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Description of the lordship of frisia read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablebinding slightly scuffed along edgesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteleaves show some tanningcondition: goodour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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The story of one of the most fascinating yet terrible battles of all timesdiary of a red devil - which is a signed 1st edition (hardback & paperback)please contact me for further detailsa brilliant book in good conditionwwii battle of arnhem paperback the world-wide noi also have another account of the battle of arnhem for sale1 bestseller an enthralling, magnificent account of the battle of arnhem to follow the longest day & the last battle here is the best of cornelius ryans three books about world war lla bridge too far by cornelius ryan
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This date signifies when the royal warrant for the creation of the medal was signed by queen victoria at buckingham palacethis is the version of the coin that has the portrait of her majesty by jody clark and has the 50 pence denominationthe first coin was released to mark the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the victoria crossthe second coin was released to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of britainthey have been in circulation; condition as per the photos – happy to sell individuallythe date 29 jan is part of the design of the cointhere have been three different versions for the obverses of this coin releasedthe reverse design, by claire aldridge, shows the front and back of the medal
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Both the production and the music was a cacophony of colour, photo montage background, fabulous costumes and sound and electronic effectspdf copy of the mask of orpheus english national opera programme london coliseum, elegant and stylish programme for autumn seasonthe whole opera is portrayed relating to memory and different interpretations of the same series of eventsthe studded skull was aztec in appearancethe photos above are from the original programme, which has been sold, although the scans are scanned from the programme in colourthe scan is an accurate electronic copy of the complete programme cover to cover, including all adverts etcwill send by cd by post or email attachment as requestedhas photos and relevant informed articles about the current production and the music and history of this contemporary birtwistle operathis production has an interesting glass cage japanese style cage, and the costumes are extravagant and extremely colourfulfor a contemporary production, this was much more effective than the earlier two orpheus performances of orpheus & eurydice and orpheus in the underworld, both of which received extremely mixed reviews
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Upon landing on an interest badge space, they must choose one of the tiles from a face down selectionplayers have to collect interest badges by successfully answering questions on the subjects chosenplayers roll a dice to move around the boardbadges are available in the following categories:animal lover; artist; book lover; brownie friendship; cook; collector; conservation; craft; discoverer; first aid; house orderly; music lover; pony rider; rambler; safety in the home"players try to collect five badges and be the first to collect the trefoil badgewhen a player has collected five badges on her arm card, she must try to find the trefoil badge from the face down selection in order to win the gamethe game can end prematurely if too many brown owl spaces are landed onto collect a badge of the revealed category, the player must answer a trivia question relating to the categoryif the question is answered correctly, the badge tile is placed on the player's arm card (representing the badge being sewn onto the player's shirt sleeve)the object of this game is just the sameall parts included, with origal instructions, dice and shakerbonus badges can be won by landing on toadstool spaces and answering a general knowledge questionif it is answered incorrectly, the tile is turned face down againsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremost of the tiles represent brownie badges in several categories, a few are hazardous events, and one shows the trefoil, crucial to winning the gameoxfam shop great dunmow this is a rare opportunity to buy a vintage board game, in very good conditiondesigned in conjunction with the girl guides associationplayers can steal badges from brownies who trespass on another player's campsite"part of the fun of being in the brownie organization is trying to collect badges by achieving efficiency in a number of categories
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The maps, which have the stamp of the history department of the university of southampton, have been drawing-pinned to a board at some stage and one has a minor tear to one edge but otherwise all are in very good conditionthe card covers have slight damage and some pages of have been annotated lightly in pencilthe four maps each unfold to 70cm x 90cmsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe booklet is 24cm x 15cmoxfam shop abergavenny an opportunity to own this rare set of 4 linen-backed, 2 miles to one inch maps and accompanying booklet, south wales and the border in the fourteenth century by william rees, professor of the history of wales
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Drawing upon a number of contributors, edited by hugh mcclintock, a lecturer in the institute of planning studies at the university of nottinghamthere is a signature from a previous owner on the inside coverwith chapters on the theory and principles of planning for cycling, and detailed case studies of schemes across different countriessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein very good condition, with a few marks around the edge of the cover and a little bit of yellowing to the edge of the pagesoxfam bookshop lower petergate an academic study of the impact of planning, and provision for, cycling in urban areas
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Translated by john spragens jr, with an afterword by cora weiss and don luceoxfam bookshop lower petergate a personal account of the spring offensive of that culminated in the capture of saigon and the end of the vietnam warsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein good condition, there are a number of small tears to the edge of the dust jacket, and some discolouration to the edges of the pageswritten by general van tien dung, chief of staff in the vietnam people's army and the officer in charge of the offensive, the narrative offers valuable insight into the vietnamese side of these historic events
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Simon winchester's chronicle of the destruction of the indonesian island of krakatoa in charts the birth of our modern worldin detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt todayhe tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat darwin to the discovery of evolution; of samuel mose, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of alfred wegener, the german explorer and father of geology
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe collection will be sent via poste italiane with registered mail with trackingaustria - advanced collection form to , including values mostly used with some mintplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteunificato catalogue value: €the photos are an integral part of the description of the lot, and they clearly represent the condition of the item; please review them carefully in order to get a proper idea of the lot and the condition of every stampthe collection is in very good condition and there are many interesting cancellationsthe collection includes values of ordinary post, stamps for newspapers, postage due stamps for newspapers, postage due and telegraphic stampsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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' whilst the overall structure of sunbathing in the rain moves from dark to light, telling the story of lewis's recovery, its different strands allow a variety of tones and subjects to be explored, from the profound to the frivolousfor it will have two voices, one calling from the valley of despair, the other from a safer, calmer new place'depression is internal snowthe flakes whirl around like motes in the water around your personal shipwreckfor above you, if only you can reach it without getting the bends, are sunshine, laughter on a yacht, the clink of plates as a lunch of steaming fish is handed roundpractical hints on how to get better (diet, read hello!, helpful pieces of music) are alongside striking quotations, ranging from sentences on crisp packets, to prayers, from russian orthodox writings on silence to collections of slangsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepart memoir - drawing on her own experiences, both adverse and encouraging, as a depressive and an alcoholic - and part guide or companion, this book brings burton's anatomy of melancholy into the twenty-first centurythe quicker you dive down to see your sorry state, the better for you in lifethe suffering depressive needs help from outside his or her own consciousness, a radical new perspective that makes life possible againalongside a paragraph about the proper relationship between the ego, the mind and the emotions nestles a passage on the therapeutic value of nail varnishthis unique book offers itoxfam bookshop cheltenham 101 ways to climb out of the slough of despond - a literary guide (part memoir, part companion) to coming through depression
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Abundant references, which could facilitate further research, are giventhe study, while underlining the significance of the cavity magnetron, purposely restricts itself to the pre-cavity magnetron era of radarpublished, as volume 6 in the 'iee history of technology series'this book is the first general history of radar to be published, and one which covers the independent but more or less simultaneous emergence of radar in several countries in the ssome of the earliest proposals for the use of radio waves to detect objects at a distance are first dealt withsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe narrative ranges from the concepts of nikola tesla in and the experiments of christian hulsmeyer in right through, in chronological order, to the commercially sponsored experiments of the prewar daysoxfam shop fulwood road radar has become an essential factor in air and sea travel, has affected all areas of military science and, most important of all perhaps, has considerably influenced the progress of electronic engineeringthe book also sets out to explain the basic principles of radar and, where applicable, historical aspects of the evolution of these principles are dealt withthe historical events and the military influences, which shaped the ultimate development of radar in each country, are then considered
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A brand new book from the bloodaxe "contemporary french poets" seriesrome the sorceress () is frenaud's richest and most disturbing confrontation with the hidden life of myths and the sacred, probing the themes of time, inheritance, revolt, illusions of divinity, father-?gures, mother-?gures, and the insatiable monuments of language which pretend to grapple with this weight of experiencehis poetry has an epic and tragic dimension: spurred by an urge for transcendence, it refuses false paradises, arrivals and notions of reconciliationoxfam bookshop hexham first known for his war-time poems written from a german labour camp - notably his sombre reworkings of the myth of the magi - andre frenaud () is one of the most searching of french poetspoetry book society recommended translationtranslation by keith bosely - a bilingual editionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis work is structured by a sense of quest, which gives it its labyrinthine patterns, underground tensions and fractured, inventive forms
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipage 49 has been neatly annotated (see illustration)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemaw was a british civil engineer and astronomerplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehe was made the head of the office and designed the first outside cylinder locomotive for use in indiahe was president of the civil and mechanical engineers' society, the institution of mechanical engineers and the institution of civil engineers" small thin octavo, pp (ii), 75, with the errata slip loosely attached after the title page, with blank pages at the rear for notes (unused), original green cloth, the corners very slightly worn, a very faint mark on the upper cover[with the signature on the front endpaper of william henry maw, ()in he founded the journal engineering and remained an editor for the rest of his lifethe title concludes:- "born into a seafaring family and orphaned at age 16, maw was taken into the workshops of the eastern counties railway as an assistant before progressing to the design office as a draughtsman] a rare book, and in remarkably good conditionhe left the railway and became a consulting engineer; his many works include printing presses for several newspapers and magazinesbeing a short but complete description of the duties of the young engineer in preliminary and location surveys, and in constructionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Item is as picturedplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteex-library copypencil ownership inscription of ‘wcharles babbage (), the english polymath considered to be the father of computing, designed his difference engine nospine with raised bands, gilt fillets, and gilt lettering to green leather title labelcircular stamp to title-page and last page, ink accession note to verso title-pagecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available1 to mechanise the creation of mathematical tablesoverall, this book is a collectable work by the babbage, the originator of the concept of the digital programmable computer, a fascinating artefact in the history of mathematics and sciencerebound quarter brown leather binding over green marbled boards, in excellent conditionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeashdown’ to head of title-pageare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihowever, he did not have a working portion until , several years after his first table was published, and that was insufficient computing power to produce the mathematical tablestitle-page repairedtables throughoutpencil notes on the last pagebabbage therefore did not attempt to compute new tablesink mark to tail page edgerather, the proofs were checked against his previous tables, finding only 9 errors which were then corrected in the second edition ()small tears to some margins, affecting text on pwe are delighted to present a fourth impression copy of this book of logarithms by charles babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical ‘computer’
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How was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago?;in this work, sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and spaceit is a book that presents the story of our evolution, striking right at the heart of ourselves as individuals and of our sense of identitythe conclusions: amost everyone of native european descent, wherever they live in the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the seven daughters of eveoxfam bookshop cheltenham in professor brian sykes, a leading world authority on dna and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern italybut what made the story particularly extraordinary was that professor sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the ice man, a woman living in britain todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read moresykes has named them ursula, xenia, helena, velda, tara, katrine and jasminein europe there are only sevenin this scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced; how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived; what their lives were like; and how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our dna which has survived and prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us todayafter plotting thousands of dna sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groupsnews of the discovery of the ice man and his age, which was put at over years old, fascinated the world
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Jonathan miller, with typical wit and insight, shows how the discredited panacea of hypnotism could have helped to reveal a non-freudian view of the unconscious - an unconscious that is not simply the dark underside of the mind, but a powerfully enabling form of knowledgeit explores areas of darkness and forgetting in scientific research, and the use of inappropriate mechanistic metaphors in the understanding of biological systemsoliver sacks offers tour of scientific roads not taken, or taken too latestephen jay gould gives a summary of his critique of conventional "progressive" pictures of evolutionary change, using trees, ladders and conesit highlights the misleading images that have distorted people's view of the history of lifeoxfam bookshop cheltenham this volume examines the ways in which science is influenced by culturesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit also considers the neglect of useful research that does not fit the current intellectual fashion in sciencethe history of science, daniel kevles recounts the the strange story of resistance to the idea that viruses can cause cancerrichard lewontin rejects the attempt to reduce the complexity of living things to the simplicity of physics
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One of the copies of the june/july issue is very lightly soiled on the front and back cover and the back cover is lightly wrinkledaug/sept pages) - 2 copies of this issuethe issues are: - june/july pages) - 2 copies of this issueoct/nov pages) - dec /jan pages) all the magazines show slight signs of rubbing along their edgesoxfam shop cotham hill 4 issues of pathescope gazette magazines fromthe other copy of this issues is in excellent conditionotherwise, inside, the pages are clean and the magazines are intact and overall in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone of the copies of the aug/sept issue is slightly soiled along the top and spine edges of the front cover and on the back coverthe other copy of this issue is in excellent condition
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Carl bock: the head-hunters of borneoare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikispeke: journal of the discovery of the source of the nile mdccclxiigeorge barrington: an account of a voyage to new south walescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableedward whymper: amongst the alps in the yearfrederick courteney selous: travel and adventure in south-east africacaptain sir richard flaurence oliphant: a journey to katmandupeary: the north poleplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehenry savage landor: in the forbidden land an account of a journey in tibetburton: first footsteps in east africa or an exploration of harar two volumesthe fifteen books are reprints made inlayard: discoveries in the ruins of nineveh and babylondu chaillu: explorations & adventures in equatorial africasir ernest shackleton: south the story of shackleton's last exprdition cbrowne: a year amongst the persiansdavid livingstone: missionary travels and researches in south africaour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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The bindings have minor signs of use (the corners of the covers have light dents, see photos)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimost ribbon markers have been preserved, though are often frayed and sometimes loose from the spinecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableall authors have an engraved portrait (printed outside the text) and a life description in volume 1the poetry by john milton (four volumes), thomas parnell (two volumes), alexander pope (four volumes), and edward young (four volumes)a marvellously preserved setplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe engravings were printed in londonuniformly bound in full calf leatherthe texts were in edinburgh on an apollo pressthe paper of the text blocks is very freshpaper: minor signs of acidification, especially on the edges of the, printed on heavier paper, engravings (see photos)a total of fourteen volumes (complete) from the series ‘bell's edition of the poets of great britain complete from chaucer to churchill’, with the collection title 'the poetical works ofall engravings with the mention of the designer and engraver, and with the date it was madethe front and back cover are blind stamped with an edge decorationtake note: the four milton volumes all have the same portrait and the same frontispiecethe book blocks are firmly affixed to the spineall volumes have a frontispiece as illustration of and reference to a poem, printed outside the textour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Milne adapted part of it for the stage as toad of toad hall inthey live in a pastoral version of edwardian englandthe novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the thames valley the novel was in its 31st printing when playwright aoxfam shop redruth 's vintage puzzle which has 25 piece set with 4 toy shape pieces to look for in this puzzle the wind in the willows is a children's novel by scottish novelist kenneth grahame, first published inalternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: mole, rat (a european water vole), toad, and badgerin , the first film adaptation was produced by walt disney as one of two segments in the package film the adventures of ichabod and mrbox is slightly damaged see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop brigg the booker prize-winning final novel in pat barker's classic 'regeneration' trilogy - from the acclaimed author of the silence of the girls'an extraordinary tour de forcearmy psychiatrist william rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly billy prior, who is about to return to combat in france with young poet wilfred owenas rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, prior and owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generationone of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century british fiction' jonathan coe'powerful, deeply movingthe ghost road is a vivid and unforgettable account of the devastating final months of the first world warthe regeneration trilogy:regenerationthe eye in the doorthe ghost road see oxfam website for delivery information read morea triumph' sunday times'harrowing, original, unforgettable' independent, the closing months of the war
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In an eighteen-year playing career for cobh ramblers, nottingham forest (under brian clough), manchester united (under sir alex ferguson) and celtic, roy keane dominated every midfield he led to gloryas part of a tiny elite of football players, roy keane has had a life like no otheraggressive and highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of manchester united from until his departure inhis status as one of football's greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? how did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former manchester united and ireland leader and champion, reinventing himself as a manager and then a broadcaster, and cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? in a stunning collaboration with booker prize-winning author roddy doyle, the second half blends anecdote and reflection in roy keane's inimitable voiceplaying at an international level for nearly all his career, he represented the republic of ireland for over fourteen years, mainly as team captain, until an incident with national coach mick mccarthy resulted in keane's walk-out from the world cupsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop dumfries memoir by one of the greatest of modern footballers, and former captain of manchester united and ireland, roy keane - co-written in a unique collaboration with man booker prize-winner roddy doylesince retiring as a player, keane has managed sunderland and ipswich and has become a highly respected television punditthe result is an unforgettable personal odyssey which fearlessly challenges the meaning of success
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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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Sources of power is based on observations of humans acting under such real-life constraints as time pressure, high stakes, personal responsibility, and shifting conditionsthe professionals studied include firefighters, critical care nurses, pilots, nuclear power plant operators, battle planners, and chess mastersoxfam bookshop swanage anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victimsit documents human strengths and capabilities that so far have been downplayed or ignoredhow do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilledeach chapter builds on key incidents and examples to make the description of the methodology and phenomena more vividsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition to providing information that can be used by professionals in management, psychology, engineering, and other fields, the book presents an overview of the research approach of naturalistic decision making and expands our knowledge of the strengths people bring to difficult taskssince , klein has conducted fieldwork to find out how people tackle challenges in difficult, nonroutine situationsgary klein is one of the developers of the naturalistic decision making approach, which views people as inherently skilled and experienced
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Oxfam bookshop lincoln a fascinating journey into the extraordinary world of the king of fish: the salmonthe author explores the life cycle of the salmon, using his own experiences and stories of salmon fishing and spotting to create an enticing narrativeinternally the pages are clean, the binding strong and the colour photographs are clearthe book is in good condition, with only some minor damage done to the top and bottom of the spine of the dust jacket and along the very edgeshe also addresses the matter of conservation issues and human management, which in the past has led to fast decreasing populationsfor those interested in marine lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehistory suggests it is the pressure of human development which has narrowed down the survival zone of the salmon, and the author questions whether we can go on altering natural systems and freshwater rivers in order to make space for human populations, and do so in sync with fish needsthis book explores the natural history of this mysterious fish
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Copyright/first publishedthis book is an ideal companion for travellers, with its many maps and its regional arrangement, and will be a stimulus for the exploration of remote and beautiful areas that are less familiar, such as auvergne and the pyreneessome, like st-savin-sur-gartempe and tavant, have superb frescoes, and a few like ganagobie have fine mosaicsmany have links to romanesque churches in italy, england and germany, since romanesque was a style that was admired throughout europeit was the age of pilgrimages and a number of the churches were built along the four great pilgrim routes through france to santiago de compostela in north-west spain"romanesque churches of france", which covers a hundred or so churches in ten geographical sections from normandy and burgundy in the north to provence, roussillon and languedoc in the south, is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subjectthey were built between about and and were contemporary with english norman architectureoxfam books & music beaconsfield the romanesque churches to be found in every corner of france are one of the wonders of europeit will also be invaluable as a reference book for all those with a general interest in the history of french architecture and sculpturesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe period saw the first revival of the art of sculpture since roman times, and many of the churches such as moissac, autun, vezelay and chauvigny contain outstanding sculpturetheir architectural style varies from region to region, as do their size, shape and layoutthe book is in good condition with a little shelfwear, sound binding and unmarked pages
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Cover has rubbed edges and slight surface marks"open mind, open heart" aims to lead the reader into a deep, living relationship with godcontents clean and unmarkedin "open mind, open heart", father keating presents the beginning of a process of spiritual growthoxfam bookshop chelmsford this volume contains three works by thomas keating on centring prayeroriginal price sticker on back coverspecial attention is paid to the role of the sacred word, christian growth and transformation, and active prayersee oxfam website for delivery information read morekeating gives an overview of the history of contemplative prayer in the christian tradition, and step-by-step guidance in the method of centring prayer"invitation to love: the way of christian contemplation" is the natural next stepnote: a three-inch tear on the cover spine has been repaired with clear tapein this book, he outlines and explains the actual stages of this process, tackling questions such as: how will it affect my life? where does it lead us spiritually? what obstacles will i encounter along the way? why is it necessary? how does it work?;the third book, "intimacy with god", offers practical advice on the way that centring prayer can deepen our intimacy with god
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Owing to a production fault, the book has not been trimmed square so that top & bottom of pages are not parallel to lines of printamong his many widely read books are napoleon and josephine: a love story;Â crowns in conflict: the triumph and the tragedy of european monarchy and the king in love: edward vii's mistressessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreever since the instant success of his first book the golden bees: the story of the bonapartes, theo aronson has steadily built up his reputation as an historical biographer specializing in the royal houses of europeoxfam books & music hereford skilfully interwoven with each other, theo aronson's accounts of the reigns of european royalty, abdications and exiles capture the scope and variety of what victoria used to call the royal mob
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A richly interdisciplinary work, the body emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the renaissance and its conceptualisation of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and politicalin this outstanding work, jonathan sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge an outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, the body emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the english renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in europe for nearly two hundred yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morelight wear on the cover edges, but a very clean unmarked bookthough the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, the body emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern cultureoxfam books & music olney
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