paper missing foxing to front end papers, title page and introductory pages but overall the text is clean, bright and unmarked upwards of 180 beautiful and atmospheric engravings by h giacomelli in the style of gustav doré; valuable for these alone pages gilt edged - clean and brightdecorated board covers in black and gilt on a red ground; some marks to back, spine darkened and bumped due to weight will be despatched by courier; hence higher carriage charge
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Oxfam bookshop harrogate love, nina meets black books: a wry and hilarious account of life in scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there in these wry and hilarious diaries, shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging nicky see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eyecondition- very good
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Oxfam bookshop swanage the book of common prayer and an administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the united church of england and ireland together with their proper lessons for sundays and other holy days and the new version of the psalms of davidleather bound with metal clasp28 pages loose but intactinscription on front fly sheetsee oxfam website for delivery information read morerubbing to spine and head and foot of spine
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the buddha of suburbia, hanif kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young pakistani growing up in s britainkarim lives with his mum and dad in a suburb of south london and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big citybut his father is no ordinary dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the eastamong his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in barons court, karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed ofsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the marriage of textures and flavours, colours and aromas make tarts the most satisfying of foods to make and eatfrom the most classic of tarts, the quiche lorraine and the strawberry tart, to the airy heights of a tomato and prosciutto tart on a puff pastry base, anyone can bake a tart, and everyone will enjoy cooking their way through this booktarts, tourtes, quiches, tartelettes, the myriad variants of both form and content, are celebrated in this collection of ninety tarts for all seasons and all occasionssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreclassical, historical and modern tarts are all included, as are the childhood experiences of making jam tarts, eating them bubbling hot from the oven and invariably searing one's mouth in the haste to devour themthe doucet tart, enjoyed by chaucer and the court of henry iv, with its intoxicating marriage of honey and saffron, will surprise even the most sophisticated palate, as will the rich, delicate perfection of tamasin's souffled crab tart and the ambrosial peach, vanilla and amaretti tarte tatin
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle the revolt of man () reads like an anti-suffragette novel and the critique of the new woman ideology which emerged in england in the ssee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome foxing on some pages and a few pencil lines on some page bordersas a result, men must change their rough nature and adjust to new gender rolesmodern art reflects change in new stereotypical forms of masculinity and femininity leather bound boards are in fair condition with edges and corners that are worn downthey gradually become less manly, and many adopt the submissive look of earlier victorian women, whereas women become assertive and domineeringpen inscription and stamp mark on title pagethe novel comically reverses victorian gender rolespages are in fair condition for its agewomen gradually take over the traditional men's occupations and privileges, having become judges, doctors, lawyers, businesswomen and artists, whereas effeminate men are allowed to live and perform simple work in complete passivity, submission and obedience to the triumphant femalesit presents a dystopian vision of a female-dominated society of the 22nd century, where women keep men in complete subordination after the historic transfer of powertraditional masculine qualities and behaviour have become unacceptable in the new societywomen prove to be more effective in the public sphere; they are stronger, more intelligent, and better educated
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Oxfam bookshop hexham the persistence of prejudice examines attitudes to jews at all levels of society during a war that many saw as a fight against fascismthe jewish image in society, the response of the state to jews at home and abroad, and the effect of antisemitism on the jewish community itself receive particular attentionas a contribution to the social history of wartime britain, it also reveals the strengths and weaknesses of a liberal democracythis book suggests that, rather than being confined to extremists, antisemitism was part of the mainstream cultureit is complete with its dustjacket which has a small sticker mark on the inside front flaphe probes attitudes to anglo-jewry, from left to right of the political spectrumthe binding is soundtony kushner examines the impact of evacuation, the blitz, the black market and other aspects of the war on relations between gentile and jewthe blue cloth boards are gilt stamped on the spine and are a little spotted and stainedthe text block is yellowing slightly but appears to be free from inscriptions or annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are a few minor marks here and there on the dustjacket but otherwise it is free from chips or tearsthis book is likely to interest those studying or teaching social history, jewish history or race relations in sociology, politics and cultural studiesthis hardback first edition is in a good, used condition overall
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Oxfam bookshop hexham the inspiration of ernest holmes has reached hundreds of thousands of readers through his classic works, many of which are just now becoming available in paperbackwhether a newcomer to the philosophy holmes founded or a veteran reader, you will find great power and practicality in the words that render holmes one of the most celebrated and beloved mystical teachers of the past hundred yearsoverall in good condition, some minor marks/'stains on the back cover and some slight rubbing to the cornersoriginally published in the first half of the twentieth century, these meditative, concise volumes have never previously appeared in paperbacksee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 postmodernkey features*substantial readings of fiction by major contemporary authors (ethomas 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 postmarxismthe 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 fictioncontemporary 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 simulacrakey features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sincefor 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 vietnamin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominencethe west continued to be alarmed by the prospect of defeat right up to the soviet empire's last breathwe also come to understand how the arms race caused new alignments and shifts in domestic power"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 leaders" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warusing 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 worldas 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 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 destructionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrom 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-statenow 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 economy
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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 tshaw, after george bernard shawreading 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 more
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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 populationthere are a slight dust marks to the jacket and marks to the cover boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno 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 is sight edge wear to the jacket top spineshe also shows a how reactivated sodomy law put all eighteenth-century male homosexuals in fear and suggests it led to a distorted concept of masculinity' 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 justicein good conditionmoving 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 crimesthe inside pages are clean and unmarked
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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 congosee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaccompanied by his dog snowy, tintin leaves brussels to go undercover in soviet russiastill 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 publicationbut a sinister stowaway follows their every move and seems set on ensuring they come to a sticky endjoin the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteriestintin in the land of the sovietssince 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 20thhis attempts to research his story are put to the test by the bolsheviks and moscow's secret policetintin in the congo the young reporter tintin and his faithful dog snowy set off on assignment to africatintin and snowy encounter witch doctors, hostile tribesmen, crocodiles, boa constrictors and numerous other wild animals before solving the mystery and getting their story
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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 dauntingthe practical structure, style and indexing ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to findit provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further informationfind the answers you need quickly and easilywritten in convenient narrative form, it contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provision and policy circularsthe law of compulsory purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchasethis 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 arisesthis is a first edition in a very good conditionit both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areasthere is some little shelf wear and a few marks to the page edge on the bottomsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensationthis authoritative new book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the law
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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 lbakker in - only two years after the invention of film - the first feature film about jesus appearedin very good conditionclean, crisp pages with slight damage on the bottom corner of a couple of pagesalthough religious leaders did not always approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believersthis 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 beingsthis book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis and other films about jesus became examples for and an inspiration for films on other important religious figures like rama, buddha and muhammadslight indentation on front cover and light scratches on back cover
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead the soul of remedies by rajan sankaran the author's idea of understanding a remedy is to grasp the connection that ties together its myriad symptoms: the basic delusion, its source (kingdom), the miasm to which it belongs, its symptoms - all must be understood as aspects of a single whole if we are to even begin to truly understand a remedysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe rubrics and physical symptoms cited are ones which he has repeatedly observed and often used to confirm the remedy prescribedthe material presented here has been observed and confirmed in drsankaran has attempted to convey the innermost feeling or the basic delusion of the remedy while connecting the situation, source, miasm and kingdomsankaran's own practice, it is a material of which he is surethe inside pages are clean and unmarked and relatively bright considering the age of the bookthe bottom jacket corners are bruisedthere are several scuffs to the dust jacket especially on the backit is the author's attempt to trace out these connections that distinguishes this work from other materia medicasin good conditionhe has not included remedies of which he has little experience or knowledge
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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 andits 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 areasbut 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 environmentssee 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 colour
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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 epicsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 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 lostthrough 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 iconstracing 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 producedshe reminds us that reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of waylaying the human imagination
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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, ukin as new condition - still shrink-wrapped see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 engagementthese are set in the context of a focussed theme - the character of christian-muslim encounters - and cast within a broad chronological frameworkcontributors, 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 waltersrare book, difficult to source
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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"see oxfam website for delivery information read more 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 italy 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 worldrigorous algebraic methods are preferred to the solution of partial differential equationsname written on inside facing page see oxfam website for delivery information read morea 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 mathematical prerequisites are no more than simple vector algebra, taylor series expansion and the use of integrating factors to solve linear first order differential equationsthe text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum worldit shows that the theory follows naturally from the use of probability amplitudes to derive probabilitiesdirac 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 problemevery 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 spacetimehydrogen 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 atomsscattering 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 dimensions
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