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Madrid - ‘capital europea de la cultura’ (european capital of culture)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikisilver finenessplease see the photos to get an accurate impression of this lotplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storediameter: 73 mmroyal mint of spain juan carlos i cincuentÃn - 25 ecu fromroyal palace of madridcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Collection of 15 silver 10 euro proof coins commemorating: european union council, italian presidency ; genoa european capital of culture , fleur de coin; leonardo da vinci th anniversary of unicef , not proof; italy world football champions , fleur de coin; 100th anniversary of the foundation of the school of the medal th anniversary of the birth of antonio canova th anniversary of the treaty of rome th centenary of the university of perugia th anniversary of the birth of andrea palladio th anniversary of guglielmo marconi's nobel prize ; international year of astronomy th anniversary of the death of annibale caracci ; l'aquila th anniversary of the foundation of the futurist movementare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiitalian republiccoins never taken out of their capsules, in original boxesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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This book was published as one of the projects of cork european capital of cultureoxfam bookshop kingsbridge writings on drawing by john berger (includes essays and letters)edited by jim savagevery minor bumping to top and bottom edges of coversee oxfam website for delivery information read moreblack and white illustrationssoft cover with deep end-flaps, very good clean, firm condition
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Authors: culture clubthe best of culture clubtitle: the best of culture clubbinding: audio cd
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The capital of the union by lucinda prout janke (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysa guide to civil war washington, dinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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The official european programme of the ryder cupthe programme is in good condition and is made available exclusive of the cost of packaging and postage which is as follows: packaging (large envelope): £033; and postage - royal mail 'uk standard' 1st class service for large letter g: £272; or postage - royal mail 'uk standard' 2nd class service for large letter g: £2
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The official european programme of the ryder cupthe programme is in good condition and is made available exclusive of the cost of packaging and postage which is as follows: packaging (large envelope): £033; and postage - royal mail 'uk standard' 1st class service for large letter g: £295 or postage - royal mail 'uk standard' 2nd class service for large letter g: £2
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The official european programme of the ryder cupthe programme is in good condition and is made available exclusive of the cost of packaging and postage which is as follows: packaging (large envelope): £030 or postage - royal mail 'uk standard' 2nd class service for large letter g: £233; and postage - royal mail 'uk standard' 1st class service for large letter g: £3
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames the beaten track is a major study of european tourism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesincluding bibliography and indexa couple of bumps at corners, contents in excellent clean condition throughoutit draws on a wide variety of sources from high literature and travel writing to periodicals and guidebooks to reveal an important current in the history of the modern concept of 'culture', in both popular and elite formssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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capital of culture antwerp) michel noare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifollowing stamps are missing: michel noplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethis is due to the fact that the corresponding pages in the album also contain preprints for depicted stamps that came out beforezf (anno ) there are gaps in the permanent seriesplease look at the pictures to get an impressioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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It advocates not so much culture and development, but rather for the development of cultureculture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical developmentthis innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to developmentpaying attention to the development of the arts as the content of development helps to amend this culturally destructive processoxfam bookshop leeds 158ppfinally, the book argues for the value of the arts in attaining sustainable cultures, promoting poverty alleviation, encouraging self-empowerment, stimulating creativity and the social imagination, which in turn flow back into wider processes of social transformationwithout a cultural content to economic and social transformation the problems found in much development - up-rooting of cultures, loss of art forms, languages and modes of expression and performance - may only acceleratethe book shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways - as means to achieve development goals through visual, dramatic, filmic and craft-inspired wayssee oxfam website for delivery information read morediscussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal to help foster further thinking and debatethis book is an inspiring read for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of development studies, cultural studies and sociology of development
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Migrancy, culture and identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the west's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identityoxfam bookshop folkestone in migrancy, culture, identity, iain chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and historiesthe author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the walkman and 'world music'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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He has authored numerous books on various aspects of filipino society and cultureoxfam bookshop hexham this book is the third in the series of integrated studies on filipino society and culturethe purpose of the series is to highlight the basic features of commonly shared patterns of culture and social institutions among the different lowland filipino ethnolinguistic groupsthis volume addresses the following questions: is it possible to speak of a generalized filipino kinship and family organization, or, is it too risky to make such a generalization because of the geographical distances and dialect differences? felipe landa jocano was a filipino anthropologist, educator, and author known for his works in philippine anthropology, in particular for documenting and translating the hinilawod, a western visayan folk epicthere are marks on the front cover and the corners are creased and bumpedthis paperback edition is in a reasonable, used conditionhowever, the text block appears to be clean a free from annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morejocano served as professor emeritus at the asian center of the university of the philippines and executive director of punlad research house, inc
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Offering an original and stimulating perspective on the archaeology of the subcontinent, the rise of civilization in india and pakistan will be invaluable to students of south asian culture and early historyin the rise of civilization in india and pakistan the authors have completely revised and rewritten their earlier work to present an integrated and dynamic account of human culture in south asiadrawing primarily upon the archaeological record, and supported by ethnographic, linguistic and historical evidence, the authors trace the origins and development of culture in india and pakistan from its earliest roots in palaeolithic times, through the rise and disintegration of the great indus civilization to the emergence of regional cultures, and the arrival and spread of indo-aryan speaking peoplesthey conclude with the early buddhist period and the appearance of city states right across pakistan and north india, establishing the pattern of subcontinental unity and regional diversity that was to characterize the country henceforwardit will also appeal to anyone interested in historical geography, world prehistory and archaeology in generalmany spectacular discoveries of archaeological significance have been made in the indian subcontinent since the first appearance of raymond and bridget allchin's book the birth of indian civilization, for long the most authoritative and widely read text on its subjectsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecambridge world archeologyoxfam bookshop leeds 379ppadvances in related fields, particularly in geomorphology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology, have also radically altered our picture of the emergence of indian civilisationthe authors have made every attempt to incorporate the results of the most recent research and their book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and line diagrams
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Joining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy" french philosopher of science michel serres states that girard's theory provides a darwinian theory of culture because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanationoxfam books & music lancaster from his groundbreaking violence and the sacred and things hidden since the foundation of the world, rené girard's mimetic theory is presented as elucidating "the origins of culture" he posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of "how we became humanthe contributors provide major evidence in favor of girard's hypothesisequally, girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to darwin-something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence" this major claim has, however, remained underscrutinized by scholars working on girard's theory, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciencessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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A nice column capital of antique italian craftsmanship quick professional shipping insurance included free of charge local pickup option available at no cost read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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2 part european polecat males, 6 months, mother is pure european (photo of her in first photo) in her summer coat, father is 1/4 european, read more
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Standing as the gateway between the east and west, it has served as the capital of the roman, byzantine, latin and ottoman empiresthere is a bookseller's "signed" label on the front of the jacketflat signed by bettany hughes on the title pagebased on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of istanbul is visceral, immediate and scholarly narrative history at its finestfrom the qu'ran to shakespeare, this city with three names - byzantium, constantinople, istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imaginedphoenicians, genoese, venetians, jews, vikings, azeris all called a patch of this earth their homefor much of its history it was known simply as the city, but, as bettany hughes reveals, istanbul is not just a city, but a storyboth book and jacket are very slightly bumped at extremities, and there are few small, light marks on the edges of the page blockat the latest count archaeologists have measured forty-two human habitation layerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames first impression hardcover in dust jacket, not price-clippedas the longest-lived political entity in europe, over the last years istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of micro-cities and cultures all gathering around the corevery good++ / very goodistanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical factin this epic new biography, hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities
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On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of addis ababa, where they are welcomed by menelik, the king of kingsitaly has designs on abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invadewith storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can penrod and amber find their way back to one another - against all the odds? see oxfam website for delivery information read morepenrod ballantyne and his fiancée, amber benbrook, stroll hand in handbut when penrod's jealous former lover, lady agatha, plants doubt about his character, amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of abyssinia with her twin sister, saffron, and her adventurer husband, ryder courtneythe future is theirs for the takinghe is rescued by an old friend, who is now in the italian army, and offered the chance to join the military effortsa beautiful september dayback in cairo, a devastated penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium densoxfam bookshop cheltenham an epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of wilbur smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, the triumph of the sun
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At the beginning of the fourteenth century anarchy in italy led to the capital of the christian world being moved from rome for the first and only time in historysmall marks to pageblockillustrated in b&wand at the centre of the picture is avignon itself, as it grew from being a relatively insignificant town on the rhône to become, albeit briefly, one of the great capitals of the worldand depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hell opinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselvesit was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining "in exile" for the next seventy yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is a portrait sketch of that eradustwrapper clean, small mark of glue left by old label on back boardthe city chosen to replace rome was avignonoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , signal books
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Oxfam books & music lancaster published to accompany an exhibition at the royal academy of arts, london, and the guggenheim museum, bilbao, this ambitious and wide ranging catalogue charts the influential progress of the visual arts in parisbook is in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecomes with dust jacketnine essays and 250 works, chart the intellectual and social focus of the period
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Dennis postcards - "greetings from st andrews" (s"a highland greeting from inverness" (plc)"st mary's loch" (sk/c4) - by lilywhite ltd), and "greetings from st andrews" (soxfam books & music perth 16 multiview post cards from scotland all postcards are unused and in good conditionhail caledonia postcards from whiteholme - "greetings from st andrews", "anstruther", "the banffshire coast" and castles of scotland"Â Â see oxfam website for delivery information read morecolour master postcards - "spey valley beauty spots" (plx), "st andrews" (plx), "around inverness" (plx), "banff and macduff" (plc), and "capital of the highlands inverness" (plc)"castles scotland" by braemar films ltd ()), "greetings from kingdom of fife" (f
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Never been taken out of boxfuchsa chiffon dress and faux pearl earringsfranklin mint,porcelain portrait dollplease phone for information read morep&p will be extra if not collectedcertificate of authenticity
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Oxfam books & music aberdeen rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focuspublished in see oxfam website for delivery information read morejane monnig atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the wana, an upland population of sulawesi, indonesia
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As perhaps the pivotal european figure of the late 17th century, william of orange remains most noted for having fought france, the dominant power in europe, to a standstill in three warsthis is available for collection or p&p £3as william drew england into his wars against france, he concluded more than a century's isolation for england and initiated a series of victories that later yielded great britain a worldwide empirein his english role william fostered the legal bulwarks of the glorious revolution of : religious toleration for protestant dissenters, a prescribed monarchy, and parliamentary partnership with the crown concerning legislationin this process he reunited his native netherlands and became king of englandthis is an ex library book in good conditionbox 14 read more
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Oxfam shop inverness henry fonda and robert shaw star in this historical account of germany's last major european offensive of the second world war in decembergermany, under the command of colthe cast also includes robert ryan, charles bronson, james macarthur, dana andrews and george montgomerymeanwhile, the allied forces try to prepare themselves for an anticipated german attack, unaware that they have the requisite resources for such an assaultin excellent conditionmartin hessler (shaw), plan an attack with their secret panzer division in belgium's ardennes forest, but they are desperately short of fuel and their immediate objective is to capture a big allied fuel deposit, without the allies knowing see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Binding strong and contents of book close to as newbook bumped slightly at spine-endsoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames 591 ppsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredust jacket lightly rubbed, with a few light scratches, and bumped slightly at spine ends and along the bottom edgecloth in excellent order with lettering as new
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Oxfam bookshop raeburn place in the two hundred years from london was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city and a major european trading centrelawrence manley shows how the literature and culture of london contributed to the new structures of capitalism, the process of 'behaviour urbanisation', and a paradoxical liberation of the individual through the city's concentrated powerintegrating literary and historical analysis, and drawing on recent work in literary theory and cultural studies, literature and culture in early modern london provides a comprehensive account of the changing image and influence of london in lyrics, ballads, jests, epics, satires, plays, pageants, chronicles, treatises, sermons and official documentsnew possibilities emerged for cultural exchange and combination, social and political order, and literary expressionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop nether edge there is a growing recognition of the role that culture can play in sustainable development strategiesparticular attention is paid to the formation of the unesco convention on the protection and the promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, a landmark instrument in debates about culture and developmentthe book goes on to explore some of the practical implications that this international treaty is beginning to have for the ways that culture is (and is not) being integrated into contemporary development policy and practicethis development has generally been welcomed, but also raises a number of questions: what are the implications in policy and practice? who are the most influential voices in promoting a global agenda for culture and development, and to what extent has the creation of new international policy instruments reflected a consensus? more fundamentally, what is meant by "culture" in these discussions and who has the power to give particular definitions political and legal authority? the politics of cultural development seeks to provide a theoretically and historically informed response to such questions, illustrated by reference to case studies (including the european union, the caribbean and china)see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book will be useful for students, academics and policymakers in the fields of international development, international relations, international political economy, cultural policy and cultural theorynote: has dedication to inner leaf, otherwise as new
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