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Annals of the former world is the winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfictionoxfam shop ulverston the pulitzer prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4like the terrain it covers, annals of the former world tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it6 billion years twenty years ago, when john mcphee began his journeys back and forth across the united states, he planned to describe a cross section of north america at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled withas clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern non-fictionthe structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title annals of the former worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and the governor-general's award, and short-listed for the booker prizesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough daisy's life, shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novelthis is the story of daisy goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in manitoba, canada, to her death in a florida nursing home nearly ninety years later'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century
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It won the pulitzer prize and the national book award]historically, it can be seen as a precursor to joseph heller's catch-22are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time"a fable is a novel written by the american author william faulknerour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store"a fable" by william faulkner chatto & windus, london - first uk edition first printing - 15cmx13cm - condition: very good, owner;s name to ffep, in original first issue dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edgesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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pulitzer prize&;winning historian walter amcdougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that &;god is on our side&; has inspiredforeign policy ever since
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fiction and richard and judy pickin brooks's telling, march emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racismit explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held beliefset during the american civil war, 'march' tells the story of john march, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in 'little women', louisa may alcott's classic american novelas alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so brooks turned to the journals and letters of bronson alcott, louisa may's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreauthe story spans the vibrant intellectual world of concord and the sensuous antebellum south, through to the first year of the civil war as the north reels under a series of unexpected defeatssee oxfam website for delivery information read morelike her bestselling 'year of wonders', 'march' follows an unconventional love storyfrom the author of the acclaimed 'year of wonders' and 'people of the book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the american civil waras he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham from pulitzer prize nominee and award winning author of homeland, the poisonwood bible and flight behaviour, the lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of mexico and the cold embrace of s america in the shadow of senator mccarthywhen he starts work in the household of mexican artists diego rivera and frida kahlo - where the bolshevik leader, lev trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolutionborn in america and raised in mexico, harrison shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, salomesee oxfam website for delivery information read morea violent upheaval sends him back to america; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumptiona compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with diego rivera, frida kahlo and trotsky in the midst of the mexican revolution
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close foreverthe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade paris'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazesthe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historyin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anotherthe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way homesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youth
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In , it became the first (and is still the only) graphic novel to win a pulitzer prize (the special award in letters)the work employs postmodernist techniques and represents jews as mice, germans as cats, and poles as pigscritics have classified maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genresit is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of traumathis reprint of the complete maus collection is in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit depicts spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a polish jew and holocaust survivoroxfam shop bishop's stortford a graphic novel by american cartoonist art spiegelman, serialized from tomaus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the authors account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the stories of john cheever by john cheever when the stories of john cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the pulitzer prizehere are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generationin the years since, it has become a classic" in very good condition" from the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "the enormous radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "the housebreaker of shady hill" and "the swimmer," cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morepages clean, small crease to the back cover, minor wear to the cover spinevintage books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection
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His newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr inwithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonyhowever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectiveoxfam bookshop cardiff journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parissally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late s
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His collected poems won the pulitzer prize for poetryjames wright was born in martins ferry, ohio, insee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether he was writing about his native ohio, the natural world, love lost and found, or the luminous resonant italy of his later work, wrights mastery of language and his powerful, haunting voice marked him out as one of the finest writers of his time, a poet whose work caught the spirit of americas anxious yet hopeful post-war yearsoxfam shop arnold james wright is one of the most significant, most enduring figures in modern american poetry, the central figure of a greatly talented generation
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His newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr inwithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonyhowever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectiveoxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parissally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late s
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Oxfam shop colne road in , pulitzer prize - and national book award-winning scientist james macgregor burns published leadershipthe book became the cornerstone of the emerging field of leadership studies and hundreds of leadership programs in business and governmentengagingly written, original, and provocative, transforming leadership will arouse discussion and controversy in classrooms and boardrooms everywherethe book culminates in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century: the long-intractable problem of global povertysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreburns illustrates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal african societies, through europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of liberty and democracy during the american revolutionnow burns expands the subject, offering a new vision - transforming leadership - focusing on the ways that leaders emerge from being ordinary transactional deal-makers to become dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers
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Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fiction and described by the jury as "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal" eight pages of monochrome photographsin gilt on spine, in very good condition dust jacket has some marks and edge wear; blue board covers, with title etc text, clean, bright and unmarked throughoutsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop barnard castle a lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have feared, lived with, and died from for more than five thousand years by an award-winning cancer physician and researcher
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He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor - a pulitzer prizeoxfam shop evesham jack mcevoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporterforced to take a buy-out from the la times, he's got 30 days left on the jobthis time jack is onto a killer who has worked completely below police and fbi radarhis last assignment? training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of j-schoolbut as jack delves into the story he soon realises that alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since the poet crossed his path twelve years beforejack focuses on alonzo winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clientsbut jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killersee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis investigation leads him into the digital world of data collocation services where server farms are watched over by techs who liken themselves to scarecrows - keeping the birds of prey off their clients' datajack convinces alonzo's mother to co-operate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocencebut jack has other plans for his exitbut jack inadvertently set off a digital tripwire and the killer - the scarecrow - now knows he's coming
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Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fictiona metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of lewis carroll, an illustrated examination of the nature of human thought processessmall inscription at frontsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal first edition hardback with dust jacketjacket with shelf wear top and bottom and slightly faded spinebook with brown linen boards with aged edges, very clean and bright within
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Yin was the winner of the pulitzer prize for poetryfond regards, carolyn kizersigned twice and inscribed by carolyn kizercarolyn kizer ()signed and dated below the title: for sandra, all good things, carolyn portland
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Winner of the pulitzer prize and the national book awardwe specialize in fine books in the categories of art, architecture, photography, cinema, nature, literature, including poetry and many anthologiesthe armies of the night
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Description: high quality bert pulitzer branded 100% silk men's wide fit tie read more
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Beautiful lobster design that we love on our lilly printsgwp cooler tote and drink hugger set
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New lilly pulitzer gwp chair / beach mat-dive in print new in box & sealedwith carry strap and logo on the backfolds flat for easy carrying- strap and velcro closures 21
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Lilly pulitzer. gwp cooler tote and drink hugger set. cosmic coral
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Lilly pulitzer insulated carrier cooler with zip close, top handleshipped with usps priority mailcondition is new
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The four prize winners received unconditional cash prizes as follows: first prize of ÂŁ svetlana fialova; second prize of ÂŁ marie von heyl; and student awards of ÂŁ each: kristian fletcher and tamsin nagelin the jerwood drawing prize was run in partnership with drawing projects ukthe 20th anniversary of the jerwood drawing prize exhibition was celebrated in , and in jerwood charitable foundation marked 15 years of its support for the prizethe prize is supported by jerwood charitable foundation through its contemporary gallery programme jerwood visual artsthe works were selected from more than submissions by kate brindley, director of middlesbrough institute of modern art; michael craig-martin ra, artist; and charlotte mullins, art critic, writer, broadcaster, and editor of art quarterly selected from original drawings, the jerwood drawing prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practiceoxfam shop mutley plain " a total of 76 drawings are brought together in this group exhibition as part of the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the ukthe exhibition provides a platform to showcase the work of uk-based drawing practitioners, from student to established, and as a project helps to define a wider understanding of the role and value of drawing in creative practicespecial commendations were awarded to neville gabie and gary lawrencesee oxfam website for delivery information read more" book in very good condition with clean pages throughout and securely bound
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Box has a small marksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop macclesfield a boxed silk tie by lilly pulitzer, dark 'n' stormy theme
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I am offering to the market this broadcast vinyl lp - prize song & liebesfreud & traumere! for salewe have 100's of vinyls / lp's currently in stock!!! special features: * broadcast * 2 sided vinyl * excellent condition * orignal play list: side 1: prize song side 2: liebesfreud & traumere go on, add a little piece of history to your homecheck out our other products
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Smart cup prize trophy ideal prize for a pony show 9'' x 3'' x 3'' small amount of tarnish on the size and motif thanks for lookingitems may be advertised elsewhere and could be removed early thank you read moreplease see my other items
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Simple minds - glittering prizetitle:simple minds - glittering prizeyour item will be previously owned but still in great conditionthe disc will play perfectly without interruption and the case, inlay notes and sleeve may show limited signs of wearartist:simple minds
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Siren's prize vgkingdoms of kalamar official dungeons & dragons d20 siren's prize (vg)manufacturer: kenzer & coproduct line: kingdoms of kalamar official dungeons & dragons d20the job is simple - go to the lighthouse and see why the keeper has been neglecting his duty
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Glittering prize 3:59the title is glittering prizefor this specific sale the cds sleeve condition refers only to the inner paper insert sleeve, and does not refer to the outer digipak, jewel case or cardboard outer casing
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