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oxfam 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 particlesmathews, science see oxfam website for delivery information read morepagel, nature "written in an informal style that those uninitiated into the jargon of nuclear astrophysics and astronomy will find readable and illuminating"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 astrophysicscauldrons in the cosmos, by claus e
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oxfam books & music beeston the donald duck book published by birn brothers ltd by arrangement with walt disney - mickey mouse ltd december stories, comic strip and poemssee oxfam website for delivery information read more colour frontispiecepages are tightly bound and unmarkedbumping to spineplain grey paper to the rear cover, mickey and minnie mouse illustrated end papersdamage to bottom of front cover, general handling marks, staining to bottom of first two pages and foxing to edge of pagesready to be coloured in by artistic child! inscription to verso of first story "enid mary day" in pencil and underlinedhard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated front cover depicting donald duck standing on the word 'book' clicking the fingers of his left hand, whilst holding another book in his left hand titled 'wise cracks', yellow cloth spineblack and white illustrations
45 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this paperback book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more internally the margin on page 145 has two red inked symbols in the margin, bit otherwise the pages are in excellent condition - clean and tight, with little sign of usethere is also considerable political analysis of why these projects were eventually discontinuedmuch of the material in this invaluable book has never been available before, due partly to the 30-year rule concerning government documents, and partly to the sensitive military nature of the worka vertical empire describes the work in rocketry and space research carried out in the uk in the s and sin addition, proposed projects that could have been developed from these vehicles are covered in depth the cover is in very good condition, with just slight general wearthe projects were cancelled one by one as britain's attempts to keep up militarily with the two superpowers weakened, as a consequence of treasury pressure and the belief that there was no economic future in space technologythe projects covered include rocket-propelled aircraft, large military missiles such as the medium range ballistic missile blue streak, the test rocket black knight and the re-entry experiments it carried, and the satellite launcher black arrowat one time, the programme was as sophisticated as those in the us and russia
14 €
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oxfam books & music beeston garments for children and girls by e wallbank and m wallbank (retro sewing patterns) see photos for contentsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepencil markings on pages and 20 to aid making of magyar frock does not detract from patterns - no other significant markinginscription in ink on first pagepublished by pitman hardback is blue cloth covered board with black lettering to front and spine in very good condition, just bumping to edges of spinepages are tightly boundall pages are clean and bright
45 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morere-run the tape of life, as stephen jso if these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, where are our counterparts across the galaxy? the tape of life can only run on a suitable planet, and it seems that such earth-like planets may be much rarer than hopedthe history of life is littered with accidents: any twist or turn may lead to a completely different worldnow this view is being challengedinevitable humans, yes, but in a lonely universeexternally there are some small marks on the back cover and some slight edge wear along the top and bottom of the bookgould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligenceinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedeyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very much on the cardsso too with the history of lifesimon conway morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly the assassin's bullet misses, the archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided
9 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreexternally there is some slight damage to the corners of the front coverinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedexplores the links between anger, rage, violence, evil, and creativity and describes a dynamic therapeutic approach that can help channel anger and violent impulses into constructive and creative activity
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oxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good conditionthe book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: - how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?- how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?- how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation? see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe fourth volume of the eam series, european avant-garde and modernism studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through european modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st centuryutopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde there is slight wear at the top of the spine, but otherwise this copy is nearly as new inside and outreadings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present
29 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this is a copy of the folio society edition of charles darwin's classic account of "the voyage of the hsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" the book is in very good condition, with minimal wear inside and outbeagle - round the world under captain fitz roy, r the black slipcase is present, and in very good condition, apart from slight wear marks and a little bumping at the lower front corner
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 constitutiona 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 conferenceduring 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 books & music beeston palgrave macmillan, , hardcover, no dust jacket very good condition this book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of french heavy industry in the turbulent period between the establishment of the vichy regime in and the creation of the european coal and steel community (ecsc), the forerunner to the european union, in based on extensive multi-archival research, this book sheds important new light on economic collaboration and resistance in vichy, the post-war revival of the french economy, and the origins of european integration by studying institutions ranging from vichy's organisation committees to jean monnet's commissariat général du plan (cgp), luc-andré brunet challenges existing narratives and reveals significant continuities from vichy to post-war initiatives such as the monnet plan and the ecsc
60 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston palgrave macmillan, , hardback, no dust jacket very good condition why is france so often relegated to the background in studies of international relations? this book seeks to redress this balance, exploring the relationship between the united states, united kingdom and france, and its wider impact on the theory and practice of international relations
25 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston a history of emmanuel college cambridge by sarah bendall, christopher brooke and patrick collinson hardback with dust jacket "emmanuel college was founded by the royal minister sir walter mildmay in ; he chose a leading moderate puritan, laurence chaderton, as first master, and aimed to educate godly ministers and good preachershardback is blue cloth covered board with gold lettering to spine in excellent conditionpages bright, tightly bound, clean and unmarked" dust jacket in excellent condition with bumping to edges onlythis history presents its development from these beginnings to the present day
15 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good conditionincludes up-to-date material on recent developments and topics of significant interest, such as elliptic functions and the new primality test selects material from both the algebraic and analytic disciplines, presenting several different proofs of a single result to illustrate the differing viewpoints and give good insight see oxfam website for delivery information read more the cover has slight shelf wear and a little fading on and near the spine, but is otherwise in very good condition with little general wear internally there si a gift inscription at the top of the free front endpaper ("to tori! with best wishes graham + thomas ward"), but otherwise the pages are clean, tight and unmarked
14 €
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreexternally the bottom right corner of the front cover has been creased and the is some slight signs of edge wear on the front and back covershis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, innoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosain an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes south african society the story of the nine 'kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing bookinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversit was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impasse
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oxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecoming to the subject from a juvenile justice background he initially saw restorative justice as a means of escaping the rehabilitation-punishment dilemma, and as the basis for a more constructive judicial response to youth crime that had been the case hithertothis book represents the culmination of his vision for restorative justicethis book develops lode walgrave's conception of restorative justice further, incorporating a number of key elementsinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedexternally there are a couple of creases to the cover and there is some minimal damage to the cornersover time his conception of restorative justice moved in the direction of focusing on repairing harm and suffering rather than ensuring that the youthful offender met with a 'just' response, and encompassing the notion that restorative justice was not so much about a justice system promoting restoration, more a matter of doing justice through restoration a clearly outcome-based definition of restorative justice acceptance of the need to use judicial coercion to impose sanctions as part of the reparative process presenting restorative justice as a fully fledged alternative to the punitive apriorism development of a more sophisticated concept of the relationship between restorative justice and the law, and acceptance of the need for legal regulation a consideration of the expansion of a restorative justice philosophy into other areas of social life and the threats and opportunities this provides a consideration of the implications of the expansion of restorative justice for the discipline of criminology and democracy lode walgrave has made a highly significant contribution to the worldwide development of the restorative justice movement over the last two decades
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oxfam books & music beeston this hardback book is in very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are one or two small marks on the page edges, but internally the pages are in very good condition - clean, tight and unmarkedthis includes a large body of results on mahlers measure of the height of a polynomialthe chapters include examples and particular computations, with all special calculation included so as to be self-contained the main theme of this book is the theory of heights as they appear in various guisesthe authors'approach is very down to earth as they cover the rationals, assuming no prior knowledge of elliptic curvesthe authors devote space to discussing mahlers measure and to giving some convincing and original examples to explain this phenomenon the cover has a somewhat faded spine which is bumped a little at the bottom, but is otherwise in very good condition apart from a touch of corner wear
14 €
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oxfam books & music beeston the invisible dot, , paperback very good condition collectible book by the award winning comedian and alan partridge's sidekick simon, edition of see oxfam website for delivery information read more
40 €
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oxfam books & music beeston aberfan and merthyr vale community co-operative, , paperback very good condition an anthology of poetry, prose and pictures about the town by those who live there see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam books & music beeston piramide, , paperback good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam books & music beeston this rare and signed book is in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreduring the american civil war, she served as an armed scout and spy for the union armyexternally there is a mark on the front cover as can be seen in the photo, but otherwise the book shows little signs of wearpage 97-8 has been mis-trimmed but otherwise all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedin her later years, tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrageshe was an american abolitionist and political activistborn into slavery, tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the underground railroadinternally the book is inscribed on the title pagethe life of harriet tubman, focusing on her civil war activity and underground railroad
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth in comic book format presents the story of a white child raised by indians in captivity and of her son (quanah parker), who became the last chief of the comanche indians
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oxfam books & music norwich published to coincide with howard goodall's major new bbc tv series, this is an accessible history for all music loverssee oxfam website for delivery information read more the story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel -- and entertainalong the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, what happens in harmony, why some chords sound discordant for many of us, music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly complex and specialised in his energetic tour through years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology and leads us through the story of music as it really happened, so that each musical innovation strikes us with its original forcehe focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made soundhoward goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavour and a groundbreaking map of man's musical journey
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oxfam books & music wells this hard cover book is in good condition and has a full title of "a thousand books on bookssee oxfam website for delivery information read more a selection of english books on book-making book-selling and book-collecting"this is a first edition which was limited to 500 copiesthere are no internal markings or annotations and no damage to the cover
15 €
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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 revised editionpages are brownedpage edges arre markedjacket is worn and faed with some marksastronomy by patrick moorepublished by warnejacket has been price clipped list of other ttles has been annotated ink jacket is faded and worn at edgesweather by reginald lester
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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
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oxfam books & music salisbury complete music for piano duo set of 3 cds see oxfam website for delivery information read morepianists: massimiliano damerini and marco rapetti
12 €
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oxfam books & music fareham ladybird books 5 titles in biblical seriesin very good condition series 649 see oxfam website for delivery information read more hardback with illustrated boardsboards are worn at edges hardback with illustrated coversboards are marked, worn and dulled series 649 the history of our bible by p j huntpublished circa series 606a baby jesus by hilda rostrongeneral condition is goodpresumed 1st editionshepherd boy of bethlehem told by lucy diamondjacket is faded and boards are worncondition is good condition is goodcovers are wornpublished ciraseries 606a life in new testament times by ralph gowergeneral conidtion is good early edition hardback with dust coverseries 522 book of saints by hilda rostronhardback with illustrated boards prize label on end paper published circa
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oxfam books & music berkhamsted these writings present the rationale behind lupukhov's attempt to develop a "symphonic" ballet that would integrate the formal and expressive elements of dance and music see oxfam website for delivery information read more edited and with an introduction by stephanie jordanthey also show his finely detailed knowledge of the classical heritage and his creative efforts to transmit major works to future generationstranslations by dorinda offord paperback book in very good condition, slight shelf wear, with a small amount of scratching to the covers
18 €
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oxfam books & music fareham handel: water music and fireworks suitesandre previn conduting the pittsburgh symphony orchestra see oxfam website for delivery information read more
6 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music wells this collection of 10 drum pieces comes with a cd, which we have not played but appears to be unscratchedthe music if free from markings and annotations and the cover is undamaged
32 €