Medicine in the twentieth century
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Annika mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth centuryemotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the 'war-guilt paragraph' of the treaty of versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposedtext is unmarked there a sticky label on the backcover over the barcode that has been mostly removedwere they really justified? see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the first world war have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversysimilarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered the book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the waroxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the origins of the first world war annika mombauer very good condition paperback
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Oxfam bookshop kingston upon thames edward barnsley has been to british furniture in the twentieth century what bernard leach was to ceramicsin his workshop he kept alive the ideals of the arts and crafts movement into which he was born at the turn of the centuryhe and his craftsmen accepted the challenge of living by 'doing and making' in an age of mass production, and so preserved the tradition of fine craftmanship which is flowering among a new generation of designer-makers todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Spanning the twentieth century, these magically vivid letters between the legendary mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle (what other family counted among its friends hitler and the queen, cecil beaton and president kennedy, evelyn waugh and givenchy?); they also give an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationship between six beautiful and gifted women who emerged from the same stock, incarnated the same indomitable spirit, yet carved out starkly different roles and identities for themselveswriting to one another to confide, commiserate, tease, rage and gossip, the sisters wrote above all to amuseoxfam bookshop hertford the never-before published letters of the legendary mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted familysee oxfam website for delivery information read morea correspondence of this scope is rare, for it to be penned by six such born storytellers makes it uniqueeditor charlotte mosley -- diana mitford's daughter-in-law -- has had unrestricted access to the vast archive of family letters and photographs, most of which have never been published beforenancy, the scalding wit who transferred her family life into bestselling novels; pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life; diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, oswald mosley, during wwii; unity, an attempted suicide, obsessed with hitler; jessica, the runaway communist and fighter for social change; and deborah, the genial socialite who found herself duchess of devonshire
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Oxfam bookshop st albans a history told largely in pictures of the first third of the twentieth century, seen through british eyessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Together these short sermons form the prophet, the most inspirational work of the twentieth centurythis newly reset edition of kahlil gibran's classic contains an introduction by robin waterfield which throws new light onto one of the most significant books of the century and is a major addition to penguin arkana's uniform gibran collectionbefore leaving his place of exile, he delivers twenty-six homilies to the people he is about to leaveoxfam bookshop cheltenham almustafa the prophet, or 'chosen one', is about to return to his native landsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The twentieth n ° 32 of august in good condition; binder extract, dimensions cmwith a double page of the black island and jo zette and jocko;the twentieth n ° 45 of november in good condition; binder extract, dimensions cmtears of 2cm on the bottom of all the pageswith a double page the black island and jo zette and jocko;shipment in plastic and rigid envelopeinterior clean, and without ripsclean interior without stains and tears
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Seeing her chance to escape from years of abuse in an orphanage and in service, hanna joins one of the shiploads of young women transported in the early years of the twentieth century to the colony of german south-west africa to assuage the needs of the male settlersfollowing atrocious punishment for daring to resist the advances of an army officer, she arrives in a phantasmagoric refuge in the african desert - 'prison, nunnery, brothel, shithouse, frauenstein'oxfam bookshop cheltenham as a small child in a wintry bremen, hanna dreams about the other side of silence, the place where the wind comes from and palm trees wave in the sunmounting a ragtag army of female and native victims of colonial brutality, she sets out on an epic march through the desert to take on the might of the german reichthis apocalyptic journey through the darker regions of the soul will also reveal to her the hidden meanings of suffering, revenge, companionship, love and compassionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen the drunken excesses of a visiting army detachment threaten her only companion, hanna revolts
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Recollections and studio photographs of 31 of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century5 cms (sheet), 24 x 16 cms (image), with annotations in the white margincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifirst published in , reprinted in an expanded edition, with a new introduction by the artist, inrevised editionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteperhaps the very finest collection of artist photographs to date, including sections on bonnard, matise, van dongen, picasso, chagall, brancusi, arp, miro, dubuffet, giacometti athe portrait with raised hands was (partially) published on double-page in liberman's book the artist in his studio () in good condition, matted, with slight handling marks read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein good condition\t\t added: >> two portraits of georges rouault\t silver gelatin prints, calexander liberman - the artist in his studio - new york, random housewhite cloth with embossed initials, with dustjacket, 31 x 24 cms, 293p, profusey illustrated in colour and bl/w, mostly full-pagestamped, both 25 x 18
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Featured in vince aletti's the book of 101 books: seminal photographic books of the twentieth century, described as "almost maniacally inclusive, rounding up everything from plymouth rock to a plaque commemorating the pony express in salt lake city and treating them with the same nonchalancetriple-post binding to allow removal of individual leaves for display purposescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe doggedness of friedlander's quest is at once astounding and hilariousare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihistory stalks the landscape at every turncollectible first edition, first printing of celebrated photographer lee friedlander's massive, landmark tribute to american monumentsplease 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 store213 duo-tone photographs compiled and printed on heavy stockbound in blue-green cloth with black lettering to front and spine panels and gilt rulings to front panelone of copies issued
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They were probably manufactured in the twentieth centurythe shipping costs indicated under the chapter 'shipping' are therefore fictitious and no rights can be derived from either sidedimensions griffins: height 30 cmdepth: 20 cm weight: 45 kg a piececatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableshipping costs cannot be specified in advanceare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe photos provide a good impressiontwo beautiful, large cast iron garden vases with griffins as handlesthey are part of the descriptiondimensions bowl: diameter 54 cmtotal dimensions: width 67 cm height 47 cmplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteboth the vases and the griffins are beautifully detailedpick-up is preferred for this itemunknown country of originversions like these and in this format are relatively rareour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeshipping can be arranged on requestat the request of bidders, a correct shipping price can be requested
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It was continued into the twentieth century by angela thirkelloxfam bookshop carlisle the chronicles of barsetshire is a series of six novels by the english author anthony trollope, set in the fictional english county of barsetshire and its cathedral town of barchester together, the series is regarded by many as trollope's finest work the novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them books in excellent condition, slipcase f see oxfam website for delivery information read moreof the six novels, the last was trollope's own favouritethis 3 volume folio set contains the last three installments
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For adele, with the most to conceal, evie/stevie become a lifelong obsession, as she examines what happened on the night of her own twentieth birthday and her friends' complicity in their fatebut the varnished patina of youth and flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties and hidden historiesto a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires' in the early seventies a glamorous and androgynous couple known collectively as evie/stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new universityi mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explainif only you could narrate them, then you might be understoodsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea set of school exercise books might reveal everything, but they have been missing for nearly forty yearsfrom summers in cornwall to london in the twenty-first century, long after they have disappeared, evie/stevie go on challenging everyone's ideas of what their lives should turn out to beoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'if you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend
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Originally published in the first half of the twentieth century, these meditative, concise volumes have never previously appeared in paperbacksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoverall in good condition, some minor marks/'stains on the back cover and some slight rubbing to the cornersoxfam bookshop hexham the inspiration of ernest holmes has reached hundreds of thousands of readers through his classic works, many of which are just now becoming available in paperbackwhether a newcomer to the philosophy holmes founded or a veteran reader, you will find great power and practicality in the words that render holmes one of the most celebrated and beloved mystical teachers of the past hundred years
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Height king is 9 cm and the dimensions of the game box are 39the pieces are as follows: king: homer queen: marge bishop: lisa knight: maggie rook: grandpa pion: bart the dimensions of the board are: 44 cm x 36 cmcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikivery popular chess game with the famous figures from the simpsonsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitein the original box without the original game rulesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewill be adequately packaged and shipped with track & trace
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Oxfam books & music romsey 3 disc box set featuring roosevelt, churchill, stalin and hilter disc 1 - the rising tide, the storm explodes, disc 2 - trial by fire, the price of glory, disc 3 never surrender, peace at last with just over 20 years separating the two most cataclysmic conflicts of the twentieth century wwi and wwii many historians argue that they were not separate wars, but one bloody continuum that first gripped the people of europe but eventually spread across the entire globebenito mussolininumber of discs: 5 region 0 language: english 300 minutes running time see oxfam website for delivery information read morecharles de gaulleand so it happens that the most iconic figures of wwii, the household names that we associate with either battlefield glory or murderous fascism, were themselves caught up in both conflictsbefore they were giants, they were infantrymen and privates in the 'war to end all wars'douglas macarthurthis is the story of these devastating three decades of war, through the eyes of the men who were shaped by the battles of world war i and came to command a world on the brink of disaster decades later
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Oxfam bookshop swanage gina mckee, ioan grufford, damian lewis and rupert graves star in this tv adaptation of john galsworthy's classic story of london society in the early years of the twentieth centurysoames forsyte (lewis) is a partner in the family law firm and a resolute believer in the stability of the old moral orderhowever, his relationship with his wife irene (mckee) is troubled from the outset, and when she begins having an affair, it starts to tear the family apartsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Sharp went on to collect nearly tunes in england and north america and played a role fundamental in the restoration of folk music as part of popular culture in england in the twentieth centuryoxfam bookshop exeter was a turning point for folk music in england condition: covers shelfworn, corner bumped, general scuffing; foreedges lightly thumbed, pages clean and clear and binding tightsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is a collection of fifty songs from sharp's manuscripts, specially selected for musicians and singers"still growing" was published to commemorate the centenary of "the seeds of love", as sung by john england in hambridge on that historic day one hundred years agoin august that year cecil sharp, a music teacher from south london, noted down his first folk song from a vicarage gardener in somerset, and the rest, as they say, is history
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Good overall condition a laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the weimar republic () continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth centuryits thirty chapters explore germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "new woman," bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascismsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe weimar republic sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any languageoxfam bookshop glossop road creasing to cover and spineits political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our agedrawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in english), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social lifewhile devoting much attention to the republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the frankfurt school, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographiesthis will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, german, and women's studiesit invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in germany before hitler's rise to power
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And whilst american ideas dominated the latter part of the twentieth century, hutton argues that the underpinning of the twenty-first must come from europehe lays bare modern america for what it is: a country of inequality in risk, opportunity and income, where 1% of the population owns 38% of the wealth, and 19% live in terrible povertynow, as the world realigns itself in the wake of the september 11th atrocities, hutton turns his attention to the global picture, and the ways in which the new world should be orderedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreover the past thirty years there, the forces of conservatism have achieved such supremacy as to reduce liberalism to a term of abuseoxfam bookshop cheltenham the state we're in, will hutton's explosive analysis of british society, was the biggest selling politico-economic work since the second world warto understand the global economy, hutton argues, one must first understand the united statesit is time for britain to stop vacillating between two cultures and make common cause with its continental partners - to reject the conservative orthodoxy in favour of the shared european beliefs of obligations, rights and fairness
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Ten years ago, the twentieth century and the bronze age were tossed together by a mysterious eventoxfam bookshop cheltenham harry turtledove hailed island in the sea of time as "one of the best time travel/alternative history stories i've ever read," and jane lindskold called against the tide of years "another exciting and explosive talesome have turned instead to the renegade coast guard officer william walkerand for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the futuresome of these peoples have become alliessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand only one side can emerge the victorin the decade since, the republic of nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the pastnow the official battle lines have been drawn" now the adventures of the nantucket islanders lost in the time of the bronze age continues with on the oceans of eternity
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To this point can be traced the true story of the scarlet pimpernel, and the origins of a british secret service (ultimately the mi5 and mi6 of the twentieth century), as pitt's administration, advised by louis xvi's ex-ministers, reacted to the threat of a french-style revolution in britain by instituting police surveillance to counteract immigration and seditionoxfam bookshop victoria espionage is taken for granted today as the unacceptable but unavoidable veiled activity of modern statecraftsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreonce established, espionage activity intensified in the ensuing decades, finally achieving covert formal status as napoleon's military domination of europe drew together an international set of intelligentsia, who, with secret british assistance, directed the urgent imperative and manipulating his ministers and generalsbut how and why did it all begin? elizabeth sparrow's 'secret history' takes as its starting point the period immediately following the french revolution: a turbulent time, both on the continent and in britain, as the established order came under threat of imminent social upheavala foreign secret service followed, to infiltrate the french revolutionary government's actions; at the same time, british-paid police in paris helped potential victims to escape
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the works of no great composer between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries have undergone a more spectacular reassessment than those of giuseppe verdiits purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer and his music, presenting enough material - in a sort of stream of consciousness, using annotations that readers may survey the myriad directions verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and easily pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interestedit is primarily for these researchers that this volume is intended, although it is hoped that specialists will also find it to be usefulsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretoday, verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier researchit is not surprising that a figure such as verdi should have inspired an enormous amount of books, articles, essays, and critical evaluationfor those who have not spent years with verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of the giant's life and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeedhis death brought a crowd of several hundred thousand people to mourn not only the passing of a great artist but also a beloved national herothis verdi biography is dealt with as a simple story to be read in one go - in which thoughts concerning personal and professional events in his life flow in simplicity, while continuing to respect the importance of chronological order
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the new confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of john james todd, a scotsman born in and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth centuryto ordeal by mccarthyism and eventual escape to europe' peter kemp, observersee oxfam website for delivery information read morejohn james todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the western front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in london, to the electric excitements of the berlin film-world of the twenties, then moves on to hollywood'an often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction
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Oxfam shop mutley plain " on the cusp of the twentieth century, in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, there a sensation that entranced the city's populace as nothing had before-a sensation that cast a great and disturbing shadow over the city, and then vanished, leaving no more trace than a shadow wouldwhile sigmund freud was anxiously awaiting the publication of the interpretation of dreams, in which he first theorized about the oedipal hostilities between parents and children, every day's headlines proclaimed the ugly reality of child abusechild abuse in freud's vienna is the story of that forgotten sensation in this fabled cityin the autumn of , vienna's attention was focused not on its extraordinary cultural life, but on child abuse-specifically, two cases of child murder and two of abusefocusing on the four cases that dominated the pages of the newspapers, larry wolff's riveting narrative paints a picture of a great city enthralled by a spectacle it desperately wished to ignore" book in good condition with clean pages throughout and securely boundsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreslight bumping to bottom right hand corner of front cover
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One such great change occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, when there was a revolution in modern scientific thinkinghere the genius and ironies behind those discoveries are describedthe subject is the the history and explanation of modern physicsoxfam bookshop thame this book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the present and future place of science in mankind's cultureevery so often science moves by large leaps,sometimes spurred by the realization that the commonly held beliefs of the day need revisingit finds answers to the deepest questions of modern physics and ultimately describes a unified design of the universe, which has truth beauty and symmetrythis book has great clarity and removes the shrouds of mystery, which envelop one of contemporary science's greatest challengessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis paperback is in a very good clean condition
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Oxfam bookshop preston ludwig wittgenstein () is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessiblethe contributors illuminate the character of the whole body of work by keeping a tight focus on some key topics: the style of the philosophy, the conception of grammar contained in it, rule-following, convention, logical necessity, the self, and what wittgenstein called, in a famous phrase, 'forms of life'they chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between its different stagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe essays in this volume address central themes in wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics
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The great popular lyricists of the twentieth century can be counted on the fingers of onehand; lorenz hart, ira gershwin, cole porter, oscar hammersmithsome 220 new lyrics and additional verses for existing songs have been discovered by barry day and are published here for the first time, along with day's commentaries about the genesis and context for all the materialoxfam shop dumfries includes over 200 newly found lyricsthis is the first time that the complete lyrics of noël coward have been published togetherincludes sheet music, programmes and photos from original productionssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno one knew that noël coward had written so much undiscovered materialthis volume made news headlines when it was revealed that a whole cache of new lyrics were discovered in a swiss bank vaultthis magnificent collection of over 500 lyrics, richly illustrated with over 200 photographs, will lead the way in celebrating the centenary of coward's birth in
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham first published in february , just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth centurymore likely than not, the original idea was tyes, his purpose was tendentious' from the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with gerard manley hopkins' the wreck of the deutschland michael roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim' see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one' on the other hand, 'i have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and languagesince then three further editions by, in succession, anne ridler, donald hall and peter porter have been publishedthis faber finds reissue restores that pristine selectionphilip hobsbaum, in the oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry, says of the faber book of modern verse, 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the smichael roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within itall took as their kernel the original selection by michael robertshe excludes some poets he admires such as edmund blunden and walter de la mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique
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The book shows how german nationalism and later national socialism created what joseph goebbels, hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of german engineers and of the major intellectuals of the by associating technology with the germans, rather than the jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identityweimar right: ernst juenger, oswald spengler, werner sombart, hans freyer, carl schmitt, and martin heideggeroxfam shop magdelen street in a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, jeffrey herf explores the paradox inherent in the german fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology
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This second edition incorporates the very considerable advances in our knowledge of mosses made in the last quarter of the twentieth century and will provide a unique resource for all concerned with these fascinating organismsfor many species there are footnotes to aid identificationin addition to the species descriptions there are descriptions of families and genera and also introductory information on conservation, collection, preservation and examination of material, together with advice on using the keysan artificial key to genera provides the only workable comprehensive key published in the english languagethe species descriptions provide information on frequency, ecology, geographical relationships and distribution, including information on protected species and those species at risksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal paperback in very good condition with clean pagescorners of cover slightly worn; front cover slightly creasedthis book describes and illustrates in detail the 760 species of mosses currently known to occur in the british isles and incorporates the most up-to-date information available on classification and nomenclature, together with recent synonymsprevious owner's name on half-title
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