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oxfam books & music beaconsfield part of the 'teach yourself history' series covers the adoption of christianity by the roman empiresee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe unclipped dustjacket is discoloured and there is some staining to the hardback cover which is otherwise sound fifth impressionthe binding is in good condition and the pages unmarked
15 €
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oxfam books & music hereford collection of the droll, musically-inclined comic's stand-up tours, including his most recent outing, 'tinselworm'see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe star of tv shows 'black books' and 'never mind the buzzcocks' performs a live stand-up show at the hammersmith apollo as part of his 'part troll' tour; one night from his cosmic jam tour at the bloomsbury in london in which he explains the seminal influence of cockney knees-up music upon classical composers through the ages; and the 'bewilderness' show (), which features the legendary steven hawking 'brief history of time' routinebailey's most recent show, 'tinselworm', features, among other highlights, immanuel kant's philosophies explained to the 'match of the day' theme, and an alternative seventies sitcom soundtrack to 'terminator 3'
3 €
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oxfam books & music fareham observer's books 2 titles: astronomy and the weathercondition of both books is goodsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehardbacks with dust jackets list of other ttles has been annotated inkastronomy by patrick moorepage edges arre markedpages are brownedpublished by warnejacket is worn and faed with some marksjacket has been price clipped revised editionweather by reginald lester  jacket is faded and worn at edges
8 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the sixty-eighth aldeburgh festival of music and the arts programmecondition: very good - pages clean and tight, spine uncreased covers fine
5 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the twenty-eighth aldeburgh festival of music and the arts condition: very good - pages clean and tight, spine slightly creased and chipped with an open tear to the bottom of spine, covers fine
5 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the twenty-ninth aldeburgh festival of music and the arts programme condition: very good - pages clean and tight, spine uncreased but slightly chipped, covers slightly rubbed at edges and crease to bottom corner of front cover
5 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the thirty-second aldeburgh festival of music and the arts programme condition: very good - pages clean and tight, spine uncreased covers fine
5 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the twentieth aldeburgh festival of music and the arts programme condition: very good - pages clean and tight, spine creased covers rubbed at edges with some foxing
5 €
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oxfam books & music berkhamsted edition of the automobiles version of observer's books see oxfam website for delivery information read moreends of spine bumped and creased, shelf wear and light creasing to edgesnot price clipped (5/-)slight bumping to the ends of the spinetwo small closed tears, one (2cm) to the top front edge, the other (1 cm) to the back bottom edge, have been repaired on the inside with transparent tapethe cover features a hillman imp saloonwith dust jacket in good to very good condition hardback book in very good conditiondamp stain to inside of front fore edgewith a foreword by stirling moss
30 €
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oxfam books & music wells uk pressingtracklist: a1 pipe on the hob / leitrim jig a2 the road to boyle / the happy couple a3 michael coleman's / mrs kinney's a4 across the shannon / mist in the glen a5 grehan's / the movin' bogs a6 the blackbird a7 lord mayo b1 the long note b2 the green groves of erin / the fox hunter b3 the hills of kesh / a walk in the country b4 frieze britches b5 lark in the morning b6 port na bpucai b7 si bheag si mhor / sonny's mazurka b8 the hills of clogher see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe sleeve is otherwise in very good conditionthe bottom edge of the outer sleeve has come unglued but this can easily be repaired the vinyl is in excellent condition - next to no surface marks
12 €
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oxfam books & music islington billie holiday, the legacy box setallmusic review by scott yanow" see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe music (mostly from with three weaker performances from ) is often classic but duplicates more coherent reissuesthis otherwise attractive box (which includes a colorful booklet) will drive completists and veteran collectors crazy good condition, some wear on corners underneath, but fantastic box set including 3 cds and booklet "the logic behind this sampler is puzzlingrather than reissue the very best of billie holiday's columbia recordings on a three-cd box set or a package of her rare alternate takes, cbs tries it both ways by including 60 common selections already available in the quintessential series along with 10 rarities that were either unissued or alternates
9 €
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books are foxed throughoutoxfam books & music fareham memoires sur the regne de louis xiv et la regencesee oxfam website for delivery information read more publishd by larousse circa  condition is fair only  covers are faded and wornwith printed jacketsin 4 volumes french text by louis de rouvory, duc de saint-simon
24 €
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Country life booksoxfam books & music fareham art of the modern potter by tony birkssee oxfam website for delivery information read more in good condition interior is foxedfourteen of the world's leading potters and their works are gathered together in this book hardback with dust jacket
16 €
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oxfam books & music olney issued on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the companysee oxfam website for delivery information read more the text is all clean and unmarked very good condition soft red card covers which are a little bumped in places and lightly faded on the spine includes lots of photographs of the locomotives
9 €
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oxfam books & music olneysee oxfam website for delivery information read more illustrated with photographs from the time the text is clean and unmarked  the dust jacket has some surface damage on the cover and edges, but no tears recollections of the revival of the olympic games in and the involvement of the hotel grand bretagne
14 €
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oxfam books & music islington message from the exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the desert's harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses - small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn 128 pages, 77 colour plates see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe first section, 'desert houses', comprises 68 desert structures, while the second section, 'dusk', presents houses photographed after the sun had disappeared over the horizon, now rendered in subdued, dusky tones that suggest both present and absence, and the weight of isolationruwedel examines the desert regions east of los angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the lives of anonymous individuals, and the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitorythis is a signed edition in a good conditionthe cover is an embossed hardback with tipped-in image and has some shelf wear around the top edge and spine, inside is unmarked and in a very good condition
29 €
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oxfam books & music islington dachau and the ss studies the concentration camp guards at dachau, the first ss concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnelthis copy has slight damage to the back dust jacket (see photograph) see oxfam website for delivery information read moreset up in the first months of adolf hitler's rule, dachau was a bastion of the nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of heinrich himmler and the ss to control of the third reich's terror and policing apparatusdachau and the ss makes an original contribution to scholarship on the pre-history of the holocaust and the institutional organisation of violencethroughout the pre-war era of nazi germany, dachau functioned as an academy of violence where concentration camp personnel were schooled in steely resolution and the techniques of terrorit explores the backgrounds and socialization of thousands of often very young ss men in the camp and critiques the assumption that violence was an outcome of personal or ideological pathologiesgraduates of the dachau school would go on to play a central role in the wartime criminality of the third reich, particularly at auschwitzcombining extensive new research into the pre-war history of dachau with theoretical insights from studies of perpetrator violence, this book offers the first systematic study of the 'dachau school'an international symbol of nazi depredation, dachau was the cradle of a new and terrible spirit of destructionchristopher dillon analyses recruitment to the dachau ss and evaluates the contribution of ideology, training, social psychology and masculine ideals to the conduct and subsequent careers of concentration camp guards
55 €
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oxfam books & music wells translated from the russian by alec brownsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis copy is in pretty good conditionouter tan cover is good, but somewhat grubbythere is some browning and foxing to the inside cover and a few of the inside pages, but otherwise the inside pages are good and clean
40 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music marlborough in , in the middle of the first world war, two men secretly agreed to divide the middle east between themlawrence, 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 eastit 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 inthe 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 yearsusing 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 revengesir mark sykes was a visionary politician; françois georges-picot a diplomat with a grudgethe 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 frontierterritory north of that stark line would go to france; land south of it, to britainin , 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 palestineagainst 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 rulethrough a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including t
19 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music islington moving with the magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of mary magdalen in the late medieval alpsits seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain rangetogether they underscore how the magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the alps along late medieval routes
39 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth some of the greatest heroes of the s, including the original green lantern, atom, hawkman, starman, and others, return in this spectacular talethe story follows their postwar adventures as they battle evil in a world they fear may no longer need them some wear and tear to spine
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music aberdeen argyle eased the warm loaf right and leftand downed swift gulps of beer and venial sinthen lit into the bread now leavened withthe corpse's cardinal mischiefs, then he said"six pence, i'm sorryceltic and druidic, scapegoat and outlier, a fixture in the funerary landscape of former centuries, argyle's doubt-ridden witness seems entirely relevant to our difficult times" and the widow paid himhis "loaf and bowl," consumed over corpses, become the elements of sacrament and sacrilegewith photographs by michael lynch and cover art by sean lynch, the author's sons so opens the unsanctioned priesthood of the sin-eater: a breviary-thomas lynch's collection of two dozen, twenty-four line poems-a book of hours in the odd life and times of argyle, the sin-eaterby turns worshipful and irreverent, good-humored and grim, these poems examine the deeper meanings of eucharist and grace, forgiveness and faith, atonement and reconciliation
10 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music bridport arguing that the sources for the ancient druids are too few and unreliable to establish any certainties, hutton reverses the traditional balance of interest to look at the many ways in which druids have been imagined in britain since
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth one of the most influential comic book artists ever, jim steranko, brings his compelling mastery of the art form to the cover of the book that has been the bible of serious collectors, dealers and enthusiasts since ! steranko's take on batman covers the new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the overstreet hall of fame, market reports and more
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth now that the crime syndicate's reign of terror is finally at an end, the fastest man alive is more determined than ever to catch the countless criminals they released from iron heights--and stop the killer who's using weapons stolen from the flash's rogues gallery to commit his crimesa darker, more driven flash is working backwards through time to fix his forerunner's mistakes and save the lives he was too late to save--by any means necessarya secret that's set him on a collision coursethat's because he's harboring a terrible secret about the speed force that fuels himbut with each daring rescue and bullet-dodging battle, it feels like the time is slipping through his fingersin between, he's even trying to guide a troubled kid named wally west back to the right path6: out of time ! collects the flash , the flash annual, and the flash: futures end 1writers robert venditti & van jensen (green lantern) join artist brett booth (nightwing) launch an all-new era--and present the new 52 debut of wally west--in the flash voland years from now, his time has run outhis friends and enemies alike barely recognize him
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 'jungle' is a big american city, a jungle made reasonably safe only by the efforts of a few men in authorityhe is not only honest, but also something of a crusader determined to enforce the lawedmunds the asphalt jungle is the story of a robbery - how it was planned and carried out, and its aftermatha new commissioner of police, theo hardy, has just been appointed
15 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinsulin 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 geniusedmunds the discovery of insulin at the university of toronto in was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of diseasewelch medal of the american association for the history of medicineoriginally 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 h
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oxfam books & music lichfield roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as proto-indo-europeansee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe horse, the wheel, and language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the indo-european languages and english--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the pastlinking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, david anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of proto-indo-european, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchangeanthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback ridingthe horse, the wheel, and language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original indo-european speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilizationhe explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social changebut who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even nazis seeking the roots of the aryan race
14 €
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oxfam books & music aberdeen this is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the classical orderspublished in nd edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morealong with additional plates, this book gives aclear introduction to those not familiar with the classical genre and is an easy to follow guide which assists architects, interior designers and conservators with the quality of their designthe new edition of this successful title now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial measurements to make the orders more accessible and to provide a valuable reference for designersthe inclusion of both 100-part and 96-part systems of proportion is underpinned by an essay on james gibbs - one of the 18th century authors of standardized proportioning systems - and his influence in america
24 €
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oxfam books & music bury stsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book contains an extensive selection from cohen's notebooks, featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinkerby turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for morean enormously powerful final chapter in cohen's storied literary career, the flame showcases the full range of leonard cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funnyedmunds the flame is a stunning collection of leonard cohen's last poems and writings, selected and ordered by cohen in the final months of his life
15 €