The 11th to the 17th century
List the 11th to the 17th century
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Oxfam books & music totnes secular buildings from the 11th to the 17th centurykings lynn archaeological survey volume 1 very clean copy in very good dustjacketpen inscription see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Dimensions: h a similar 17th century piece is to be found in the collection of the victoria & albert museum, london: mare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidomed lid with original fastener closureour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeuk/item/o/coffer/ read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebeautiful work of brassware with a landscape in reliefhttp://collectionscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablevery rare hammered iron chest with tapestry cabochons
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Oxfam books & music crouch end this volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuryin particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving - perhaps even recreating - the living world to serve human endsthe life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with us, european, russian, japanese, indonesian, chinese contextssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewithout close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as humboldt and mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nationstaking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestockthe book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science develops
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A window on peoples' lives in the 17th centurythe first main art movement that featured everyday people instead of the rich and aristocraticmany varied subjects
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Oxfam bookshop lower petergate a polish film set in the 17th century swedish invasion of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, known as the delugeboth discs are in fine condition with some fingerprints and scratches to the front of the discs, with some slight water damage to the inside coversthe polish-lithuanian forces won, but not without consequences, as they lost a fourth of their population to plague and warsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Blackmore transports us back to the 17th century where the infamous doone clan preside over the region, imposing their whims and callously removing anyone who stands in their way read by jonathan keeblesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle this tale of romance and revenge is atmospherically situated in the brooding and evocative setting of exmooredited to fit on 4 cds, running to c4hr
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Oxfam music shop reading cover - near mint vinyl - vg++ issue tracklist: a1 farkas: ancient hungarian dances from the 17th century - (a) allegro moderato - (b) moderato-maestoso - a1 (c) allegro (quasi scherzo) - (d) moderato - (e) allegro a2 mozart - adagio bb major kstamitz: wind quartet in eb op2 - b1 (a) allegro moderato - b1 (b) andante - b1 (c) rondo allegro mozart - b2 andante fur eine orgelwalze k616 b3 debussy: three movements from "petite suite" b3 (a) cortege b3 (b) menuet b3 (c) ballet b4 rimsky-korsakov - the flight of the bumble bee see oxfam website for delivery information read more411 a3 barthe - passacaille a4 shostakovich - polka for the golden age a5 debussy - golliwog's cake walk b1 k
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Through this manuscript an entire and essential aspect of the practice of liturgical signing at the beginning of the 14 century comes back to life see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop st albans the painstaking care with which the music was written down permits us to effect a striking parallel between the theory and its practice
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This hand crafted trinket boxes is anglo indian dates to the 16th century each piece hand crafted it's got shellac inlay and q stunning elephant design read more
500 €
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I am away from the 1st to the 17th of maycontact me for videovery good condition, fixed bed and two bunks at the frontcoachman pastiche 560 four berth caravan for sale with motor moverplease check your spam folder for replies
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England, late 19th centuryslight signs of useelegant and functionalwalnut tilt top table in good and original conditionthe table top is manufactured from a single piece of woodbeautiful weathered patinain original and authentic condition
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Mahogany table from the end of the 19th century, with extension mechanism in perfect condition
177 €
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Oxfam 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 walessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 four maps each unfold to 70cm x 90cmthe card covers have slight damage and some pages of have been annotated lightly in pencilthe booklet is 24cm x 15cm
99 €
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Part 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 century'depression is internal snowsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor 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 roundthe suffering depressive needs help from outside his or her own consciousness, a radical new perspective that makes life possible againpractical 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 slangoxfam bookshop cheltenham 101 ways to climb out of the slough of despond - a literary guide (part memoir, part companion) to coming through depressionalongside 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 itthe quicker you dive down to see your sorry state, the better for you in life' 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 frivolousthe flakes whirl around like motes in the water around your personal shipwreckfor it will have two voices, one calling from the valley of despair, the other from a safer, calmer new place
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In the atlas of disease, sandra hempel reveals how maps have uncovered insightful information about the history of disease, from the seventeenth century plague maps that revealed the radical idea that diseases might be carried and spread by humans, to cholera maps in the s showing the disease was carried by water, right up to the aids epidemic in the s and the recent devastating ebola outbreakthese discoveries have changed the course of history, affected human evolution, stimulated advances in medicine and saved countless livessee oxfam website for delivery information read more diseases covered: airborne: diphtheria; influenza; leprosy; measles; scarlet fever; sars; smallpox; tuberculosis (tb) waterborne: cholera; dysentery; typhoid insects and animals: malaria; plague; typhus; yellow fever; zika human to human: polio; ebola; hiv and aids; syphilis  crucially, the atlas of disease will also explore how cartographic techniques have been used to combat epidemics by revealing previously hidden patternsoxfam bookshop brighton behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discovery and its place in historythe atlas of disease is the first book to tell these stories in a new an innovative way, interweaving new maps with contemporary illustrations to chart some of the world's most deadly pandemics and epidemics
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Good overall condition a laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the weimar republic () continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth centurythe weimar republic sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any languagethis will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, german, and women's studiessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in germany before hitler's rise to powerdrawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in english), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social lifewhile devoting much attention to the republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the frankfurt school, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographiesits thirty chapters explore germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "new woman," bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascismoxfam bookshop glossop road creasing to cover and spineits political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age
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At the beginning of the fourteenth century anarchy in italy led to the capital of the christian world being moved from rome for the first and only time in historyit was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining "in exile" for the next seventy yearssmall marks to pageblocksee oxfam website for delivery information read moredustwrapper clean, small mark of glue left by old label on back boardoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , signal booksillustrated in b&wthis is a portrait sketch of that eraand at the centre of the picture is avignon itself, as it grew from being a relatively insignificant town on the rhĂ´ne to become, albeit briefly, one of the great capitals of the worldthe city chosen to replace rome was avignonand depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hell opinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham at the end of the nineteenth century china is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellionsin this sequel to the bestselling empress orchid, anchee min brings to life one of the most important figures in chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empirethe only constant is the power wielded by one woman, tzu hsi, also known as empress orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal lossessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Contents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front coverdust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back coversee oxfam website for delivery information read moregrey cloth covers in very good conditionoxfam bookshop tavistock this book of extracts from 'the west briton', cornwall's leading newspaper, spans the years from and is the last of four sequent volumes which together encompass all aspects of everyday cornish life
6 €
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Oxfam bookshop lymington this book traces the life and work of a painter twenty years old at the beginning of the twentieth centurythe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearsvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern art51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's stylethe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation
19 €
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Oxfam shop bishop's stortford ex library copy lo! a mighty prophet of the unexplained has come forward to search out the truth, and light the way for mankind! it's the end of the 19th century and the city of new york has been plagued by fish falling from the sky, strange lights in the night, bizzare collections of microbial goo, and vanishing citizens! it's up to one man to expose the truth behind these eventscharles fort! a mild mannered librarian by day, fort seeks out the truth and exposes the bizarre to the light of day! see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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At the start of the 21st century these techniques have matured into complex signal compression algorithms, such as mpeg video coding, and into complex error correction algorithms as found in turbo codes comprehensively illustrated with 119 examples and 194 diagramssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop glossop road some creasing to cover and other page corners, otherwise good condition coding techniques: an introduction to compression and error control provides a unique collation of compression, transmission, and error control coding techniquesthey are also found in digital recording, celp speech coders for personal communications, video watermarking, radio data systems, and coding for deep space transmission from satellitesthis book provides the theoretical basis for these and similar coding techniquesit also includes advanced material and design tables and so will be a useful reference for postgraduate students and engineers in industrycoding techniques are in widespread use, from the simple methods found in facsimile and teletext, to lossless and lossy file storage on disk, to low bit rate videophones, to jpeg, jbig, and wavelet image compressionone of the few books to cover both compression and error controlthis new textbook commences at a fundamental level, and covers most compression and coding material found in undergraduate engineering courses highly readable introduction to the complex subject of coding, an uncluttered mathematical approach
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Oxfam books & music beeston the origins of bowing and the development of bowed instruments up to the thirteenth century by werner bachmann oup english translation illustrated "the development of the technique of bowing stringed instruments was to prove one of the greatest advances in the history of musicsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresmall green label on first page identifying previous ownerpages are tightly bound, clean and unmarkedfoxing to inside front cover and first page" unclipped dust jacket has wear and tear to edges both front and backhardback is blue cloth covered board with gold lettering to spine and front, title set in black band on front with motiffoxing to cover front and back
25 €
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Spiritual leaders who changed the world the essential handbook to the past century of religion by ira rifkin (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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An examination of new areas of technology and their implications for personal security and the state of democracy in the beginning of the 21st centuryoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells earth rising ii, the betrayal of science, society and the soul dr nick begich, james roderick a paperback book in very good condition that appears to be unreadsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
34 €
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Oxfam books & music olney this is a modern print of a work by the celebrated illustrator jessica wilcox smith from around the beginning of the 20th centuryit has been ready mounted in a textured off white matt to fit a standard 10" x 12" framewe have many other of these beautiful prints availablesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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A beautiful book' independent on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read morelauren is left alone, or so she thinksrey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the manhattan apartment of his first wifeoxfam bookshop cheltenham the body artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the new england coastwe meet lauren hartke, the body artist of the title, and her husband rey robles, a much older, thrice-married film-directorthrough their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words delillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that both isolate and bind us'a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' observer 'inspiring
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The book contains almost 150 drawings, which give an idea of the visual trail of thought of architects from the beginning of the 20th century to the s, with the latter marking the starting point of the digital age we live in todayoxfam bookshop hove no d/j as issued; hardback; editors: sandra mälk, mait väljas, anne lass, triin ojari ;  architectural drawings: initial sketches, elaborate perspectives and lofty urban plans the architect has drawn manually on paper see oxfam website for delivery information read more
39 €
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Oxfam bookshop hexham the bhagavad gita is a 700-verse hindu scripture that is part of the epic mahabharata, commonly dated to the second century bcethe blue-cloth boards are gilt-stamped on the front cover and the spinethe gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between pandava prince arjuna and his guide and charioteer krishnathere are a few notes in pencil made by a previous owner on the final endpaperthere is an introduction by aldous huxleythe unpriceclipped dustjacket is intact but is tanned and chipped at the head and foot of the spinethe binding is cracking but holdingit is in a fair, used condition overall this , fifth impression, revised edition published by phoenix house limited, was translated by swami prabhavananda and christopher isherwoodagain, the spine is very fadedthere is a previous owner's name inscribed in blue ink on the first endpaper see oxfam website for delivery information read morecorners and edges are worn and there is a small tear at the top of the front coverthe text block is yellowing but appears cleanit is discoloured and faded, particularly on the spine
21 €
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The illustrations are all clear  this book was presented as a prize in at ryhope secondary school, as shown by the sticker on the second page and the gilded crest on the front cover the pages are generally clean and the binding, while not strong, is secure an interesting read for those interested in aviation historysee oxfam website for delivery information read more it then looks at the first non-stop crossing by john alcock and arthur brown in and the first airship crossingsoxfam bookshop lincoln this book looks at the development of transatlantic flight and the numerous attempts made since the invention of flightr hinchliffe in , the crossing by amelia earhart in and the italian seaplane crossings in and the book is in a fair condition, there is notable wear on the exterior cover especially at the edges and spine, where the gilded lettering has also faded internally there are a number of partially loose pages (plate between ) but none that are completely loose at the end of the book is an appendix that lists successful and unsuccessful atlantic crossings from to , and black and white photos are dotted throughout the book further on it looks at the crossings of the south atlantic, the first crossings via greenland, the first solo crossing by charles lindbergh in , the disappearance of a flight by captain w it begins by looking at the first attempts made by balloon and airship at the start of the 20th century, and then the first attempts by plane in the aftermath of world war one, including that by harry hawker
13 €