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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihe quickly forges a plan: with the help of his whip, he climbs onto the anubis statue and flips it overindiana jones™ and the lost grave indiana jones and marion were trapped in a tomb full of snakes in search of the arkplease 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 storetime is pressing, the torch is almost burnt out, but indy doesn't give up and tries to save marioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablein the trap, the statue tears a hole in the wall of the tomb through which indy and marion can escape
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe book was published by bloomsbury in and contains on one of its first pages the complete number series ‘’, which means that this is the first printing of the first edition ever printed of this bookthe book also contains the following spelling errors (corrected in later printings): - page 36: anglesea (eventually changed to anglesey) - page 38: two weeks holiday (eventually changed to three weeks) - page 40: clicked her break (eventually changed to clicked her beak) - page 92: as a big as a bucket (eventually changed to big as a bucket) - page 147: droobles (eventually changed to drooble's) - page 198: baited breath (eventually changed to bated breath) (see pictures) there is no writing in the book, it has been kept in a non-smoking and pet-free environment, there are no tears in the cover and pages and no stainsthe book has a slight crease in the cover (bottom right in the top and bottom corner), but is otherwise in good conditionthe combination of first edition, first printing and the spelling errors makes this book highly sought-after by serious harry potter collectorsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethis is an extremely rare original first edition, first printing, of harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, softcoverour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe book is slightly browned due to its age (see photos)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Annotation © ringgold, incbritish romanticism and the critique of political reason, hardcover by michael, timothy, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk author timothy michael gives readers an in-depth examination of the political philosophy that dominated britain and france in the romantic periodhe argues over the book's eight chapters that a great deal of the period’s literary output takes the form of a critique of reason, its political value, and the types of knowledge attainable through ithe examines the works of kant, burke, wollstonecraft, coleridge, wordsworth, shelley, and many other writers and philosophers of the periodportland, or ()the author is a faculty member of lincoln college and university of oxford in the uk
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Drawing on the literary and archaeological record, this book completely rewrites the history of israeltranslated by chiara peri and philip rthe study traces the textual material to the times of its creation, reconstructs the evolution of political and religious ideologies, and firmly inserts the history of israel into its ancient-oriental contextdavis see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop shirley in 'israel's history and the history of israel' one of the world's foremost experts on antiquity addresses the birth of israel and its historic realitymany stories have been told of the founding of ancient israel, all rely on the biblical story in its narrative scheme, despite its historic unreliability
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On april , in paris, albert einstein and henri bergson publicly debated the nature of timebergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of timeshe also discusses how bergson and einstein, toward the end of their lives, each reflected on his rival's legacy-bergson during the nazi occupation of paris and einstein in the context of the first hydrogen bomb explosioncanales explains how the new technologies of the period-such as wristwatches, radio, and film-helped to shape people's conceptions of time and further polarized the public debateoxfam shop kendal paperback as newjimena canales introduces readers to the revolutionary ideas of einstein and bergson, describes how they dramatically collided in paris, and traces how this clash of worldviews reverberated across the twentieth centurythe physicist and the philosopher is a magisterial and revealing account that shows how scientific truth was placed on trial in a divided century marked by a new sense of timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeinstein considered bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physicsshe shows how it provoked responses from figures such as bertrand russell and martin heidegger, and carried repercussions for american pragmatism, logical positivism, phenomenology, and quantum mechanicsthe physicist and the philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate transformed our understanding of time and drove a rift between science and the humanities that persists today
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Players enter the world of narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter by the evil powers of the malevolent and evil white witchthese four unlikely heroes must battle the evil forces of the white witch by waging war against a vast variety of creatures, including centaurs, minotaurs, minoboars, cyclops, werewolves, wraiths, ankleslicers, wolves, satyrs, boggles and moreit will become the destiny of four young siblings from our world: peter, susan, edmund and lucy pevensie to work together and use their unique combat skills, weaponry and abilities to defeat the witch and her armies and save narniain order to end this frigid captivity and free his people, the mighty lion aslan, true ruler of narnia, invokes an ancient prophecysee oxfam website for delivery information read more• live the epic adventure while playing as one of four heroes (lucy, peter, edmond, susan) in a team-based action adventure • battle the evil forces of the white witch by waging war against a huge variety of creatures, including centaurs, minotaurs, minoboars and more • utilise the unique combat skills, weaponry and special moves of each character to fight and fend off hordes of dark mythical beasts, or solve intricate puzzles and progress through the adventure • two-player action featuring all four characters • seamless game play integration of film footage with music and voice talent plus unlockable secrets to open exclusive content and moreoxfam shop clitheroe the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe is a definitive action adventure based on the walt disney pictures and walden media film capturing the renowned and beloved book series from author c
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The bird and the bee - will you dance?the bird and the bee - recreational love 3:10the bird and the bee - jenny 3:08the bird and the bee - young and dumb 3:32the bird and the bee - runaway 3:56
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Soon, neverland is struck by a terrible hurricane and prilla, tink and the rest of the fairies must rally round to save mother dove, whose feathers provide their magical fairy dust and egg is the source of all of neverland's magicwhen baby sara quirtle laughed for the first time, that laugh flew all the way to neverland and became prilla, the first never fairy to be born without a talentthis is the untold story of never land fairies tinker bell, prilla and the magical mother dove and their quest to save the islandtinker bell, a pots and pans talent fairy, reluctantly takes the newcomer under her wing and shows her around fairy haven, their homeoxfam shop ulverston beautiful hardback treasury edition of gail carson levine's fairytale written for disney's fairiesgail carson levine's spellbinding storytelling is accompanied with enchanting illustrations from david christianatime is of the essence, peter pan is losing his baby teeth and there is only three-days worth of fairy dust on the whole islandsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecan prilla work out what her talent is before it is too late for mother dove, the fairies and the whole of neverland? a beautiful hardback treasury edition of this instant classic with foiled cover and a 'fairy charm' bookmarkthree unlikely fairy heroes, prilla, rani and the wicked vidia, must go on a quest to collect three treasures and convince kyto, an evil dragon, to restore the egg before mother dove dies and neverland's magic is lost
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Oxfam bookshop byres road the development of literary theory in the lifetime of coleridge was to a surprising extent the making of the modern critical mindthere were many important differences between, let us say, horace's art of poetry and the criticism of dr the primary concern of this book is with the english theory of poetry, and to a lesser extent of the other major arts, during the first four decades of the nineteenth centuryit stresses the common orientation which justifies us in identifying a specifically 'romantic' criticism; but not, i trust, at the cost of overlooking the many important diversities among the writers who concern themselves with the nature of poetry or art, its psychological genesis, its constitution and kinds, its major criteria, and its relation to other original and enduring critics of the time, rather than with the run-of-the-mill reviewers who often had more immediate, though shorter-lived influence on the general reading publicsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis continuity was broken by the theories or romantic writers, english and german; and their innovations include many of the points of view and procedures which make the characteristic differences between traditional criticism and the criticism of our own time, including some criticism which professes to be anti-romanticjohnston, but there was also a discernible continuity in premises, aims and methods
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At the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsnew states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsdrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world orderoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionthe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadminor signs of shelf wearcolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilsas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwiseas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisis
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In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britainpages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksusing archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitariansin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new right "a forceful, encyclopedic studysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophy"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsfine unclipped dust-wrapperoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbrokenthese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their criticsshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyondrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limits
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With funding for printing provided by the kahler family charitable fund, all sales will go to support the center's worknearly one hundred images edited from this body of work form the core of the railroad and the art of place, along with a selection of earlier pennsylvania railroad steam-era photographs that reflect kahler's interest in the railroad landscape from an early age" armed with a used leica m6 and gritty tri-x film, he and his wife made six week-long trips in the dead of winter to photograph trains along the pocahontas division of the norfolk southern railwayhe soon began making annual trips to the west virginia and eastern kentucky coalfields, destinations that strongly resonated with his own aesthetic of "placesee oxfam website for delivery information read morealso included are three essays by kahler, scott lothes, and jeff brouws, discussing the personal motivations, historical context, and aesthetic development behind the photographywinston link photographsoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear in the late s, david kahler was deeply inspired by seeing an exhibition of o
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He was an artist in whose work the romantic and the humorous met in a unique wayas a man rex had charm and was outstandingly generous - liked by everyone and loved by manyyet he remained an enigmatic figure, apparently successful and never deeply happybut, even though he has always had an enthusiastic public, in his lifetime he was almost disregarded by the critics as one who had no part in 'modern' artoxfam bookshop new milton used, good condition, hard cover with dust jacketin this beautifully written and carefully researched book laurence whistler recalls his elder brother with love but with detachment, intimately and often with humourhe was still developing his own distinctive style when his career was tragically cut short - in he was killed leading his troop of tanks into action in normandy, aged 39the hard cover has a little bumping to all four corners and to the top and bottom of the spineinternally the pages are a little tanned but there are no markingsrex whistler was one of the most gifted figures of the inter-war yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read more the dust jacket is rather creased along the top edge and is discoloured in placeslaurence whistler is in a matchless position to record his life, having shared so many experiences with himthe book contains 32 pages of black and white and colour images
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As 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 breathnow 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 economythe 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 destructionusing 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 worldin the s the failure of détente and the west's economic crisis brought a new generation of dedicated anti-communists to prominencefrom 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-stateoxfam bookshop cheltenham "the history of the cold war has been the history of the world sincesee oxfam website for delivery information read more" so begins this wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator martin walker, which is the first major study of the cold warat 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 vietnamwe 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 leadersfor more than forty years, as this detailed analysis makes clear, the outcome of the cold war was in doubt
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The text is illustrated by over 150 manuscript illustrations, engravings, contemporary documents and photographs in both black-and-white and colouroxfam shop worcester this fully illustrated book explores the story of richard iii and the tales that have been woven around the historic events; discusses his life and reign and the disappearance of the princes in the tower; and assesses the original sources upon which much of the 'history' is basedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition a number of 'picture essays'explore particular aspects of richard iii's life and reign: his birth sign of scorpio; the portraits of richard; the symbolism of pigs and boars; richard's saints; his books; the princes; historical pictures of the princes; cartoons and caricaturesthe book is also supported by full source notes and references
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The purpose of this book is to investigate the nature of these roles in order to identify their influence upon the performance of medieval playsoxfam books & music crouch end interest in the content of this book has developed out of an examination of the prompter who operated in full view of the audience and offered all the lines to the playerssometimes these roles are overt ones; sometimes they 'double up' with roles of actors, personages or charactersthe same fascination exists in relation to roles of the narrator and the expositorsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremany of the audience responses then were concerned with the figure of the prompter as he was seen to operate simultaneously both 'inside' and 'outside' the action of the playthese figures are of pivotal significance in the communication of those plays in which they operatesuch a role and its function is fascinating, not only in its own right, but also in relation to how it might inform us about the nature and purpose of presented theatrein at groningen a production of the towneley second shepherds' play focused on an examination of this conventionthe ability of such a figure to move in and out of the action, and thus different realities, characterizes a relationship to the action and the audience
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The first performance of the cambodian royal ballet took place in the context of the colonial exhibition in marseillesrodin was immediately fired by a passion and enthusiasm for the aesthetics of this art and the purity and grace of its expressionsin just one week, he made about one hundred and fifty drawings, re-transcribing or interpreting the ballet poses, with an obvious fascination for the arms and hands of the dancersshows some shelf wearsisowath 1st had just been crowned king of cambodia when he undertook the first trip ever to be made by a cambodian sovereign to france, which had controlled cambodia since junesome slight damage to the top right corner, and some light fading on the front coverat the exhibition in marseilles, the area devoted to indochina was the largest of the seven sectionssee oxfam website for delivery information read morepreviously, the universal exhibition of had attracted 48 million visitors! the organisers realised what a tremendous impact this event made on the public, and it was soon adopted as the main tool for colonial propagandathese drawings were later highlighted with watercolour, creating coloured harmonies of a rare refinementthis official visit occurred at the height of french colonial expansionoxfam bookshop hampstead rodin and the cambodian dancers: his final passion by dominique viéville - french text this exhibition illustrates the extraordinary encounter of rodin with the aesthetics of khmer dance, which he discovered on the occasion of the official visit to france by king sisowath of cambodia inin good conditionhe left everything suddenly to follow the dancers of the royal ballet to marseille, from where they would embark on their return to cambodia
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She also shows a how reactivated sodomy law put all eighteenth-century male homosexuals in fear and suggests it led to a distorted concept of masculinityoxfam 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 populationthe 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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Christopher dillon analyses recruitment to the dachau ss and evaluates the contribution of ideology, training, social psychology and masculine ideals to the conduct and subsequent careers of concentration camp guardsgraduates of the dachau school would go on to play a central role in the wartime criminality of the third reich, particularly at auschwitzan international symbol of nazi depredation, dachau was the cradle of a new and terrible spirit of destructioncombining extensive new research into the pre-war history of dachau with theoretical insights from studies of perpetrator violence, this book offers the first systematic study of the 'dachau school'dachau and the ss makes an original contribution to scholarship on the pre-history of the holocaust and the institutional organisation of violencethroughout the pre-war era of nazi germany, dachau functioned as an academy of violence where concentration camp personnel were schooled in steely resolution and the techniques of terroroxfam books & music islington dachau and the ss studies the concentration camp guards at dachau, the first ss concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnelit explores the backgrounds and socialization of thousands of often very young ss men in the camp and critiques the assumption that violence was an outcome of personal or ideological pathologiesset up in the first months of adolf hitler's rule, dachau was a bastion of the nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of heinrich himmler and the ss to control of the third reich's terror and policing apparatusthis copy has slight damage to the back dust jacket (see photograph) see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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In the most important challenge yet to rawls' theory of justice, sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allowsin very good conditionoxfam bookshop hampstead liberalism and the limits of justice by michael sandel a liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and endsbut can any such principles be found? and if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? these are the questions michael sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalismsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good lifesandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of john rawls
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This richly illustrated book explores late medieval sienese art-how it was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of sienashe analyzes similarly important commissions in the contado towns of massa marittima, montalcino, and montepulcianocasting new light on such topics as the original site for the reliquary tomb of saint cerbone, patron saint of massa marittima, and the identity of the patrons of the marian frescoes in the rural hermitage of san leonardo al lago, the author deepens our insight into the origins and meanings of sienese art production of the late medieval periodexamining political, economic, and cultural relations between siena and the contado, diana norman offers a new understanding of marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideologysee oxfam website for delivery information read moredrawing on extensive unpublished archives, norman reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the commission of marian art in the three most prestigious locations of fourteenth-century siena: the cathedral, the palazzo pubblico, and the hospital of santa maria della scalathe book is in as new condition in a slip case which has a little shelfwearsuch celebratory portraits of the virgin were also common in siena's extensive subject territories, the contadofirst edition publishedoxfam books & music beaconsfield celebrating the virgin mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, artists of fourteenth-century siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikibooklet is still very good in the gum and has usual age signsthe lot will be packed with the utmost care, to minimize the risk of damage, in bubble wrap and then a sturdy boxdutch collectors could recognize the booklet of the 6 booklets from the mulder and zoon series fromthe shipping of the lot is by registered parcel home and abroad; there are favourable shipping costs when winning multiple lots within the same auctionon the inside a name written (lightly) in pencil, see photo 4in this lot the original american version of 'mickey mouse en de wonderdoosplease 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 storebooklet size: 9’ see other lots for more the other original american versionsoriginal first edition in good conditionoffered, mickey mouse and the 'lectro box, usa big little book #catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablekeep a close eye on the track and trace code please to prevent the album from being returned unintentionally after 1 failed delivery attempt
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Desert palace with an uncancelled stamp and text, see photo 20are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe lot will be packed with the utmost care, to minimize the risk of damage, in bubble wrap and a sturdy box, the shipping of this lot is per registered parcel mail nationally and internationally, there are favourable shipping costs when winning multiple lots within the same auction, keep a close eye on the track and trace code to prevent the album from being sent back unintentionally after 1 failed attempted deliveryoffered, 2 mickey mouse big little books (#) fromthe magic lamp has a name, purple stamps etcthe booklets are good in the gum and completebooklet dimensions: 11please 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 storefirst editions in good conditioncover of desert palace fine, the magic lamp has signs of wearmm and the magic lamp (with "flip movies"), previously published in and mm and the desert palace story previously published in booklets in beautiful condition, especially mm and the desert palacecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimm bell boy detective: inside nicely in ordermm & 7 ghosts inside loose on cover, see also photo 9on the back a kind of sticker, see photo 1otherwise in good conditionmm & stolen jewels: many slight signs of age as creases/tears and name with pencil etcoffered, 3 mickey mouse big little books # fromplease keep a close eye on the track & trace code to prevent the album from being unwittingly returned after 1 failed delivery attemptoverall dark discoloured, as can clearly be seen in photo 6the lot will be packed with the utmost care to minimize the risk of damage, in bubble wrap and a sturdy boxat the cover especially some signs of wear at the bottom between cover and spinethe shipping of the lot is by registered parcel post home and abroad; there are favourable shipping costs when winning multiple lots within the same auctionplease 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 storebooklets in reasonable conditiondimensions: approximately 111) mickey mouse and the stolen jewels 2) mickey mouse bell boy detective 3) mickey mouse and the 7 ghosts booklets are still in the gum and are in reasonable conditioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableon the cover and first two inside pages pencil/pen
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Returning to the castle nevertheless, harry hears a rumour about a chamber of secrets, holding unknown horrors to wizards of muggle parentagebut a small, self-punishing house-elf warns harry of mortal danger awaiting him at hogwarts schoolnow someone is casting spells that turn people to stone, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wallbut something much darker has yet to be unleashedthe chief suspect - always in the wrong place - is harryafter surviving his first year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and then enduring a summer holiday with the dreadful dursleys, harry is ready and raring to get back to his school friendsoxfam shop dorchester harry can't wait for his holidays with the dire dursleys to endsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut something is trying to stop him, and after missing the hogwart's express he just about makes it to the school gates on time courtesy of a flying car and rather a lot of magicmatching stephen fry's endearingly snooty vocal chords with rowling's superb storytelling skills was a stroke of genius: fry manages to give further depth to an already complex and utterly absorbing plot by adding an irreverent wit and a deep-rooted touch of class to a compelling and magical talebut the eventful journey back to school is just the beginning and when rumours about the mysterious chamber of secrets start to spread harry realises that his second year is going to be just as eventful as the firstreview:harry potter and the chamber of secrets is the second book in the phenomenally successful harry potter series by jk rowling, and after listening to this fantastic reading of what is sure to become an absolute classic, there is little doubt that rowling's stories will continue to capture the imaginations of generations of young readers long into the future
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They sometimes even appear on lamp posts and on cafe and bookshop windowsperhaps you saw the boy and mole on the comic relief t-shirt, love wins? here, you will find them together in this book of charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the wild and exploring the universal thoughts and feelings that unite us allthe boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online - perhaps you've seen them? they've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital wallssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreenter the world of charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessonsoxfam bookshop wanstead condition: as new a book of hope for uncertain times
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Age 9 and over --susan harrison see oxfam website for delivery information read moreback at hogwarts, harry's movements are restricted by the presence of the dementors--guards from azkaban on the look out for blackhe fully expects to be expelled from hogwarts for his blatant flaunting of the rule not to use magic outside term time, but the arrival of the mysterious knight bus and a meeting with cornelius fudge, the minister of magic, result in harry enjoying the rest of the holidays in the wonderful surroundings of the leaky cauldronreview:age 9 and overharry potter and the prisoner of azkaban is the third, and possibly the best, book in the phenomenally successful, award-winning harry potter series by jk rowlinglisteners will be enthralled by the classic novel brought vividly to lifeafter just about surviving yet another summer with the dreadful dursleys, the arrival of aunt marge is the final straw and, in a fit of anger, harry casts a spell on her, causing her to blow up like a balloonmeanwhile sirius black--one-time friend of harry's parents, implicated in their murder and follower of "you- know-who"--escapes from azkaban and this has serious implications for harrystephen fry's endearingly snooty vocal chords are a perfect match for rowling's superb storytelling, and fry manages to give even further depth to a complex and absorbing plot by adding an irreverent wit and a deep-rooted touch of class to a compelling and magical tale that, once heard, will never be forgottenoxfam shop dorchester harry can't wait to start his third year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry after the summer holidaysbut there's a tense atmosphere at hogwarts with an escaped murderer on the loose and the sinister prison guards of azkaban guarding the school
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Now, for the first time in book form, this volume presents a series of exciting and engaged interviews with, and essays from, the founder of social ecologyoxfam shop mutley plain  "murray bookchin has been a dynamic revolutionary propagandist since the s when, as a teenager, he orated before socialist crowds in new york city and engaged in support work for those fighting franco in the spanish civil warsome dirt marks to the page edges, otherwise very goodfinally, he states what is to be valued in both anarchism and marxism in building such a left and offers guidelines for forming a new revolutionary social movementprinted in , first edition" book in good condition with clean pages throughout and securely boundsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe goes on to assess the crisis of radicalism today and defends the need for a revolutionary leftthis expansive collection ranges over, amongst others, bookchin's account of his teenage years as a young communist during the great depression, his experiences of the s and reflections on that decade's lessons, his vision of a libertarian communist society, libertarian politics, the future of anarchism, and the unity of theory and practice
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After an opening chapter comparing the bible as a fragmented yet unified collection of 46 books with the fragmented yet unified first folio collection of shakespeare's 36 plays, each of the following six chapters matches a book of the bible with a representative play: the creation myth of genesis with the first play in the folio, the tempest, the historical epic of exodus with henry v, the tragedy of job with king lear, the tragicomedy of the gospel of matthew with measure for measure, the homiletic disputation of paul's epistle to the romans with the merchant of venice, and the apocalyptic masque of the book of revelation with the tempest againit reveals the bible as a rich source for shakespeare's uses of myth, history, comedy and tragedy, his techniques of staging, and his ways of characterizing rulers, magicians and teachers in the image of the bible's multifaceted godits intertextual readings are framed by descriptions of the historical circumstances of each work's composition and reception and by an emergent theory of allusion as a principle of creation and understandingoxfam books & music beeston oxford university press, , paperback like new oxford shakespeare topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of shakespeare criticism and scholarshipeach book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subjectthis book also discloses ways in which shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the scriptures comparable to those presented by his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politiciansdespite the presence of hundreds of biblical allusions in shakespeare, this is the first book to explore the pattern and significance of those references in relation to a selection of his greatest playsnotes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden researchsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethough its subject matter and style appeal to a broad audience, this book is grounded in recent scholarship in shakespeare and biblical studies
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