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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop reading what role does religion play in contemporary japanese society and in the lives of japanese people today? this text examines the major areas in which the japanese participate in religious events, the role of religion in the social system and the underlying views within the japanese religious worldthrough a series of case studies of religion in action - at crowded temples and festivals, in austere zen meditation halls, at home and at work, at dramatic fire rituals - it illustrates the immense variety, energy and colour inherent in japanese religionsome wear and tear, but overall in good conditionit also discusses the continued relevance and responses of religion in a rapidly modernizing and changing japanese societyan ex-library book with usual stamps and markings
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oxfam bookshop reading a study of victorian middle class culture as observed through the domestic, commercial, social and political careers of four 19th-century british businessmenthe author examines the biographies of each family over three generations and offers observations on 19th-century society see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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oxfam bookshop reading a very user-friendly guide book see oxfam website for delivery information read morelots of photos and line drawings, and fun facts about sumo wrestlers - makes this a very useful and fun book to browse through
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oxfam bookshop reading science education: a global perspective is global' both in content and authorshipsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book thus covers a wide range of topics in science education from various national and international perspectivesthese include the nature of science, science and religion, evolution, curriculum and pedagogy, context-based teaching and learning, science and national development, socially-responsible science education, equitable access for women and girls in science and technology education, and the benefits of science education researchit ends on an optimistic note by looking at science education in 50 years' time with a recommendation, among others, for stakeholders to take the responsibility of preparing children towards a blossoming science education sector in an anticipated future worldthis book is suitable for use by discerning researchers, teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in science education, and policy makers at all levels of educationits 17 chapters by an assemblage of seasoned and knowledgeable science educators from many parts of the world seek to bring to the fore current developments in science education and their implications
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop reading describes the systemic policies and practices of teacher education in eight high-achieving countries and how they are dealing with teacher quality, equity and the changing global society
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oxfam bookshop canterbury drnerys williams  verlag peter lang an as new unread copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle crime comedy concerning the whereabouts of a sensitive disc containing the incriminating memoirs of alcoholic cia agent osbourne cox (john malkovich)events soon spiral out of everyone's control in a cascading series of surreal and darkly comic encounters and misunderstandingscox's wife, katie (tilda swinton), who is having an affair with married federal marshall, harry pfarrer (george clooney), is making plans to leave her husband, and is advised by her divorce lawyer to copy his personal files onto a discthe disc finds its way via a circuitous route to the hardbodies fitness gym, where two unscrupulous employees, linda (frances mcdormand) and chad (brad pitt) decide to exploit their find for all they can getproduct is sealed and unused
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oxfam bookshop carlisle 4th book in the series by hans van holwedesee oxfam website for delivery information read morevg pages, some edge and cover wear
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oxfam bookshop brigg you can go crazy searching for the onesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhich just shows how little nina knows about her heartdespite her friends' misgivings, she firmly believes that true love only takes one form: wild, full of passion and fire and punctuated by tempestuous argumentsand when a man from her past walks into the shop nina knows she has nothing to fear: the geekiest boy in her school has become a boring suit with no chance of making her heart go pitter-patternina is addicted to bad boys, the wilder, the betterbut years of swiping right has uncovered nothing but losers and flings, and nina is no closer to finding her one true love than she ever wasshe won't settle for anything less
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morein reading other minds, the imagination plays a central rolethey maintain that it is, as common sense would suggest, vital to distinguish between reading others' minds and reading one's ownoxfam bookshop glossop road slight shelf wear to cover, otherwise very good condition the everyday capacity to understand the mind, fancifully dubbed 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our livesin addition, the authors argue, reading other minds involves important processes that don't fit into either categoryin the latter half of the 20th century mindreading became the object of sustained scientific and theoretical research, capturing the attention of a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, developmental psychology, behavioral ecology, anthropology, and cognitive psychopathologywhat we find, then, is an intricate web of mental components to explain our fascinating and multifarious knack of understanding mindsin some cases, we use our own mental mechanisms to simulate the mental processes of another, as suggested by the 'simulation theory' of mindreadingas a result, the authors begin with an explicit and systematic account of pretence and imagination which proposes that pretence representations are contained in a separate mental workspace, the 'possible world box', which is part of the basic architecture of the human mindhowever, mindreading also implicates very different kinds of mechanisms that rely on rich bodies of information, as suggested by information-based accounts of mindreadingthe mechanisms underlying pretence get recruited when people attempt to understand others and predict their behaviournone of these mechanisms, though, explain how we read our own minds, which, according to the authors, requires invoking an entirely independent set of mechanismsthis account provides a valuable framework for future work on mindreading and has broad implications for philosophical debates that have surrounded the issue for the last quarter centurywhat has been missing is a detailed and integrated account of the mental components that underlie this remarkable capacitynichols and stich develop and defend a new account of the psychological mechanisms underlying mindreading
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hampstead elucidating the tractatus: wittgenstein's early philosophy of language and logic discussion of wittgenstein's tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of diamond and conantmcginn takes as a guiding principle the idea that we should see wittgenstein's early work as an attempt to eschew philosophical theory and to allow language itself to reveal how it functionshowever, the early wittgenstein undertakes this descriptive project in the grip of a set of preconceptions concerning the essence of language that determine both how he conceives the problem and the approach he takes to the task of clarificationin very good condition, though there is a faint erased pencil mark on the first endpaperby this account, the aim of the work is to elucidate what language itself makes clear, namely, what is essential to its capacity to express thoughts that are true or falsenevertheless, the tractatus contains philosophical insights, achieved despite his early preconceptions, that form the foundation of his later philosophymarie mcginn's principal aim in this book is to develop an alternative interpretative line, which rejects the idea, central to the metaphysical reading, that wittgenstein sets out to ground the logic of our language in features of an independently constituted reality, but which allows that he aims to provide positive philosophical insights into how language functions
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham on listening is a collection of essays on poetry, written for various occasions over the last few yearsusing both philosophy of language and an editor's literary ear, theory and the author's own experience as a poet, this book examines good writing practice from the inside out; and asks how it can be developed: by teaching and community facilitation, by reading and travelling and, where those two interests come together, in translationranging from scholarly papers to literary non-fiction, critical writing to lectures, each allows a different way in to the book's central preoccupationincluded is a set of 'reviews' of exemplary translations'travelling' explores issues of cultural translation: whether those originate in the geographical or between discursive culturesit looks closely at questions of evaluation, ethics and purposeon listening is an indispensable vade mecum for teachers and students of creative writing; it is also, however, a topical read for anyone concerned with the state of poetry in britain todayafter an introductory essay which sets the scene by looking at contemporary british poet-critics, the book is divided into four sections - 'translating', 'travelling', 'teaching' and 'reading' - though its thesis suggests these categories are linkedan epilogue reflects on 'the ephemeral''teaching' draws on more than a dozen years' experience in universities, schools and, particularly, in pioneering writing in health and social care, to explore the differences between community and education practice'translating' looks at the nature of that practice and its context, with particular reference to the writer's work with central european literatureon listening is concerned, centrally, with the nature of poetic practice'reading' surveys some of the writer's personal poetic enthusiasms, with particular stress on writing from beyond britain and by women
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham a darkly comic tale of exile, unrequited love and the redemptive power of books'a wonderful celebration of the way reading enriches your lifebut the days of the bookshop and of the close community around it are numbered' karen joy fowler, bestselling author of we are all completely beside ourselves see oxfam website for delivery information read moreeloquent and witty, firmin speaks for the book-loving rodent in all of usfirmin may be a rat - poisoned by people he thinks are his friends - but his imagination soars as high as that of any human' guardian'surprising and moving meditation on the advantages (and disadvantages) of an entirely fictional lifebecause firmin is a rathe's a sensitive, creative soul but misunderstoodfirmin is born in the basement of a ramshackle old bookstorefirmin soon realizes his source of nourishment has given him the ability to read and this discovery fills him with an insatiable hunger for literature and a very unratlike sense of the world and his place in itthe area has been marked out for 'urban regeneration' and soon the faded glory of the bookshop, the small local theatre, the unique shops and small cafes will face the bulldozers and urban plannersnot only that, but as the runt of the litter, he is forced to compete for food and ends up chewing on the books that surround himas firmin navigates the shadowy streets of his decaying area, looking for understanding, his excitement, loneliness, fear, and self-consciousness become remarkably human and undeniably touchingbrilliantly original and richly allegorical, firmin is brimming with charm and wistful longing for a world that understands the redemptive power of literature and treasures its seedy theaters, one-of-a-kind characters, and cluttered bookshops
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford the idea that the united states-a nation founded after a war of independence-operates as an imperialist power on the world stage has gained considerable traction since the turn of the twenty-first centuryas the vietnam war created a critical flashpoint, bringing the idea of american imperialism into the us mainstream, radical students of the new left turned toward marxist critiques, admiring revolutionaries like che guevaraó how did this dramatic change come about?tracing the emergence of the concept of us imperialism, james gmorgan shows how radical and revisionist scholars in the s and s first challenged the paradigm of denying an american empiresimultaneously, a small school of revisionist scholars, led by historian william appleman williams at the university of wisconsin, put forward a progressive, nuanced critique of american empire grounded in psychology, economics, and broader historical contextbut just a few decades earlier, this position was considered radical and even òun-americanit is this more sophisticated strand of thinking, morgan argues, which demonstrated that empire can be an effective analytical framework for studying us foreign policy, thus convincing american scholars to engage with the subject seriously for the first time
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham "lord, i'll give myself to speak for youget ready-your life is about to change! see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe chose to take the road less travelled many years ago, and today gospel for asia, the mission he founded, is one of the most respected organisations in our time with thousands of national workers and vibrant congregations throughout the heart of the windowyou'll walk right into the book of actsand through his telling, you'll hear the very heart of god beating for his creationyohannan's passion is contagious and spurs you on to be all for jesusonce an insecure 16-year-old, he became a missionary statesman who has impacted the world of missions and whose unbending message has touched hungry hearts on every continent" young yohannan had no idea what those words of surrender would mean for his life and for millions of others in his generationstep into his story and experience the world through his eyes
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 yearsoriginally published in the first half of the twentieth century, these meditative, concise volumes have never previously appeared in paperbackoverall in good condition, some minor marks/'stains on the back cover and some slight rubbing to the corners
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oxfam bookshop ilkley charles esee oxfam website for delivery information read moreamong them new world pictures, the company founded by the legendary roger cormannow, they re fighting for their friendsdeciding that enough is enough, the self-styled annihilators, led by the redoubtable bill (christopher stone, the howling, cujo), set out to equip the beleaguered citizens of downtown atlanta with the skills they need to rid their streets of crime and vicein vietnam they fought for their countrynumerous filmmakers and producers sought to capitalise on the emerging moodas the s rolled on, a new, bullish attitude to war took hold in america, the weary cynicism of the previous decade giving way to an unabashed celebration of military mightdirects this action drama starring jim antonio, sid conrad and gerrit graham(silent night, deadly night) and co-starring gerrit graham (phantom of the paradise) and lawrence hilton-jacobs (death wish), the annihilators is a brash, no-holds-barred slice of vigilante justice from the golden age of b-movie actiondirected by charles ein the annihilators, the war comes home as a group of army vets, battle-scarred from their travails in the jungles of vietnam, are forced to dust off their combat moves once again when one of their own meets his demise at the hands a violent criminal ganga group of vietnam veterans re-unite after they are hired as vigilantes to protect a small american town from violent youth gangs
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham vidal sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished east end childhood to global fameand then there's the extraordinary career, during which he cut the hair of everyone who was anyone, launched salons all over the world, founded the hairdressing school that still bears his name and became a global brand, with vidal sassoon products on all our bathroom shelveshis memoirs are as rich in anecdote as one might hope and full of surprising and often moving stories of his early life - his time at the spanish & portuguese jewish orphanage in maida vale, fighting fascists in london's east end and fighting in the army of the fledgling state of israel in the late fortiesafter vidal sassoon, hair was sleek, smooth and very, very stylishbefore vidal sassoon, a trip to the hairdressers meant a shampoo and set or a stiffly lacquered up-do that would last a week - or morealong with his lifelong friend and partner in style, mary quant, who he first met in and who to this day sports a sassoon-style geometric bob, he styled the sas memorable as the mini - be it car or skirt - he is one of the few people who can genuinely be described as iconicthe father of modern hairdressing, his slick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm and reinvented the hairdressers' art
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oxfam bookshop aberystwyth bent fabricius-bjerre was born in frederiksberg, denmarksee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe started a jazz ensemble after world war ii and founded a label, metronome records, in however, he is best known for his instrumental "omkring et flygel" (literally, "around a grand piano") which became a hit in denmark the song was re-released worldwide under the name "alley cat""alley cat" also won a grammy award for best instrumental it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham chinas great wall north of beijing is one of the worlds most famous sightsthe many walls are united by two ideas self-protection and unity which go back to the first emperor, who founded the nation in 221 bcbut we are wrongestimates of its length vary from to mileswe all feel we know the wallmyths surround itmany believe that the stone barrier marches across all china, that it has been in existence for over years, and that it is the only man-made structure visible from the moonfor years, the wall marked the border between china and nomadic peoples to the north and westit is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a few images or a day-tripmutual hostility inspired centuries of attacks, counter-attacks and wall-building, until the northward spread of china in the 20th century made the wall redundantfor this riveting account, john man travelled the wall from the far western deserts to the pacific, exploring the grandest sections and many wild oneshe covers two millennia of history, from the countrys first unification to the present day, when the great wall, built and rebuilt over centuries of war, has become a symbol of tranquillityyet behind the confusion are great simplicitiesmillions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountainshe is the first writer to describe two unknown walls in mongoliait cannot even be seen from earth orbit, let alone the mooneven its name is deceptive it is not an it, a single entity, but many walls (hence the uncertain length), built at different timesin fact, most of it is made of earth, and much of it is not there at all
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drinkdiseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on ittens of billions of cups are drunk every daygreen gold is a remarkable detective story of how an east himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drinkit raised nations and shattered empiresit altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aestheticshow and why has tea conquered the world? tea was the first global productdiscover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leafeconomies were changed out of all recognitionthe industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop lower petergate in , as regius professor, william stubbs founded oxford university's school of modern history, allowing postclassical history to be taught as a distinct subject for the first timethe book has been inscribed by two previous owners, but otherwise pages are clean, lightly tannedthis book is a collection of 17 statutory lectures delivered fromthe book is bound in maroon cloth, with gilt titlesthe spine is faded and bumped at top and bottom with a small tear at the top
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oxfam bookshop bloomsbury street by goddes-liancourt and frederic pincottsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea rational and inductive system founded on the natural basis of onomatopsfour pages of advertising after indexburgundy boards, embossed front and backprinted gilbert and rivingtongilt lettering to spineonly first 41 pages are cut as can be seen in photo of edge of bookhinge cracked internally, front and rearminor foxing, clean throughoutbumping to corners, minor shelf rubone or two pencil notations on first few pages
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oxfam bookshop cheltenham 'she imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreliving as they did in a courtly culture founded on romantic longing and brilliant pageantry, they knew that a princess was to be chaste yet a mother to many children, preferably sons, meek yet able to influence a recalcitrant husband or even command a host of men-at-armsbut they also skilfully managed enormous households, navigated choppy diplomatic waters and promoted their family's cause throughout europe - and had the courage to defy their royal fatherthe lives of these sisters - eleanora, joanna, margaret, mary and elizabeth - ran the full gamut of experiences open to royal women in the middle agesyet the reality was very different, as kelcey wilson-lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great english king, edward i' hermione eyre, spectatorvirginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized - and largely mythical - notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingersand ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personalitydrawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, daughters of chivalry offers a rich portrait of these spirited plantagenet womenwith their libraries of beautifully illustrated psalters and tales of romance, their rich silks and gleaming jewels, we follow these formidable women throughout their lives and see them - at long last - shine from out of the shadows, revealing what it was to be a princess in the age of chivalrythey might never wear the crown in their own right, but they were utterly confident of their crucial role in the spectacle of medieval kingshipwhoop, whoop! if anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let's get crowd-fundingedward's daughters were of course expected to cement alliances and secure lands and territory by making great dynastic marriages, or endow religious houses with royal favour
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oxfam bookshop holmfirth ignatius perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible thingsno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read moreig had it all, and more - he had the love of merrin williams, a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magiconce, ig lived the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned american musician, and the younger brother of a rising late-night tv star, ig had security and wealth and a place in his communitythen beautiful, vivacious merrin was gone - raped and murdered, under inexplicable circumstances - with ig the only suspectnow ig is possessed with a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look, and he means to use it to find the man who killed merrin and destroyed his lifehorns: it's moving, sad, often funny, redemptive, and filled with hopedust jacket intactit's time for a little revenge; it's time the devil had his duebeing good and praying for the best got him nowhereand a pair of horns growing from his templeshe woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headachehe was never tried for the crime, but in the court of public opinion, ig was and always would be guilty
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston in , the society of saint pius x was founded by archbishop marcel lefebvre to preserve and propagate the traditional catholic priesthood and traditional catholic latin mass, and given approval by romethis book answers numerous questions, including who lefebvre was, what the society is, and what catholics are to think of vatican ii
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop knutsford my ladder of life is a depiction of a time gone by in the lancashire mill town of blackburnalan discovered he had entrepreneurial skills in his early forties and founded a successful engineering company that in three short years he'd sold on to an american corporation he continued to manage the company until when they relocated to the usaalan's autobiography is set against an ever-changing social background and serves to remind the reader of the way things used to bealan duffy' hard back book with dust jacketthe dust jacket has numerous, slight scratches and some indentations'with best wishesalan's career has been rewarding and interesting and sometimes fraught with danger! occasionally events that have befallen him which seem too funny to be true! my ladder of life encompasses such varied events as alan having an audience with pope john paul 2 and seeing frank sinatra on the same daythe pages are in very good condition with clear text and photographsit starts just before the second world war, and covers 73 years of alan duffy's life as an engineer, company owner and family manthe life of an engineer might appear to be boring but, if alan's own experiences are anything to go by, nothing could be further from the truthalan also writes about his family who have brought infinite love and support to him throughout the yearssigned and dedicated on the front free end paper, by the authoralan then started a another engineering companybinding is tight
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop chelmsford in the decades following europe's first total war, millions of british men and women looked to the league of nations as the symbol and guardian of a new world order based on international co-operationfounded in to preserve peace between its member-states, the league inspired a rich, participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual which found expression through the establishment of voluntary societies in dozens of countries across europe and beyondembodied in the hugely popular league of nations union, this pro-league movement touched britain in profound waysforemost amongst the league societies, the union became one of britain's largest voluntary associations and a powerful advocate of democratic accountability and popular engagement in the making of foreign policybased on extensive archival research, the british people and the league of nations offers a vivid account of this popular league consciousness and in so doing reveals the vibrant character of associational life between the wars
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hampstead orquesta sinfĂłnica de minerĂa, 30 aniversario published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of orquesta sinfĂłnica de minerĂa, mexican symphonic orchestra founded in related to the academia de mĂşsica del palacio de minerĂaa history of the orchestra, richly illustrated with black & white and colour photographsdust jacket shows signs of slight wearin very good condition, with clean pages inside
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