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However, this challenge is presented in the context of the ready acknowledgement of god's reality by a demon who is fully aware of it but strives to distort the real nature of god and the fact of his love for humanityoxfam bookshop hertford this is the story of a dramatic encounter and debate between a minister and a demon, where the truths of christianity and the catholic church are challenged in a most intimidating and powerful way, with a plausibility that reflects the questioning, attitudes and opinions of the modern secular and materialistic western worldthe encounter demonstrates the existence of the demonic sphere and reveals some of the methods and temptations used to lead people, even those committed to jesus christ, away from him and their own salvationthe story is intended for everyone who genuinely wants to know the true meaning of life, and to strengthen those who already believe and trust in jesus christas such it emphasises the importance of prayer and of trust in god and his son throughout our lives, particularly in the face of life's sufferings and one's own painsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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It deals with the broken continuity in time from the historical baroque to the contemporary onethe text follows a comparative method of study based upon recent research in the fields of art theory and aestheticsapart from the hypotheses of walter benjamin and the epistemology of michel foucault, the book introduces and expands the most important theories about the actual baroque as they have been devised and developed by mario perniola, christine buci-glucksmann and gilles deleuzethe recurrent actuality of the baroque is a book about visual artoxfam books & music islington there has been an increasing interest over the past 40 years in providing new interpretations of the baroque and the fruit of this interest has been the revelation of intersecting baroque aesthetics in the art and culture of our timethe problems of passage between visual forms and composition of the images are analysed in terms of simulation, rationality, space, the wildness of artistic intentionality and the folding of matter and meaningspecial attention is paid to visual artists in denmark dealing with "baroque universals" from the s up to the present day see oxfam website for delivery information read moreif the text is discreetly haunted by leibniz, ancient rome and the poetry of baudelaire, its direction of thinking is totally devoted to the understanding of visual art from bernini and velázquez to louise bourgeois, mona hatoum and orlan
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Blue boards with silver decorationgombrich examines, questions and re-evaluates old and new ideas on such matters as the imitation of nature, the function of tradition, the problem of abstraction, the validity of perspective and the interpretation of expression: all of which reveal that pictorial representation is far from being a straightforward matterin applying the findings of experimental science to a nuanced understanding of art and in tackling complex ideas and theoretical issues, gombrich is rigorousfirst published more than 40 years ago, art and illusion has lost none of its vitality and importancesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreno inscriptionsdecorated endpapersit seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? the question may be simple but there is no easy answer, and professor gombrich's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him into countless crucial areasoxfam bookshop skipton "described by kenneth clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that i have ever read', art and illusion is a classic study of image-making
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The sheet of stamps celebrates the centenary commemoration of the death of sir rowland hillthere is a sheet of stamps from the international stamp exhibitionthe picture on the stamp is of the nudibranch foulard mineralthere are 4 stamps in the bookletthe stamps on the sheet are all unusedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe presentation booklet celebrates the ghana independence and is a commemorative issue of postage stampsthe picture on the stamps is the kaapstad in cape townthis sheet of stamps also celebrates the groote schuur and the pioneering surgery of heart transplantsits a complete sheet of stamps and the stamps are all the samethe sheet of stamps is the official first day cover, and the first day of issuethis sheet of stamps were issued inthe stamp on the sheet was issued in mauritiusthere is a sheet of stamps that were issued in kenyathere is one black sheet of stamps, with one stamp carefully presented on a black sheetin this collection there is a presentation booklet that was issued in ghanaall the sheets of stamps and the presentation booklets of stamps are carefully protected with a clear and see-through cellophane cover, and individually have been wrappedoxfam emporium manchester this is a collection of 6 sheets of stampsthe stamp was issued in the sthe stamp is unusedthere is a sheet of stamps from the seychellesthis sheet of stamps celebrates the 10th anniversary of liberationthis sheet of stamps were issued in the yearthere is a sheet of stamps that were issued in south africa that celebrates the medical congressall the stamps on the sheets have been unusedthe stamps were issued in south africaall the sheets of stamps are in a good conditionthis booklet of stamps were issued in the year
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All the stamps in this collection are in good conditionthe stamps in this collection celebrate the 25th anniversary of the economic commission for africa, the millennium, the international conference on social welfare, the year of health in , the 50th anniversary of interpol, the centenary of the universal postal union, the 10th anniversary of kenyan independence, the highway conference in kenya, the 20th anniversary of unesco, the world conference on religion and peace, the importance of water, the centenary of the international red cross, the nursing association of south africa, who - world health organisation, the international year of world communications, world food day, the 100th anniversary of the discovery of tb bacillus and the international union against tuberculosis, the papu plenipotentiary conference and the imf annual meetings in the sthe decades that the stamps in this collection were issued in are s, s, s, s, and ssome of the stamps in this collection are unusedthe countries that the stamps were issued in are tanzania, south africa, uganda, kenya, and south arabiasome of the used stamps have a little of the postmark print on themthe oldest stamp in this collection was issued inthe newest stamp in this collection was issued insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam emporium manchester this is a collection of 28 stamps
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This sheet of stamps is a post office first day cover and the first day of issuethis sheet of stamps if the first day of issuethey are carefully protected in a clear and see-through cellophane coverthe pictures on the stamps show photos of queen victoria during different decades of her reign with pictures like crystal palace and the great exhibition, men voting and a memorial, a sheep and beeton's book of household management, and the discovery of electricitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis sheet of stamps is a first day cover and a first day of issuethe stamp was issued inthis sheet of stamps is the royal mail first day coverthe picture on the stamp shows queen elizabeth the queen motherthis sheet of stamps is the post office first day coverthere is a sheet of stamps celebrating charles darwinin this collection there is a sheet of stamps celebrating music british conductorsthis sheet of stamps were issued init is the royal mail first day coverthere is a sheet of stamps with one stamp celebrating the 80th birthday of her majesty queen elizabeth the queen motherthe british music conductors celebrated on the stamps are sir john barbiroli, sir malcolm sargent, sir thomas beecham, and sir henry woodin this collection there is a sheet of stamps celebrating great britionsthis sheet of stamp is a first day of issuethere is a sheet of stamps on an envelope that is usedthe great britons the stamps celebrate are the black prince, henry the fifth, owan glyndwr, and robert the brucethe stamps were issued inthe pictures on the stamps show richard parry who was the editor of the revised version of the welsh language bible, richard davies who was the motivator and part translator of the new testament into the welsh language, william salesbury who was the principal translator of the new testament into the welsh language, and william morgan who was the translator of the first complete bible into the welsh languageone of the sheets of stamps celebrates the silver jubilee of the british philatelic bulletinthis sheet of stamps is the british post office first day coverthe pictures on the stamps show charles darwin with skulls, reptiles, tortoises, and birdsthe pictures on the stamps show court masque costumes, st paul's covent garden, the prince's lodging at newmarket, and the court masque stage scenethis sheet of stamps is the first day of issuethe pictures on the stamps show the philosophie naturalis of the principal of mathematics, the motion of bodies in ellipsese, the optick treatise of reflexions refraction inflexions and colour of light, and the system of the worldthis sheet of a stamp is the post office first day coverthe picture on the bulletin show a photo of a gentleman in letterpress, in offset-lithography, and in photogravureall the sheets of stamps are in very good conditionthe sheet of stamps is the first day of issuethis bulletin was printed by harrison and sons limited inthe stamps were issued to celebrate the investiture of the prince charles the prince of walesthere is a sheet of stamps in this collection that celebrate the scientific discoveries and theories of sir isaac newtonthere is a sheet of stamps that celebrates victorian britainoxfam emporium manchester this is a collection of 10 sheets of stamps that were issued in great britainsthere is a sheet of stamps celebrating the 400th year anniversary of inigo jonesthis sheet of stamps were the first day of issuethere is a sheet of stamps celebrating the welsh bible
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There is a sheet of stamps from great britain which is the royal mail first day cover and is a complete set of stamps with the title "flowers"there are 2 sheets of stamps in this collection from the republic of san marinooxfam emporium manchester this is a collection of 7 sheets of stamps and 2 postcards of stampsthe stamp showing the horse chestnut tree was issued insee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 2 postcards show the picture each of a stamp that were part of a set of stampsthe set of stamps that were shown on the individual postcards were from a set of stamps called "british flowers"the pictures on the stamps show the sweetcorn, and the potato plantthe sheets of stamps are in good conditionthis sheet of stamps is the post office first day coverone of the postcards has a copy of the stamp in the top right hand cornerthis sheet of stamps were issued inthe other sheet of stamps from san marino were the first day of issuethere is a sheet of stamps from great britain that were a royal mail first day cover, and the first day of issueone of the sheets of stamps were a first day of issue, and is a complete set of stamps celebrating fruitit is the post office first day of cover celebrating british trees: the horse chestnutthe sheet is a complete set of stamps that were issued inthe stamps were issued inthe pictures on the stamps show the morel mushroom, the bewick swan, the yellow waterlily, and the ball-rout fishthis sheet of stamps celebrates natural history and the linnean societythe pictures on the stamps are photographs of the cochicum flower, the echeveria flower, echinops flower, and the gaillardia flowerthis set of stamps which is a complete set of stamps were issued inthe pictures on the stamps show strawberries, apples, red grapes, plums and mandarinesthe pictures on the stamps show the sweet briar rose, the rosa mundi rose, the grandpa dickson rose, and the elizabeth of glamis rosethe postcards of the stamps show the bluebell flower and the snowdrop flowerthere is a sheet of 2 used stamps that were issued in denmarkthe sheet of stamps were issued inthis sheet of stamps is the first day of issuethe sheets of stamps have been carefully protected with a clear and see-through cellophane coverthe sheet of stamps is the first day of issuethere is a sheet of stamps from great britain with one stamp on itthe "british flower" stamps were issued in great britainthe pictures on the stamps show hemerocallis hybrida flower, phlox paniculam flower, dianthus plumarius, centaurea dealbata flower, and trollius europaeus flowerthe sheet of stamps is a first day of issuethere is a sheet of stamps from great britain celebrating roses and the royal national roses society
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Some of the stamps are a little faded and a little creasedsome of the stamps in this collection have been unusedthe stamps in this collection celebrate the world tin conference, the making of gold, deep level mining, the discovery of the pin cushion star, the centenary of the 1st telephone transmission, the invention of the television, the western european submarine cable system, construction work, the 100th anniversary of the discovery of tb, the opening of the mwenga satellite earth station, the microwave tower in tanzania, the nuclear-powered advanced gas-cooled reactor, telecommunications, satellite communications, automatic sorting of post, the evkom escom in south africa, the centenary of antiseptic in surgery and lister, the anniversary of alexander bell, the keyboard, industry in south africa, geothermal power, the invention of radar, the centenary of geothermal electricity, the antarctic geology research project, the aviator wilbur wright who flew the flyer in , the invention of heart surgery, the discovery of penicillin, the making of manganese, the national giro, and coastline erosion prevention programmesall of the stamps in this collection are in adequate conditionthe countries that the stamps were issued in in this collection are great britain, zimbabwee, south africa, malaysia, malawi, singapore, tanzania, grenada grenadines, new zealand, hong kong, and rwandathe oldest stamp in this collection was issued inthe newest stamp in this collection was issued insome of the stamps in this collection have been used and have a postmark printed a little on themoxfam emporium manchester this is a collection of 41 stampssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe stamps in this collection were issued in the s, s, s, s, s, s and s
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki19th century, germany standing cacatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitea finely carved gilt wood and polychrome painted statue depicting saint elizabeth of thuringia carrying a loaf of bread and jug of wine29 cm tall and weighing 427g elizabeth of hungary (german: heilige elisabeth von thüringen, hungarian: árpád-házi szent erzsébet; 7 july november ), also known as saint elizabeth of thuringia or saint elisabeth of thuringia, was a princess of the kingdom of hungary, landgravine of thuringia, germany, and a greatly venerated catholic saint who was an early member of the third order of stat her feet a beggar is reaching for the breadfrancis, by which she is honored as its patroness condition - in a very good condition with wear commensurate with age please see the photos as they are an important part of the description this lot will be carefully packed and sent by registered and insured mail read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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In the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophythese thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics "a forceful, encyclopedic studyin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britainin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitspages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksfine unclipped dust-wrappersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyondusing archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitarians"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbroken
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An unembroidered account of the narcotic effect of politics from one of the most fiercely intellectual governmental figures of the modern age, a different kind of weather is a beautifully weighted memoir of political success and failure, and the passing of an eraoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'why did you go into politics in the first place?'a question that former cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, lord waldegrave's is a life lived through politicshowever just as his star was in the ascent, waldegrave became embroiled in a scandal which tarnished his reputation, but could not dampen his voracious enthusiasm for the political gameas an fearless young conservative politician in the seventies and eighties, one who witnessed the fall of heath and the triumph and eventual decline of thatcher, waldegrave was firmly at the heart of one of the most exciting and tumultuous periods of modern british historya spectator book of the year - 'refreshingly and engagingly candid' (jane ridley) see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe youngest of seven children, and the son of an earl, waldegrave's quintessentially english upbringing would go on to shape the course of his life, instilling in him a sense of independence and self-discipline needed to steel one for a successful career in governmentformative years spent at eton, oxford and harvard fortified his resolve to enter the political establishment, and by the early seventies he finally achieved his greatest ambition
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615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matteroxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no real marks or wear this work is a complete english translation of the latin etymologies of isidore, bishop of seville (cisidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaningit contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the seven liberal arts, including rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of god, the terminology of the law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensilsisidore compiled the work between csee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from isidore's time
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This realism bases social and political criticism in the purposes of a nonviolent, patient, and reconciling godrichard bourne identifies a theological realism found in the work of john howard yoderin developing this theological realism, the book furnishes an account of christian criticism capable of addressing key debates in contemporary theology and political theoryoxfam books & music lancaster seek the peace of the city provides a robust engagement with the theological foundations and practices of christian social and political criticismbourne begins by arguing for the public status of theological political claimsthe book concludes by developing an account of the impact such a theological realism and practice of critique might have on contemporary political theory--with explorations of the doxological nature of social change, the changing shape of the state, governmentality and political sovereignty, and the status and role of religious communities in civil societybourne develops this account and shows how it is consonant with aspects of the work of a range of contemporary theologians including stanley hauerwas, john milbank, karl barth, and dietrich bonhoeffersee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe demonstrates that only a vigorous theological realism, grounded in the universal lordship of christ, is capable of providing a foundation for local, particular, and ad hoc practices of critique
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The oxford handbook of the self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areasquestions about whether selves actually exist or have an illusory status have been raised from perspectives as diverse as neuroscience, buddhism, and narrative theoryoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the oxford handbook of the self gallagher, shaun (edwith respect to self-agency, similar questions arise in experimental psychologypoststructuralist deconstructions of traditional metaphysical conceptions of subjectivity have led to debates about whether there are any grounds (moral if not metaphysical) for reconstructing the notion of selfin addition, advances in developmental psychology have pushed to the forefront questions about the ontogenetic origin of self-experience, while studies of psychopathology suggest that concepts like self and agency are central to explaining important aspects of pathological experiencethese and other issues motivate questions about how we understand, not only "the self", but also how we understand ourselves in social and cultural contexts) research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neurosciencein philosophy and some areas of cognitive science, the emphasis on embodied cognition has fostered a renewed interest in rethinking personal identity, mind-body dualism, and overly cartesian conceptions of selfsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop hampstead history of the supreme court of the united states: volume 1 by julius goebel jrbook is in good condition, few white marks on the spinethese three parts are divided into seventeen chapters, together with a statistical analysis of the business of the supreme court from to and substantial notes on manuscript sources antecedents and beginnings to is the first of twelve volumes in the oliver wendell holmes devise history of the supreme court of the united statesin the final part of the book, he explains how early legislation affected the judiciary and the initial experience of the circuit courts and of the supreme courtsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe first part describes the background of american constitutionalismgoebel then goes on to depict the constitutional convention, the ensuing debate over ratification, and the framing of the bill of rightsdetails the creation of a national judiciary in the united states under the act of and traces the supreme court's development through its first decade of existencein this first volume, julius goebel jrthe book is organised into three parts
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As to the second; he must recognise and be convinced that all things are to be regarded as forms seen in a vision and a dream, empty of substance, un-born and without self-nature; that all things exist only by reason of a complicated network of causationvijñana) and the teaching of consciousness as the only realityhe must recognise and accept the fact that this triple world is manifested and imagined as real only under the influence of habit-energy that has been accumulated since the beginningless past by reason of memory, false-imagination, false-reasoning, and attachments to the multiplicities of objects and reactions in close relationship and in conformity to ideas of body-property-and-abodein the sutra, the buddha asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind: on the contrary my teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of the mind itself; it teaches the cessation of ignorance, desire, deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from the discrimination of the triple worldas to the first; he must recognise and be fully convinced that this triple world is nothing but a complex manifestation of one's mental activities; that it is devoid of selfness and its belongings; that there are no strivings, no comings, no goingsas to the third; he must recognise and patiently accept the fact that his own mind and personality is also mind-constructed, that it is empty of substance, unborn see oxfam website for delivery information read morebecause the world is seen as being "mind-only" or "consciousness-only", all phenomena are void, empty of self (atman) and illusory: there are four things by the fulfilling of which an earnest disciple may gain self-realisation of noble wisdom and become a bodhisattva-mahasattva: first, he must have a clear understanding that all things are only manifestations of the mind itself; second, he must discard the notion of birth, abiding and disappearance; third, he must clearly understand the egolessness of both things and personsoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street the lankavatara sutra draws upon the concepts and doctrines of yogacara and buddha-naturethe most important doctrine issuing from the lankavatara sutra is that of the primacy of consciousness (skt
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Such goals cover a wide range of topics centering on patients, the doctor-patient relationship, the acts of doctoring patients, and the goals involved in being a physician among other physicians working within the institutions of medicinecassell takes on a variety of difficult issues, from thinking about values to developing wisdomthe care of the dying, what thinking itself is, and finally, why would one want to do this exciting and rewarding but difficult work, come under discussion in this bookthe nature of clinical medicine takes its direction from a catalog of goals of medicine that range from the expected diagnosis and treatment of diseases to wider concerns for patients, for physicians, and for medicine itselfa very clean and tidy copythe central focus of the clinician and of this book is the patientthe chapters are specific in teaching the kinds of knowledge that clinicians require in order to be able to achieve these goalsclinical medicine, as a thinking discipline, is concerned not only with what clinicians do, but whysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreusing many examples from real-life medical practice, each chapter examines the different kinds of thought involved in caring for the patientaccording to eric cassell, everything else, including the disease, is secondarywhat they actually do and how they go about it is in the service of their purposes and their goalsoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , oxford university presswhen physicians act in medicine they have some purpose or goal in mind
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Readers of other transformational self-help books such as the four agreements, the miracle morning, braving the wilderness, and the book of joy will want to read practicing the power of nowpracticing the power of now shows us how to free ourselves from "enslavement to the mindoxfam bookshop cheltenham new york times bestselling author eckhart tolle - a key to happiness is living in the nowpractice the power of now: if you, like many others, have benefited from the transformative experience of reading the power of now, you will want to own and read practicing the power of nowin the power of now and his subsequent book practicing the power of now, eckhart shares the enlightenment he himself experienced after a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life"the next step in human evolution: eckhart's profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their liveseckhart tolle: eckhart tolle, a spiritual teacher and author who was born in germany and educated at the universities of london and cambridge, is rapidly emerging as one of the world's most inspiring spiritual teachershis views go beyond any particular religion, doctrine, or guruthis is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violence on our planetyour path to enlightenment: practicing the power of now extracts the essence from eckhart's teachings in his new york times bestseller, the power of now (translated into 33 languages)" the aim is to be able to enter into and sustain an awakened state of consciousness throughout everyday lifean essential aspect of this awakening involves transcending our ego-based state of consciousnesssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreat the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolutionthrough meditations and simple techniques, eckhart shows us how to quiet our thoughts, see the world in the present moment, and find a path to "a life of grace, ease, and lightness
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It would be naive, to assume the present work to be free of erroneous oversimplification, because the very nature of scientific work is related to generating (simple) hypotheses with their subsequent falsificationin that context and bluntly, my primary interest in the field of the collateral circulation was not initiated with a vision of eradicating the consequences of coronary artery disease (cad) by promoting the growth of natural bypassesthe time for such sizeable ideas had passed in the 's with the start of the work by wolfgang schaperlike new with clean pages insidesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis can be exemplified by the historic view of angina pectoris, which used to be simplified as being always fatal, thus obscuring for nearly two centuries the view of a 'self-healing' mechanism such as the collateral circulation of the heartalternatively, it could be 'sold' as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of the coronary circulation, which was itself meant to diminish the amount of 'useless' energyoxfam bookshop hampstead collateral circulation of the heart by christian seiler the sober explanation for this book is a call by the springer-verlag, london, to edit a publication on 'the functional relevance of the collateral circulation' of the heartsuch a process of reducing disarray in a system with the aim of grasping it better is related to simplification, which carries the risk of introducing error
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In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with faces in a cloud () and continued with structures of subjectivity () and psychoanalytic treatment: an intersubjective approach (- with brandchaft) see oxfam website for delivery information read more concluding chapters on "varieties of therapeutic alliance" and "varieties of therapeutic impasse" further exemplify the ability of intersubjectivity theory to reorient the psychoanalytic therapist, thus providing fresh strategies for understanding and addressing the most challenging clinical contingenciesrather, the authors argue, the intersubjective perspective has methodological and epistemological implications that mandate a radical revision of all aspects of psychoanalytic thoughtbeginning with an in-depth critique of the concept of the isolated individual mind, stolorow and atwood argue that this myth has long obstructed recognition of the intersubjective foundations of psychological lifecontexts of being is the conceptual culmination of stolorow and atwood's earlier studies, giving them a forum to explain why the perspective of intersubjectivity cannot be reduced to a clinical sensibility that can be grafted onto existing psychoanalytic theorythe authors then proceed to a series of chapters that reframe, from the standpoint of intersubjectivity theory, basic assumptions of the psychoanalytic theory of mental lifethey now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pillars of psychoanalytic theory since they have already demonstrated the degree to which psychological theory is influenced by the subjective world of the psychological theorist, explored the various "structures of subjectivity" that organize the subjective world, and applied the intersubjective perspective to a broad array of clinical issuesthe book is in very good condition; it is slightly upturned on the back covers bottom left cornernot only a cogent elaboration of these implications, the volume is also an important first step in effecting the sweeping revision that follows from them
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Lavishly illustrated by dave_mckean, sam_keith, mike_dringenberg, kelley_ jones & othersare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikisandman: king_of_dreams author: alisa_kwitney, publisher: chronicle_books 1st printing_ condition: very_good a retrospective of neil gaiman's seminal fantasy seriescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemonster makers art packplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitepublisher: soleil 1st printing_; berni wrightson's last masterpiece in a gorgeous french editioncondition; very_goodberni wrightson's reaper of love and other stories publisher: fantagraphics 1st fantagraphics edition, a handsome softcover with french flaps5 art books by masters of the macabre the art of ploog_volberni wrightson's frankenstein: le monstre est vivant large-size, europen, french-language, hardcover albumclassic b&w tales by the master of macabre storytellinghis classic style was in the tradition of alex (flash gordon) raymond2 publisher: fbg 1st printing_ condition: nm a career retrospective of one of comicdom's greatest horror artistsmac raboy: master_of_the_comics author: roger hill publisher: twomorrows 1st printing_ condition: nm biography of one of the greatest artists of the golden agecontains scans of the original artworkour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeploog is famous for his work on: werewolf_by_night monster_of_frankenstein ghost_rider
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What we find, then, is an intricate web of mental components to explain our fascinating and multifarious knack of understanding mindswhat has been missing is a detailed and integrated account of the mental components that underlie this remarkable capacitynone of these mechanisms, though, explain how we read our own minds, which, according to the authors, requires invoking an entirely independent set of mechanismsthey maintain that it is, as common sense would suggest, vital to distinguish between reading others' minds and reading one's ownnichols and stich develop and defend a new account of the psychological mechanisms underlying mindreadingin addition, the authors argue, reading other minds involves important processes that don't fit into either categorythe mechanisms underlying pretence get recruited when people attempt to understand others and predict their behaviourhowever, mindreading also implicates very different kinds of mechanisms that rely on rich bodies of information, as suggested by information-based accounts of mindreadingin 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 mindoxfam 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 livessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein reading other minds, the imagination plays a central rolethis 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 centuryin 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 psychopathology
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Later he leaves the house to meet his son elliot for lunch, and when eliot departs mid-meal, mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outsidemoments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attackedtheir work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everythingaccompanied by three equally powerful stories set in afghanistan, galway and london, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our livesmendelssohn wakes in his upper east side apartmentsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is a cold day in january when joxfam bookshop hertford a story in this collection has been longlisted for the sunday times efg short story award as it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeingold and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in lithuania and dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, eileenthe detectives working on the case search through the footage of mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the streettold from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, thirteen ways of looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance
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Good condition overallit includes volumes 4-6: temple of the winds, soul of the fire, and faith of the fallenbook 5: soul of the fire richard rahl has traveled far from his roots as a simple woods guidenow a deadly power pours forth that threatens to turn the world into a lifeless wasteemperor of the d'haran empire, war wizard, the seeker of truth--none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest: husband to his beloved kahlan amnell, mother confessor of the midlandsunwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the midlandsthis is a boxed set of 3 booksbut their wedding day is the key that unlocks a spell sealed away long ago in a faraway countryrichard heads into the old world with cara, the mord-sith, while his beloved kahlan remains behindsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis mass market boxed set is the second bundle in the bestselling the sword of truth series by terry goodkindbook covers creased, slight yellowing to pages, spines creased and bridgedoxfam bookshop glossop road some shelf wear to boxbook 4: temple of the winds wielding the sword of truth, richard rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the d'haran peoplebook 6: faith of the fallen emperor jagang is rising once again in the old world and richard must face him, on his own turfbut now the power-mad emperor jagang confronts richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victimsseparated and fighting for their lives, richard and kahlan will be tested to the utmost
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In the final stage of the book, freeland chronicles the end of the first wave of russia's capitalist revolution, detailing the economic crisis currently rumbling through the countrythis was the height of market euphoria when, despite the chaos of everyday life, a prosperous future seemed within easy reachwoven through the book are remarkable stories - of yeltsin's use of popular psychics, of the might of the 'robber barons' who form alliances with criminal mafia gangs, of machiavellian politicians who 'have dealt with the devil and believe they have made a good bargain'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop evesham this is the first account of russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economybeginning with a sharp portrayal of the dismal living conditions in the soviet union, she moves on to the romantic early days of the capitalist transformationwritten by one of the finest writers on contemporary russia, it is told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's impact on the lives of ordinary people
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But we do languageshe used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend themshe speaks to graduating students and visitors to both the louvre and america's black holocaust museumshe revisits the bluest eye, sula and beloved; reassessing the novels that have become touchstones for generations of readers'the nobel lecture in literature, see oxfam website for delivery information read more"she was our conscience" - 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 usmorrison's nobel lecture, on the power of language, is accompanied by lectures to amnesty international and the newspaper association of americaour truth-tellerthe sweep of american history and the current state of politicsmouth full of blood is a powerful, erudite and essential gathering of ideas that speaks to us allit celebrates morrison's extraordinary contribution to the literary worldthroughout mouth full of blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise is met by toni morrison with controlled anger, elegance and literary excellencethe 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 baldwin'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 duty of the press and the role of the artistthey are concerned with race, gender and globalisationshe was a magician with language, who understood the power of wordsthat may be the meaning of lifethat may be the measure of our lives
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£ time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopherfor most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation and griefthinking about it is to meditate on our own mortalityquestions about "the stuff" of time  such as instants and intervals  about time and change, and the relationship between objective and subjective time, open on to wider discussions about time and causation, the irruption of subjectivity and intentionality into a material universe, and the relationship between time and freedomthe passage of time, the direction of time and time travel are critically examined and the relationship between mathematics and reality, and the nature of the observer, are exploredfor anyone who has puzzled over the nature of becoming, wondered whether time is inseparable from change, whether time is punctuate or continuous, or even whether time, itself, is real, of time and lamentation will provoke and entertainyet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is livedthe first part of the book, "killing time" is a formidable critique of the spatialized and mathematized account of time arising from physical sciencein of time and lamentation, raymond tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand itvery good condition, apparently unreadpart 2, "human time" examines tensed time, the reality of time as it is lived: what we mean by "now", how we make sense of past and future events, and the idea of eternityoxfam bookshop stratford upon avon of time and lamentation by raymond tallis agenda publishing pp hardbackthe story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory and lorentz coordinates, tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces and the long narratives of our human journeysee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith characteristic fearlessness, tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physicsour temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physicswith the scientistic reduction of time set aside and lived time reaffirmed, tallis digs deeper into the nature of time itself in the final part, "finding time"those, like tallis himself, who seek to find a place at which the scientific and humanistic views of humanity can be reconciled, will celebrate his placing of human consciousness at the heart of time, and his showing that we are "more than cogs in the universal clock, forced to collaborate with the very progress that pushes us towards our own midnight"the culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original and thought-provoking work
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An overarching theme is the role of deliberate intervention in the development of german, whether it took the form of education, prescriptivism, purism or political manipulationoxfam books & music beeston peter lang, , paperback very good condition the contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the german language, that is, the combination of social, political and cultural circumstances which influenced the language and its speakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreothers are studies of particular periods, places or groups which have not found their place in more narrative accounts: standardisation in the nineteenth century, the role of low german, the state of german at the stunde null insome of these 'landmarks' are individuals or groups of people who have exerted influence over the language: charlemagne, luther, the early modern grammarians and lexicographersthe essays, a number of which were originally delivered as lectures in the university of cambridge and all of which are by specialists in the field, combine to provide a history of the german language in its social context
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Here, fremantle, who worked closely with chögyam trungpa on the translation of the tibetan book of the dead (shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the livingusing vivid and dramatic imagery, the tibetan book of the dead presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightenedaccording to the buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixedluminous emptiness features in-depth explanations of: the tibetan buddhist notions of death and rebirth the meaning of the five energies and the five elements in tibetan buddhism the mental and physical experience of dying, according to the tibetan buddhist tradition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music beeston shambhala, , paperback good condition, some stains to front cover the tibetan book of the dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of tibetan buddhismthe entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every momentluminous emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imageryover the years, it has been studied and cherished by buddhists and non-buddhists alikefremantle relates the symbolic world of the tibetan book of the dead to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the living
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But 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 fatherwhoop, whoop! if anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let's get crowd-fundingyet 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 lingersedward'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 favourthe lives of these sisters - eleanora, joanna, margaret, mary and elizabeth - ran the full gamut of experiences open to royal women in the middle agesliving 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-armsthey might never wear the crown in their own right, but they were utterly confident of their crucial role in the spectacle of medieval kingshipdrawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, daughters of chivalry offers a rich portrait of these spirited plantagenet womensee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'she imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patienceand ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personalitywith 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 chivalry
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