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He builds on the first edition's emphasis on the role of trade and technology, the militarization of space, the privatization of security, the use of sanctions, ethnic conflict, and transnational crime sean kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the middle east, asia, and eurasiaoxfam bookshop raeburn place this thoroughly updated edition of global security in the twenty-first century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas in the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morekay focuses especially on the implications of the election of barack obama and the changing role of the united states in global security writing in an engaging style, kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one easily accessible study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global securitythis edition goes even farther to incorporate traditional thinking about national security in the context of human rights, democracy, population, health, environment, energy, and especially education
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Say tirra', 'fish in woolly jumpers', 'swords and pick handles', 'coal comfort', 'empire day on the slag heap', 'a first time for everything', 'paddy boyle's discharge', 'angel on horseback', 'king for a day', 'happy new year, some say', 'heads you win, tails i lose' and 'kind hearted rat with a lifebelt'series 3 episodes are: 'a house divided', 'a tiger, a lamb and a basket of fruit', 'my bonnie lass, goodbye', 'a ticket to care for the wounded', 'travel light, travel far', 'requiem for a loser', 'debts owed, debts paid', 'the empire builders', 'look up and see the sky', 'letters from afar', 'the father of lies', 'diamond cut diamond', 'a marriage and a massacre', 'high life and hunger' and 'please say goodbye before you go'it is a time of economic depression and jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment but after falling in with the seaton family he becomes determined to make his mark on the worldseries 4 episodes are: 'back to dear old blighty', 'a gift from heaven', 'a medal for the argentine', 'flies and spiders', 'oh, my charming billy boy', 'friends, romans, countrymen', 'the bright young things', 'action!', 'comrade in arms' and 'roll of honour'ex-sergeant jack ford (bolam) returns home to gallowshields on tyneside after the end of world war onesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop hull every episode from the popular drama series starring james bolamseries 1 episodes are: 'a land fit for heroes and idiots', 'say helloseries 2 episodes are: 'ask for twopence, take a penny', 'tram ride to the bluebell', 'a pillowful of buttercups', 'roubles for the promised land', 'some bulbs to keep the garden bright', 'god & love & wellesley street', 'whatever made you think the war was over?', 'ladies, women, sweethearts & wives', 'after the bonfire', 'a wreath with our names on', 'the way it was in murmansk', 'in the front line you get shot at' and 'the simple pleasures of the rich'
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The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the thames valley the novel was in its 31st printing when playwright aoxfam shop redruth 's vintage puzzle which has 25 piece set with 4 toy shape pieces to look for in this puzzle the wind in the willows is a children's novel by scottish novelist kenneth grahame, first published inalternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: mole, rat (a european water vole), toad, and badgerin , the first film adaptation was produced by walt disney as one of two segments in the package film the adventures of ichabod and mrmilne adapted part of it for the stage as toad of toad hall inthey live in a pastoral version of edwardian englandbox is slightly damaged see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This will be of interest for the archaeology and early travel enthusiast as the number and quality of illustrations, maps and diagrams really elevate this workdiscoveries in the ruins of nineveh and babylon; with travels in armenia, kurdistan and the desert: being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the british museum illustrated with folding frontispiece, 4 folding plates and plans, 13 full-page plates, 8 tinted lithographic plates, 1 plate of inscriptions, 2 large folding maps at rear, and 232 wood-cut engravings an account of layard’s important second british museum expedition in , describing in detail the discoveries that were made, especially focusing on the momentous assyrian artefactsoriginal brown cloth by edmonds & remnants, with impressive elaborate blind stamping design of great winged bull to front and rear coversplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitelacks 2 pages from the appendix between pages 672 and 673 (see picture 54), a couple of maps are taped but still completecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablepublished by john murray, londonsecurely bound with hinges fully intact, some instances of internal separation but text block sound with no loose or detached pagesplates are clean and bright (please see pictures)condition wear at extremities with rubbing and bumping to cornersare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiapart from his great archaeological accomplishment in identifying kouyunjik as the site of the ancient city nineveh, layard provides an extensive analysis of the ancient assyrian world and its history, as revealed by the discoveries, and also writes about the daily life and customs of the countrytitles in gilt to spineno writing or inscriptionspages are tight and clean with occasional, spots, light marks, or foxingour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storerichly illustrated with fold-out frontispiece, 4 folding plates and plans, 8 tinted lithographic plates, 13 full-page plates, 1 plate of inscriptions, 2 large folding maps at rear, and 232 wood-cut engravingsinternally; is almost goodbook dimensions: 23 x 15 x 4item description first edition of this authoritative study on the assyrian cities of nineveh and babylon based on layard's second expedition to the region5cm & number of pages: 686 including appendix & indextop of spine cover missing
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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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The intention is to learn from the past in order to chart viable new policy directions for the future, including critically assessing the prospects for nepad measuring up to the challenges involvedbook condition: minor shelf wearthis volume brings together some of africa's best economists and social scientists to reflect on africa's previous experiences with alternative paradigms to structural adjustment and related problemsformer executive secretary for the economic commission on africa and under secretary general of the united nations,scholar, and author of numerous books and papers, adebayo adedeji is perhaps best known for his pioneering work developing the african alternative framework to structural adjustment at a time when the damage being caused by the latter policies being imposed on africa was only just beginning to become clearthis rich collection of essays examines a wide range of economic issues such as the importance of planning, the continuing reality of the debt crisis, and the new parameters for regional integration in the context of the global economygood governance is analysed, as is corporate governance see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe occasion for these essays was the 70th birthday of one of africa's most eminent economists and a leading public servant -- professor adebayo adedejithere is a special emphasis on issues of human development, including poverty, hiv/aids, and the refugee problemthe assumption is that the continent's decades of experience since independence embody lessons and reflect alternative policy approaches which, if properly understood, could be of real value in charting a viable future for its people -- provided african countries are set free to chart their own courses of action that address their particular circumstances and meet the social and economic needs of their own populationsoxfam bookshop beverley nepad -- the new partnership for africa's development -- is the latest attempt to chart a new course of good governance combined with an effective development strategy for the african continent
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki"murder in the cathedral" by tmurder in the cathedral is a verse drama by teliot harcourt brace, ny - first american edition first printing - 86p, 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, name on ffep, in first issue price unclipped dust jacket in good condition with minor wearplease 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 storeeliot, first performed in , that portrays the assassination of archbishop thomas becket in canterbury cathedral during the reign of henry ii ineliot drew heavily on the writing of edward grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the eventcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesome material that the producer asked eliot to remove or replace during the writing was transformed into the poem "burnt norton"
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His attempts to research his story are put to the test by the bolsheviks and moscow's secret policeoxfam 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 congotintin and snowy encounter witch doctors, hostile tribesmen, crocodiles, boa constrictors and numerous other wild animals before solving the mystery and getting their storytintin in the congo the young reporter tintin and his faithful dog snowy set off on assignment to africatintin in the land of the sovietssee oxfam website for delivery information read morejoin the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteriesstill selling over copies every year in the uk and having been adapted for the silver screen by steven spielberg and peter jackson in , the adventures of tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publicationsince then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20thbut a sinister stowaway follows their every move and seems set on ensuring they come to a sticky endaccompanied by his dog snowy, tintin leaves brussels to go undercover in soviet russia
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Other than a small tear in the spine, the book is in very good condition this book would appeal to those interested in bookplatesthe pages are unmarked, and the spine remains unbrokenthe book begins its collection in cthere are many images of the plates inside, consisting of detailed black and white drawingssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand ends in the twentieth centuryoxfam bookshop lincoln limited to 350 copies, 240 of which were for members of the bookplate society, bookplates in the trophy style was the society's book forthe book includes virtually every pre- trophy plate that has been identified and located, and the author claims it is the largest collection of images of trophy plates so far seen
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Complete in itself, the story is a sequel to the same author's the diamond in the windowoxfam bookshop sevenoaks this is the first uk edition of the swing in the summer house by the american author jane langtonpublished by hamish hamilton in , it has illustrations by erik blegvad the volume is in near fine condition, with a fine and unclipped dust jacket protected by a mylar cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe novel is a fantasy featuring the adventures of eleanor, edward and their friend oliver as they disappear through the magic doorway of the summerhouse
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Spine cracked internally and foxing to edges of blockwoolf, published by edward arnold in , third impressionthe cloth of the spine has split at the rear hinge and head and tail of spine and corners are bumped, and corners exposedbound in blue cloth with gold lettering, the boards are very worn and show marks from dampwritten by leonard woolf, husband of virginia woolf, the novel the village in the jungle was based on his experiences in the colonial service in ceylon before the first world warsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop sevenoaks by la rare copy in fair condition
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipartly through the sale of his ferrari 308, he finances his own projects and mainly makes theatrical objects and installationsafter more than 10 years of working as a successful international internet entrepreneur, bram ellens decided to change course and make his dream come true"there's less and less real contactthe gnome depicts the individualisation and growing apathy of people through the mobile phonethis is number 26, hand-signed underneath the footplease 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 storethe fluorine also slowly loses its effect" the gnomes have always been used by the artist in various set ups, therefore not in "mint condition"this work of art is a protest with a wink against the screen culturecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis is certainly the case with bram's first major work, glow in the dark gnomes on their phoneshe became an artist or, as he says himself, an early-stage autonomous artist
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Oxfam bookshop aberystwyth in this first of a massive three-volume work, seta bbeing an armenian, dadoyan argues, means having an ethnic ancestry laden with narratives drawn from the vast historic armenian habitatdadoyan studies the armenian experience in the medieval islamic world and takes the reader through hitherto undiscovered paradigmatic cases of interaction with other populations in the regionlinking armenian-islamic history is one way of dealing with the problemdadoyan's concern is also to outline revolutionary elements in the making of armenian ideologies and politicsthe author has composed and arranged the larger subjects and their sub-themes in such a way as to create an open, dynamic continuity to armenian history that is intellectually intriguing, aesthetically appealing, and close to lived experiencesthe author holds that every piece of literature, including historical writing, is an artifactit is a composition of many elements arranged in certain forms: order, sequence, proportion, detail, intensity, etccontradictory trends went into the making of armenian history, yet most narratives fail to reflect this rich texturesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis extensive work captures the multidimensional nature of the armenian experience in the medieval islamic world
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Dadoyan focuses on social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus exhibited in her first two volumesshe argues that if the entire region was the habitat of most of the armenians, their history too is part of these locations and peoplesoxfam bookshop aberystwyth in the third volume of the trilogy, seta bdadoyan focuses on the armenian condition and role in the medieval islamic worldthis book is essential for all historians and middle east scholars and is the latest volume in transaction's armenian studies seriesdadoyan shows that direct interactions and borrowings happened regularly from islamic sciences, reform projects, poetry, and artsdadoyan argues that the cosmopolitan urban environments were radically different from rural areas and close interactions took different and unexpected patternsin the last part of the volume, she presents the first and only polemical-apologetic armenian texts addressed to islam at the end of the fourteenth centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher objective is to suggest political readings of these themes and related texts by revealing hitherto unstudied and novel interactions in the cities of asia minor during the mongol perioddadoyan draws the outlines of a new philosophy of armenian history based on hitherto obscured patterns of interactionthe first three chapters of this volume are dedicated to the images of prophet muhammad in armenian literature
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At the very time that monarchial absolutism seemed to be collapsing in western europe, the dismemberment of the polish "noble democracy" affirmed absolutism's triumph in the eastnot only does this book illuminate a much neglected area of european history, and assist those trying to make sense of poland's heritage, it also provides much comparative material for students of early modern history in generaloxfam bookshop wallingford in the closing years of the 18th century, the old polish state paid the price of over 100 years of ungovernability in political extinctionbetween and an area of eastern europe larger than france was divided among russia, prussia and austriafurthermore no reader could fail to be struck by the parallels in the problematic relationship between poland and russia in the 18th century and todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebringing together polish scholarship previously inaccessible to english-speaking readers, the author examines the economy, the society and the institutional structure of early modern poland and analyzes her loss of national sovereignty in the light of poland's lack of political centralization and dynastic strength
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In seagoing ships and seamanship in the bronze age levant shelley wachsmann presents a one-of-a-kind comprehensive examination of how the early eastern mediterranean cultures took to the sea--and how they evolved as a resultbass's foreword frames the study's scholarly significance and discusses its place in the nautical archaeological canonthere is minimal edge wearthe author surveys the blue-water ships of the egyptians, syro-canaanites, cypriots, early bronze age aegeans, minoans, mycenaeans, and sea peoples, and discusses known bronze age shipwrecksvan soldt offer new and illuminating translations of ugaritic and akkadian documents that refer to seafaringthese intersocietal lines of communication and paths for commerce relied on rigorous open-water traveloffering an abundance of line drawings and photographs and written in a style that makes the material easily accessible to the layperson, wachsmann's study is certain to become a standard reference for anyone interested in the dawn of sea travelthe inside is very clean and unmarkedlenz delves into the homeric greek lexicon to search out possible references to the birdlike shapes that adorned early ships' stem and sternhocker provides a useful appendix and glossary of nautical terms, and george fin very good conditionthere are a few faint scuffs to the back cover see oxfam website for delivery information read moreand, as a potential superhighway, the mediterranean demanded much in the way of seafaring knowledge and innovative ship design if it were to be successfully navigatedit is new in appearanceoxfam bookshop hampstead seagoing ships and seamanship in the bronze age levant by shelley wachsmann during the bronze age, the ancient societies that ringed the mediterranean, once mostly separate and isolate, began to reach across the great expanse of sea to conduct trade, marking an age of immense cultural growth and technological developmentthis broad study is further enhanced by contributions from other renowned scholarsthis book brings together for the first time the entire corpus of evidence pertaining to bronze age seafaring and will be of special value to archaeologists, maritime historians, philologists, and bronze age textual scholarshoftijzer and wrelying on archaeological, ethnological, iconographic, and textual evidence, wachsmann delivers a fascinating and intricate rendering of virtually every aspect of early sea travel--from ship construction and propulsion to war on the open water, piracy, and laws pertaining to conduct at sea
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Against the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries britain and france would rulelawrence, winston churchill and charles de gaulle, a line in the sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when britain and france ruled the middle eastthe creation of britain's 'mandates' of palestine, transjordan and iraq, and france's in lebanon and syria, made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty yearsoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themin , after many years of intrigue and espionage, britain finally succeeded in ousting france from lebanon and syria, and hoped that, having done so, it would be able to cling on to palestinesir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgeterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including tthe deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the entente cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the mediterranean to the persian frontierusing newly declassified papers from the british and french archives, james barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life, and reveals, for the first time, the stunning way in which the french finally got their revengeit explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the arabs and the jews, and ultimately led to war between the british and the french in and between the arabs and the jews in
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The dominant ideology is held up to question in these sketches of spoiled idealism revealing a very subtle artfulnessthey smack of the streets all around usoxfam bookshop brigg brendan cleary's poems have never been for the squeamish or faint hearteduncompromising and honest, cleary continues to strike at raw nerves and his work reminds us how poetry can be a vital and haunting forcetragic, sad, but darkly comic, his poems speak for the dispossessed, the bed-sit dwellers, the losers in lovesee oxfam website for delivery information read more" stranger in the house" sees cleary in the realm of the urban epiphanyhis often manic personas confront their demons, lay bare their hearts and reveal the anguish of their personal disorder in the city's terrain
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Oxfam shop bishop's stortford this is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on berkeley's celebrated free speech movement (fsm) of the contributors-whose perspectives range from that of fsm leader mario savio to university of california president clark kerr--shed new light on such issues as the origins of the fsm in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the fsm, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the berkeley faculty and its various factions, the trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown "little free speech movement ofdrawing from the experiences of many movement veterans this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of american higher education" this 1st edition paperback copy is very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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And somewhere in the tranquil garden of carriglas there are secrets waiting to be discovered'the silence in the garden' won the yorkshire post book of the year awardoxfam bookshop cheltenham carriglas is the island estate off county cork where sarah pollexfen goes to live as governess to her wealthy cousins on the eve of the first world warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is devoted to ireland, to its soft speech and its frequently ugly deeds, and he combines them in a sort of elegy'writing in the spectator, anita brookner said, 'trevor is a specialist in brooding regret and a discoverer of past crimeshelplessly, sarah watches her cousins lead increasingly isolated and empty lives as if punishing themselves for a past crime
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Others are studies of particular periods, places or groups which have not found their place in more narrative accounts: standardisation in the nineteenth century, the role of low german, the state of german at the stunde null insome of these 'landmarks' are individuals or groups of people who have exerted influence over the language: charlemagne, luther, the early modern grammarians and lexicographersan overarching theme is the role of deliberate intervention in the development of german, whether it took the form of education, prescriptivism, purism or political manipulationoxfam books & music beeston peter lang, , paperback very good condition the contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the german language, that is, the combination of social, political and cultural circumstances which influenced the language and its speakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe essays, a number of which were originally delivered as lectures in the university of cambridge and all of which are by specialists in the field, combine to provide a history of the german language in its social context
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Pagel, nature "written in an informal style that those uninitiated into the jargon of nuclear astrophysics and astronomy will find readable and illuminatingoxfam books & music beeston university of chicago press, , paperback good condition, some wear nuclear astrophysics is, in essence, a science that attempts to understand and explain the physical universe beyond the earth by studying its smallest particles"one could not wish for a better account of the current state of knowledge (and uncertainty) about nuclear reactions in starsrolfs and william srodney, serves as a basic introduction to these endeavorsa classic in its field, cauldrons in the cosmos will surely remain an important reference in nuclear astrophysics for years to comea useful and long-awaited introduction to nuclear astrophysicsfrom the major discoveries in the field to a discussion of the makeup of stars to an explanation of standard lab techniques, this text provides students and scientists alike a thorough and fascinating survey of the accomplishments, goals, and methods of nuclear astrophysicsmathews, science see oxfam website for delivery information read morecauldrons in the cosmos, by claus e
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Roosevelt lived and worked in the north dakota badlands for four years between , but the american west remained one of his deepest passions and his favourite arena for pursuing the strenuous lifeincluded are more than 150 photographs of the life and times of theodore roosevelt, drawn principally from the extensive collections of the theodore roosevelt centre at dickinson state universitythis book explores the ways in which a buffalo hunt transformed theodore roosevelt into the strenuous, larger-than-life figure who graces mount rushmore and led the united states (sometimes kicking and screaming) into the twentieth centuryroosevelt, in return, transformed the american west and helped to make cowboy life a central feature of american mythologyhe fell in love with the dakota badlands, purchased two badlands ranches, and threw himself into the life of the vanishing frontiersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreprominent inscription on ffep, otherwise excellent condition in dust jacket, not price clippedhe hunted big game in virtually every western state, recruited his rough riders from among those he had met in his western travels, and wrote a series of articles and books based on his adventures in the westroosevelt ventures into the american west in to kill a buffalooxfam bookshop henley-on-thames no president of the united states is as thoroughly associated with the american west as theodore roosevelt, who was born in new york city and educated at harvard university
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This work strives to show that wittgenstein's investigation of aspect perception is designed to illuminate much more than a bizarre type of visual experienceby setting seeing aspects within this interpretative framework, the author seeks to demonstrate parallels between wittgenstein's interest, and concerns at the heart of heidegger's "being and time"oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells on being in the world: wittgeinstein and heidegger on seeing aspects by stephen mulhall this study aims to cast new light on a neglected but important area of wittgenstein's philosophy, and to reveal its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philosophyin very good condition, with clean pages and a cover only faintly marked at the backits starting point is the belief that wittgenstein's seemingly unsystematic remarks on seeing aspects of pictures and words, are in fact focused on a phenomenon which he labels "continuous aspect perception"it highlights what is distinctively "human" about human behaviour in relation to things in the world, and elements which distinguish human practical activity from that of automatasee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis focus not only confers unity upon his treatment of the topic, but also connects that treatment with fundamental questions in the philosophy of psychology (taking issue with davidsonian approaches to these matters, for example)
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Weaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window on the secret of life itselffrom life's murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, the demon in the machine is a breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics, biology, logic and computingoxfam bookshop preston for generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental questionand yet, huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mysteryso can life be explained by known physics and chemistry, or do we need something fundamentally new?in this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist and science communicator paul davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where computing, chemistry, quantum physics and nanotechnology intersectlife really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match itsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreat the heart of these diverse fields, davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and even to illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe
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Oxfam bookshop reading english teaching in the secondary school is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of teaching englishguiding students and new teachers through the whole process of english teaching in the secondary school, this edition has been fully updated to include:  a report of the most recent developments in national policy  discussion of multiple literacies and critical literacy  a new chapter on english as an additional language  a new chapter on cross curricular themes new sections on approaches to the teaching of grammar  reflections on international developments in language teaching and their relevance  a guide to further reading on resources and researchwritten in an accessible style, with a wealth of advice and ideas, english teaching in the secondary school forms essential reading for all those training to become secondary english teachersit challenges mechanistic and formulaic approaches to teaching, instead placing an emphasis on reflection, understanding and informed practicesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis updated 4th edition has been revised to take into consideration changes in national policy, drawing on the most recent research and theory to produce engaging, practical ideas for use in the classroom
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The perfect, traditional cotswolds villages offer historic places, friendly pubs and craft shopsthis area is a perfect blend of gentle rolling hills, plentiful archaeological sites and charming villages built from a local honey coloured limestoneoxfam shop wolverhampton set in the heart of england's countryside, the cotswolds occupies the area between gloucester, bath, oxford and stratford-upon-avonthe countryside with its gentle hills and open spaces is ideal for a variety of outdoor activities such as horse-riding, cycling, ballooning and walking, making the cotswolds a dream place to live and visitin recognition of the beauty of this quintessentially english countryside, the area covering 790 square miles was designated an area of outstanding natural beauty inmost of the villages and smaller towns have survived unspoiltdespite its popularity with tourists, the cotswolds remains tranquil and serenetraditional museums like corinium museum in cirencester, cotswolds museum in bourton-on-the-water, gloucester cathedral, roman baths, sudeley castle or blenheim palace are complemented by fabulous gardens of westonbirt, painswick, batsford and hidcotebeata moore's glorious photographs show the charm of the cotswolds through the seasonssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop dumfries essential information for anyone involved in palliative care programs for deprived patients! in this comprehensive resource, leading healthcare professionals describe pioneering work on the front lines of pain and palliative care service planning and implementation for underserved populationspain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalized populations also offers an important look at pain management programs geared toward several specific underserved populations in both developing and developed countries, including native americans and inmates in a new zealand prisonillustrated with figures, graphs, and tables, this book is essential for practitioners and officials in both palliative and public health carethis essential volume includes a foreword written by a world leader in palliative care-jan stjernsward, former chief of the cancer and palliative care program of the world health organization and currently international director of the oxford international centre for palliative care in the united kingdompain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalized populations: a global challenge addresses issues of vital importance for the global health care community, such as: why do so many people in the developing world suffer excruciating pain for months and years, when simple inexpensive medication could make them comfortable? they get mri scans; why don't they have access to palliative care? why do some palliative care programs fail to reach the needy? how could a palliative care delivery system be adapted to local needs? why are medical and nursing students not taught the fundamentals of pain management? what direction should palliative care education take? could health care resources be channeled to deliver care in a more just and equitable manner? this book chronicles the efforts of ambitious pain management care professionals to confront these questions, working toward an end to needless, preventable pain and sufferingit examines their programs, and acknowledges their successes and failures to date, with commentaries by international expertssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis indispensable manual discusses palliative care programs in developing countries such as india, chile, argentina, saudi arabia, thailand, hong kong, malaysia, and otherspain and palliative care in the developing world and marginalized populations: a global challenge explores the challenges and barriers preventing satisfactory pain management for patients who urgently need itall proceeds from sales of this book will be used to support the growth of palliative care programs in indiathis book provides you with true accounts of palliative care programs from around the world to help you meet the needs of disadvantaged clients
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