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Oxfam bookshop cheltenhamthe ancient mayans predicted the end of days with uncanny precisionfor more than four centuries, the skull, and its legacy of dark intrigue and murder, have been hidden, protected by a code few can breakbut can we now uncover the secret that may yet save the world? see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut they also provided the key to staving off apocalypse: a flawless sapphire of incomparable beauty carved into the perfect likeness of a human skullnow it's about to be foundtime is running outthe date is set
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport first published as a hardback in , this is the paperback first edition"ancient polemics on sparta (by plato, aristotle, plutarch and others) have had a remarkable after-life in the political and educational thought of renaissance italy, the france of the philosophes, whig england and nazi germanythis book outlines the little we know of ancient sparta, describes greek reaction to the ambiguous institutions of the great rival to democratic athens, makes a first attempt to follow the subsequent fortunes of the debate, and indicates sparta's role, over twenty-five centuries, in the intellectual history of europe"
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Macleod has traveled through the ages searching for fellow immortal, marcus octavius (kouichi yamadera), the man responsible for killing his lover, moya (yurika hino), on the celtic plains centuries agoruling what is left of the once proud metropolis, mcleod finds none other than marcus octavius, whose despotic plans for the future include poisoning the big apple's populacedirector yoshiaki kawajiri pairs up with original highlander writer david abramowitz to create a new feature-length adventure for the sci-fi fantasy tale of ancient scots warrior colin mcleod (voice of shun oguri)his journey has taken him to a post-apocalyptic new york in the year , the city now a partly submerged ruin overshadowed by a vast monolithic fortresssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewill the remnants of a once-proud new york prove to be the final battleground as these two undying warriors once again come face to face? disc and case in very good conditionafter countless gory showdowns, neither immortal has managed to truly vanquish the othermacleod has the power to save the survivors but, driven by a blinding bloodlust, he has only one goal - to avenge the murder of moyaoxfam bookshop carlisle anime instalment of the cult 'highlander' franchise
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This is the product of personal experience but also draws on the accumulated wisdom of the centuries - from the days of ancient rome when cabbage and a necklace of garlic was recommended up to today's time-honoured curesthis is the most complete and informative book on hangovers that you are likely to needdiscover why we get hangovers, what they are and they're not, what precautionary measures you need to take to avoid them, how you can cure them (from food to exercise), what drinks can zap you back to your usual sparkling form (from the non-alcoholic to hair of the dog cocktails) and what the wits of the world have said about their hangoverssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston the complete guide to getting through the morning after the night beforein its pages you will find all you need to know to get the better of a retribution that has dogged mankind since noah planted the first vineyard
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham this fascinating new book explores what life was like during the templars' stay in somerset during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriesthe author has found compelling evidence to suggest the church was not only built on templar land, but had a connection with the grand master of the order himselfrichly illustrated and compiled using original research, this book is sure to appeal to everyone interested in medieval historythe final chapter explores the controversy surrounding a carved wooden man's head discovered in a somerset churchsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit reveals the struggles over land ownership in the county, and introduces the reader to little known historical characters including william de marisco, revealing his struggle with the templars, and claim to the throne of england
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The subsequent history of the notion 'nothing' and its mathematical representative 0 was far from straightforwardoxfam bookshop cheltenham forced into our awareness years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero began its career as two wedges pushed into a wet lump of sumerian claywas it the devil's work? did we discover or invent it? is it a number or a fiction? its users came to see that it held immense power to unriddle the universesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe nothing that is reveals how the gigantic body of mathematics swings on the smallest of pivotszero disappeared for centuries, then swept from the east into the medieval world with fears and superstitions crouched around it
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This erasmo's work was the basis of most modern translations of the new testament in the following centuriesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki"novum instrumentum omne" was the first new testament published in europecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesome pages at the beginning show moisture stains that do not affect the textthe cover and dedication are missing, also the first page of the gospel of matthew, is missing, although there is a copy of it inserted at the beginning of the bible, otherwise the entire new testament, including revelation, is completewith this book he points the way to a new hermeneutics in the humanitiesparchment binding completely restoredplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitemost likely, he would have initially planned to include the greek text, removed immediately, to demonstrate the superiority of his latin versionthe revolutionary idea is to study the text of the bible as a historical text and then verify it from the point of view of textual criticism, subjecting the vulgate to the original greekerasmus contacted the publisher johann froben during a visit to basel ingreek and roman types, wide frame, wooden covers and ornamentsmanuscript dated on the fifth blank pagedesiderius erasmus () known as erasmus roterodamus (erasmus rotterdam) used several greek manuscripts preserved in basel, and verses from the apocalypse in the latin vulgatedefined and clear paperunfortunately, missing pages do not allow for unequivocal identification of the workour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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He proves for the first time that there is a royal heritage of the messiah in the west, and documents the systematic and continuing suppression of records tracing the descent of the sacred lineage by regimes down the centuriesit casts penetrating new light on the bible story and onto the enigmatic figures of joseph of arimathea and mary magdalene, and on the real truth behind the arthurian legends and the holy grailthis unique book gives a detailed genealogical account of the authentic line of succession of the royal blood from the sons of jesus and his brother james down to the present daythere is also a fascinating history of the knights templars of jerusalemlaurence gardener has been granted privileged access to european sovereign and noble archives, along with special insight into chivalric and church repositoriesoxfam shop evesham did jesus marry and have children? if so, what happened to his family? are there descendants of his still alive today? at last the truth can be told, this extraordinary and controversial book, packed with intrigue, begins where others have endedsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The evil god azash has plans for it himself, and ghwerig the mad troll-dwarf has been ceaselessly searching for the artefact for centuries, intending to retrieve it at any costno one has set eyes upon it since his death in the heat of a legendary battleto make things worse, sparhawk and his allies are not the only party looking for the bhelliomthe quest for the jewel of life continuessee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut finding the rose-shaped sapphire, once mounted in the crown of the thalasian king sarak is no simple taskoxfam bookshop cheltenham book two of the classic elenium trilogytime is running out for poisoned queen ehlana and if she is to be saved sparhawk must find a powerful artefact called the bhelliom before it's too late
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The "chung kuo" series brings future centuries to life, portraying men and women caught between great powers fighting for dominancebut the human urge for freedom cannot be stilled by murder or seductionand yearning for ageless passions for all that life holds dear see oxfam website for delivery information read morefor generations the t'ang have controlled with mind manipulation and teams of black-clad assassinsthe seven t'ang, the ruling dictatorship of the solar system, is weakened by the birth of a special child, and the forces of rebellion and change are spreading from the mega-cities of earth to a secretive, planet-wide conspiracy on marsrevolution may finally free the long-shackled masses, or it may spread unimaginable destruction sufficient to level a world--and the hopes of all worlds to comenow, as a mad, blood-thirsty ruler plots a coup from within the t'ang, hans ebert, his famous face obscured forever behind a mask, begins a new fight for power and love on the red soil of marsoxfam bookshop cheltenham the spellbinding saga of the future continues in the year
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The mahabharata was probably compiled between the 3rd century bce and the 3rd century ce, the original events related by the epic probably fall between the 9th and 8th centuries bcethe text probably reached its final form by the early gupta period (cplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethis is the early edition of english translation in these volumes4th century ce) this vast storehouse of indian knowledge is normally hiddencatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethese 11 volumes have been translated from the original sanskrit languagetraditionally, the authorship of the mahabharata is attributed to vyasathese volumes are an important translation which gives westerners a glimpse of this ancient indian civilisationbinding slightly-loose in volume iii & ivour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecondition volumes included i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (vii not included) viii, ix, x, xi, xiiare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiref:wikipedia kisari mohan ganguli (also kprinted calcutta - kolkata indiahis translation published as the mahabharata of krishna-dwaipayana vyasa translated into english prose between and , by protap chandra rai (), a calcutta bookseller who owned a printing press and raised funds for the project it narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the kurukshetra war and the fates of the kaurava and the pa??ava princes and their successorsapprox 500 pages each volumeganguli) an indian translator first complete translation of the sanskrit epic mahabharata in englishgenerally good conditionthe mahabharata - mahabharata is one of the two major sanskrit epic of ancient india, the other being the ramaya?awith original red cloth covers, slight bumped corners
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Oxfam books & music crouch end originally published in , this book is concerned with the process through which the plays of euripides were transmitted across seventeen centuries and finally copied into late byzantine manuscriptsthis is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in euripides and manuscript historysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebased upon earlier observations made by alexander turyn in the byzantine manuscript tradition of the tragedies of euripides, the text contains rigorous analysis of the euripidean manuscripts together with images from them
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This can be exemplified by the historic view of angina pectoris, which used to be simplified as being always fatal, thus obscuring for nearly two centuries the view of a 'self-healing' mechanism such as the collateral circulation of the heartit would be naive, to assume the present work to be free of erroneous oversimplification, because the very nature of scientific work is related to generating (simple) hypotheses with their subsequent falsificationin that context and bluntly, my primary interest in the field of the collateral circulation was not initiated with a vision of eradicating the consequences of coronary artery disease (cad) by promoting the growth of natural bypassesthe time for such sizeable ideas had passed in the 's with the start of the work by wolfgang schaperlike new with clean pages insidesee oxfam website for delivery information read morealternatively, it could be 'sold' as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of the coronary circulation, which was itself meant to diminish the amount of 'useless' energyoxfam bookshop hampstead collateral circulation of the heart by christian seiler the sober explanation for this book is a call by the springer-verlag, london, to edit a publication on 'the functional relevance of the collateral circulation' of the heartsuch a process of reducing disarray in a system with the aim of grasping it better is related to simplification, which carries the risk of introducing error
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" see oxfam website for delivery information read morehe shows how the cult of this particular saint developed, firstly, as an expression of sienese civil religion; secondly, as a focus for italian civil religion; and finally into an expression of european civil religionoxfam bookshop stirling very good gloss illustrated dust jacket, crease along top edgegerald parsons argues that the cult of catherine of siena constitutes a remarkable example of the cult of a particular saint which, across more than six centuries, has been the vehicle for an evolving sequence of civil religious rituals and meaningstext block is clean and binding solidinstead of the predominantly devotional - and frequently essentially hagiographical - approach of much of the literature on catherine of siena, parsons examines the significance of her cult from the perspective of civil religion and the social history of religion"this book examines the origins, development and history of the cult of saint catherine of sienavery good black cloth
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An invaluable source for book-trade and parliamentary historians, giving unique insight into the activities of a small but resourceful provincial printer during the 's, and the organisation of the largest printing house in london of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesoxfam bookshop stratford upon avon the autobiography of luke hansard, printer to the houselondon, printing historical society xx+96pp; hardback with green cloth covers, spine blocked in black/gilt; text clean and unmarked; condition very good/near fine99 see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop gillingham all four episodes of the itv travel series following comedian billy connolly as he takes a ten-week journey from the atlantic to the pacific by way of the north west passage, a legendary route deep within the arctic circle that thwarted explorers and fortune-hunters for centuriesmaking his way by plane, rail, road and boat along windswept coastlines and across sweeping landscapes, connolly travels to the final northern frontier of the inhabited worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor cook, drake and countless other adventurers, the north west passage was an alluring but impossible journey, but now that the arctic is melting at a rate of square miles a year the journey is finally possible, if precarious
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Now a farmer whose barn burns down turns, not to his neighbours, but to his insurance companyhowever, as stephen marglin argues, market relationships erode communityin the past, for example, when a farm family experienced a setback - say the barn burned down - neighbours pitched inoxfam bookshop hertford economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and that the only community that matters is the nation-state marglin dissects the ways in which the foundational assumptions of economics justify a world in which individuals are isolated from one another and social connections are impoverished as people define themselves in terms of how much they can afford to consumeover the last four centuries, this economic ideology has become the dominant ideology in much of the world marglin presents an account of how this happened and an argument for righting the imbalance in our lives that this ideology has fosteredsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinsurance may be a more efficient way to organise resources than a community barn raising, but the deep social and human ties that are constitutive of community are weakened by the shift from reciprocity to market relations
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Oxfam shop colne road was the battle of hastings a french victory?non! william the conqueror was norman and hated the frenchwere the brits really responsible for the death of joan of arc?non! the french sentenced her to death for wearing trouserswas the guillotine a french invention?non! it was invented in yorkshiresee oxfam website for delivery information read moreten centuries' worth of french historical 'facts' bite the dust as stephen clarke looks at what hasreally been going on since
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Also in the following centuries the book continued to attract attentionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki“de betoverde wereld” (the world bewitched) led to one of the most extensive polemics in the second half of the seventeenth centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe 4 books in 1 volume, each with its own title page, are in excellent conditionaccording to bekker, good or evil spirits (bekker did not deny their existence) did not affect the lives of human beingsbekker’s questioning of the devil’s existence was a bridge too far for manyhis free interpretation of the bible and his criticism of the authorised version were particularly met with resistance from the established churchplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethis book was very influential in the fight against the belief in sorcery and was translated into german, french and englishnowadays, together with the work of spinoza, the book is considered a representative of the so-called ‘radical enlightenment’, the early dutch forerunner of the enlightenmentcondition: very goodin the netherlands, bekker was taken to court by opponents and deposed from the ministry inalso, seemingly paranormal events should not be linked to sorcerybekker was a theologian and preacherthe bookblock is in near mint condition, without notes or tears and virtually without age discolourationthis deventer edition is the most complete edition of the “betoverde wereld”in this book bekker disputes the existence of sorcery, magic, possession by the devil and the devil himselfparchment with beautiful patinaour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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For the first time ever, this inspiring book, written by an internationally acclaimed shaolin grandmaster, brings to you the crystallization of shaolin wisdom and practice spanning many centuriessecrets of the mastersyet it is written in a language easy to understandno inscriptions see oxfam website for delivery information read moreform and combat applicationsits scope and depth is amazing, touching on, among many other things, poetry and enlightenmentprinciples and methods of force trainingprofound concepts and difficult techniques are explained systematically with many illustrationsmaintaining one's health and vitality and the healing of so-called incurable diseasesinteresting stories and legends of shaolinzen and spiritual developmentoxfam bookshop holmfirth shaolin kungfu has been considered by many as the best martial art in the worldthe book includes: - the background and scope of kungfutraditional chinese weaponsbut kungfu is just one of the three treasures of shaolin, the other two being chi kung and zenenergy training and mind training
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With the doctor's help, the archaeological party discover the last of the cybermen, frozen and entombed in a vast underground cavernall around them, the cybermen begin to rise from the deadthe doctor, jamie and victoria arrive on telos - once the cyber home world - just as an earth expedition uncovers the entrance to a long-lost control centre filled with baffling technologysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut by entering the tombs, the humans have sprung a fiendish trapoxfam bookshop carlisle for centuries, the disappearance of the cybermen from the universe has been a mystery
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Celtic and druidic, scapegoat and outlier, a fixture in the funerary landscape of former centuries, argyle's doubt-ridden witness seems entirely relevant to our difficult times" and the widow paid himhis "loaf and bowl," consumed over corpses, become the elements of sacrament and sacrilegewith photographs by michael lynch and cover art by sean lynch, the author's sonsoxfam books & music aberdeen argyle eased the warm loaf right and leftand downed swift gulps of beer and venial sinthen lit into the bread now leavened withthe corpse's cardinal mischiefs, then he said"six pence, i'm sorry so opens the unsanctioned priesthood of the sin-eater: a breviary-thomas lynch's collection of two dozen, twenty-four line poems-a book of hours in the odd life and times of argyle, the sin-eatersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreby turns worshipful and irreverent, good-humored and grim, these poems examine the deeper meanings of eucharist and grace, forgiveness and faith, atonement and reconciliation
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Drawing on a vast range of historical and cultural sources, this is the definitive account of a violent ritual that continues to fascinate even todaymoreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatrein the duel in european history, renowned historian victor kiernan writes with his characteristic wit and insight of duelling's evolution from its medieval origins - when it was regarded as a badge of rank - to the early twentieth century, by which time it was seen as an irrational anachronismsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein doing so, he shows how the duelling tradition was something unique to europe and its colonies, and, in its contribution to the development of the officer corps, played a key part in shaping european military poweroxfam shop clitheroe for centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practice
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Battlestar galactica: the original series: hopeful for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the twelve colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, the cylonsgalactica : the complete series: 30 years after the events of battlestar galactica, the original crew finally makes the long-anticipated descent to earth
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ushered in a new era of discovery as explorers traversed the globe, returning home with vivid tales of distant lands and exotic peoplesmancall has compiled some of the most important travel accounts of this eraaided by the invention of the printing press in europe, travelers were able to spread their accounts to wider audiences than ever beforeunlike other collections, travel narratives from the age of discovery offers a global view of travel at a crucial stage in world, and human, history, with accounts written by non-european authors, including two new translationsin travel narratives from the age of discovery, historian peter cin addition to these travel narratives, this anthology features rare pictures from sixteenth-century printed books, including images of brazil, roanoke, guiana, and india, which, together with the accounts themselves, provide a detailed understanding of the many ways in which fifteenth and sixteenth century travelers and readers imagined other worlds see oxfam website for delivery information read moreincluded here are the mughal emperor babur's first thoughts of india upon establishing his empire there, the chinese chronicler ma huan's report detailing chinese travel to the middle east during the fifteenth century, and an account of africa written by the man known as leo africanusfrom christopher columbus to lesser-known figures such as the huguenot missionary jean de léry, this anthology brings together first-hand accounts of places connected by the atlantic, pacific, and indian oceanswritten by authors from spain, france, italy, england, china, and north africa describing locations that range from brazil to canada, china to virginia, and angola to vietnam, these accounts provided crucial insight into unfamiliar cultures and environments, and also betrayed the prejudices of their own societies, revealing as much about the observers themselves as they did about faraway lands
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Bacon's portrayal of henry was extremely influential for the following three centuriesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableat the request of charles, prince of wales he began work on a follow-up account of the reign of henry viii, but only completed a brief introductionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website"the historie of the reigne of king henry the seventh" by francis bacon rrare important historic work on the life of king henry the seventh by bacon history of the reign of king henry vii is a work by the english writer francis baconlondon - edition - 241p, 20cmx15cm - condition: good, original leather boards, with rubbing and wear to boards, rebacked with cloth spine with title label, renewed endpapers, engraved title page loosening, but present, w/o francis bacon frontispiece as is usually missingat the time of writing bacon had recently fallen from political power, and completed the work in late and sent a copy to james iit was published the following yearthe book remains his only completed work of historyit charts the reign of the first tudor monarch henry vii who took the throne from his rival richard iii inour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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Millennium is a stunning panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic yearbut the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the world, as many christians had dreaded, but rather the birthpangs of a radically new orderthis was the age of canute, william the conqueror and pope gregory vii, of vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the invention of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and statecompared to the glittering empires of byzantium or islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backwardsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham of all the civilisations existing in the year , that of western europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatnessthe story of how the distinctive culture of europe - restless, creative and dynamic - was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times is as fascinating and as momentous as any in history
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White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of this confounding work from its ancient origins down through its heyday in the seventh through eleventh centuries, its gradual fall into obscurity, and its modern resurgence since the nineteenth centurytracing the remarkable trajectory of this enigmatic work, white's exhaustively researched book also demonstrates why the yoga of india's past bears little resemblance to the yoga practiced todayas david gordon white demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrectvirtually forgotten in india for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the west, the yoga sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status-and translated into more than forty languages-only in the course of the past forty yearswhite brings to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations-and misappropriations-of the yoga sutra led to its revered place in popular culture todaysee oxfam website for delivery information read morefirst introduced to the west by the british orientalist henry thomas colebrooke, the yoga sutra was revived largely in europe and america, and predominantly in englishoxfam bookshop cotham hill first edition grey boards and spine with gilt embossed title to spine light shelf-wear to corners and top and bottom of spine but otherwise clean small marks to dust cover which is not price-clipped light bumps to edges of cover rough-cut pages are clean and bright with no marks, creases, or tears book and spine are bright and tight previous owner's pencil commentary to front end flap ("far outshines any since") consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, patanjali's yoga sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice
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It brings together the latest work on a subject which is central to an understanding not just of the french revolution but of much french political controversy over the past two centuriesalthough the framework of this book is a narrative, the main themes of the counter-revolution are also covered in order to set the events in their wider context of europe, much of which at some time was occupied by the frenchoxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacketthe book is in very good condition with just some light shelfwear and a little bumping to the top corners of the dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe binding is sound, the corners of the hard cover are good and the pages are all clean and unmarked
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Oxfam bookshop st albans a templar secret, hidden for centuriesthe parchment conceals the location of the copper scroll, said to hold the secret of solomon's treasureon the eve of his execution, disgraced templar knight johannes von hartelius writes a last confessionaccompanied only by his beautiful kurdish translator, hart sets out to find the copper scrolljohn hart must travel in his forefather's footsteps to iran and the hollow mountain known as solomon's prisonin present-day iraq, john hart discovers the message hidden in his ancestor's testamentbut will he share the templar's fate? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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