The 17th to the 19th century
List the 17th to the 19th century
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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
21 €
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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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Im looking for a kitten around 8 weeks old it's fine if the kitten is a bit older i don't mind what breed or what gender the kitten needs to live around salford or manchester as that's where i am based i'm hoping to get the kitten around the 19th of this month read more
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100 €
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We have had a litter of 7 beautiful blue staffy pups! (apart from one black one) born on the 24th of august! there are 2 boys and 1 girl available for reserve! mum and dad are both family pets! they both have the best temperature, great around kids etc! these pups will be flea, wormed, vet checked and microchipped before leaving for their forever home they will be bought up around cats, children and dogs! so they will be used to everyday noise! we are asking for a ÂŁ50 non refundable deposit (it will only be refundable if something went wrong this end) there will be weekly photos/videos sent out so their forever homes can watch them grow! they will be ready for their homes on the week of the 19th octoberonly serious buyers! any questions please ask! read more
1000 €
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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 walesthe 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 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' 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 morethe 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
3 €
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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 outbreakoxfam 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 epidemicssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethese discoveries have changed the course of history, affected human evolution, stimulated advances in medicine and saved countless lives 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
10 €
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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 centuryit invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in germany before hitler's rise to powerthis 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 studiesits 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 fascismwhile 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 biographiessee oxfam website for delivery information read moredrawing 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 lifeits political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our agethe weimar republic sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any languageoxfam bookshop glossop road creasing to cover and spine
20 €
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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 historyand 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 worldit was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining "in exile" for the next seventy yearsthis is a portrait sketch of that eraillustrated in b&wdustwrapper clean, small mark of glue left by old label on back boardsmall marks to pageblockthe city chosen to replace rome was avignonsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand 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 themselvesoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardback, , signal books
3 €
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham at the end of the nineteenth century china is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellionssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe 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 lossesin 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
2 €
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Contents clean and unmarked apart from light foxing to top page edges and an inscription on inside front coveroxfam 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 lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moregrey cloth covers in very good conditiondust jacket in good condition with fading to the spine and sticker damage to the back 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 centuryit would have taken any other artist decades of reflection and formulation51 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 work of the blue and rose periods was produced by a very young man in a span of hardly more than four yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe four years were full of travel and abrupt changes of location, passion, poverty, depression and inspirationvery good condition with just some light tanning to the white parts of the dust jacket and some light edge wear to the jacket
19 €
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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 highly readable introduction to the complex subject of coding, an uncluttered mathematical approachthis book provides the theoretical basis for these and similar 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 industrythey are also found in digital recording, celp speech coders for personal communications, video watermarking, radio data systems, and coding for deep space transmission from satellitescoding 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 compressionoxfam 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 techniquesone 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 coursessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
13 €
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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 musicsmall green label on first page identifying previous ownerhardback is blue cloth covered board with gold lettering to spine and front, title set in black band on front with motif" unclipped dust jacket has wear and tear to edges both front and backfoxing to cover front and backpages are tightly bound, clean and unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefoxing to inside front cover and first page
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
12 €
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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
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" framesee oxfam website for delivery information read morewe have many other of these beautiful prints available
7 €
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Lauren 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 wifewe meet lauren hartke, the body artist of the title, and her husband rey robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director'a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' observer 'inspiringa beautiful book' independent on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the body artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the new england coastthrough 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
2 €
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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 bcethere is an introduction by aldous huxleyagain, 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 moreit is discoloured and faded, particularly on the spinethe unpriceclipped dustjacket is intact but is tanned and chipped at the head and foot of 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 endpaperthe text block is yellowing but appears cleanthe blue-cloth boards are gilt-stamped on the front cover and the spineit is in a fair, used condition overallcorners 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 isherwoodthe binding is cracking but holding
21 €
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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 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 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 it then looks at the first non-stop crossing by john alcock and arthur brown in and the first airship crossings 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 an interesting read for those interested in aviation historyr hinchliffe in , the crossing by amelia earhart in and the italian seaplane crossings in and the illustrations are all clearsee oxfam website for delivery information read more internally there are a number of partially loose pages (plate between ) but none that are completely loose the pages are generally clean and the binding, while not strong, is secureoxfam bookshop lincoln this book looks at the development of transatlantic flight and the numerous attempts made since the invention of flight 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 €
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But no secret remains forever untold… the end of the 12th century is imminentas a consequence, a dark, terrifying new power was obtainedterrible things started to happen, and many lives were lost; it was then decided that this new power would have to remain a secret
24 €
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Miller's church history: from the first to the twentieth century by andrew miller - hardcover
113 €
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This is a concise history of the philosophy and practice of alchemy from its beginnings to the twentieth centurybut what i admire about it most is how enlightening and enlivening it isshe is the author of more than thirty books on a wide range of subjects
14 €
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In this study, nigel moor examines the history and politics of planning, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present daylooks unread, in as new condition see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hexham few subjects court such widespread controversy as urban and regional planning
9 €
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Oxfam books & music olney this is a modern print of an illustration from around the beginning of the 20th centurywe have many other of these beautiful prints availableit has been ready mounted in a textured off white matt to fit a standard 10" x 12" framesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
8 €
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Illustrated in colouroxfam bookshop ashbourne published for an exhibition to show how an interest in metamorphic and fantastic forms has fed the imagination of artists since the end of the nineteenth century, and how these interests have shaped what we now see as the beginnings of "modern sculpture'Â see oxfam website for delivery information read more
24 €
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It's an instrument on board vessels which can be given specific orders from the bridge to the engine room12m weight 49kgdiameter 30cm read more
1505 €
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Oxfam bookshop ilkley asserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the twenty-first century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop across the globesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
40 €
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They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth centuryin depicting the lives of benjamin and lewis and their interactions with their small local community chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experienceoxfam bookshop cheltenham on the black hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural wales and never leave homesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
2 €