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 centurypen inscription see oxfam website for delivery information read morekings lynn archaeological survey volume 1 very clean copy in very good dustjacket
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Dimensions: h a similar 17th century piece is to be found in the collection of the victoria & albert museum, london: mcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availabledomed lid with original fastener closureuk/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 reliefvery rare hammered iron chest with tapestry cabochonsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storehttp://collections
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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 centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 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 endstaking 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 livestockwithout 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 nationsthe life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with us, european, russian, japanese, indonesian, chinese contextsthe 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 delugesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe polish-lithuanian forces won, but not without consequences, as they lost a fourth of their population to plague and warboth discs are in fine condition with some fingerprints and scratches to the front of the discs, with some slight water damage to the inside covers
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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 waysee oxfam website for delivery information read more read by jonathan keebleedited to fit on 4 cds, running to c4hroxfam bookshop carlisle this tale of romance and revenge is atmospherically situated in the brooding and evocative setting of exmoor
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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 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 morestamitz: wind quartet in eb op411 a3 barthe - passacaille a4 shostakovich - polka for the golden age a5 debussy - golliwog's cake walk b1 k2 - b1 (a) allegro moderato - b1 (b) andante - b1 (c) rondo allegro mozart - b2 andante fur eine orgelwalze 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
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I am away from the 1st to the 17th of maycoachman pastiche 560 four berth caravan for sale with motor movercontact me for videovery good condition, fixed bed and two bunks at the frontplease check your spam folder for replies
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England, late 19th centuryin original and authentic conditionslight signs of useelegant and functionalbeautiful weathered patinawalnut tilt top table in good and original conditionthe table top is manufactured from a single piece of wood
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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 booklet is 24cm x 15cmthe four maps each unfold to 70cm x 90cmthe 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 pencil
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 snowthe suffering depressive needs help from outside his or her own consciousness, a radical new perspective that makes life possible againsee oxfam website for delivery information read more' 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 frivolousoxfam bookshop cheltenham 101 ways to climb out of the slough of despond - a literary guide (part memoir, part companion) to coming through depressionfor 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 roundalongside a paragraph about the proper relationship between the ego, the mind and the emotions nestles a passage on the therapeutic value of nail varnishthe 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 placethe quicker you dive down to see your sorry state, the better for you in lifethis unique book offers itpractical 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 slang
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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 outbreaksee oxfam website for delivery information read morethese discoveries have changed the course of history, affected human evolution, stimulated advances in medicine and saved countless livesoxfam 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 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 patterns
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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 centuryits political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our ageits 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 fascismsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe weimar republic sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any languageit invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in germany before hitler's rise to powerwhile 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 biographiesoxfam bookshop glossop road creasing to cover and spinedrawing 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 lifethis 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 studies
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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 historysee oxfam website for delivery information read moredustwrapper clean, small mark of glue left by old label on back boardsmall marks to pageblockit was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining "in exile" for the next seventy yearsand 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 worldand 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 themselvesthis is a portrait sketch of that erathe city chosen to replace rome was avignonoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , signal booksillustrated in b&w
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham at the end of the nineteenth century china is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellionsthe 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 morein 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 empire
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 lifedust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back covergrey cloth covers in very good conditioncontents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front cover
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 centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulationvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacket51 colour reproductions - oils, gouaches, pastel; 20 pen & pencil drawings in two tones show the full range of the artist's styleart series which offers a series of monographs on the great masters of modern artthe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationthe work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four years
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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 codessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey are also found in digital recording, celp speech coders for personal communications, video watermarking, radio data systems, and coding for deep space transmission from satellites highly readable introduction to the complex subject of coding, an uncluttered mathematical approachone 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 coursescoding 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 compressionthis book provides the theoretical basis for these and similar coding techniquesoxfam 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 techniques comprehensively illustrated with 119 examples and 194 diagramsit also includes advanced material and design tables and so will be a useful reference for postgraduate students and engineers in industry
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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 musichardback is blue cloth covered board with gold lettering to spine and front, title set in black band on front with motifsmall green label on first page identifying previous owner" unclipped dust jacket has wear and tear to edges both front and backsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefoxing to inside front cover and first pagepages are tightly bound, clean and unmarkedfoxing 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 centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 unread
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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 centurywe have many other of these beautiful prints availablesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit has been ready mounted in a textured off white matt to fit a standard 10" x 12" frame
7 €
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'a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' observer 'inspiringwe meet lauren hartke, the body artist of the title, and her husband rey robles, a much older, thrice-married film-directora beautiful book' independent on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough 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 uslauren is left alone, or so she thinksoxfam bookshop cheltenham the body artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the new england coastrey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the manhattan apartment of his first wife
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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 today see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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
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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 bcethere is an introduction by aldous huxleythe gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between pandava prince arjuna and his guide and charioteer krishnaagain, the spine is very fadedit is discoloured and faded, particularly on the spinethe text block is yellowing but appears cleanthe blue-cloth boards are gilt-stamped on the front cover and the spinethe binding is cracking but holding see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe unpriceclipped dustjacket is intact but is tanned and chipped at the head and foot of the spinecorners and edges are worn and there is a small tear at the top of the front cover this , fifth impression, revised edition published by phoenix house limited, was translated by swami prabhavananda and christopher isherwoodthere is a previous owner's name inscribed in blue ink on the first endpaperit is in a fair, used condition overallthere are a few notes in pencil made by a previous owner on the final endpaper
21 €
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It then looks at the first non-stop crossing by john alcock and arthur brown in and the first airship crossings 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 fadedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more 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 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 the pages are generally clean and the binding, while not strong, is secure 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 an interesting read for those interested in aviation history internally there are a number of partially loose pages (plate between ) but none that are completely looseoxfam 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 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
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