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I am malala will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world see oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and is the youngest ever winner of the nobel peace prizeoxfam shop colne road *winner of the nobel peace prize*'malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' j k rowling'inspirational and powerful' grazia'for sheer inspiration read i am malala' sunday times'a tale of immense courage and conviction' independent'she has the heart and courage of a lioness and is a true inspiration' lorraine kelly, the sunwhen the taliban took control of the swat valley, one girl fought for her right to an educationon tuesday, 9 october , she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank rangemalala yousafzai's extraordinary journey has taken her from a remote valley in northern pakistan to the halls of the united nations
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see oxfam website for delivery information read more bertrand arthur william russell, 3rd earl russell om frs () was a british polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and nobel laureate he is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy in , russell was awarded the nobel prize in literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought"oxfam books & music islington published in , and subtitled 'a new social analysis', this book considers the question of power - who wields it, how it should be used, where the desire for it originates, its relationship with morality, with economies, with religions - the author presents an exhaustive collection of thoughts and opinions which, although presented at a time of extreme political upheaval, remain relevant to this day while considering himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, he also sometimes suggested that his scepticism had led him to feel that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense" some small pencil marks on the front endpaper, and a few spots of foxing on endpapers & adjacent leaves, and on the leading edge, but not within the body of the book inside, the binding is firm with no loose pages; pages lightly tanned throughout, but cleanour book is in very nice condition for its age, its illustrated paper-covered boards remarkably unworn apart from a little rubbing of edges, angles, and top & tail of the spine
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'the nobel lecture in literature, see oxfam website for delivery information read moremorrison's nobel lecture, on the power of language, is accompanied by lectures to amnesty international and the newspaper association of americathey are concerned with race, gender and globalisationthe collection is structured in three parts and these are heart-stoppingly introduced by a prayer for the dead of 9/11, a meditation on martin luther king and a eulogy for james baldwinthe duty of the press and the role of the artistshe was a magician with language, who understood the power of words" - oprah winfreya vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered american writersspanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around usmouth full of blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us allshe speaks to graduating students and visitors to both the louvre and america's black holocaust museum"she was our consciencethroughout mouth full of blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by toni morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellenceshe revisits the bluest eye, sula and beloved; reassessing the novels that have become touchstones for generations of readersit celebrates morrison's extraordinary contribution to the literary worldbut we do languagethat may be the measure of our livesthat may be the meaning of life'word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other lifethe sweep of american history and the current state of politicsshe used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend themour truth-teller
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'lusciously peculiar' paris review see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the exquisite last novel from nobel prize-winning author yasunari kawabata ineko has lost the ability to see thingsat first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancas ineko's mother and fianc walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or an expression of love? exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, kawabata's transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of japanese literaturethe doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover
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Condition: good - see pics see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop didsbury cancellation marks all "royal mail tallents house edinburgh""fabulous hats" - 19 jun "punch & judy" - 4 aug "pond life" - 10 jul "nobel prizes" - 2 oct "flags & ensigns" - 22 oct "christmas nov envelopes not sealed all include enclosed information cards - not shown in pics
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop woodbridge the definitive biography of the controversial nobel prize-winning philosopher, mathematician, anti-war activist, and "free love" advocatemoorehead makes use of unpublished letters and papers and many new interviews to fashion an incisive biography of this contradictory manbook is in good condition; it is a review copy sent by publisher
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop skipton following the great success of pioneers of the possible, angella nazarian returns with an extraordinary sequel, visionary womenfrom malala yousafzai as the youngest nobel prize laureate and carmen amaya beginning her remarkable dance career at age four to swimmer diana nyad breaking a world record at sixty- four and doris lessing still penning stories into her nineties, this inspiring volume will compel readers to reconnect with their own dreams and envision new goals to challenge themselves at any stage of lifefeaturing a foreword by melanne verveer, the director of the georgetown institute for women, peace and security, this new title highlights twenty more innovative and forward-thinking womensigned by the author: 'dear margaret; reach higher; dig deeper' with dustcover which has a small tear on fold over edge
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethis album is a celebration of the nobel peace prize being awarded to his holiness the dalai lama of tibetoxfam bookshop lymington with a mystical sense of rhythm and evocative, textured meditations, this former monk suggests the vast spaces of his beloved himalayaswith bamboo flute, didgeridoo, gongs, bells, and drums
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop ilkley selected as a book of the year by the times and telegraph'astonishinglike the great russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - caroline moorehead, guardianextraordinary stories about what it was like to be a soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the second world war, from nobel laureate svetlana alexievichwhat did it mean to grow up in the soviet union during the second world war? in the late s, svetlana alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the russian nationpublished to great acclaim in the ussr in and now available in english for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the russian soulwith remarkable care and empathy, alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreit commences with one nobel laureate, pearl buck, and ends with another, kazuo ishiguro, almost a century lateroxfam bookshop byres road how do english-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of china from a chinese perspective? how do they keep up appearances of pseudo-sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the english language? anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing chineseoff-white interrogates seminal anglo-american fiction and film on off-white bodies and voicesoff-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in anglo-american fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and chinglish are of, for, by the (white) peoplethe trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in japanese animethroughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliensthis universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial china creates an "off-yellow," darker-hued orient in huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, seamus heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until nowthrough his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, stepping stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the nobel prize for literature and his post-nobel lifein response to firm but subtle questioning from dennis o'driscoll, seamus heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollectionsit is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the heaney family album and published here for the first time
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nobel prize winning writer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop micklegate cover has tiny tear at bottom, name at top
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop glossop road slight shelf wear, very good overall condition when jnow haldane's daedalus revisited combines a reprint of that classic work together with a discussion by world-renowned scientists (including two nobel laureates) regarding its relevance today and what it tells us about the complex relationship between technology, society, and politicsperutz, freeman dyson and ernest mayr, elof carlson, david weatherall, nall students, teachers, and researchers in the biomedical sciences, ethics, social science, science history, and ethics will want to read this bookavrion mitchison, and the editor, krishna rao dronamraju, the book offers a unique, thought-provoking examination of how predictions can have a dramatic impact on the development of science, technology, politics, and our philosophy of ethics in generalincluding contributions from joshua lederberg, mhaldane's daedalus or science and the future was first published in , it was greeted by instant controversy due to its predictions of future scientific developments--including "test-tube" babies
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop gloucester patrick white - letters australian, winner of the nobel prize for literature, author of more than a dozen works of fiction, a handful of plays, and many other books, he was known as a creative writer of power, vehemence and intense imaginationwhen patrick white:a life was published to great acclaim in , marr had several thousand letters in hand; he has located another thousand sincewe should be thankful that they do he was also one of the greatest letter-writers of his timebut patrick white was more than a novelist edited by david marr at his death in , patrick white had achieved wide fame as a novelistout of this mass he has chosen some 600 of the very best to let white tell the story of his life in his own words this stunning selection is the result of more than ten years of work and reflection on the part of white's biographer, david marr he spent his lie writing letters, huge numbers of them to friends, acquaintances, newspapers, even enemies (of which he had an abundance) shrewd, funny, hauntingly beautiful, dramatic, pig-headed, and above all direct and relaxed, they poured from his pen over a period of seventy years, from childhood until shortly before his death thousands survive for these are the letters of a great writer, a profound critic, a gossip with the sharpest eyes and tongue in the country, a man who loved and hated ferociously, a keen cook, an angry patriot, and a believer never free of doubt so remarkable are the letters that despite his frequent injunction that they be burned, most recipients insisted on saving them
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop hebden bridge pinpointing the virtues of such items as soap and a tomato, this selection fr the nobel prizes-winning poet contains twenty-five of his odes, each accompanied by an english translation and two pencil drawings
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bury stinsulin was a wonder-drug with ability to bring patients back from the very brink of death, and it was no surprise that in the nobel prize for medicine was awarded to its discoverers, the canadian research team of banting, best, collip, and macleodin this engaging and award-winning account, historian michael bliss recounts the fascinating story behind the discovery of insulin - a story as much filled with fiery confrontation and intense competition as medical dedication and scientific geniusoriginally published in and updated in , the discovery of insulin has won the city of toronto book award, the jason hannah medal of the royal society of canada, and the william hwelch medal of the american association for the history of medicineedmunds the discovery of insulin at the university of toronto in was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop lytham he is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy - a book that has already become a bestseller in its spanish-language edition both abroad and in the united states - the nobel laureate gabriel garcía márquez begins to tell us the story of his lifeit spans garcía márquez's life from his birth in through the beginning of his career as a writer to the moment in the s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wifea vivid, powerful, beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of gabriel garcía márquez as a writer and as a manlike all his work, living to tell the tale is a magnificent piece of writingand as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life - in this instance, his ownit has the shape, the quality, the aliveness of a conversation with the reader: a tale of people, places and events as they occur to him: family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved colombia, parts of his history until now undisclosed and incidents that would later appear, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morea key minister in the first two labour governments, he became foreign secretary in and received the nobel peace prize for his dedicated efforts as president of the world disarmament conferenceoxfam books & music beeston manchester university press, , hardback with dust jacket very good condition arthur henderson was one of the first working-class mps and held the office of secretary of the labour party for nearly twenty-five yearsalways a moderate, 'uncle arthur', as he was generally known, was the embodiment of the alliance between the labour party and the trade union movement, a partnership that he incorporated into the fabric of the party through the constitutionduring the first world war and again briefly after he served as leader of the labour partycentral to this book is a study of henderson's bitter and long-lasting rivalry with ramsay macdonald and his deep commitment to the league of nations and the cause of world peacehis talents as a political manager were central to the labour party's electoral strategy and to the expansion of the constituency organisation which enabled labour to develop from a sectional pressure group into a government party
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop worcester 'this is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason'bohr brainwashed a whole generation of physicists into believing that the problem had been solved', lamented the nobel prize-winning physicist murray gell-manntake it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' nicholas lezard, guardian for most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable sciencein this magisterial book, manjit kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its corequantum theory is weirdin , albert einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying a century of experimentswhile "quantum" sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age, kumar's centrepiece is the conflict between einstein and bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of sciencebut in "quantum", kumar brings einstein back to the centre of the quantum debate"quantum" is the essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of brilliant men at its heartyet for 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itselfas niels bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand itin this tour de force of science history, manjit kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth centurywerner heisenberg's uncertainty principle and erwin schrodinger's famous dead-and-alive cat are similarly strangequantum theory looks at the very building blocks of our world, the particles and processes without which it could not existand yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bedford nobel prize inpaperback version of this book, which is in portugesefirst volume of "chronicles"in good, almost unread conditionthe meetings he had in the tumultuous and nightly grennwich village would mark his lifebob dylan recalls in 'chronicles' his encounters with musicians, producers and artists and his first loves and tells us about the disorganized library, discovered at a friend's house and which was essential in his training, where he read from tucidides to eliotbob dylan arrived in new york in , when he was not yet twenty years old
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle wole soyinka was the first african to be awarded the nobel prize for literaturepages are slightly dog-eared and shows signs of agenow it is much more complexthe fear is created by tyranny and by furtive, invisible power, the power of the quasi-state, and terrorismin this year's prestigious series of reith lectures, soyinka considers fear as a predominant theme in world politicsfrom the fear of a terrorist with a bomb in his bag to the threat of a virus sent by a computer hacker with a lust for destruction, fear of the invisible threat is now omnipresentin this extraordinary book, developed from the bbc radio 4 reith lectures, soyinka explores the changing face of fear: the conflict between power and freedom; the complex motives behind unthinkable acts of violence; the meaning of human dignity; while comparing the fanaticism of powerful terrorists with the attitude of world leaders - discovering terrifying similaritiescover & spine in very good conditionfor soyinka, 11th september did not instigate the development of the climate of fear that has enveloped the world, it was in when, a few months before the lockerbie disaster, a passenger plane was brought down by terrorists over the republic of nigera few decades ago the existence of collective fear had an immediately identifiable face - the nuclear bombfrom niger to manhattan, and now to madrid, this climate of fear has stretched to engulf the globe, warning its inhabitants that there is now no distinction between the involved or non-involvedwe are all potential targets
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop haverfordwest this book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the holocaustthe book's epigraph and title are from "the letter writer," a story by the yiddish writer and nobel laureate isaac bashevis singer: "in relation to them, all people are nazis; for the animals it is an eternal treblinkathe last part of the book (chapters 6-8) profiles jewish and german animal advocates on both sides of the holocaust, including isaac bashevis singer himselfbook is in good condition but does show signs of wear and tear as per the photographs" the first part of the book (chapter 1-2) describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination over the rest of the inhabitants of the earththe second part (chapters 3-5) examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times
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see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe author won the nobel prize for physiology of medicineoxfam books & music totnes this work presents a radical new view of the function of the brain and nervous systemcorners slightly bumped and some fading/tanning to rear cover from shelf wearit will stimulate discussion about the mind-body problem, the origins of knowledge and the perceptual bases of languageit suggests that the nervous system in each individual operates as a selective system resembling natural selection in evolution but operating different mechanismsby providing a fundamental neural basis for categorisation of the things of the world it unifies perception, action and learningthis theory revises our view of memory, considering it as a dynamic process of categorisation which has implications for the various psychological states from attention to dreamingoup paperback in good clean condition, no internal markings and sound binding
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal hardback with dust jacket in vgcpaustovsky () was a russian soviet writer nominated for the nobel prize for literature inof his autobiographythis is the fifth volnonetheless, it does provide a unique view of life in russia when he was in the caucasus in the early sit is not a strictly historical document but rather a long, lyrical tale focusing on the internal perceptions and poetic development of the writerit has been called a "biography of the soul" rather than a biography of events
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music totnes an exciting collection of poems by wislawa szymborskatranslation by clare cavanagh and stanislaw baranczak of some 27 poems by the sometime nobel laureatelike nowhere else, or almost nowhere, you're given your own torso here, equipped with the accessories required for adding your own children to the restthe russian text is one side and the english translation on the facing pagehere we manufacture chairs and sorrows, scissors, tenderness, transistors, violins, teacups, dams, and quipsfrom the title poem: i can't speak for elsewhere, but here on earth we've got a fair supply of everythingblack cloth on board covers with gilt lettering to spinehoughton mifflin harcourt hardback with intact djwhen here was published in poland, reviewers marveled, "how is it that she keeps getting better?" these twenty-seven poems, as rendered by prize-winning translators clare cavanagh and stanislaw baranczak, are among her greatest evernot to mention arms, legs, and astonished headwhether writing about her teenage self, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on earth, she remains a virtuoso of form, line, and thought
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see oxfam website for delivery information read moresteinbeck has touched the quick' the new york times nobel prize-winning author john steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved american writers of the twentieth centuryoxfam bookshop st albans a parable of commitment, loneliness, hope and loss, of mice and men by john steinbeck is a powerful and moving portrayal of two men striving to understand their own unique place in the worldtackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, and giving a voice to america's lonely and dispossessed, of mice and men remains steinbeck's most popular workdrifters in search of work, george and his simple-minded friend lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dreamhis works include the grapes of wrath, the forgotten village, cannery row and the pearla dream that one day they will have some land of their ownhis complete works are published by penguin'a thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finishedeventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength
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